The North Star Comes of Its Own Accord

Setting: A fictional ancient dynasty where men can marry. A man who marries as a bride becomes a Red Child, giving up male privileges, primarily inheritance rights and the right to take a wife. Once someone chooses to become a Red Child, the choice cannot be reversed for life.

Blurb: Zhao Beichen spends his life seeking a balance between ruler and subject, father and son. To escape the fate of killing his elder brother and preserve the bond between father and son, he asks to be demoted to commoner and marries as a Red Child. Fate turns in its wheel, and he is eventually dragged back into the torrent of destiny. Once more embroiled in a major court case, he is forced to take up the blade, willing to bear infamy for the rest of his life if it means protecting his family, his country, and peace in the realm.

Xie Muting, grandson of the Duke Who Guards the Nation, spent five years stationed in the northwest at Ganhui Prefecture. When he returned to the imperial capital, the Crown Prince's wedding was underway. His father, Xie Kun, got drunk and caused a scene, offending the Crown Princess. At his grandfather's command, Xie Muting went to apologize in person. He had heard that the Crown Princess was stunningly beautiful. Seeing him today, he found that the rumors were true: his beauty was beyond compare.

Zhao Beichen: You should get your eyes checked.

Note:

The gong sees the shou through rose-colored glasses, but the shou really is beautiful. He is not an average-looking shou, he is not an average-looking shou, he is not an average-looking shou, he is not an average-looking shou. Even if the sky falls, I will never write an average-looking shou.

Theme: The mantis stalks the cicada, unaware of the oriole behind