Did the Heir Run Away Today?

1. Ning Ning has read so many stories that he assumes the old emperor summoned him to the palace as a hostage to keep his father in line. To seem less threatening, Ning Ning makes sure to be useless at both scholarship and martial arts, and spends his time eating, drinking, and having fun. By chance, he makes a friend. His new friend is handsome and refined, with a bright and noble bearing and elegant conversation. Ning Ning quickly regards him as a confidant. They admire the scenery, discuss wine, and talk about everything under the sun. Ning Ning: The old emperor is holding a huge selection of consorts. He's a lecherous, shameless old man! Ning Ning: This is infuriating! I'm uneducated and useless. Why hasn't he thrown me out of the capital yet? Ning Ning: I wonder if Zhiweixuan's chef can make cherry pork as well as the imperial cooks. His friend calmly pushes him a cup of tea to cut the grease. "...Mm." Then one day, Ning Ning can stall no longer and has to enter the palace. At the grand banquet, he looks up and sees the emperor. Ning Ning: ??? How did the friend he told everything to end up sitting on the throne?! 2. Relying on his friendship with the emperor from their days outside the palace, Ning Ning slacks off, working only every other day. Among His Majesty's many imperial guards, Ning Ning is one of a kind... at the very bottom! Ning Ning is perfectly happy with this, certain that his friend will understand and send him home soon. One day at a meal, his friend says, "If you don't want to be an imperial guard, then you can do something else." Thinking his plan has worked perfectly, Ning Ning beams and gives his friend a look that says, "You get me." His friend says unhurriedly, "You can be my empress." Ning Ning: ??? 3. When the heir to the Prince of Ning arrived in the capital, Pei Zhao thought it would be an enormous headache. Later, he could only say: If every headache in the world were like this... he would gladly suffer them. . Tips: A sunny, innocent cutie x a subtle, possessive jealous type The cutie is actually stronger if we're talking pure martial prowess. Six-year age gap, both identities revealed, happy ending, children *The dissolute, immoral one is the old emperor, not the love interest!!! . This idea came to me while I was filling in the gaps in an old novel, a sweet little story to lift my spirits. It won't be long~ *An alternate universe, very loosely based on anything Theme: Bright as the sun and moon, radiant as the stars