The Film Emperor's Delicate Young Man [Ancient to Modern]

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[Warning: Content warnings are in the author's note of Chapter 1. Please read it carefully and only continue from Chapter 1 if you are comfortable with them. If not, click away. The blurb and author's notes are very clear, so you should know whether you can accept it. You don't have to force yourself. If you still want to give it a try, there's no need to tell me if you drop it.]

[Upcoming stories: Drunk Kisses with My Childhood Friend (now serializing) and The Fake Young Master Nobody Loves. Blurbs below. Please add them to your collection~]

Xie Dongling is the youngest son of the Marquis of Kangding. As the family's long-awaited precious boy, he is doted on and cherished by everyone, growing up innocent and pampered.

After an accidental fall into the water, he transmigrated to the modern world, becoming Ran Dongling, who looked just like him, and somehow gaining a handsome husband.

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Qiu Ci has a fiancée he's never met. That's how little he knows about her: apart from an old photograph, he has no information about her at all. He even suspects she doesn't exist and was invented by the Qiu and Ran families as a bargaining chip for a business deal.

After wrapping a guest-role film shoot, Qiu Ci got a call from his grandfather, who told him his fiancée was coming back to the country.

So his fiancée really does exist?

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A piece of gossip suddenly appeared online: rising star Qiu Ci was engaged.

Netizens weighed in:

"Wow, winning Best Actor in front and marrying a beauty in the back. Living the dream."

His fans refuted the rumor:

"Leave my brother out of this. He's filming deep in the mountains."

The person at the center of it all, Qiu Ci, knew nothing about the online storm. He was at home watching a melodramatic mother-in-law series with Ran Dongling, and casually posted a public message.

That night, Weibo froze on a blank white screen.

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To help the two grow closer, Grandpa Qiu decided they should join a couples' variety show.

During a livestream challenge, they had to climb to the Temple of Matchmaking on the mountaintop by noon. Before they had even covered a third of the way, Ran Dongling complained that he was tired. Grabbing the strap of Qiu Ci's backpack, he tried to get Qiu Ci to carry him up the mountain.

Comments flew across the livestream.

[Yeah, right.]

[Don't you have legs?]

[The other teams are halfway up the mountain, and you've been picking flowers and complaining about being tired?]

But they hadn't expected Qiu Ci, who was usually cold toward everyone, to shift his backpack around to the front and crouch down in front of him.

[???]

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Reading guide:

1. Same-sex marriage is legal in this setting.

2. There is childbirth in the story. No birth in the main story, but there is a pregnancy; childbirth happens in the extras.

3. The shou is really, really stupid.

(He's not smart, but don't call him mentally handicapped or disabled. That's very rude, whether in real life or online.)

4. Qiu Ci is pronounced "Qiu."

5. Read the author's note in Chapter 1 for details. There are content warnings, so it's best to skip Chapter 1 and read the author's note first. Continue to Chapter 1 if you're okay with them. The author's note explains everything clearly, so don't ask why. If you can't accept it, click away.

6. No comments or contact from pirated-reading sites.

Upcoming story, please add it to your collection 0-0: Drunk Kisses with My Childhood Friend

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Le Yueyi has lived for nineteen years, and two things really bother him.

First, his name is pronounced Yueyi, not Leyi, but people always get it wrong.

Second, his childhood friend Lin Ce is way too possessive of him.

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On the day he turned twenty, he gained another thing to worry about.

He got drunk and kissed his childhood friend.

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Lin Ce likes Yueyi. Using his status as Yueyi's childhood friend, he keeps him firmly within his reach.

He's just waiting for Yueyi to come around and change the nature of their relationship.

On Yueyi's twentieth birthday, a tipsy Yueyi leaned against Lin Ce, smiling sweetly. Lin Ce couldn't hold back and lowered his head to kiss him.

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The next morning, Yueyi was nowhere to be found in the dorm.

Lin Ce checked his phone's location. Yueyi was on the roof.

Yueyi was on the roof, contemplating his life and wondering how he was supposed to face his childhood friend, when Lin Ce called.

Lin Ce: "Where did you go?"

Yueyi: "I'm tainted now."

Lin Ce: "...?"

Upcoming story, please add it to your collection 0-0: The Fake Young Master Nobody Loves

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Ji Zhixiao spent more than twenty years as the fake young master of the Ji family, unloved and uncared for.

Before the real young master returned, he married Pei Huainian, whom he had loved for many years.

Even though Pei Huainian didn't love him.

That was okay, Ji Zhixiao thought. Just being able to stay by his side was enough.

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Pei Huainian's first impression of Ji Zhixiao was that he was an impostor brought in by the Ji family to save face.

He also noticed that people often made fun of Ji Zhixiao.

After marrying the impostor, Pei Huainian realized Ji Zhixiao was just as the rumors said: fake and affected.

He didn't fit in with them and seemed to live in a different world.

Pei Huainian regretted marrying him.

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Later, the real young master was found. The Pei and Ji families declared that the original marriage arrangement with Ji Zhixiao didn't count and decided to have the real young master marry Pei Huainian instead.

The fake young master Ji Zhixiao was kicked out of the Pei household and disappeared.

Pei Huainian regretted it again.

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