[The rational, doting, career-focused, classic-starting-point-style top who saves people × the villainous heir bottom, who wields supreme power but has severe self-destructive tendencies]
"How about I make you emperor?
From now on, my hands will be your hands, and your sins will be my sins. With my hands, I will raise you to the throne."
Zheng Du is a born career fanatic, devoid of emotion. But on the very day he achieves success, he transmigrates and becomes a commoner. A disastrous start from the start.
Zheng Du has no System and no golden finger, but though he has nothing else, his desire to rise above everyone is fierce. He immediately begins his comeback in ancient times.
After eighty-one days of hard work, he becomes a candidate in the imperial examination and is invited to a banquet. There, he learns that the officialdom is already rotten to the core, and anyone who wants a post has to buy one.
Zheng Du: ...
On his way home, he rescues a man who is trying to jump into a river. Zheng Du has only a trace of kindness left in him, so he saves the man on a whim.
But after being rescued, the man lies on the riverbank, soaked through and decked in gold and silver, clearly someone of great status. He glares at Zheng Du gloomily and asks what he thinks he is, and why he stopped him from dying.
Zheng Du: ...
But when Zheng Du finally qualifies to "bribe" a certain minister into arranging an official post for him,
he sees that the person seated on a raised platform in the minister's residence is the very person he took in and carefully cared for at home.
The minister respectfully and nervously addresses him as "Your Highness, Heir Apparent."
Zheng Du: ?
The heir glares at him darkly and asks why he isn't bowing.
Though he is an heir, His Highness is the last surviving member of the imperial clan and the designated future emperor, revered as the pearl of the Great Qian dynasty.
The heir is not only of noble blood but also accomplished in both letters and arms, with the bearing of the Great Ancestor. He has been doted on since childhood, always given the moon when he asks for it, and the stars besides.
But he has a strange ailment: despite being surrounded by wealth and luxury every day, he finds life dull and wants to ascend to heaven.
The person Zheng Du rescued was His Highness the Heir Apparent, attempting suicide for the nth time.
Zheng Du: ... Sweetheart, are you sick?
In short, Zheng Du hit the jackpot and caught the eye of a nobleman.
With the nobleman's support, he soon had his career in hand.
He became a powerful minister of his time.
Though he and his benefactor accidentally developed a relationship as two men, that didn't matter.
In the heir's residence, he and his eccentric lover spent months in a passionate relationship.
But Zheng Du soon realized something was wrong, because he discovered that this was a novel!!! The heir was the villain, and he was about to fall from power?!!
His vision went black. As a member of the heir's faction, he was sure to die.
Zheng Du figured out the novel's plot in his head overnight. It turned out the heir's bloodline was illegitimate, and he was about to be overthrown by a prince who had been living in exile.
The ending had the heir, who had already given up on life, cruelly killed by the protagonist, the new emperor.
Zheng Du, who had only just reached the top of the national rankings: ...
Seeing the heir chronically ill and frail,
Zheng Du began worrying excessively about his wife for the first time.
On the first day, he made soup.
On the second day, he brought ginseng.
On the third day... he added a massage with his own hands.
Everyone in the heir's residence was saying that the usually rational and heartless chief minister had gone mad. He merely fussed over the heir every day, and now he even... even dared to seduce the bewitching heir.
One night.
In the heir's bedchamber, Zheng Du held a lamp and gazed at Xie Yunling's scarred body after another suicide attempt.
Kissing his lips and caressing his body, Zheng Du coaxed him tenderly: "Do you want to be with me for the rest of your life? If you do, how about staying alive?"
Xie Yunling frowned at him viciously.
Zheng Du's expression did not change. "I know why you want to die."
"How about I make you emperor?"
At last, he opened that tightly shut trumpet vine, revealing its soft inner petals.
From now on, my hands will be your hands, and your sins will be my sins. With my hands, I will raise you to the throne.
*At first, Zheng Du only wanted to leave a lasting mark on this world. Later, he realized he had fallen in love with someone, and wanted that person to have a life remembered in the history books.*
Top Zheng Du × bottom Xie Yunling
Deliciously satisfying and sweet, 1v1, happy ending
Theme: When the road ends, you suspect there's no way forward, but suddenly the willows are dark and the flowers bright, and another village appears.
When will the author update [hug thigh]
Shou's name sounds nice.
Mo, the author will update it soon🥰🥰
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