I Went to Pick a Husband from the Exam Results, and Picked the Emperor

[The extras are complete, and the novel is finished]

Little Ancestor X Dog Emperor: Extra sweet

★ Yu Xinle is the only son of the wealthiest man in Jiangnan. He is rich, clever, adorable, and loved by everyone. He has no interest in studying or pursuing an official career, and deliberately fails the county examination three times.

His father is so furious that he has him bundled off to the capital, hoping to send him to the Imperial College for a thorough reformation.

On the day he arrives in the capital, the results of the palace examination are posted, and the whole city is going mad, scrambling to snag a son-in-law from among the successful candidates.

Watching quietly from the sidelines, Yu Xinle has an epiphany. If he snags one too, won't his family have all the honors and official status they could want?

Best of all, his father will stop forcing him to study!

If he is going to snatch someone, naturally he should get the best. After finding out which inn the top scholar is staying at, Yu Xinle heads out with his servant under cover of darkness. They climb the wall and grab him, stuffing him into a sack before even getting a good look at him. When they get home and open the sack...

Well, the young master Yu's face turns scarlet in an instant.

★ The new emperor, Zhao Yan, is in secret talks with the top scholar at night. Before they can finish, an "assassin" shows up. He intends to eliminate the intruder quickly, but the person who arrives is the little ancestor who once helped him ascend the throne by chance.

Of course, the little ancestor doesn't recognize him. Not only that, he mistakes him for the top scholar, hoists him into a sack, and runs off. When he finally looks back at him, he is completely dumbstruck.

The silly little ancestor picks up banknotes, land deeds, and gold leaves and pelts him with them, speaking nervously but with great conviction: "As long as you come with me, all of this will be yours! I'll guarantee you a life of wealth and glory! There's just one thing: you have to be devoted to me, and you must never take me in and then abandon me!"

Zhao Yan laughs softly. This time, the little ancestor has come right to him of his own accord.

Zhao Yan gazes at the little ancestor and slowly nods. "All right."

★ A few months later, when Yu Xinle learns his "wife's" true identity, tears stream down his face, and that very night he runs away.

Before he even reaches the city gate, he's caught.

The emperor dismounts and scoops the little ancestor into his arms, holding him tight. He gently strokes his cheek and says, word by word, right beside his ear, "I am devoted to you. Shouldn't you also refrain from taking me in and then abandoning me?"

Yu Xinle: T_T

To Zhao Yan, Yu Xinle is the only purity and light in his absurd, dark life.

Now that the little ancestor has run into him and been carried back to his nest, he will never be allowed to leave again.

[Little Scene]

The little ancestor suddenly becomes pregnant and hides at home, refusing to go out. He also refuses to say who the other father is. Madam Yu clutches him and wails as if the sky is about to fall.

Master Yu grabs his ruler, ready to avenge the little ancestor.

To his surprise, the bastard really dares to show up at their door, empty-handed, and even opens his mouth to call him "Father-in-law."

Furious, Master Yu grabs his ruler and beats the man right back out the door.

A few days later, the palace sends over a great many gifts, praising the little ancestor's noble character and piling gifts high in the courtyard. Master Yu is also summoned to meet the current emperor.

Master Yu happily heads to the palace, thinking he can avenge his son and give the bastard a hard time. Before he can even kneel and pay his respects, the man on the throne calls him "dear Father-in-law" and asks if he is satisfied with the betrothal gifts.

Master Yu, newly appointed as a real father-in-law, looks up at the "bastard" on the throne and is left speechless.

The little ancestor is bold, carefree, and soft-hearted, with a pure soul.

The dog emperor is calculating at every turn, cold and taciturn, and loves him obsessively.

Entering V on November 2. Thank you, everyone.

Anti-piracy measures: 50%, 72 hours.

1. The older top is nine years older. This is an extra-sweet romance from beginning to end.

2. The cover shows Yu Xinle's character design.

3. I'll add more if I think of anything.

----- Upcoming Novel -----

Upcoming: Who Says It's Hard to Be a Stand-In?

Blurb:

★ Jiang Shiyi was born and raised in the Cold Palace. He had never met anyone else. The only person by his side was his mother, a once-favored consort who had been mercilessly cast into the Cold Palace and now suffered from intermittent madness, spending her days reminiscing about her former glory.

Influenced by his surroundings, Jiang Shiyi developed a very simple worldview:

A person should marry someone powerful and rich.

If they can't be powerful, they must at least be rich.

If they don't even have money,

then they might as well die.

★ So when the kingdom fell and he and his mother were released from the Cold Palace, he was the only surviving prince. When they offered him to the new emperor as a substitute for the former crown prince, Jiang Shiyi was practically weeping with joy.

The good life with money and power had finally arrived!!

What? The former crown prince was the new emperor's unattainable white moonlight?

He was just a pitiful stand-in being used by someone else??

Jiang Shiyi is made a noble consort and sprawls in a luxurious bedchamber built from gold. He can grab a handful of gold ingots whenever he wants, and all he has to do is open his mouth for a pretty maid to feed him peeled lychees.

You call that pitiful??

Let the poor thing keep living this pitiful life.

Unfortunately, the good times don't last. The former crown prince turns out to be alive, and he comes back!

The new emperor wants to marry him and make him empress!!

Countless people wait to see the pitiful fate of Jiang Shiyi, a frivolous stand-in who only knows how to eat, drink, and have fun.

Jiang Shiyi has already made off with all the gold and silver. He takes the newly appointed top candidate in the palace examination, who is hopelessly infatuated with him and refuses to marry anyone else, and heads to Jiangnan to live an even better life, surrounded by wealth and beauty.

As long as you have money, can't you be the lady of the house anywhere?

