Xu Qiubai had a high fever as a child and accidentally burned out his brain. He was always a beat slower than everyone else.
Fortunately, he had an older brother and a mother who loved him, and they protected him and kept him happy for eighteen years. Then one day, after falling into the water, he discovered that he was living inside a book.
The book's male lead was his half-brother, who had long been bullied by Xu Qiubai's older brother and mother.
His half-brother had no real talents, but after an accident, he spent a night of passion with the Crown Prince and conceived a royal heir. He then rose from humble origins to become the phoenix, and had the older brother and mother who once bullied him torn apart by horses.
Xu Qiubai, who wasn't very clever to begin with, hadn't even figured out how a man like his half-brother could get pregnant before the System urged him to seduce the Crown Prince.
[According to this System's analysis, Host, if you want your older brother and mother to survive, the only way is to get pregnant with the Crown Prince's child before your half-brother does!]
Xu Qiubai, not exactly the sharpest tool in the shed, was easily talked into it by the System, and muddled his way into trying to seduce the Crown Prince.
His seduction techniques were utterly clumsy: nothing but ridiculously contrived accidental encounters and shamelessly throwing himself into the Crown Prince's arms.
He had thought that the Crown Prince, who was described in the book as having bedded countless men, wouldn't fall for his pathetic tactics.
But not only did the Crown Prince take the bait in no time, he got Xu Qiubai pregnant with twins in less than three months, one more child than his half-brother had in the book!
Just as Xu Qiubai thought everything was finally settled, the System told him something else.
[Host, I'm sorry to tell you that you seduced the wrong person! The man you seduced wasn't the Crown Prince! He was His Majesty, the Emperor!]
Pei Su, the current emperor, was renowned as a tyrant, both in the book and among the people.
And Pei Su hated anyone who schemed against him. The last person who tried had been left out in the sun until he was nothing but a dried-up husk.
Terrified of meeting the same fate, Xu Qiubai fled in the middle of the night, clutching his belly. He was so scared that he nearly lost his wits.
But before he could make it out of the city, Pei Su personally dragged him back.
In the cramped, dark room, Xu Qiubai shut his eyes in terror.
But before pain came Pei Su's gentle touch, followed by a wistful, almost sickly sigh.
"My silly Qiuqiu, you got involved with a man like me. Did you really think you could still run away..."
Theme: Cherish family bonds and the people by your side
