The Wicked Beauty Drops the Act

Jiang Ling is a complete and utter unlucky bastard.

His mother died giving birth to him. His siblings ostracized him, the servants bullied him, and his father couldn't stand him for supposedly causing his mother's death. Just when he finally managed to grit his teeth and pass the palace examination, his grandfather got into trouble.

The entire clan was dragged into prison, awaiting execution in autumn.

Jiang Ling, who had just made it through the worst of it: ...

Jiang Ling: Screw you, you son of a

But thankfully, Heaven leaves no one without a way out. The old emperor suddenly died. During the palace examination, the new emperor, who was still the crown prince at the time, caught sight of Jiang Ling and took a liking to him.

To save his own life, Jiang Ling entered the palace. His clan, whose survival had been hanging by a thread, was spared along with him.

Jiang Ling: ...

So after all those years of suffering, I used up all my luck right here, huh?

But seriously, why? He was the one who entered the imperial harem. He was the one forced to sell his ass. So why did his damned father get to live comfortably too?

Jiang Ling understood: this damned world was deliberately making his life miserable.

He'd had enough.

So, just before he entered the palace, when the eunuch sent to teach him court etiquette tried to insult him in a mocking tone, Jiang Ling expressionlessly swung his arm and slapped him. Then he shook out his arm. "The thing without a dick sure makes more noise than one with a dick."

When his father heard that he'd beaten up the palace eunuch and came to demand how much more trouble he planned to cause, Jiang Ling grinned with a kind, gentle smile. "I'll be happy when you're all dead. If you don't die, I'll be sad."

After entering the palace, before he'd even met the emperor, the empress dowager summoned him for an hour-long lecture. His knees hurt from kneeling, so he simply stood up. "Your son summoned me here. I didn't come of my own free will. How can you blame me for this?"

And he walked away without looking back.

A career as an official was out of reach too. His life was already a mess, so he might as well live if he could, or die if he couldn't. An execution of the entire clan would be even better. They could all die together. Watching those people live in comfort was worse than dying.

Unexpectedly, the emperor treated him quite well. Not only did he let Jiang Ling off the hook, he also stood up for him and dealt with the old man in his family. He took him to win the empress dowager's favor, restored his status as a palace-examination graduate, and let him return to court as an official.

The only problem was that the emperor was a bit stingy and wouldn't even give him a separate bedchamber.

After a while, Jiang Ling's back started to ache. Since their relationship was pretty good at the moment, he asked, "Could you arrange a separate bedchamber for me?"

The emperor frowned in confusion. "Isn't your bedchamber the Jiaofang Palace?"

Jiang Ling: "Where will your future empress live, then?"

The emperor looked puzzled. "Aren't you the empress?"

The emperor suddenly realized something. "You didn't know you were the empress?"

Jiang Ling: "...You never told me. And when I didn't go back to my own bedchamber and stayed here, did you never think there was something wrong?"

The emperor replied calmly, "I thought you just liked clinging to me."

Jiang Ling: ...

.

He'd thought the emperor's indulgence would only last a little while.

He never expected them to spend their whole lives together before he even noticed.

Vengeful, brooding little corgi bottom × emotionally steady, fatherly, patient top

One couple, both sexually inexperienced.

Theme: Dare to fight back