The Emperor's Moonlight Substitute

The emperor has made the second young lady of the Duke's estate his empress.

Rumor has it in the capital that Empress Lin looks just like the emperor's beloved, the woman he has always carried in his heart. Though she is peerlessly beautiful, she's only a pitiful substitute, a canary in a gilded cage. The emperor keeps her locked away in the imperial palace, nothing more than a plaything.

Empress Lin herself doesn't mind in the least. She spends each day lazing about, carefree as a fish, careful only not to let the notoriously brutal emperor discover two things:

First, she's a man in women's clothes.

Second, Shen Hanyan, the greatest swordsman under heaven, is her secret identity. He's offended nearly every official at court and even once struck the emperor with his sword.

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Until one day, Empress Lin accidentally broke one of the emperor's old bracelets.

The usually cruel and brutal emperor cradled the battered old bracelet, his eyes practically bleeding, and threatened to have him dragged away and executed.

Shen Hanyan: Isn't this one of those cheap trinkets I casually handed out to my devoted fans back then? I gave away a whole bunch of them...

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A domineering, cool, arrogant, tsundere, lovesick emperor gong x a carefree, charismatic, peerlessly beautiful shou adored by everyone.

1. One-on-one romance, both identities exposed, with some melodrama. Despite the substitute trope, it's not angsty. The shou is a little unhinged.

2. The gong is mentally ill and can be a total lunatic at times. Read with caution.

3. #You think I'm your substitute, but I think you're just another fish in the sea# #There's a cheap bracelet for everyone in the country, and you think yours is one of a kind#

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A day-to-day romance, a fake substitute and a real beloved, possibly with a groveling chase.

Theme: Cherish the person in front of you. Don't wait until you've lost them to realize how precious they are.