After Seizing the Throne, He Faked His Death

[The cold-hearted, mysterious national preceptor top x the emperor bottom, once gloomy and indifferent, who later learns to let worldly matters go] 1. Mu Xiang inherited the throne through despicable means, and all he cared about was the national preceptor. Using the life of the former crown prince as leverage, he kept the national preceptor, Shi He, in Weiyang Palace, where the empresses of past dynasties had lived. He had achieved his aim, but had no idea how to proceed. He did not understand his own feelings or realize he was keeping Shi He there because he loved him. Then, one day, drunk, he followed his heart and asked for a kiss, only for Shi He to calmly avoid him. He came to his senses, memories of the past flashing through his mind, and a bitter ache rose in his heart. He heard himself say calmly, “Stay with me for one more month, National Preceptor, and I will let you go.” Stay with me, and I will let you go. 2. Three months after Shi He left the imperial capital, he heard the news that the reigning emperor, Mu Xiang, had died. It was said that before his death, Mu Xiang had personally written an edict passing the throne to the former crown prince, Mu Yu, who was still in prison. Shi He saw through Mu Xiang’s faked death and calmly waited where he was for the other man to come find him... Until half a month passed and the other man still had not appeared. At last, the heart that had remained unruffled for years began to stir. [Note: In this fictional setting, the term for a man who loves another man has not yet come into use.] [This novel will be published on Saturday, June 5. Muah~] [There will be a raffle for readers who purchase the full novel. 5,000 Jinjiang coins will be awarded at random. Double update Tuesday evening.] ★ The former crown prince and Shi He have no romantic entanglement. Aside from the top and bottom, no one of the same sex has feelings for either of them. ★ A short, bottom-centric story. Shi He is the top. The setting is not a conventional historical world. ★ Both are virgins. There is no traditional groveling arc, and the happy ending is nontraditional. Not a friendly read for fans of either the top or the bottom; please don’t read if that bothers you. My next bottom-centric story, My Little Drama Queen Takes Things in Stride After Being Diagnosed with a Terminal Illness: [Both characters are reborn; the illness will be cured. Starts at the end of July.] [In his past life, the bottom was a dramatic liar; in this life, he is a listless, world-weary beauty x a steady, reserved actor who never lets his emotions show] 1. Mu Yang smoked, drank, and got into fights. He was a thoroughly bad kid. Just how bad was he? Mu Yang used the dying wish of the other man’s mother to force Qi Bieting, who could barely stand him, to stay by his side. After they married, Qi Bieting remained cold toward him, so Mu Yang threw tantrums at every opportunity. He stayed out all night to get the other man’s attention and used cruel words to make him look angry He even tried to use his terminal illness to trade for the other man’s tenderness and a little love. But Mu Yang had lied too many times before, and Qi Bieting didn’t believe him at all. Until one day, Mu Yang lay in the ICU and closed his eyes for good. In his final moments, he vaguely saw Qi Bieting’s indifferent face How nice. I can finally stop loving you. If he had another life, he would never cling to Qi Bieting like this again. But there were no ifs. When he opened his eyes again, he had returned to five years earlier, just after forcing Qi Bieting to marry him. 2. No one knew that the award-winning actor Qi Bieting had been married for five years, and that his spouse was a nobody who loved making a scene. After the little husband who had made a scene by his side for five years died, Qi Bieting seemed no different from usual. Life went on as before. Until one day, he got into a car accident on his way to a job. When he woke up, he had returned to five years earlier. He calmly accepted the fact that his little drama queen was back by his side, and the first thing he did was send Mu Yang for a checkup. But while he wasn’t looking, his little husband promptly signed the divorce papers, refused treatment, and ran off to the seaside to eat, wait, and die. [In his past life, Mu Yang spent five years making trouble by Qi Bieting’s side, all because he wanted to hear him call him Yangyang one more time.] My next switch story, in June: I Was Reborn with the Zombie I’d Raised for Ten Years: [No special abilities, no golden finger. Just a group of ordinary people and a cat struggling to survive the zombie apocalypse.] 1. At first, no one paid any attention to the disaster. It was just a few crazies infected with “rabies”... Until the whole world lost power, city after city fell, and friends and family turned into mindless zombies, mouths agape as they charged at them Only then did people understand that the apocalypse had arrived. The survivors gradually realized that this might be nature’s purge, the final warning Earth gave humanity after being pushed beyond its limits. 2. When his new neighbor said he liked him, Si Lin didn’t believe it. Not until the day the apocalypse arrived, when he and the neighbor were trapped in an elevator with a zombie. The neighbor took a fatal blow for him and, after two days with a high fever, turned into a mindless zombie. For ten years, Si Lin carefully protected his zombie neighbor, avoiding both zombies and humans. No human would consider someone who kept a zombie as one of their own. In this world, heroes tended to die young, while cautious, selfish people lived the longest. Then one day, humanity stood on the brink of extinction, and the zombies, deprived of food, grew weaker and weaker. The world returned to silence. Si Lin gazed at the empty, quiet streets and placed his forearm in the mouth of the zombie he had raised for over ten years, his eyes gentle. After losing consciousness, he opened his eyes again and found himself back three days before the apocalypse. His neighbor, not yet a zombie, stood at his door with a cake, smiling. “I just made it, so it’s still warm. Want to try some?” Si Lin’s dead heart suddenly began to beat. At that moment, he reunited with the spring he had long been without. [Reborn, Si Lin received no advantages beyond the memories of his previous life. He has no golden finger like the characters in novels. The world remains desperate, with no special abilities and no savior. Everyone is still hiding and fleeing... But for Si Lin, the biggest difference is that Wu Qiyun is still alive, his body warm and his mouth warm.] Theme: Don’t force what isn’t yours.