Your Majesty, I Truly Am Carrying the Imperial Heir!

■ Also known as His Majesty, This Treacherous Minister Disguised as a Rabbit Is So Cunning. A light comedy, a sweet little treat

■ A silly rabbit who fakes a pregnancy x a gloomy, vindictive emperor

■ Contains a lactation trope

Qi Chaoyu is a rabbit.

Just after cultivating a human form, he transmigrates into the body of a notorious treacherous minister from history, right on the eve of the minister's downfall and the deposed emperor's return to the throne.

When the old master he'd spent so long currying favor with is chopped to pieces by the Imperial Guards that very night, Qi Chaoyu is so frightened that he tucks in his rabbit tail and drops to his knees before the deposed emperor he'd imprisoned.

"Your Majesty, please see the truth! I'm actually a loyal subject!"

The drugged deposed emperor still wears heavy chains around his ankles. He sneers, "Then, my dear subject... why don't you prove it?"

Qi Chaoyu panics, but the deposed emperor wraps an arm around his waist and lifts his rabbit body into his hot embrace.

Isn't this going a little off track?!

He wants to be a loyal minister, not a treacherous one!!!

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After regaining power, the deposed emperor's first order of business is to deal with the two-faced traitor Qi Chaoyu.

For example... chaining him up. For example... giving him only two meals a day.

For example... humiliating and mocking him every day. Qi Chaoyu trembles with fear. After half a month of hunger, he confesses everything and spends every day pleading for mercy and playing the victim.

"Your Majesty, I'm really about to starve to death."

"Your Majesty, animal abuse is against the law."

"Your Majesty, please be magnanimous and forgive a little rabbit..."

But His Majesty's expression darkens as he stares at Qi Chaoyu's slightly rounded belly.

"Then why has your belly gotten bigger?"

The little rabbit demon, so hungry that stars swim before his eyes, blushes and covers his fake-pregnancy belly as he makes something up: "Well, actually... this humble subject is carrying Your Majesty's imperial heir."

His Majesty's face turns dark. He gives the fluffy belly a pat.

It really is round.

From then on, Qi Chaoyu is treated to delicious food and drink every day. Silks, satin, gold, and jewels are all sent to his palace.

He congratulates himself, never imagining his fake pregnancy could work so well. Every day, he rubs his fluffy belly and waits to be fed.

But after two years of eating his fill and doing nothing, Qi Chaoyu still hasn't given birth to the imperial heir.

His Majesty flies into a rage and reinstates Qi Chaoyu in his old post, ordering him to stand through three shichen of morning court every day.

The civil and military officials see Qi Chaoyu stubbornly standing through court despite his condition and fall to their knees to plead for him:

"Lord Qi is in this state. Your Majesty should let him take some time off."

"Indeed, how can our court treat a... pregnant man like this?"

Qi Chaoyu's eyes brim with tears. "Please don't misunderstand, everyone. His Majesty is only making a poor pregnant man, who's been carrying for twenty-four months, stand at work. It's no trouble, no trouble..."

His Majesty suddenly pinches the soft flesh at Qi Chaoyu's waist. "I think you've just eaten too much and gotten fat."

Qi Chaoyu is horrified that His Majesty has seen through his fake pregnancy so quickly. "I'm innocent, Your Majesty! I'm really carrying Your Majesty's child!"

His Majesty tugs at his rabbit tail and laughs. "Fine. Tonight, I'll see just how many little rabbits you're carrying."

Bonus scene 1:

Qi Chaoyu doesn't understand why His Majesty never leaves his mark on the outside, but insists on leaving it inside him every time.

In the rabbit world, territories are huge, you know. His Majesty only leaves his mark in that one place every time. Doesn't he think his territory is rather small?

Bonus scene 2:

As His Majesty's one and only favorite minister, Qi Chaoyu decides to groom His Majesty by licking his fur.

But the moment he licks His Majesty's face, His Majesty pushes his head down. He even says this is the place that needs licking.

But why does it get hotter the more he licks?

Theme: I find treacherous ministers so charming