The Treacherous Minister Is Determined to Die

*In the fifteenth year of the Guang Yuan Emperor's reign, the emperor dies, leaving his nine-year-old crown prince, Xuan Lan, four regents, and a powerful eunuch to govern in his place. The eunuch's ambition knows no bounds. When the young emperor ascends the throne, he kills the empress dowager, then executes the four regents one after another and seizes power for himself. The officials are terrified, and the common people avoid him like the plague, calling the ruthless and vicious eunuch the “Nine-Thousand-Year-Old.” As the young emperor grows older, his conflict with the eunuch intensifies. No longer willing to be a puppet in the imperial court, his ambition grows wildly, like a prairie fire that cannot be stopped. In that all-consuming blaze burns his hunger for power over the realm, as well as his desire for the person he hates most. Little by little, he realizes that instead of having the treacherous minister tortured to death, he would rather build him a gilded cage and keep him hidden forever in the palace. *“You and I are both trapped beasts in a cage. If neither of us can win, then we'll cling to each other until death.” *Brooding stray-dog top x unhinged beauty bottom *Younger top Coming soon: Reborn as the Scum Alpha's Cannon-Fodder Ex-Wife * Your husband gives you fifty thousand a month but never comes home. Would you agree to that? Zhao Zhi Yi's husband not only never comes home, he also deposits five hundred thousand into his account every month, right on schedule. Zhao Zhi Yi: “Forget him not coming home. I wouldn't mind picking out a diamond ring for his boyfriend!” * Zhao Zhi Yi transmigrates into a minor cannon-fodder character in a novel he was reading: the ex-wife of the scum Alpha in an ABO novel about a scum top and a pathetic bottom. The scum top and his boyfriend are in love, but to give his family an explanation, the scum Alpha is forced to marry Zhao Zhi Yi, an ordinary Omega who is shallow and loves money. His only demand is that Zhao give him a child to inherit the family fortune, so he can live happily ever after with the person he loves. When Zhao Zhi Yi arrives, he sees the scum top pulling up his pants and leaving coldly. “If you don't get pregnant this time, we're getting divorced.” Zhao Zhi Yi, on the verge of tears: “You can leave, but leave the money. You forgot to pay me this month!” * Zhao Zhi Yi feels sorry for his husband's boyfriend. Anyone who can put up with the scum Alpha's awful temper must be Mother Teresa reincarnated. So he goes out of his way to look after the delicate, frail little green-tea Alpha, determined to become his good friend and hoping to use him as leverage to extort a hefty breakup settlement from the scum Alpha. But something is strange. Why does this little green-tea Alpha keep wanting to cuddle and rub against him, and even try to bite his neck? * Zhao Zhi Yi diligently plays the role of a background character who gets paid on a regular schedule. He makes it all the way to the divorce storyline, ready to negotiate a generous settlement with the scum Alpha, when the little green-tea Alpha pulls out a ring, drops to one knee, and proposes, promising to deposit a million into Zhao's account every month. Zhao Zhi Yi: “!!” I'm tempted! The scum Alpha flies into a rage and gets into a fight with the little green-tea Alpha. Zhao Zhi Yi looks baffled. “Huh? Weren't you two supposed to suffer through a tearjerker romance and then live happily ever after? Don't fight over a cannon-fodder character!” * They still haven't gotten divorced, and Zhao Zhi Yi is anxious. What worries him even more is discovering that the story he read was fan fiction about a romantic pairing, but the one he's transmigrated into is a wholesome story about brotherhood. Theme: No matter how hard life gets, never give up lightly.