★ When Yuwen Zheng was still the heir to the Duke of Dingguo, the emperor tried to win him over by offering him the crown prince's hand in marriage. He refused outright and went to the border.

By the time Yuwen Zheng rebelled and took the throne, somehow the story had spread that the former crown prince was the unattainable white moonlight who had once cruelly humiliated him.

Unfortunately, the crown prince was dead.

Some busybody dragged the eleventh prince out of the Cold Palace to curry favor with him.

Yuwen Zheng had a headache. He had planned to send the boy away. The eleventh prince had been confined in the Cold Palace and knew nothing of the world, so all he needed was a remote place where he could be fed and cared for.

He never expected that this former eleventh prince would understand more than anyone.

He came up with one ploy after another to curry favor and compete for affection. They were clumsy, childish, and laughable. Even after Yuwen Zheng made him a noble consort and showered him with gifts day after day, he still dared to ask for the empress's seal. Yuwen Zheng was so exasperated that his headache worsened, and he considered sending the boy away.

Yet this eleventh prince was exceptionally beautiful, and Yuwen Zheng had made him more and more beautiful still. After the fatigue of state affairs, simply looking at that face brought him pleasure.

Yuwen Zheng wanted to see what other tricks he could pull.

He never expected Jiang Shiyi to be so bold as to run away!

Not only did he flee, but when Yuwen Zheng found him, Jiang Shiyi was holding on to the top candidate whom Yuwen Zheng had personally appointed, calling him his new husband?!

Yuwen Zheng then looked at the baby in Jiang Shiyi's arms, supposedly born with the top candidate, yet looking exactly like him. He sneered:

"Do you think I'm blind or stupid?!"

Jiang Shiyi thought, very quietly: Aren't you?

1. One-on-one pairing. The bottom and the top candidate did not get married.

2. This is the basic premise. The blurb and title may still be revised when I start writing the novel.

----- Upcoming Novel -----

Upcoming: After Mistaking a Rich Older Man for My Husband (Ancient-to-Modern)

Blurb:

A soft, sweet, innocent, slightly scheming pretty bottom X a rigid, arrogant, fatherly top who is the head of the family

Ten-year age gap

★ Upon hearing that her fiance had married someone else in the capital, Shu Niannan scoffed and decided to go there herself to slap a divorce letter across the scumbag's face.

But halfway there, his boat capsized, and after waking up, Shu Niannan had transmigrated to the modern world.

Faced with a completely unfamiliar world, Shu Niannan was bewildered and a little scared.

Then he saw a tall, handsome man standing in the center of the crowd. The man's face looked familiar, and people were calling him "Mr. Yu."

Didn't his scumbag former fiance have the surname Yu?!

This man also looked a lot like the scumbag in the portrait!

The scumbag had transmigrated with him!

And now he was pretending not to know him!

Fine. Just wait and see how well I take care of you from now on!

Without a second thought, Shu Niannan threw himself at the man's legs and cried out, "Husband!"

Shu Niannan acts spoiled and throws tantrums in every possible way, taming the "scumbag" until he is perfectly obedient. Their life together flourishes, and the "scumbag" even takes the initiative to propose marriage, inviting all his relatives to witness it.

Just as Shu Niannan is about to publicly slap the divorce letter he brought from the past in his face...

Wait, why is the one desperately backing away and refusing to meet his eyes even more scumbag-like than the "scumbag"?

Shu Niannan nearly bursts into tears.

He got the wrong person. The "husband" he'd been tormenting for more than half a year was the scumbag's uncle!!

★ Yu Xuan has recently started dating a man ten years younger than himself.

Although the young man can't tell ancient times from the present and doesn't call him "hubby," preferring to call him "husband."

Although he's spoiled and fussy, refusing to eat unless he's fed and refusing to sleep unless he's coaxed.

Although he brings one problem after another...

Yu Xuan seems aloof and cold, but in reality, he's already so charmed he can't tell north from south.

Especially when his young boyfriend makes him dessert, sits on his lap, and insists on feeding him by hand, asking if it's sweet.

He always suspects that the next moment he'll be so overwhelmed by his boyfriend's sweetness that he'll faint.

Yu Xuan prepares a grand proposal for his young boyfriend.

He never expected his boyfriend to ask for a breakup.

The reason? His boyfriend had mistaken him for someone else.

:)

Fine. Very good.

Little Scene:

The older man is too proud to admit he cares, so after the breakup, he goes abroad for work and suffers for months.

When he comes back, he hears that his young boyfriend hasn't gotten together with his nephew, and that the nephew spends every day carousing.

In the end, the older man can't resist sneaking over to take a look, only to find his young boyfriend jumping into a river! (In reality, he's looking for a way to travel back the way he came...)

The older man drags his young boyfriend out of the water, furious. "Do you love him that much?! You're jumping into a river just to make him come back to you?!"

The older man can't bear to see him suffer, so he orders his nephew to marry the young boyfriend.

The young boyfriend refuses outright.

The older man says sternly, "Why?"

The young boyfriend looks pitiful. "I don't like him..."

The older man gets even sterner. "Then who do you like? Whoever it is, I can tie him up and bring him here to marry you!"

After a long time of being pressed for an answer,

the young boyfriend's eyes turn red. He looks at the older man and whispers, "I like my husband..."

The older man: …

Ah, his heart has completely melted.

1. The protagonist has only seen a portrait of his scumbag former fiance, painted in the ancient, impressionistic style, so that's why he mistook them.

2. I haven't decided whether there will be children yet. I'll see when I get there.

3. This is the premise. I'll probably still adjust the blurb and details when I officially start writing.

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Theme: No matter what situation you find yourself in, never give up. The light that belongs to you is just ahead.