Forcing Myself on the Fallen Kingdom's Young Prince

Being the emperor's most beloved son and the unquestioned heir isn't necessarily a good thing.

Especially when your dynasty is a minor power holding one corner of a world at war, and enemy troops are already at your gates.

Worse still, the enemy commander repeatedly threatens Qiao Yin, forcing him to marry him as a man.

He even makes advances while saying things like, "I beg you to be understanding," which makes Qiao Yin want to grind his teeth to dust.

But as a prince of a fallen dynasty, adrift and powerless, he has no choice but to endure the humiliation and let the victor do as he pleases.

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In his previous life, Qiao Yin died of illness in the freezing winter of Great Zhou.

This young emperor had ascended the throne in haste when the enemy army was at the border. For over a decade, he had carried Southern Chun almost single-handedly as it struggled to withstand Great Zhou's invasion.

But the tide toward unifying the realm was not something one person could hold back. When Qiao Yin was frail with illness and his strength was nearly spent, he looked around and realized, to his horror, that no one could succeed him after his death. For the sake of Southern Chun's people, Qiao Yin had no choice but to write a letter of surrender with his own hand and submit to Great Zhou.

He lived only three to five years after surrendering to Great Zhou. Yet in those final years of his life, he truly came to know He Yi, the man he had fought for ten full years.

That winter, before his death, Qiao Yin made three wishes:

First, may his homeland know peace and plentiful harvests, with the war drums silenced and the watchtowers quiet.

Second, may He Yi live to a hundred, safe and happy.

Third, may he and He Yi... renew their marriage vows and be lovers once again in the next life.

He Yi was more greedy. He wanted to live to a hundred and one with Qiao Yin, then die peacefully of old age and be buried side by side with him in the same grave.

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Later, He Yi got a second chance at life.

On the day Southern Chun surrendered, the six armies cleared the way and the officials bowed their heads. Riding a red horse, he leisurely made his way into the residence of Southern Chun's most beloved little prince and took as his bride the man he had loved to the depths of his soul in his previous life.

He held Qiao Yin close, his hand caressing the flush of anger rising on the face nestled against him. Leaning by his ear, he spoke with a smile: "Everything I do today is for my own selfish desires. If you are displeased, I beg you... to be understanding."

"After all, we have a long life together ahead of us."

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