He Had Other Plans All Along

The historical danmei court-intrigue novel The Scheming Emperor and the Eunuch Hunter is complete. Its blurb is below.

After accidentally swallowing an ancient demon fruit, Mo Xian, an outer disciple of the Yuchan Sect, gained a cauldron physique unseen in ten thousand years overnight, driving the Three Realms into a frenzy. To offload the problem, his sect knowingly married him off to the head of Qianxiao Sect, one of the Three Great Sects.

They had been Dao companions for barely three months when the sect leader died unexpectedly, his soul scattered.

Mo Xian became the sect leader's widower. His status was exalted, but he was honest, meek, and easy to bully. Everyone inside and outside Qianxiao Sect had their eye on him. Self-proclaimed righteous cultivators swarmed the Qianxiao Palace, using threats and inducements to pressure him into agreeing.

Usually meek and submissive, Mo Xian found the nerve to be bold for once. At the joint sect tournament, his sandalwood-colored hand, its wrist adorned with a string of Kunbi prayer beads, rested on the shoulder of Qianxiao Sect's chief disciple.

Rong Shi was famed throughout the Three Realms as an untouchable paragon, noble and peerless. Though he had studied under the sect leader, he had surpassed his master and was about to become the next Alliance Leader, leading the righteous sects into the Demon Realm. No cultivator of the righteous path dared offend him.

Mo Xian had chosen him because he was capable and gentlemanly. Surely, if Mo Xian was unwilling, he would never force him. At last, Mo Xian would be able to keep the precepts and continue his ascetic cultivation.

But then, by accident, he discovered Rong Shi's true identity.

"Where are you off to, Shiniang?" The eyes that had always seemed untouched by worldly concerns flashed with a terrifying light. He watched Mo Xian like prey, advancing step by step.

A scorching hand touched his trembling lower back, kneading it with just the right amount of pressure. "Did you think you had finally found a reason to escape me?"

P.S.

★ The shou is not a gong's c-drama; a dog-blood story, one-on-one, happy ending.

★ Bald shou warning (round head, big eyes, really cute, so please don't dislike him).

★ Almost everyone is a villain. The gong is scummy during the early conquest arc and approaches the shou with ulterior motives; the shou is honest and timid. Later, the gong becomes a devoted puppy chasing his spouse, the shou grows stronger and gets a little dark. Readers who are particular about characters' moral values, enter with caution.

The historical danmei court-intrigue novel The Scheming Emperor and the Eunuch Hunter is complete. Blurb below:

Brooding, sinister beauty of a eunuch gong + handsome emperor shou + court intrigue and political power struggles + mutual devotion

Pei Yanci, the Great Tao emperor, was gravely ill and breathed his last with regrets and resentment. A wisp of his soul transmigrated to another world and possessed a lowly court slave in the Crown Prince's residence of Great Yu.

Powerful eunuchs ruled the court, persecuting officials and reaching for the Eastern Palace, trying to force the Crown Prince to submit. Gu Jiuqing, Crown Prince of Great Yu, was mistrusted by the emperor and trapped between enemies on all sides, treading carefully with his life hanging by a thread.

Pei Yanci was caught up in their struggle. To save his life, he analyzed the situation for the Crown Prince and laid out the risks and stakes. Gu Jiuqing's face was cold, the chill of early spring from beyond the window settling at the corner of his eyes. He agreed, but secretly sent people to harm Pei Yanci.

With nowhere else to turn, Pei Yanci had no choice but to seek the powerful eunuch's protection and cooperate with the notorious villain.

When they first met, Tangxi Zhui had pallid, withered skin. In crimson robes, he looked like a phoenix flower entwined around a pile of white bones. He watched Pei Yanci with a half-smile. "The Eastern Palace actually has someone more proud and refined than the Crown Prince."

Later, after Pei Yanci rescued Gu Jiuqing from his helpless confusion and molded him into an emperor, he turned around and left without a trace of regret.

Under the moonlight, dark, private desire clouded his black-brown glassy eyes. A flash of ferocity crossed his cold, solemn face, and his voice sank to an icy murmur. "Yanci, there is still a place for me in your heart, isn't there?"

