His Majesty Is Too Precious to Keep

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In his previous life, Chen Lian was useless. After the late emperor died of illness, the powerful regent imprisoned him like a puppet.

Chu Heng liked to stroke the silver chain around his ankle, hold him from behind, and gently bite his ear.

"I've taken care of all the bad people, Your Majesty. Are you happy now?"

The man was a lunatic. He put on a show of deep devotion, while secretly plotting to seize the throne.

Chen Lian didn't dare run.

He used himself as bait. When Chu Heng let down his guard, Chen Lian gravely wounded him, then leaped from the city tower with the imperial edict and military tally in hand.

He smiled at Chu Heng as the man hurried toward him. He smiled and cried at once, blood spilling from his mouth. "The empire will never bear the Chu name."

When Chen Lian awoke, he had been reborn, back on the night he first ascended the throne.

The brilliant young emperor had washed away his disheveled appearance, but the arrogance in his phoenix eyes remained.

Chu Heng crouched to remove his boots. With his foot on Chu Heng's shoulder, Chen Lian smiled and asked why he was being made to apologize to the ministers.

The young regent didn't answer. He only smiled.

"Your Majesty, they all want to harm you. I am the only one who loves you most."

Chen Lian reached out and touched his face. "I know, A-Heng."

As if.

I'll kill you.

The regent held all the power in court, so Chen Lian threw caution to the wind and sent himself to Chu Heng's bed.

In the heat of passion, Chen Lian hooked a finger in Chu Heng's collar and tugged him down, smiling as he tangled with him, his hand reaching for the half of the tiger tally at the other's waist.

Little by little, he reclaimed his power and stopped being at the regent's mercy.

He cast off his mild-mannered disguise and set a cup of poisoned wine before Chu Heng.

Chu Heng knocked the wine away.

In the bronze mirror, candlelight flickered as the regent, clad in black, held the pale-faced emperor in his arms. He gently licked and nipped at the bare skin of his shoulder and neck, his voice low and dark.

"Your Majesty has had so much fun this time around. Don't you think it's time to stop?"

"Your Majesty, it's my turn now, isn't it?"

A 360-degree, no-blind-spot control freak gong who's trying to reform x a proud, beautiful emperor shou

Both are reborn. Sweet and satisfying at its core, with a devoted 1v1 romance and both leads' chastity intact.

An alternate world, especially alternate. The dynasty is made up by the author, and the political intrigue content is slightly greater than zero.

The CP is locked in. No splitting them up or reversing the dynamic.

A recommended upcoming historical danmei:

"Villain, Your Character Is Breaking Again"

A radiant, beautiful shou x a calculating, obsessive attack dog gong

Lou Qingyao knew from birth that he was a villain.

There was something in his mind called the System, forcing him to bully the protagonist of this world, the future leader of the righteous path.

A pitiful, sickly boy who had been abandoned.

"You have to keep suppressing him so he can grow stronger. Hatred will motivate him," the System said.

Lou Qingyao expressionlessly shoved the pitiful boy into the mud and looked down at him. "You're a useless nobody that no one wants."

Then, at night, he would secretly bring the pills he'd saved during the day, wait until the System fell asleep, and leave them beside the boy's pillow.

After enduring Lou Qingyao's relentless torment, the pitiful boy finally grew into the strongest person in the world.

The System had completed its mission and finally left Lou Qingyao's body.

But Lou Qingyao gradually realized that the pitiful boy had turned out all wrong.

He killed everyone who had ever bullied him.

At last, those ruthless eyes turned toward Lou Qingyao.

Lou Qingyao: I'm doomed QWQ...

The strongest man in the world locked him up, and somehow the System returned to Lou Qingyao's body.

"The protagonist's character has broken. We need to fix it."

Lou Qingyao blinked in confusion.

"The protagonist has someone he secretly loves," the System said. "Feeling his beloved die in his arms will fill him with enough regret to make him give up killing forever."

Lou Qingyao understood.

The problem was, who was this beloved?

If he had someone who could redeem him, would he have turned out so wrong in the first place?!

*

Jiang Huaiwang hated this world.

Especially his radiant, noble senior brother, Lou Qingyao.

In front of others, Lou Qingyao acted as if he were untouched by the mortal world. In private, he ground Jiang Huaiwang's self-respect into the dirt.

Jiang Huaiwang swore he would tear Lou Qingyao limb from limb and feed him to the dogs.

Then one day, he discovered that the pills by his pillow and the warm clothes in winter had all been left by Lou Qingyao when no one was around, late at night.

He changed his mind.

He would climb step by step to the position of the strongest person in the world, lock Lou Qingyao away, and drag him down from his lofty perch so he could belong to Jiang Huaiwang alone.

After he finally got his revenge and locked Lou Qingyao up...

His senior brother smiled tenderly at him and stroked his face. "A-Huai, it was all my fault."

He saw blood trickle from the lips of his radiant, noble senior brother. "Please stop killing people, okay?"

*

The System promised Lou Qingyao that once the mission was complete, it would help him fake his death.

He found a village at the foot of a mountain, raised a flock of chickens and ducks, and left the mortal world behind.

Then one day, Lou Qingyao opened the door to his home and saw the protagonist sitting by the bed, his face dark as he softly said, "Senior Brother, long time no see."

Lou Qingyao: QWQ... This time, I'm really doomed.

Theme: Love yourself.