A Substitute Bride's Auspicious Wedding, and the Powerful Eunuch's Baby

Coming soon: Making Up a Slander About the Villain's Face, with the blurb below~

Xiao Yue transmigrated into the son, the male twin of a pair of fraternal twins born late in life to a wealthy merchant in Liang. By the time he was twenty, he had a rich inheritance, loving parents, and an adorable younger sister. He was the very picture of a winner in life

Until Xue Zhao, the powerful eunuch at court, was on the verge of death. An expert said that he could be cured only if a person surnamed Xiao, born on a certain date in a certain year, from the south of the city, married him for good luck.

Xiao Yue: You might as well just give them my sister's ID number. (￣ー￣)

Seeing his parents fretting and sighing, Xiao Yue put on a set of women's clothes. "I'll marry him!"

They'd set so many conditions, but never said the person had to be a woman! There was no need to produce an heir anyway, so why couldn't a man get married? And what if they found out? At worst, that dead eunuch would get jealous that I had something he didn't. What was he going to do, cut mine off too?

Xiao Yue believed in science. Marrying someone for good luck couldn't save them; it was more likely to kill them outright. So he bravely took his sister's place and married the powerful eunuch to bring him good fortune

That night, the groom came back to life.

Xiao Yue: ...I've transmigrated, so why am I still talking about science? Better find some dirt on the corrupt eunuch to protect myself.

The groom, Xue Zhao, admired the beauty by lamplight. He flicked up the wedding robe and leaned close. "Dead eunuch? You have something I don't? Can't I cut it off?"

Xiao Yue: A fake eunuch! Dirt! Living, breathing dirt!

As time passed, Xiao Yue tried every trick to hide that he was a man in women's clothes. But Xue Zhao always looked at him strangely, as if he were a long-lost friend or lover.

Xiao Yue: No, this can't be right. I'm straight.

Later, when Liang fell into chaos, Xiao Yue fled to another country with a baby in his belly. When they met again, the powerful eunuch, who never even frowned when killing, stared at his stomach with bloodshot eyes. "What's that?"

Straight As An Arrow Xiao Yue patted his belly. "Dirt! Living, breathing dirt!"

[Reading Guide]:

* This novel shares a setting with the author's previous works, but you can read it without having read Reborn or The Regent.

* The events in the blurb don't happen right away. It may look like marriage first, love later, but it's actually love first, marriage later.

* There will be a baby. See the first point for how that's possible. There are temporary physical changes during pregnancy, but they won't be described in detail.

* Two innocent middle schoolers and a sweet, brainless romance~

* I'm terrible at writing blurbs, so see the novel itself for details!

★★Coming soon: Making Up a Slander About the Villain's Face★★

Wang Shen had spent his whole life as a rich playboy. Just before his coming-of-age ceremony, he closed his eyes and opened them ten years in the future, in the body of Weisheng Qian, a fearless official who was willing to die for his convictions. The original owner had offended the most powerful villain at court and, rather than be humiliated, had killed himself in a dark, damp prison.

Wang Shen opened his eyes wide and looked at the rat by his feet and the moldy rice by his hand

Oh, wow.

He could even take someone's place in prison. Talk about taking over someone else's nest, no, someone's cell.

The villain's lackey approached with a wicked grin, clutching a leather whip soaked in chili water. "Weisheng Qian, if you don't tell us something Lord Wang wants to hear, this whip is going to, "

Wait! Hold on! Don't panic!

This all-powerful villain seems to be named Wang Shen, courtesy name Zhuoquan. That's me, ten years from now! What a small world!

Well, I know exactly what he likes to hear!

Wang Shen, wearing Weisheng Qian's face, cleared his throat. "If he can't have my heart, he'll hurt my body. It all began with a pure young man, as delicate as a little white flower in the wind, brutally crushed by an unfeeling hand..."

As Weisheng Qian revealed that Lord Wang, the villain, called for his mother in his sleep and had a red mole on his right buttock, the story of the flower being brutally crushed grew more and more believable. Weisheng Qian's slanderous stage moved from the prison to the imperial court, where he told his tale with such vivid flair that everyone was spellbound.

Weisheng Qian lowered his eyes and dabbed at a tear. Pressing a hand to his stomach, he said, "If I were a woman, I'd have been pregnant with the villain's child by now."

Out of the corner of his eye, he saw a stern figure in purple robes.

He looked up

Wang Shen: "Go on. I'm listening."

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■ Recommended: Qian Sui by Chi Ya, ID 6849621. Click to watch a wicked eunuch dig up a sesame rice ball. Who says a real eunuch can't have a wife? ■

■ The content warnings are longer than the blurb, and the full novel is even more thrilling. See Ya Ya's page for details. ■

Da Cang and Changdan were negotiating peace. To show his sincerity, Li Xi, who had been framed, defeated, and taken prisoner, was allowed to return to Changdan.

Beneath the steps of green jade, Li Xi removed his boots and hairpin, then kowtowed step by step. His knees were already bleeding, but the old emperor still hadn't told him to rise.

His father despised him, his mother had passed away, and his brothers fought among themselves. Li Xi had traveled thousands of miles from Xuanbai back to Changdan, only to leave one tiger's den and return to another wolf's lair.

He concealed his ambition and schemes beneath a meek, timid exterior. The emperor fell gravely ill, the throne's power slipped away, and the eunuch Pei Huaien ran roughshod over the court, holding everything in his hands.

Looking at the powerful eunuch in crimson robes beside the throne, Li Xi's gaze darkened.

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To secure his power and position, Pei Huaien chose Li Xi, the most timid and easiest to control, from among the several princes desperately trying to win his support. He personally put Li Xi on the throne.

But he never expected that once the little puppet became emperor, the sheep would turn into a wolf in an instant, baring its claws and fangs at him.

In this struggle, built on mountains of bones, the young emperor used both kindness and authority, reason and iron-fisted tactics, favor and grace, until the man who had once pulled the strings willingly became a pawn in the emperor's hand, a sharp blade for him to wield.

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Wicked, venomous eunuch Pei Huaien x sweet, black-sesame-filled rice ball Li Xi. One-on-one romance. A messy, bloody palace drama about six princes vying for the throne. The gong is a real eunuch, and their roles never reverse. They can eat wolf meat and be bitten by wolves at the same time.

"Break the bones in my body to forge a blade in your hand."

Theme: Everyone is equal before love