A sickly beauty with a clever mind x a cool, aloof, and calculating emperor who gets dragged into everything
After dying, Lou Qi transmigrates into a book as a frail hostage sent to an enemy nation, a disposable spy who gets assassinated and killed with a single sword thrust on the very night he arrives.
Lou Qi squeezes his eyes shut in distress. What kind of spy goes and antagonizes the protagonist!?
He won't do it. He refuses. He wants to lie flat. He wants to come clean!
So Lou Qi heads straight to the bedchamber of Xiao Yanli, Emperor of Great Qi, in the middle of the night. With disheveled hair and blood spilling from his mouth, he confesses everything without holding back:
"I am a spy."
"I am a weak and helpless spy."
"They forced me to come and wreak havoc on Your Majesty!"
Xiao Yanli looks him up and down, his clothes in disarray, then gives him a cool glance. "You think you can seduce Me?"
Lou Qi kneels on the floor and lets out a pitiful little "sob."
Xiao Yanli remains unmoved, using his folding fan to lift Lou Qi's chin. "If you want to live, do as I say."
Lou Qi's eyes fill with tears, and he puts on a coquettish act. "Okey~"
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Lou Qi becomes a double agent, secretly carrying on with Xiao Yanli and having the time of his life stirring up trouble.
When the Southern Territory senses something is wrong, it sends an assassin to threaten him with poison, ordering him to use every trick at his disposal to incite discord among Great Qi's officials and plunge the court into chaos.
Lou Qi, who only wants to lie flat: What a hassle. I don't want to do it.
Then he has a sudden idea and turns around to brainwash the assassin. "Isn't it easier to mess with one emperor than a whole bunch of people?"
He's frail and beautiful. If they send him to seduce Xiao Yanli, he'll definitely succeed!
The assassin hesitates. Going after the emperor is too risky.
Lou Qi puts on an earnest face and sheds hot tears. "A hostage giving his life for his country is nothing to mourn!"
The assassin is deeply moved. "Then let's do it!"
Lou Qi: "Right!"
The next day, Lou Qi kneels on the imperial bed with his clothes in disarray and the corners of his eyes red, crying piteously like a fragile white flower. "Waaah, Your Majesty, they forced me to seduce you!"
Xiao Yanli, who heard him personally fooling the assassin, keeps a straight face. "Heh."
So this is how you came to wreak havoc on Me.
You've got some tricks.
#An emperor who somehow gets caught up in everything, and his seemingly fragile little white flower, who is actually all schemes and never tells the truth#
Bonus scene:
After Lou Qi and Xiao Yanli come clean to each other, the fragile little white flower grows increasingly brazen.
Before going in, he tells the assassin, holding up his clothes, "I'm going to seduce him now. Even if he throws me out, don't you dare come to my rescue!"
Once inside, Lou Qi crosses his legs and spits out a grape skin, then lazily looks up. "Your Majesty, they told me to seduce you."
Xiao Yanli: "?"
Lou Qi shifts position. "What are you waiting for? Come on."
Xiao Yanli takes off his robe, his gaze dark and intense. "Oh."
[Warnings]:
· This is a carefree, lighthearted, sweet story. The setting is mostly fictional, so don't overthink it or scrutinize the details. There's no historical background; if you ask, it's all the author's own inventions.
· The love interest is very frail, with everything from poisoning to coughing up blood, but he will recover.
· A few later plot points involving supporting characters get a little melodramatic, but it won't affect the story overall.
· The author is a devoted mom. Hope you like it.
Theme: Hilarious mayhem