So I Was a Beloved Male Concubine

Chu Yanlan was born into the imperial family, both fortunate and unfortunate.

He was neither the eldest nor the legitimate heir, yet his mother was a bona fide demon consort.

With a face capable of bringing a kingdom to ruin, she maneuvered him onto the throne of Crown Prince.

His brothers seethed with hatred, and the court officials had no faith in him.

How could the son of a demon consort become a good emperor? The very idea was laughable!

Even more absurdly, just days after becoming Crown Prince, Chu Yanlan suddenly went mad before the eyes of the whole court.

He fell from a spirited horse, breaking his leg and striking his head, and became a fool.

A fool could hardly remain Crown Prince, so Chu Yanlan was deposed in the blink of an eye.

Everyone said he was too ill-fated and lowborn to deserve the Eastern Palace throne.

Even Chu Yanlan himself thought so.

So he chose to pretend to be mad and stupid.

When he fell from his horse, Chu Yanlan hit his head and suddenly remembered who he really was.

He truly was the Crown Prince of the Great Hong Dynasty, destined to ascend the throne one day, but he had already lived through one lifetime.

In his previous life, he had worn the imperial robes and sat upon the dragon throne, yet his life had been worse than that of a lowly male prostitute in a brothel.

He was the last ruler of the Great Hong Dynasty, and he simply... was not a good emperor.

The whole court knew he was nothing but a puppet in the hands of the Gu father and son, their plaything in bed.

Within a few years, Chu Yanlan was forced to abdicate and yield the throne to the usurper Gu. He died of illness in a distant fief.

When he opened his eyes again, Chu Yanlan was back in the great bed of the Eastern Palace.

In this life, he was still Crown Prince, but he no longer wanted to be emperor.

All Chu Yanlan wanted now was to kill the two Gu traitors who had treated him as their plaything and plotted to usurp the throne!

Even cutting them to pieces and dismembering them would not ease the hatred he carried from his previous life, when they destroyed his dynasty and brought his family to ruin.

A ruthless, sickly beauty vs. a powerful minister who steals the throne

1. One-on-one pairing at each stage. Not pure. Happy ending.

2. The four tops are a father and son and two brothers, two generations of one family.

3. Full of landmines, with old-school melodrama and angst. Enter with extreme caution.

[Includes bottom-to-top reversals and switches, with everyone involved in NTR and love-rival drama, but the two most dominant tops are tops only.]

Blurb screenshot archived, July 30, 2025.

Theme: Never surrender to fate, even when driven into a desperate corner