Why Is the Regent Sneaking a Look at My Tieba Again? [Book Transmigration]

Clearance sale! The extra chapters are on sale next door!!

Also, please, please don’t impulsively buy the whole thing!! (doge for self-preservation)

The Great Emperor, Proud and Unrivaled tells the story of a Gary Stu emperor whose life is full of hardship from childhood. He eventually topples the Empress Dowager and defeats the regent who schemes to seize power, finally becoming the sole ruler of the empire.

Before transmigrating into the emperor, modern-day Pei Yan was reading this book with Baidu at hand. He’d only read half of it.

But for some reason, he was brimming with confidence and even started a diary thread to share his life as emperor.

He thought: I’ve got this.

+ The Tyrannical Emperor’s Cold Love tells the story of a lovesick regent who falls for a sinister emperor, only to have his love go unrequited and be rewarded with a cup of poisoned wine.

Before the new emperor ascended the throne, the regent Ji Mianshan was reading this book.

They had pirated fiction to thank for it. When they first met, ruler and subject stared at each other, their hatred endless.

Pei Yan looked at the man plotting to kill him and said something he didn’t mean: "The Regent is so brilliant and talented. It puts my mind at ease."

Ji Mianshan stared at the man who planned to use himself as bait and smiled meaningfully. "Your Majesty’s good days are still ahead. You’re too thin. Eat more."

Pei Yan: ?

What’s wrong with you? Are you trying to fatten me up before killing me?

*

At last, the plot point arrived when he had to fake his death and escape. Looking back on the past few months, Pei Yan was overcome with emotion and wrote one final, heartfelt entry in his diary thread.

[Ahahaha! Once I’m out of the palace gates tonight, I’ll be the freest bird in the world!]

That night, the private guards whom the Regent’s estate had trained and pampered for years all poured into the streets. Their torches illuminated every road and alley in the imperial city.

The frightened townsfolk peeked out to watch, seeing the Regent ride off on a tall horse with a handsome young man slung across its back.

Good grief, he’s abducting a man.

*

Ji Mianshan used an iron fist to put the court in order, bringing clarity and integrity from top to bottom. Though he made no public declaration, when the officials saw the Regent send people to carry a box to the emperor, they all agreed that the empire was about to change hands.

Pei Yan stared at the box stuffed full of letters, his eyes practically bulging out of his head.

Ji Mianshan waited patiently at his side. "Tell me, who were you saying all this to? If you don’t explain yourself, the emperor will be crying tonight."

A few reading tips:

1. Both are sexually inexperienced. They just talk dirty.

2. The court scheming is childish and not complicated. The fictional dynasty includes plenty of author-created details.

3. The two leads often aren’t on the same wavelength when they communicate. (A little self-nudge: Have some confidence. They’re basically never on the same wavelength.)

4. I hope writing this makes me happy, and that you, dear readers, enjoy it.

Here’s a blurb for an upcoming story: After the Underworld King and Matchmaker Switch Jobs (*this one is from the seme’s perspective*)

Irreverent Underworld King seme x Cool and calculating Matchmaker uke

The Underworld King Xie Fengye went through a trial of love, falling passionately and desperately in love.

Then his beloved disappeared.

Xie Fengye: ?

Where’s my wife? Where’s my one whole wife?!

Her name wasn’t in the Book of Life and Death, and he couldn’t find her anywhere in the world. Only at the very end did he discover that the Matchmaker in the Marriage Bureau had cut the thread of fate binding them together.

Xie Fengye figured the old man had to be out of his mind and made a threat: If the Matchmaker dared show his face, he’d beat him to death!

From then on, he neglected his duties and spent every day shouting that he wanted to have his soul scattered so he could be with his beloved, who had vanished.

Until he was demoted to the mortal world and made to open a matchmaking shop. The Heavenly Emperor put it nicely: "Being an immortal official isn’t easy. You need to learn to see things from other people’s perspectives."

Xie Fengye looked at the room full of festive red silk: [grumbling gif]

*

A hundred years ago, Matchmaker Yu Sihua made a wrong move and accidentally got caught up in the Underworld King’s trial of love. After finally escaping, he put an end to the ill-fated relationship himself.

He thought it would be enough to stay away, until his own trial arrived.

With all his memories gone, he became a mortal with a special constitution, someone who could see ghosts from birth.

He opened an ordinary funeral shop on an ordinary street.

His neighbor was a matchmaking shop owner who didn’t seem quite right in the head.

He went around shouting that he was a married man, practically wanting the word "widower" stamped on his face.

But what if this married man is so adorably dumb that he’s irresistible...

*

Once his trial was over, Xie Fengye, red-eyed once again, stormed into the Marriage Bureau for the umpteenth time.

The young immortals were frantic. They all urged their Matchmaker to hide for a while, since the Underworld King looked unusually unlikely to let things end peacefully this time.

Yu Sihua arrived on a cloud dressed in red and tossed the Underworld King a wedding outfit in front of all the immortals.

"Put this on. I’m done cultivating the path of emotionlessness."

Theme: I was a guest who stayed beneath a green lamp and never returned, but fell in love with the mortal world after a cup of turbid wine.