After Faking My Death, I Became the Tyrant's White Moonlight

[Gentle and Refined on the Outside, Dark-Hearted Tyrant Top x Brilliant but Sensitive Scholar Bottom]

[Su Yi (Bottom) x Xie Mingxuan (Top)]

Blurb:

Su Yi, an upstanding young man of the socialist new era, transmigrates and gets bound to a life-threatening System. Its lofty mission: take the imperial examinations, realize his potential, and welcome a happy life.

Looking at his frail body, where even a cough of blood could soak through a handkerchief,

Su Yi smiles. "Well, what can I do?"

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He just never expected to casually pick up a prince so devastatingly handsome he could make the heavens weep.

The man kneels on the ground, wiping away the blood spilling from his mouth.

He says, "What a coincidence. You transmigrated too."

Su Yi: "?"

Su Yi: "You mean not only did I transmigrate, but my ex-husband came along too, and I even picked him up?"

Su Yi: "Well, that's quite a life."

Su Yi originally just wanted a peaceful life. What if he had transmigrated to start over with his ex-husband? What if he had to go from a poor scholar to the top scholar and chief minister?

Fine, I'll do it. I'll do it, then.

Everyone in the Great Qian Dynasty knew that although the impoverished scholar Su Yi had a sickly constitution, his talent was unparalleled. His policy essay at the palace examination outshone every scholar in the land, and no one could match his skill at controlling floods.

Yet this gifted scholar, whose brilliance had captivated countless people, died unexpectedly in a plague, leaving everyone to mourn his tragic fate.

Afterward, Prince Yu ascended the throne. He was a wanton, gloomy, and obsessive tyrant.

A servant dared to gossip about Su Yi and was beaten to death. A villain spread rumors to frame Su Yi and met a gruesome end. Someone accidentally got Su Yi's books wet and was sentenced to death. Before long, everyone knew that the emperor kept someone in his heart: that young scholar who had died too soon, the white moonlight the emperor could never carve out of his heart.

Su Yi, the poor young man who had secretly faked his death so he could ignore the world and make a living by scavenging, had this to say: Never heard of it.

Su Yi had a dream.

In the dream, Xie Mingxuan caught him and dragged him back.

The water he drank had been laced with an aphrodisiac. The drug took effect in front of the other man, who pinned him in a corner of the imperial bed. Su Yi tilted his head back and endured a scorching, disordered kiss tangled with desire.

By the time the clothes on his shoulder had been pulled away, Su Yi tried to scramble off the imperial bed, but someone grabbed his ankle and dragged him back.

Xie Mingxuan's voice still carried the heat of desire as he whispered in Su Yi's ear, "Where do you think you're going?"

Su Yi woke with a cold sweat, sitting bolt upright and relieved it had only been a dream. But when he looked up, Xie Mingxuan was leisurely wiping down his sword.

"Awake?"

The man tilted up his chin.

"Then let's talk about how you abandoned your new husband and secretly faked your death, shall we?"

Reader's Guide:

1. An ancient-style imperial examination and court-politics story. The bottom takes the exams, while the top is involved in court politics. Expect angst. Romance-focused, with both transmigrating early on, followed by a forced reconciliation caused by outside circumstances!

2. The dynasty is fictional. The examination system is loosely based on history, and the System is mostly decorative.

3. They only have each other, and both are sexually inexperienced. The cat-chef dotes on both the top and bottom equally. Completely equally!

4. The events in the blurb happen later in the story, so this isn't false advertising! The fake-death plot happens in Chapter 72.

5. Please support the official version, and remember to be happy every day and find stories you love. Writing is full of bitter tears, so please don't repost. Thank you, everyone. Finally, the story will be revised, and the chapters published on Jinjiang Literature City are the definitive version. I take no responsibility for pirated copies.

Theme: My fate is mine to command, not Heaven's