In the first year of Yongning, Princess Xiao Jin led her troops into the Forbidden City, cut down two princes with her sword, and emerged victorious from the bloodshed. She ruled from behind the curtain and installed a puppet emperor.
The puppet child emperor was frail and sickly, yet despite living under his aunt's oppressive rule, he was as pure as a flower in full bloom. He greeted everyone with a smile, was innocent and kind, and was always good-tempered, even with his servants. He was especially clingy with Xiao Jin. His daily mission was to pester her: Jin-jie, Jin-jie, Jin-jie.
Jin-jie, I've finished today's lessons. Can I play with you?
Jin-jie, that monster was so scary. I've been having nightmares ever since. Can I sleep with you tonight?
Jin-jie, the talisman you taught me is so hard to draw. Can you teach me again?
Xiao Jin suddenly realized that she'd acted on impulse and chosen the wrong person. He definitely didn't seem like someone who could hold on to the throne.
At least, that's what she thought until he imprisoned her in the palace and turned against his superior.
Her puppet nephew held her hand beside the bed. His pale face still wore that same kind smile.
"A-Jin," he said, his face alight with a feverish excitement. "Does this mean you'll stay with me forever?"
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Xiao Yan is a calamity who brings disaster to the world. That's what everyone says.
His madwoman of a mother and idiot father tossed him into a pot of blood soup, filled with rotten hearts and guts, and boiled him over a blazing fire for years.
He liked being mad, because everyone alive here was mad. They held their rotten livers and lungs in a river of blood, living like lunatics.
Until one day, people came from the capital and said they would take him to the capital to become emperor. He entered the imperial city and walked into its magnificent palaces, where he saw a woman wearing a phoenix crown.
She sat at the head of the hall, looking him over with disdainful eyes that seemed to look down on the whole world.
He smiled, expertly hiding the madness beneath his eyes behind a kind, innocent smile.
Do you take me for prey?
Me?
I'm not.
Big sister.
A seemingly kind and obedient, secretly insane and obsessive male lead × a proud, unyielding female lead
Younger male lead, three-year age gap, no blood relation between the leads
Theme: Learn to act, and you'll be safe wherever you go.
