The Crown's Minister

The main story is complete! Feel free to check out my author page, and please bookmark anything you like (wink). My next story will probably be the Infinite-themed Escape from the Psychiatric Hospital [Infinite] or the xianxia novel Raising a Sword by Lamplight While Drunk. Their blurbs are below, so please add them to your reading lists!

[Sickly, vindictive minister on the receiving end × unhinged, wickedly charming Embroidered Uniform Guard on the pursuing end]

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In his previous life, Shen Yan'an was poisoned to death by the new emperor with a cup of poisoned wine.

When he opened his eyes again, Shen Yan'an was consumed by regret and bent on revenge. He also had a score to settle with the Embroidered Uniform Guard Chu Tingxiao, who had conveniently walked right into his sights. Not long ago, Chu had stolen Shen Yan'an's case right out from under him.

But before he could even get started, Shen Yan'an coughed up blood right in front of Chu Tingxiao and collapsed to the ground.

Chu Tingxiao: ...Trying to scam me?

That single fit of coughing blood earned Shen Yan'an a “personal guard” he couldn't get rid of. Chu Tingxiao brazenly kept him under surveillance, claiming it was for his own good: “Lord Shen is frail and sickly. If he happens to scam... I mean, frighten the common folk on the road, it'll be a hassle to deal with.”

Shen Yan'an put up with it.

When Chu Tingxiao climbed over his courtyard wall, Shen Yan'an made him sweep the floor to humiliate him.

Shen Yan'an handed Chu Tingxiao an unsolvable case and all its mess, so Chu turned around and watched as an undercover agent set fire to the Shen residence.

When they investigated a mine together, they both pulled out every trick they had.

Shen Yan'an: One kick, and you'll be right in the middle of those cannibalistic miners!

Chu Tingxiao: I'll blow up the mountain and bury you alive!

In the end, they both suffered the consequences, crawling out from beneath the rubble covered in wounds.

Even so, they were still thinking: If I don't take you down next time, I'll lose.

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That was until Shen Yan'an was framed and thrown in prison, where he was tortured until he was barely recognizable. Both his legs were broken, and he was blinded.

Chu Tingxiao stormed the mastermind's residence alone, sword in hand. In a single night, he wiped out the entire household.

The next day, the corpses of everyone in the residence were hung from a long beam. Every last one of them had their legs cut off.

Reader advisory:

1. Sickly bottom × white-haired top. The top's split personality gets better quickly. They are each other's only partners.

2. Extremes of possessiveness are not for everyone. Please let this couple have their own story.

3. Not a typical court-intrigue novel. Reborn revenge, with a touch of fantasy (after all, being reborn comes at a cost).

4. They work against each other in public while secretly undermining each other at first; in the middle, one feels a little guilty but still takes advantage of the other.

5. Includes flashbacks.

Blurb divider: Raising a Sword by Lamplight While Drunk

The hundred immortal sects each have their own strengths.

Among them, the Eight Prodigies have boundless prospects. The cultivation world describes them as follows:

Jing Xingzhi, the heartless sword fanatic; Yan Danglou, the dashing saber wielder.

The Yun twins, masters of two strange gu arts; Liu Songsong, friend to cranes and sparrows.

Qu Tao of the Qu family, born with bewitching beauty; Xie Jingyi, the young diviner.

Fuxing Chen, who walks between the worlds of yin and yang, the Nuo god of this age.

They are all famous far and wide, with countless admirers. But behind closed doors...

Jing Xingzhi is sharp-tongued and clueless about people. Yan Danglou is devoted to beautiful married women.

The Yun twins are into taboo relationships. Liu Songsong is a big fool who plays with birds.

Sister Qu Tao is sinister and heartless. Fuxing Chen is practically not human.

Xie Jingyi: As for me, haha, I'm simply the finest person in the world! (wink)

The other six: ...Damn it, my fists are itching.

Fuxing Chen, expressionless: ...Same.

Xie Jingyi (bottom) × Fuxing Chen (top)

Young, reckless, and proud enough to challenge heaven and earth × cool and peerlessly graceful, quietly cleaning up the mess

First meeting, when they were young:

Xie Jingyi: Fuxing Chen is a green mountain. I find the mountain so charming, but when it looks at me, it's like, “Who are you?”

Fuxing Chen: (poor eyesight and face-blind.jpg)

PS:

● An ensemble cast, with my own take on xianxia.

● A mix of satisfying moments and angst. If you only like sweet, lighthearted stories, proceed with caution.

● Strong × strong × strong × strong × strong × strong × strong × strong.

● Fate is a lying lump of glutinous rice cake.

● The main couple is endgame, and so are the side couples. No splitting them up or reversing their roles. Readers with extreme preferences, please steer clear.

One-line description, quoted: You should know that in my youth I aspired to soar among the clouds, and once vowed to be the finest person in the world., Regrets for the Rest of My Life, “Thirty Little Figures”

Escape from the Psychiatric Hospital blurb divider

Story synopsis:

Bo You is a complete lunatic in everyone else's eyes.

So he checked himself into a psychiatric hospital.

But why are people looking at him even more strangely now?

The silver lining is that this terrifying, bizarre psychiatric hospital seems tailor-made for him. Bo You would be happy to stay here for the rest of his life.

His only complaint: the assigned supervisor is far too annoying.

Jin Zhou: “Now that you're in a psychiatric hospital, how will you prove you aren't mentally ill?”

Bo You stared at his neck and said coldly, “Kill everyone who doesn't believe me.”

“...That's so brutal QAQ. I love it.”

Bo You (bottom): an aloof, sharp-tongued, unhinged, cold-faced beauty of a patient.

Jin Zhou (top): a slick, roguish, pseudo-gentlemanly supervisor with the manners of a cultured scoundrel.

Everyday interview segment:

Question: What's made you happiest since entering the psychiatric hospital?

Bo You: The System demotes that Jin guy for a week after he triggers a supervisor violation, then I get to beat him up in the treatment world. Ideally, I'd beat him to death.

The unfortunate man surnamed Jin, who also happens to be a supervisor: Me? Of course it's... trapping a butterfly in a mirror ^ ^

Blurb withdrawn

Reader advisory:

1. When the top and bottom go crazy, it's like two kindred spirits meeting in a wasteland. Their thought processes are unusual, and their antics are even more outrageous.

2. A purely fictional, entirely imaginary world. Any resemblance to real people or events is purely coincidental.

3. A very long novel. Each arc focuses more on relationships, with fewer complex puzzles. The genres vary and include, but aren't limited to, Western fantasy, Chinese-style horror, school stories, and urban legends.

4. They are each other's only partners. The top is nonhuman; the bottom has white hair. The couple stays together, with no role reversal. Readers with extreme preferences, please steer clear.

5. My personal worldbuilding is everywhere, and I have the final say on explanations.

Theme: Finding a new beginning