Who Taught You to Be a Chancellor Like That?

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Song Xi x Xiao Jiyun

Song Xi ascended the throne at sixteen and died suddenly in the imperial study at nineteen, where he learned a shocking secret...

Chancellor Xiao Jiyun planned to rebel, intending to kill him with a single sword strike during the Mid-Autumn Palace Banquet.

Song Xi: I knew he was no good. :)

He knew Xiao Jiyun couldn't stand him. He was a foolish and incompetent emperor, clueless about statecraft and imperial strategy. In his spare time, he did nothing but play with cats and dogs, catch crickets, or lock himself in the imperial study to write stories.

That's right, he died suddenly from writing stories, not from reviewing memorials.

But that didn't change the fact that Xiao Jiyun was a treacherous, disloyal, corrupt minister. His father had always said Xiao Jiyun was a loyal, virtuous, capable official, and told him to trust and cherish him.

And now? He was still going to rebel.

And if that wasn't enough, he was snooping through Song Xi's stories.

What are you looking at? Do you even understand them?

Song Xi cursed under his breath and closed his eyes in bitter resentment, intending to find his father in the underworld and complain.

But when he opened his eyes again, he was reborn, back in the year he first took the throne.

The officials paid homage in the Golden Throne Hall, with Xiao Jiyun at their head, cold as a block of ice.

If he remembered correctly, Xiao Jiyun was going to impeach him today.

Impeach him!!! He was the emperor!!!

Song Xi pointed at him and yelled, "Xiao Jiyun! You corrupt official!"

The corrupt official glanced up. "?"

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Song Xi had finished cursing and venting his anger. He planned to keep a close eye on Xiao Jiyun and cut off that traitor's head at the Mid-Autumn Palace Banquet three years later.

He endured hardship in silence (lounging through court sessions), and at long last the day arrived. But who could have guessed that two cups of wine would knock him out?

When he woke up, he was in the imperial study.

Xiao Jiyun leafed through the thick stack of stories on his desk. "Your Majesty."

"What does 'so lost in lovemaking that one forgets heaven and earth' mean?"

Song Xi: "????"

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The Great Liang dynasty had an open-minded culture, and poetry and fiction flourished. The most popular literary genius in the city was someone called Xi Lai Feng Chun. His stories were so sensual and vivid that readers felt immersed in them. They cost three times as much as other books in the bookstores and were still impossible to keep in stock.

Countless people admired Xi Lai Feng Chun, but no one had ever seen him in person.

Later, at the poetry gathering at the Drunken Immortal Tower, literary talents gathered to drink and exchange poems. Someone let slip that Xi Lai Feng Chun was there too.

The teahouse was thrown into a stir.

At that moment, in the private room reserved for the most honored guest, Song Xi was cornered by the window, his face flushed.

Xiao Jiyun spoke unhurriedly into his ear. "Young Master Xi, people will find out. Keep your voice down."

Song Xi: "!!!"

You corrupt official!! You corrupt official!!!

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