The emperor died suddenly, and Grand Tutor Xue Yixing helped the new emperor ascend the throne.
The new emperor was modest and benevolent, not as forceful as his predecessor. Xue Yixing felt somewhat relieved: at last, she could keep her secret of living as a man hidden!
But she didn’t know that the new emperor, who had repeatedly scorned the late emperor for being a "cut sleeve," would also struggle and suffer before following in his predecessor’s footsteps.
During court, the new emperor lowered his eyes to Xue Yixing’s waist, bound by her official robes. His gaze slowly traveled upward, settling on her neck, slow and heated.
Her neck, wrapped in silk, was dazzlingly white. The new emperor’s Adam’s apple bobbed as he leisurely drank from her cup, desire roiling in his eyes, enough to make anyone uneasy.
#Grand Tutor Xue Yixing, a trap for the emperors of Great Zhou#
#Two emperors in a row have been "cut sleeves." There must be something wrong with the old Zhou family’s ancestral graves.#
Zhou Huaiyong had often caught his elder brother sleeping side by side with Xue Yixing.
Before dawn, his elder brother would hurry out of the palace hall, leaving the young grand tutor in the imperial bed.
He sent the palace servants away and climbed onto the bed, pressing his fingertip hard against the grand tutor’s lips.
The grand tutor was still asleep.
Only he was burning with desire, sinking deeper and deeper into the sea of moral torment.
Now that his elder brother was dead, he had inherited the vast realm of Great Zhou.
The young grand tutor who had once made his elder brother leave the harem empty and remain unmarried should be his to inherit too.
#Grand Tutor, open the door. It’s me, my brother.#
Emperor Jingyuan had been in love with the grand tutor for years, but the grand tutor wasn’t into men.
He urged him to establish an empress and have more children, since the family had an imperial throne to pass on.
Rejected once again, Emperor Jingyuan was utterly disheartened.
He closed his eyes, and when he opened them, he had become a beautiful young soldier.
Emperor Jingyuan was overjoyed: I... I’m not the emperor anymore! Now you have no reason to reject me!
Emperor Jingyuan rushed off to find the grand tutor.
By the dim candlelight, the grand tutor studied late into the night.
The new emperor dismissed the palace servants and sat beside him, gently tracing the calluses on his fingers, worn smooth by years of holding a brush.
“You’ve worked hard, Grand Tutor.”
As a man himself, Emperor Jingyuan could clearly see the ardor and longing in his younger brother’s eyes. “It’s cold tonight. Shall we sleep side by side?”
Emperor Jingyuan flew into a rage.
He sprang forward and forced himself between the two of them:
Stop! That’s the man I love!
Cool and aloof female tutor to the emperor VS scheming, gloomy male ghost of a younger brother
Cool and aloof female tutor to the emperor VS carefree elder brother with a saintly public image and selfish desires
A guide to the story:
She lives as a man, and both male leads are virgins.
Theme: Live feasting on delicacies, die boiled in a cauldron of delicacies