The Chancellor Simply Refuses to Usurp the Throne

[Blurb 4, September 20, 2021. Updates every night at nine. Won’t you have a bite of something sweet?]

Xie Anshuang was originally a little prince with no interest in the throne. Who could have guessed that he would become the only legitimate heir to the imperial family, forced to inherit the throne?

After the well-behaved sixteen-year-old prince took the throne, he became wanton and depraved, doting on a treacherous minister and indulging in sensual pleasures, spending every day in a life of luxury and excess.

The court officials criticized him behind his back, and the people of the capital complained bitterly. Everyone cursed him for his debauchery and said he was unworthy of the empire and his ancestors.

But no one knew how much humiliation the young emperor endured behind the facade of nightly revelry. No one knew he was just a poor young boy who didn’t even know what candy tasted like.

He conscientiously played the role of a dissolute, incompetent ruler, periodically tormenting and humiliating the young, talented, virtuous chancellor. Every day, he hoped the chancellor, whose power was growing ever greater, would usurp the throne.

But in the end, what he got was a piece of candy gently slipped to him by the chancellor one drunken night.

The young chancellor looked at the emperor, who was so drunk he was crying and asking why the chancellor wouldn’t seize the throne. He smiled and ruffled the emperor’s hair.

“I only want to usurp Your Majesty’s empress. Would Your Majesty be willing?”

A seemingly warm but inwardly cold, fake-tyrant beauty of an emperor shou x a gentle, doting, powerful reborn chancellor gong

[Reader’s Guide]

1. As is customary, this is a one-on-one romance. The shou has admired the gong since childhood, and the gong gradually falls for the shou, too. They’re drawn to each other.

2. The gong is older and dotes on the shou. He’s soooo (gestures) doting!

3. The shou isn’t really a foolish ruler and isn’t truly debauched. Both leads are devoted to each other, body and soul.

4. Many fictional liberties have been taken. Please don’t come looking for historical accuracy. Kisses!

§ Next Historical BL Novel §

Title: Wasn’t My Consort Supposed to Be a Sickly Beauty?

In a sentence: Another day of being deceived and defied by my consort.

Blurb: (Tentatively opening March 21, 2022)

Jiang Anyan is a tyrant: domineering, capricious, and very fond of beauty, especially beautiful men.

He hears that the general’s second son is breathtakingly beautiful, delicate and frail, and always looks sickly and so pitiful that people can’t help but feel for him. So Jiang Anyan forcibly drags him into the palace, then ignores him.

After that, however, Jiang Anyan keeps running into the second son in all sorts of places.

Sometimes they bump into each other by chance in the imperial garden, where the second son, his own hands red from the cold, still gives Jiang Anyan his only cloak.

Sometimes they meet on the way from the harem to the imperial kitchen, where the gravely ill second son forces himself to stay awake just to make Jiang Anyan something to eat.

Jiang Anyan has always been used to being alone, but little by little, the second son lowers his guard without him even noticing.

And so, the unnoticed second son suddenly becomes the only favored consort in the harem.

Who would have thought that once the delicate second son became a favored consort, he would reveal a commanding presence and become famous throughout the capital for his sword dance?

He also saves the emperor in a crisis, earning merit, and fights assassins more fiercely than Jiang Anyan himself.

Anyone who wants to pick a fight with Jiang Anyan has to consider whether their own life is tougher or the second son’s sword is sharper.

Jiang Anyan: “...I thought my consort was supposed to be delicate and frail?”

The second son, Yu Yiming, smiles, his eyes sparkling as he draws Jiang Anyan into his arms. His voice is warm and gentle. “Whether I’m delicate and frail, why don’t you let Your Majesty find out for himself?”

Rumor has it that Jiang Anyan is a tyrant with a deathly fate, and anyone who gets close to him will meet a terrible end.

The young noblemen forcibly dragged into the palace live in constant fear, worried that one day he’ll take a whim and stroll through the harem.

Only Yu Yiming gazes from afar at Jiang Anyan’s solitary figure and quietly tightens his grip on the little jade seal in his hand.

His king ought to be remembered in the annals of history and revered by all his people.

A capricious tyrant shou x a falsely sickly, truly scheming gong

Theme: He knows nothing of the sweetness of life, but he knows true affection is always warm