When a Trouble-Maker Meets a Fatherly Emperor

Coming soon: A Gorgeous Trouble-Maker as the Patriarchal Daddy's Darling

This story: Daddy-type top (the emperor) × troublemaking bottom (me)

(Third-person narration)

My birth mother died young. My father remarried but didn't love me either. He often beat me and locked me in the woodshed, then wouldn't even give me medicine afterward.

My childhood was full of scars. I longed so much to be loved.

When the Crown Prince held his "selection of consorts," I was brought to the imperial palace. The Crown Prince personally applied medicine to my wounds, and I cried with gratitude.

The shadows of my childhood came back to me. I desperately wanted to hold on to a glimmer of light, to receive some attention. When the Crown Prince ascended the throne and became emperor, I moved into the Qianqing Palace and became pampered and spoiled, causing endless trouble.

The emperor would beat me, lecture me, apply medicine to my wounds afterward, and then comfort me.

Gradually, I grew dependent on him.

I thought those days could go on forever, but an imperial edict arranging my marriage shattered my dream.

I became the wife of the great general and a pawn the emperor used to keep him in check. I was heartbroken.

One day, while the great general and I were out enjoying the spring scenery, the emperor's eyes were bloodshot. When the great general and I treated each other with respect and affection, the emperor was filled with murderous intent.

I knew the emperor still cared about me, so I decided to keep acting out. After all, he was the one who handed me over to someone else!

Later, the great general died in battle, and I became a widower.

After that, the emperor tied me to the bed.

Under the red candles and silk curtains, he bound my hands and feet with yellow silk and pinned me beneath him in his madness, forcing me into the humiliating role of a plaything to cure his love curse.

He drove me into a haze of passion. Even as my consciousness faded, the name I cried out was the great general's.

The emperor: "Are you using me as a substitute?"

Actually, I had never used the emperor as a substitute. But I accidentally learned that the emperor had been using me as a substitute for the great general.

I'd rather die than compromise, so I faked my death and fled the palace.

But I "happened" to run into the great general.

And the emperor, who came especially to catch me, wearing a dark expression.

Note: Both leads are reborn. There's a little melodrama, so don't read if you dislike that.

This isn't a love triangle. The top dotes on the bottom, and they are devoted to each other. No switching.

The top, the bottom, and the great general have never had sex.

There's almost no political intrigue. Perfect for reading without thinking!

Coming soon: A Gorgeous Trouble-Maker as the Patriarchal Daddy's Darling

In the twenty-first century, Shen Musheng's parents died young, leaving him and his older brother to depend on each other. His brother was strict with him. He had only just managed to get into university when he transmigrated.

The bad news: He transmigrated into the middle of a slave auction.

The worse news: He was bought by the Regent.

The Regent? That sounded like a dangerous man.

Shen Mu kept his head down in the Regent's residence and never even saw what the Regent looked like. He didn't see that handsome face until the day they were wed.

Wait, why does he look so much like my university professor?

*

Everyone bought by the Regent ends up dead without a proper burial, without exception. The nobles of the capital assume Shen Mu won't last three days, and even set up a betting pool on the day of his wedding.

Three days later, Shen Mu turns the betting pool upside down.

They all see the Regent chasing after Shen Mu, coaxing him as he runs: "Little ancestor, come home with me like a good boy. I promise I won't hurt you again, all right?"

Shen Mu kicks the Regent in front of everyone. The Regent laughs instead of getting angry, and coaxes and tricks him into going home.

Everyone: "???"

*

Before long, news spreads throughout the capital of Great Yong that the Regent dotes on his consort beyond measure.

Lantern-lit night outings? Flying into a rage for love?

Nonsense, all nonsense!

Only Shen Mu knows what a beast the Regent is. Every day, he clutches his backside and howls until his voice is nearly hoarse, but the Regent neither listens nor stops, murmuring, "Xiao Mu, you're finally back. I've waited so long for you."

The top's perspective:

Everyone is terrified of him, except Shen Mu.

But Shen Mu disappeared without a word for many years.

He went mad looking for Shen Mu, and finally found him at the slave auction. He was going to marry Shen Mu and make him his Regent's Consort.

Bonus scene:

After they marry, he realizes Shen Mu seems not to recognize him anymore. He asks, "Does my consort remember why he wasn't afraid of me?"

Shen Mu stammers, "Because you... didn't look like someone from ancient times?"

"???"

Theme: One day, the wind will carry me far, and I will ride the waves across the sea.