The crown prince is choosing a consort. Beneath the ceremonial canopy, the prince rests with his eyes closed, so breathtakingly handsome that every Lan Jun is captivated.
Except Shen Lanque.
Before he turned sixteen, he was the crown prince's study companion. He knows all too well how demanding and difficult to please the crown prince is. He'd have to be crazy to marry that man.
Shen Lanque slips the stewardess a little silver in advance, happily expecting her to put him at the very end of the line. But to his surprise, she takes his money and does no such thing, pushing him right to the front.
Not long after, on their wedding night, the crown prince, blindfolded with white silk, fumbles around and pins Shen Lanque down.
The crown prince says:
"I know you resented being made to leave the Eastern Palace back then, so you let yourself become idle and carefree. But it doesn't matter. From now on, no one will make you leave again."
"I can't see, Lanque. Be good and give me a hand."
Shen Lanque: "?"
[Reading Guide]
1. Ancient Chinese ABO setting: Shan Jun = Alpha, He Jun = Beta, Lan Jun = Omega. No childbirth in the story.
2. Domestic newlywed life, with a genuinely visually impaired crown prince gong (who recovers later) x a handsome, lazy heir shou.
3. The gong and shou only belong to each other, and this is a fluffy, easy read. The author's biggest goal is to write smoothly, without typos.
4. Blurb written on March 24, 2025.
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I'm a CEO.
A young CEO who inherited the family business and works tirelessly to expand it.
My life is dull, filled to the brim with work.
My name is always in the financial news, and almost no photos of me ever come out, so outsiders assume I'm fifty whenever they hear about me.
I really don't seem like someone in his twenties.
The only thing that makes me seem young is my childhood friend.
His name is Shen Wei, and he's an actor. I always watch the movies and TV shows he's in to unwind.
Of course, more importantly, I need to keep an eye on his career opportunities to see whether he's having financial problems.
I can't help it. Back then, he fiercely refused to inherit the family business and went off alone to try his luck in the entertainment industry, making his parents so angry that they cut off all his financial support.
But he's so handsome, and it's tough to make it alone in the chaotic entertainment industry. As his older brother, three years his senior, if I don't protect him, who will?
Thinking of it that way, I feel recharged and even more motivated to work.
Of course, there are things about my childhood friend that give me a headache.
As an adult, I prefer being alone and don't want anyone else entering my life.
But my childhood friend is so famous that paparazzi are always taking blurry photos of him, then using pictures so indistinct that even I can't tell it's him to write baffling "top-tier star news."
To solve this problem for him, I have no choice but to let him stay at my very private home.
Still, it's hard for me to get used to having someone else in my space.
At first, it was fine. He was always off filming and might not come home even once in half a year.
But gradually, it became once every two or three months, then twice, then three, four, five, six, seven, eight times...
One day, I finally voiced the question that had been on my mind: "Weiwei, you haven't... run into some kind of trouble, have you?"
I phrased it delicately, afraid that being too blunt would upset him.
But he actually nodded, lowering his eyes with a pitiful look. "I haven't been able to get any work lately... I guess I've fallen out of favor."
I couldn't believe what I was hearing. It hurt more than losing two hundred billion in company value.
It felt like the sky had fallen.
Theme: Do meaningful things with the limited life we have
