After Becoming the Tyrant’s Spoils of War

Tang Qing accidentally transmigrates to a dynasty that doesn’t exist in the history books. Taking things as they come, he carries on being a lazy layabout. But one day, a great army arrives at the gates of his small town. Tang Qing fails to escape, a spear is held to his throat, and the indifferent, arrogant man on horseback aims its blade at his heart. Unluckily for him, he becomes the spoils of war claimed by the Emperor of Daye. * Xiao Jun, ruler of the Daye Dynasty, is said to be a tyrant: autocratic, unpredictable, and treating human lives as no more valuable than ants or blades of grass. Not long after Tang Qing is taken to the royal palace, rumors spread through the court that he’s bewitched the emperor and seduced his way through the world. The ministers call him a lowborn commoner and spit on him for his foxlike beauty. They claim he’s an omen of the dynasty’s fall and must be executed at once, urging the emperor again and again to kill him. Tang Qing, currently suffering in prison: “...” Can he really be blamed for having the face his parents gave him? * At the time, Tang Qing is pinned beneath this arrogant tyrant in a lavish, comfortable bedchamber. Turning his face aside, he says with a mocking smile, “Does Your Majesty only know how to use force to take a lowborn man’s body? One mere captive has robbed the Son of Heaven of his senses. Could it be Your Majesty is so narrow-minded that you’ve never held another beauty?” Xiao Jun grips the peerless face in his hands, a face that outshines everyone around it. He refuses to admit it and sneers, “You’re a bewitching little creature. I would never be enchanted by you, much less fall for you.” Later, the lowborn man rumored to have bewitched the emperor and brought about the dynasty’s downfall becomes an important court official, making his mark in the Daye Dynasty. Tang Qing is beautiful and highly capable. Several famous ministers and high-ranking officials at court are enamored with him. Listening to the officials lavish praise on Tang Qing during a meeting, Xiao Jun feels so jealous he can barely keep it from flooding the council hall. * Bonus scene: The Lantern Festival is a night for family reunions. Snow falls like white fluff along Zhuque Street. As Tang Qing gazes up at the flakes, he can no longer remember how long he’s been in Daye. Adrift like a duckweed, he’s overcome by complicated feelings about the modern world. Xiao Jun watches the young man, as beautiful as a god beneath the snow, afraid he might inexplicably disappear again. He reaches out and holds on tight. “Tang Qing, I love you. You alone are enough for me in this life. Will you... stay in Daye, in this era, and become my empress?” ** Gentle, intelligent, sickly beauty bottom x cold, powerful warlord top P.S. Please read before starting: [This isn’t a reverse harem, but love is always returned with love. The bottom will have one-on-one relationships at different stages, with no clones; he’ll have a lot of romantic tension with several tops. The main top pursues his wife relentlessly all the way to the end. The other tops still love the bottom when the story ends, and everything that should happen happens during their relationships with him.] [Also, the bottom gets sick quite often.] An old-school story. The bottom is a huge Mary Sue, and his relationships with the tops are melodramatic. The setting is fictional, though it draws inspiration from historical dynasties, so there’s no need to scrutinize the details. First version of the blurb: 2023/4/3. To be revised and improved. Theme: A soul finds a reason to live in another world: for the country, for family, and most of all, for himself. Wherever my heart finds peace is home.