His Majesty Is the Most Beautiful in the Harem

★ Coming soon: The Foolish Yet Truly Beautiful Heartthrob I know you're vulgar, selfish, snobbish, and vain, a second-rate catch, but I love you. 1. Zhou Yan graduated with a degree in the humanities from a bottom-tier second-rate college. Even the dogs wouldn't hire him. By a twist of fate, he transmigrated to a feudal ancient world, and his face lit up. This backward place was full of foolish ancient people. If he showed off even a little, wouldn't he amaze everyone and rise straight to the top? 2. The first time around, Zhou Yan couldn't make ends meet. He was nearly starving to death on the roadside before the young master of the county magistrate's household took him in. Zhou Yan smugly assumed the other man must have been drawn to his extraordinary talent. In truth, the man was taken with his looks. When drunk, he would cling to Zhou Yan and nibble at his neck. "Big Brother, you smell so good." Zhou Yan was furious. "I don't do men!" He only wanted to build a career! If this guy had no taste, he'd find someone else! So when he met a great general from the imperial capital, Zhou Yan turned on the little brat who kept crying and annoying him, and kicked him to the curb. This man was a capital official, after all! 3. The second time around, Zhou Yan followed the general back to the capital. It turned out the general wasn't interested in his talent either. Zhou Yan jumped up and cursed. "Pah! Both of you are idiots! Are you blind?" The general, his shoulders and back covered in scratches, dressed while sneering: "You didn't curse me enough last night, and now you're at it again? If you were really so tough, you should've kept it up last night instead of begging me to go easy after calling me a beast. You might have suffered a little less." Zhou Yan, sore all over, twisted the brocade quilt in his fingers and ground his teeth. Damn pervert! Once I become the head of all officials, I'll chop off those two measly bits of yours, Wei, and feed them to the dogs! He decided to find someone else to help him achieve his great ambitions! 4. The third time around, Zhou Yan finally managed to secretly get close to a prince, a man of great power and status. Just as he was about to take things further, the general was accused of colluding with the enemy, and his household was confiscated. The general fled. Zhou Yan became one of the confiscated items, was turned over to the imperial treasury, and escorted into the palace. But he thought this was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. After all, surely the emperor wasn't some fool who only cared about looks and not substance! Besides, he had long heard the emperor despised relations between men and had expressly forbidden his officials from indulging in them. Zhou Yan: "A good emperor who serves the people! I've got this in the bag!" [Bonus Scene]: The emperor met the treasure who was rumored to have been pampered by Wei Heng in his secluded residence. He was certainly beautiful. But as soon as he entered the palace, he clutched the emperor's hem and tearfully complained about how General Wei had mistreated him and how much he had suffered. He even said he was going to write out a list of eighty-one charges by hand, so the whole world would know how wicked the general was. Yet the man was well-fed and rosy-cheeked, dressed in silks even the imperial consorts might not get to wear. How did that look like mistreatment? The emperor calmly pulled his robe back, annoyance in his eyes. "It seems General Wei raised himself a pretty little ingrate." The man panicked at once. He hurriedly brought out his evidence, lifted his clothes, and showed the emperor a purplish bite mark on his side. The emperor didn't hear a word of his continued complaints. His gaze was fixed coldly on that slim, pale waist. He realized that the wicked thing that had lain dormant for twenty-eight years was stirring. *Reading Guide: He can only rely on his looks but insists on relying on his talent (which he thinks he has). In truth, he's hypocritical, selfish, and fickle, treating everyone as a stepping stone on his way up. Then all the gongs he used and tossed aside come back for him... *Note: 1. A hypocritical, selfish, beautiful fool and oblivious heartthrob shou who can only rely on his looks, doesn't know he's a heartthrob, and will always be straight. 2. Gong 1: An emperor who despises men, suffers from sexual dysfunction, but eventually gives in. 3. Gong 2: A general who curses him to his face, plays even rougher in private, and becomes obsessed with chasing and humiliating him, lurking in the shadows. 4. Gong 3: The county magistrate's young master, a little white flower at first who later turns into a deeply twisted male ghost. 5. Gong 4: A patient, until-he-snaps, sweet-on-the-outside-dark-on-the-inside puppy-like Crown Prince (adopted into the imperial clan). 6. Gong 5: A lofty, virtuous minister who goes mad for love. 7. Gong 6: A shameless pretender with no morals, who brazenly steals his friend's wife and makes a point of flaunting it. 8. Others to be added... *Everyone is pure. *This is a melodramatic story. The characters' values do not represent the author's. *The first line of the blurb is adapted from The Painted Veil. *I won't abandon this one. The full manuscript is complete. ★Blurb: A treacherous old minister insists on forcing him onto the throne, and then insists he have a child with the empress for him. * Your Majesty alone outshines the entire imperial harem. You alone are enough to leave the three thousand beauties without color. No one has ever said something like that to Your Majesty, have they? Then let me be the first. Your Majesty is more delicate than any woman, like a tender flower, all teary-eyed and weeping. Your Majesty, this imperial robe suits your delicate beauty... Next time, remember to call yourself "We." Angst warning. Theme: Be self-reliant and keep kindness in your heart