The Tsundere Crown Prince Begs Me to Return to the Palace Every Day

Liu Sheng, Crown Prince of the Great Jing Dynasty, is arrogant and calculating, with his heart set solely on state affairs. Not even a celestial beauty could catch his eye, and at twenty-four he still had neither a wife nor concubines. Everyone in the palace said he was frigid.

Then one day, gasps and moans rang out from the Eastern Palace from midnight until dawn. The next morning, Li Yu, a hostage prince from the Northern Kingdom, emerged from the Crown Prince's chambers, one hand bracing his aching waist. Liu Sheng supported him with one hand and rubbed his back with the other. The palace servants who saw them huddled together and whispered, "So that's how it is. So that's how it is."

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Crown Prince Liu Sheng only wanted to build his career, and build it to the greatest heights. He never expected a cool, aloof beauty from an enemy kingdom to appear in his path: the hostage prince Li Yu.

By Taiye Lake, the beauty stood beneath a willow tree, dressed in moon-white, his long hair falling to his waist as he gazed intently up at the leaves. One look was all it took for Liu Sheng's heart to become forever fixed on him.

Liu Sheng brought Li Yu into the Eastern Palace. Beneath warm red candlelight and soft bed curtains, they spent night after night entwined. He thought Li Yu had given his heart to him completely, never imagining that the man wanted nothing more than to leave him. In the end, Li Yu even took poison to end his own life and say goodbye to him forever.

Liu Sheng went mad. He sat all night holding Li Yu's corpse. He had learned that the most heartbreaking thing in the world was not seeing someone again, but never seeing them again.

Five years later, Liu Sheng entered the Northern Kingdom, only to find that Li Yu had risen from the dead. He was still the same cool, handsome gentleman in moon-white robes, but now he held a young child by the hand.

Liu Sheng asked him in a trembling voice, "Li Yu, are you married? If you are, could I be the other man...?"

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Li Yu of the Northern Kingdom was sent to the palace as a hostage and subjected to endless torment. He never had enough to eat or a whole set of clothes. In winter, there was no charcoal for him, and even the palace maids and eunuchs bullied him.

One winter, just as he thought he could not hold on any longer, he nearly fainted while chopping wood and met Crown Prince Liu Sheng. Liu Sheng brought him to the Eastern Palace and gave him the first full meal he'd had since entering the palace.

Li Yu thought Liu Sheng had saved him to pry secrets about the Northern Kingdom from him. He never expected that Liu Sheng only wanted his body. A prisoner with no power to resist, he could only endure the humiliation as Liu Sheng took him again and again.

At first, his heart and body both resisted. Later, though, he realized he was gradually falling in love with Liu Sheng.

A secret message arrived from the Northern Kingdom, summoning him home. Torn between his country and his own feelings, he chose the people of the Northern Kingdom and faked his death to escape the imperial palace of the Great Jing Dynasty.

He thought they were even and could go their separate ways for good. He never expected Liu Sheng to find him five years later.

Well, since you're here, let's just be together.

[Reading Guide]

1. An arrogant, calculating Crown Prince seme who stops at nothing, yet is willing to be the other man for love x a cool beauty gong who longs for him in his heart but refuses to admit it, and cares deeply for his country

2. One-on-one, both pure, happy ending

Theme: True love is priceless; protect what is beautiful