Embroidered Spring Shines Bright on the Snow

Cool, calculating beauty bottom x wolf-dog top, HE

The first time Li Jinyang saw Shen Qing, Shen Qing was standing beside his master, holding and eating a Double Ninth Festival rice cake. He was as lovely as a jade-carved child, with a red cord tying back his hair. He looked like a little Bodhisattva at Guanyin's side, dressed in a small gray cotton robe, his round eyes fixed intently on Li Jinyang.

He seemed completely out of place in Yanzhou, where yellow dust swirled through the air.

That year, Li Jinyang was thirteen and Shen Qing was eleven. He carefully protected his little Bodhisattva, waited for him, and thought that once Shen Qing grew a little older, and then a little older still, he would confess his feelings. At last, Shen Qing turned sixteen, but war broke out in the north, and Li Jinyang received an imperial summons to the battlefield.

Six years later, he returned and discovered that the person he had so carefully protected had become his father's man.

In the capital, everyone knew that Shen Qing of the Embroidered Uniform Guard was an executioner's blade in the old emperor's hand. Any dirty, brutal, or unpopular business was handed to him.

Everyone also knew that Shen Qing of the Embroidered Uniform Guard was sleeping with the old emperor. Every month, he spent a few nights in the palace, his body covered in mottled red marks, more favored than any of the emperor's consorts. Someone once said that if he were a woman, none of the other princes would have stood a chance.

Shen Qing was beautiful in a sharp, icy way. He held immense power, second only to The Outcast, and above all others. Every move he made struck fear into the entire court.

He deposed the crown prince, suppressed his rivals, cultivated allies, and controlled the court. He was cursed and feared, stirring up a storm across the capital and turning everything upside down.

The sixth prince, Li Jinyang, who had never been favored and had been sent off to Yanzhou, returned to the capital and discovered that his former lover, who had abandoned him, seemed to have gotten together with his father.

After forcing his way into the palace, his father clasped his hand and gave him a detailed final instruction: he must treat Shen Qing well. Li Jinyang agreed readily. The old emperor closed his eyes, and Li Jinyang locked Shen Qing away in the inner palace.

He had prepared everything long ago. A beauty hidden deep within the palace: he had waited a long time for this day.

P.S. Shen Qing and the old emperor never had a physical relationship.

My historical danmei pre-serialization, Transmigrating into a Book and Carrying the Villain's Child, is now open for advance collection. Please add it to your favorites and follow it. Here is the blurb:

Song Qinggui transmigrated into a book, becoming a cannon-fodder side character with the same name in a melodramatic danmei novel about childbirth.

The cannon fodder Song Qinggui was a little beggar in a chaotic age. The protagonist bottom was an emperor, and because Song Qinggui resembled him, he was captured and made to serve as his double.

While Song Qinggui was busy fighting for power and the throne, the protagonist top and bottom were busy flirting. The protagonist bottom even treated him as an imaginary rival in love. After the couple made up, the protagonist top killed Song Qinggui on the side to please the protagonist bottom.

Song Qinggui: T-T This is too humiliating. I'm done!

After he transmigrated into a book, he arrived at the moment he was being sent into the palace, where he ran into another unlucky character from the story, the great villain Yu Jiuxiao.

Yu Jiuxiao was the protagonist top's greatest adversary. As an ultimate villain, his grand ambition was to restore his dynasty and unify the realm. His goal was also quite practical: to steal the protagonist bottom from the protagonist top along the way. In the end, he failed to win the protagonist bottom, failed to restore his country, and died in battle.

After his death, the protagonist bottom even wept for him, built him a mausoleum, and posthumously bestowed on him the title Duke of Loyalty to the State.

When Song Qinggui entered the palace, Yu Jiuxiao was at the height of his power. Facing the protagonist bottom's murderous glare, Song Qinggui's knees went weak, and he grabbed Yu Jiuxiao's leg.

Yu Jiuxiao: Get lost.

Song Qinggui whispered: I have a secret art that can help you unify the realm!

Yu Jiuxiao: ???

Later, a legendary seer emerged, and word spread throughout the land that whoever won him would win the realm. The protagonist top and bottom even turned against each other over him.

After Yu Jiuxiao took him away, Song Qinggui planned to use his knowledge of the plot to make some money and then run off. But as he ran, his belly began to swell.

Song Qinggui: This must be an illusion. I'll go back and sleep, and then all of this will disappear.

When he woke up, Yu Jiuxiao was sitting beside the bed. The villain, whose heart was set only on his great cause, wore a dark expression, as if he were about to kill someone.

Song Qinggui cowered in the corner of the bed, covering his belly.

Yu Jiuxiao stroked his rounded belly with a large hand, his face dark. "You stole what belongs to me and still thought you could run?"

Song Qinggui hurriedly pushed his hand away and stammered, "It's not yours!"

Just then, something moved inside his belly.

Song Qinggui: "!!!"

Yu Jiuxiao's face froze. "What is this?"

As a powerful, disciplined, and upright villain, Yu Jiuxiao had always considered romantic love a weakness, until he fell head over heels for Song Qinggui and could never get back up.

Thematic message: Punishing evil and promoting good is the righteous path.