[The rebellious, amorous general x the emperor who says no but means yes / the green-tea, gravity-wielding prince of an enemy nation]
No one wanted Song Chengyin dead more than Ye Yunjian did.
A great fire killed the older brothers everyone had placed their hopes in, right in the middle of a banquet. Song Chengyin had left early because he felt unwell from drinking, and so escaped the disaster. As the former emperor lay dying, he placed the imperial seal in Song Chengyin's hands.
But Song Chengyin had never wanted to be emperor.
The situation was turbulent. He clutched the armrests of the throne, sitting as if on pins and needles. Below him, the court officials argued endlessly. No one trusted him. Only Ye Yunjian, dressed in purple with a jade sword at her side, looked up at him with a smile in her phoenix eyes, her gaze filled with an indescribable affection.
"Your Majesty, war has begun. Among all the officials at court, do you have anyone else you can rely on besides me?"
"You dare threaten me?!"
Song Chengyin looked into her eyes, watched her become more and more brazen, and gritted his teeth, hating her to the core.
"If you don't want to, then kill me." Ye Yunjian kissed his fingertips and hooked a finger into his belt, her tone casual and teasing.
His court robes were rumpled and fell onto the throne.
Before he'd even met the consorts in his harem, Ye Yunjian had sent them away one by one. She treated him like a kept lover, and he was nothing but her puppet, unable to escape or refuse. With no allies inside or outside the court, he had no choice but to depend on her.
Until Ye Yunjian brought back a new favorite from the battlefield:
He was cool and noble, his features calm and distant, and he simply followed behind Ye Yunjian in silence.
Song Chengyin fixed his dark gaze on their intertwined fingers. He heard Ye Yunjian softly call him "Jingchuan," in the same tone she used on the soft couch when she coaxed him, still unsatisfied.
*
Xiao Jingchuan was an abandoned prince.
The two armies faced off. His scheming younger brother ambushed him and left him gravely wounded. He fell from his horse, and the hoof about to trample his face suddenly flew up, then landed beside his ear.
Mud splattered across his face. The fear of surviving by a hair's breadth made his heart pound. A flash of crimson streaked across the blue sky and vanished.
The dashing general raised an eyebrow, lifted his chin with the flat of her blade, and teased, "Call me wife, and I'll spare your life."
The suffocating feeling of approaching death and his instinct to survive won out. Xiao Jingchuan grabbed her dangling military robe. His snow-white eyes cracked like ice, and he spoke in a faint, breathless voice.
"W-wife, save me."
Reading guide: 1. There are three main characters, and everything follows the female lead's wishes. The three of them will live together in friendly harmony, but she will not enter into a formal marriage with either of them.
2. The female lead is picky, extremely looks-obsessed, and has little moral compunction when it comes to romance. Pleasure first, everything else later. A little fish wrote this indulgence for herself.
3. The female lead forces herself on the men. All three are virgins.
4. Alternate-history setting.
Weibo: @Zhuo Zhiyu_Messing Around. The blurb was posted on Jinjiang on January 5, 2025, and a screenshot has been saved on Weibo.
Theme: When three walk together, one of them can teach me something.
