After the Ill-Fated Beauty Failed to Doom Her Husband

(A beautiful, seemingly innocent but actually calculating bottom x a seemingly frail but truly scheming emperor top. Volume One is complete. Currently updating three to five times a week. After signing, or once my backlog is finished, I’ll update daily until the end. Thanks for reading~)

Xiao Fuxue is the most famous performer at Yunshao House, and the ill-fated jinx known throughout the capital and beyond.

His birth supposedly killed his parents. When he was seven, his entire clan was confiscated and exiled, and he himself was stripped of his status and reduced to a government-owned performer.

At first, he cried and railed against his fate. But no matter how hard he tried, he could never escape the cruel tricks of heaven.

Whenever some high-ranking official dared to try to buy his freedom, disaster struck at once. At best, they were dismissed and punished. At worst, they lost their lives.

Everyone called him bad luck and avoided him like the plague. Sometimes even he wondered if he really was an ill-fated jinx.

As time passed, Xiao Fuxue stopped caring. He only wanted to live quietly. Perhaps one day the powers that be would show mercy and let him become an ordinary citizen.

But fate played another cruel joke on him.

After a banquet, a stern, imposing man sat high on his horse and suddenly lifted Xiao Fuxue’s chin with his riding crop. With great interest, he said, “His Majesty needs someone to attend to him. Someone like you… would be perfect for the palace.”

The palace? Him? A performer everyone called an ill-fated jinx, someone they all tried to avoid?

He thought the powerful and wealthy were merely making an offhand joke at the expense of someone as lowly as him. But that very night, he was sent to the emperor’s bedchamber.

Only then did he learn that the man was the emperor’s uncle, the regent.

And this “honor” of being sent into the palace by his own hand was also thanks to Xiao Fuxue’s ill-fated reputation.

The prince wanted him to bring about the death of the ailing emperor. Little did he know, the emperor was vigorous behind closed doors and could easily live to eighty.

An ambitious general wanted to use him as a pawn to throw the imperial family into chaos, locking horns with the regent in a bitter struggle.

An old friend who had once been inseparable from him at Yunshao House claimed to have entered the palace to find him, but was hiding an unspeakable secret.

Xiao Fuxue couldn’t help frowning. Could his ill-fated luck really bring down all these powerful men?

He looked once more at the emperor, a man above everyone else who could decide his life or death at any moment, and who seemed so different from what he had imagined.

If he really was that unlucky, then he wanted to see who would fall first: him at their hands, or them because of his curse.

[Reader’s Guide]

1. Set in an imaginary dynasty. Official titles, etiquette, and institutions are all invented to serve the story.

2. A resilient, wild-grass-type bottom x a seemingly frail but truly scheming emperor top. The bottom only performs music and dance at Yunshao House. Everyone is sexually inexperienced!!! The story leans toward a everyone-loves-the-protagonist setup, so proceed with caution if that’s not your thing!

3. The main focus is the protagonist’s growth, with the political intrigue as a secondary element. None of the characters are perfect.

Theme: Grow resiliently and fear no hardship