I Really Never Wanted to Be Emperor

Dad-Flavored Blurb:

King of Qin encountered a heavy rain while traveling south and spent the night at the Li residence.

At the banquet, he saw a young girl who bore some resemblance to an old acquaintance, and Song Ci lost himself in thought for a moment.

The host said, “She is a maid in my household, named Qing Luan. If you do not object, I would be happy to offer her to you for your amusement.”

The other party assumed he was lusting after her looks, but that was not the case.

His imperial brother had no heir after many years and still thought constantly of Consort Chen, who had disappeared while pregnant.

The girl was still very young, yet looked remarkably like the consort had back then.

Taking her back to the capital was merely a convenient extra. As for what his imperial brother did afterward, Song Ci did not care.

Who could have guessed that the little girl would make off with the money and flee in the middle of the night!

They met again when his nephew, the crown prince, insisted on defying the emperor's wishes and refusing to marry the distinguished daughter of the Minister of Rites. “Your son only wishes to spend his whole life with Qing Luan, with no one else.”

The usually kindhearted crown prince actually had the nerve to anger the emperor for a beauty?

Song Ci was impressed and wanted to see what sort of person she was.

At first glance, that tender, youthful face, lovely as peach blossoms in spring, was it not the same little thief who had stolen his Yixing teapot?

No wonder his imperial brother objected.

How could siblings marry?

What happened next was even more absurd.

Consort Chen had secretly been involved with an imperial official, and Xie Ling was not of royal blood.

Father and son turned against each other, the crown prince was deposed, and the emperor planned to make Xie Ling empress.

Even he seemed bewitched, utterly spellbound.

He would kill this wicked woman with his own hands!

Goofy Blurb:

Xie Ling transmigrated!

She was in a dungeon, about to be exiled to Lingnan to cut sugarcane...

It was over! She was as good as dead.

Back then, Consort Chen had run away while pregnant, and the original owner was the baby.

Woohoo, off we go!

Lovers turn out to be siblings, so melodramatic!

Her former sugar daddy became her imperial uncle, so thrilling!

Her former, former meal ticket has to kneel when he sees her, so satisfying!

Consort Chen had secretly been involved with an imperial official, and the emperor wasn't her father. Alas, my life is over!

On the day she was crowned, Xie Ling commanded a vast empire and was ecstatic inside, but put on a troubled expression. “You've all made things so hard for me. I truly don't want to be emperor...”

[All male characters are chaste. No pregnancy plot or rotten old cucumbers.]

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