Scheming Emperor X Hunting Eunuch

Beautiful gong and handsome shou | Beauty-obsessed, gloomy eunuch gong (only his balls are gone; in this story, he can function normally in certain situations) | Cold-hearted, calculating emperor shou who puts profit first | Court intrigue and political struggles | Powerful couple who dote on each other | Plot-focused

Pei Yanci, emperor of Great Tao, was gravely ill. He breathed his last with regrets and resentment still in his heart. His soul crossed into another world and attached itself to the body of a lowly government slave in the Crown Prince's residence of Great Yu.

Powerful eunuchs held sway, persecuting officials and even reaching for the Eastern Palace, forcing the Crown Prince to bow to them. The Great Yu emperor distrusted the Crown Prince, Gu Jiuching, who was trapped between enemies on all sides and lived on the edge of a knife, with his life hanging by a thread.

Innocently caught up in the struggle between these two tigers, Pei Yanci tried to stay alive by analyzing the situation and laying out the stakes to the Crown Prince. Gu Jiuching's face was cool and composed, the chill of early spring from the window lingering at the corners of his eyes. He agreed with Pei Yanci, but secretly sent people to kill him.

With nowhere else to turn, Pei Yanci had no choice but to seek refuge with the powerful eunuch and work with the notorious villain of the rumors.

At their first meeting, Tangxi Zhui had pallid skin. Dressed in crimson robes, he looked like a phoenix flower twining around a pile of white bones. He regarded Pei Yanci with a faint, unreadable smile. "The Eastern Palace has someone even more proud and refined than the Crown Prince."

Later, after rescuing Gu Jiuching from his helpless despair and nurturing him into an emperor, Pei Yanci turned around and left without a backward glance.

Beneath the moonlight, dark brown glassy eyes smoldered with possessive desire. A ferocious look flashed across his cold, solemn face, and his voice was low and icy. "Yanci, I still have a place in your eyes, don't I?"

In the unnoticed shadows, a pallid hand reached out from the darkness. Its fingertips traced tenderly up his lean back, then the index finger tapped his porcelain-white cheek twice.

Pei Yanci felt his overpowering possessiveness inch by inch, his back stiffening.

Cold fingers gripped his shoulder. From the other side, a ravishingly alluring face silently drew closer, breathing softly against him.

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

Pei Yanci thought they were only working together, only using each other. He didn't know that vines, stubbornly growing in the festering darkness, would stop at nothing to ensnare the dazzling light once they caught hold of it, dragging him down with them.

P.S.:

★ The gong is scheming, gloomy, twisted, sadistic, deeply insecure, and occasionally loses his mind. He's also obsessed with beauty, and has a very unhealthy psyche (read with caution). The shou starts out enslaved, but is in excellent health (come on in). He's an ambitious political strategist, an Oscar-worthy actor whose face betrays stormy seas while his heart remains perfectly calm.

★ Romance and plot are equally important.

★ The official titles were inspired by the Tang and Ming dynasties, but the specific posts, duties, relationships, and structure are all my own. Completely fictional, completely fictional, completely fictional. That's important, so I'll say it three times.

My completed novel, This Is an Escape Show, Not a Dating Game, is now finished. Please add it to your collection!

Blurb:

High-IQ, flirtatious shou x rigid, celibate leader of the investigation team gong

After completing 101 infinite-flow missions, Xiao Fen finally 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: "So this is a new way to lie flat and enjoy retirement?"

The supporting character was a minor celebrity, famous solely for his good looks. He was bad at acting, singing, and dancing, timid by nature, and had been dumped by his agency into a new variety show to squeeze the last bit of value out of him.

No Escape is a reality-show pursuit challenge. The production team casts all kinds of civilian experts as criminals and pits them against the country's top investigation team leader, special forces officers, criminal profilers, intelligence experts, and others. Anyone who manages not to get caught wins, with the ultimate victor taking home a five-hundred-million-yuan prize.

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

Fang Siting, former head of the Violent Crime Division at the Special Investigation Bureau, is a rigid, celibate workaholic who never smiles and always buttons his shirt right up to the collar. He's handled hundreds of cases involving high-risk fugitives, with a zero failure rate. Plenty of criminals see his stern, imposing face and go weak in the knees on the spot.

The show begins

While the other contestants rack their brains to avoid surveillance cameras and withdraw cash, Xiao Fen casually picks up handsome guys on the city streets, knocks them out, and delivers them to the police station for a huge reward.

While the other contestants try every trick to conceal their whereabouts, Xiao Fen disguises himself and puts on an Oscar-worthy performance, walking right out in the open under the investigation team's noses.

While the other contestants are desperate to flee to the wilderness, Xiao Fen finds the investigation team's headquarters, has lunch with them, listens to investigators report on the latest developments, and even flirts with the team's leader.

At first, the live chat says:

[New way to get yourself killed.]

[Who is this guy? So clueless, and what a waste of a pretty face.]

[If he lasts ten minutes without getting caught, I'll wash my hair standing on my head.]

After the show airs, the live chat says:

[This is so ridiculous, even Ridiculous's mom has to open the door for it.]

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

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

[Who says my Fen-ge is just a pretty face? His flirting has my knees weak.]

[Fen-ge actually winked at Lord Fang? Does he have a death wish?]

After Xiao Fen escapes right under his nose several times, furious Fang Siting joins the pursuit himself, matching wits with him at every turn.

Viewers around the world worry about Xiao Fen's safety every day. But after the finale, what they get instead is Fang Siting proposing to him.

[Is he trying to persuade an evildoer to mend his ways by putting himself on the line?]

Theme: Hold the world in your heart and love it.