I'm the Seductive, Shameless One Beside the Feudal Patriarch

[Feudal, domineering gong VS a seductive little minx shou] [A fox who loves wagging its tail deserves to be grabbed by the tail and smacked by its master]

1. The Wang family of the capital is the most distinguished among the great clans, the most illustrious among the noble houses.

Two members of their family are especially famous.

The eldest, Wang Xuanting, is one of the most powerful and high-born officials in the more than three hundred years since the founding of the Great Zhou Dynasty. Though the dynasty has produced countless capable ministers, few can match Wang Xuanting's rank or influence. He holds the court in the palm of his hand, almost like a second emperor.

Yet this powerful minister is uncompromisingly strict, sparing with words and stern to the point of being frightening. One look at him is enough to make people want to fall at his feet.

The other is his full brother, Wang Zhuming, who is his complete opposite.

He's a notorious playboy, fond of fine clothes and elegant houses, flowers and birds, dogs and horses, opera, and good food. His nature is as wickedly strange as one of the spirits that roam the capital.

Some people even grumble that he must be possessed by a demon to be so beautiful, and that the Wang family ought to send him to a temple to be exorcised.

Then one day, a young gentleman knocked on the prime minister's residence. At last, everyone understood why the two brothers were so different.

The Wang family's young master was someone else entirely. Wang Zhuming was merely an impostor who had taken the place of the real heir.

2. The story that followed proved everyone's suspicions right.

Now a fake young master, Wang Zhuming wore Wang Xuanting's robes one day, their hems trailing along the floor.

The next, he pretended to be drunk and sprawled across Wang Xuanting's bed, his long hair fanned out.

The day after that, he took shelter from the rain with Wang Xuanting, his thin clothes soaked through.

If he couldn't be the real younger brother and heir, he was going to be his wife instead. He was determined to get one over on the real young master, as wicked and lewd as they came.

What kind of man was Wang Xuanting? A stern, abstinent patriarch who said little. Naturally, he was unmoved, and often lectured Wang Zhuming in the ancestral hall.

2. Later on:

"Have you heard? Yesterday, the Minister of War's son and the youngest son of the Hanlin Academy's Liu family got into a fight over Wang Zhuming. The minister and the Hanlin scholar went crying to Wang Xuanting, and his face was so grim!"

"That's nothing. Today, one of Wang Xuanting's political rivals came back from a foreign land and brought Wang Zhuming a gift. Wang Xuanting caught him at the gate, and went completely silent!"

"That's nothing. Two of Wang Xuanting's cousins went on a hunger strike over Wang Zhuming. They said they weren't blood relatives anyway, so they wanted to become lovers. Wang Xuanting's face went dark!"

"Urgent report! I just saw the Grand Secretary tie Wang Zhuming up with his belt and take him home!"

Wang Zhuming: "Hey, Big Brother, why are you looking at me like that?"

"Hey, Big Brother, why are you locking me up? What are you going to do?"

"Put me down! Didn't you say you'd only ever see me as your little brother? You..."

Before he could finish, Wang Xuanting pinned him across his lap and smacked his bottom twice.

Wang Zhuming shuddered from the spanks, then obediently lay across Wang Xuanting's legs, blushing too hard to move.

Wang Xuanting lowered his eyes, hiding their sharpness. He leaned over him, broad shoulders and back casting a shadow like a cage that confined Wang Zhuming in his arms. His prominent knuckles were faintly red as he drawled, "You shameless little thing."

[The third book in the Great Zhou series. Older love interest. Only the most feudal patriarch could raise the most delectable little minx. Age gap and size difference. An alternate ancient setting!]

Theme: Love is patient and enduring.