From the shadows no one noticed, a withered white hand reached out of the darkness. Its fingertips traced gently up his taut back, and an index finger tapped his porcelain-white cheek twice.

Pei Yanci felt his fierce, domineering possessiveness inch by inch, his back rigid.

Cold fingers clamped down on his shoulder. At his other side, a ravishing, wanton face silently drew close, breath fragrant as orchids.

"You two are getting along so well. Did you forget about me?"

Pei Yanci thought they were only cooperating, only using each other. He never realized that the vines growing stubbornly in the dark rot, once wrapped around a brilliant light, would do anything to drag him down into ruin with them.

P.S.

★ The gong is scheming, sinister, twisted, sadistic, deeply insecure, occasionally unhinged, and vain. His mental health is very poor (read with caution). The shou begins the story as a slave, but is in excellent health (read on). He is an ambitious political strategist, the best actor alive: his expression is stormy, but inside he feels nothing.

★ Romance and plot are equally important.

★ Official titles were inspired by the Tang and Ming dynasties, but the specific positions, duties, and relationships are all my own. This is a fictional setting, a fictional setting, a fictional setting. Important things deserve to be said three times.

My next novel will start after the new year. Please add my upcoming novel to your collection: This Is an Escape Reality Show, Not a Fishing Game

High-IQ, flirtatious shou X old-fashioned, abstinent head of the Investigation Team gong

After completing 101 unlimited-flow missions, Xiao Fen successfully retired and transmigrated into a supporting character in an entertainment-industry novel.

The first thing he saw after opening his eyes was a uniformed staff member saying, "You're under arrest."

Xiao Fen: "A new way to lie flat and enjoy retirement?"

As it turned out, the supporting character was a D-list star who had entered the industry on the strength of his looks alone. He was hopeless at acting, singing, and dancing, timid by nature, and had been thrown by his agency into a new variety show to squeeze out the last bit of his value.

No Escape is a live-action pursuit-and-escape challenge show. The production team has various civilian experts play criminals and sends them up against the country's top investigators, special forces officers, criminal profilers, intelligence experts, and more. As long as they avoid getting caught each time, the winner will eventually receive a prize of 500 million.

Xiao Fen, who was so poor he didn't even have a System: "How much did you say?"

Fang Siting, former head of the Violent Crime Unit at the Special Investigation Bureau, was a buttoned-up workaholic who never smiled and always fastened his buttons neatly to the very top of his collar. He had handled hundreds of high-profile fugitive cases and never lost one. Plenty of criminals went weak at the knees the moment they saw his stern, imposing face.

The show begins.

While the other contestants fretted over avoiding surveillance cameras and withdrawing cash, Xiao Fen strolled around town flirting with handsome men, knocking them unconscious, and delivering them to the police station to collect huge rewards.

While the other contestants came up with ways to hide their tracks, Xiao Fen disguised himself and put on such a brilliant performance that he walked right out in the open under the investigation team's noses.

While the other contestants wanted nothing more than to flee to the wilderness, Xiao Fen found the building where the investigation team was based, joined them for lunch, listened to the investigators report their latest findings, and took the opportunity to tease their team leader.

At the beginning, the livestream chat said:

[New way to get yourself killed.]

[Who is this guy? He's so dumb and clueless. What a waste of a pretty face.]

[If he lasts ten minutes without getting caught, I'll wash my hair upside down.]

After it aired, the livestream chat said:

[This is so ridiculous that ridiculous itself has come home.]

[Officer, your fugitive delivery has arrived at the door.]

[Fake criminal catches real criminal. Fighting crime starts with me!]

[Who said my Fen-ge was just a pretty face? He's flirting so well my legs have gone weak.]

[Fen-ge actually dared to wink at Fang the Reaper. Does he have a death wish?]

After Xiao Fen escaped right from under his nose several times, furious Fang Siting joined the chase himself, matching wits with Xiao Fen.

Every day, viewers around the world worried themselves sick about Xiao Fen's safety. But after the finale, what they got was a marriage proposal from Fang Siting.

[Is this his way of trying to reform an evildoer by sacrificing himself?]

Core theme: My fate is mine to shape, not Heaven's.