I'm Really Just an Idiot

Li Zewei, the fifth prince of the Great Jin, was born with an intellectual disability. At fifteen, after leaving the palace, he unexpectedly saves a man in black.

At sixteen, he spends a night with his cousin. Soon afterward, war breaks out between the Great Jin and Fengyue. His father, Li Chaochang, personally leads the army into battle and is trapped in Baiwu City.

The crown prince, eldest prince Li Mingfeng, takes control of the government. Meanwhile, a hidden enemy sells the defense plans, leading to Li Chaochang's capture. Yet though Fengyue has clearly won, it unexpectedly sends an envoy with a peace agreement, demanding that the fifth prince go to Fengyue as a hostage in exchange for peace between the two nations.

Wounded by his cousin, Li Zewei heads to Fengyue. But in Baiwu City, he encounters an “imperial uncle” he has never met before. It takes that man only one glance to discover that Li Zewei is “disguised as a man,” and that despite being skilled in martial arts, he is only pretending to be intellectually disabled.

The peace agreement between the two nations has already been signed, and to prevent further bloodshed, Li Zewei still enters Fengyue. At the palace, he meets the eldest princess, who once disguised herself as the man in black; the bewitchingly alluring second princess; the daughter of the Baiwu City magistrate; and a consort living in the cold palace because her brother rebelled...

He wears countless secret identities every day, trying to keep a low profile and live as an idle prince.

But... his own imperial uncle tears away his secret identities, his lovers raise his profile, and in the end he doesn't even become a prince...

Disguised as a man, male pregnancy, lots of original character settings, and a harem story with no single pairing. If that's not your thing, please don't read!

I'm just writing out of pure love. Please go easy on me. Pretty please!

Theme: The truly benevolent care for their country and its people.