The Powerful Minister Rose to Power with His Bewitching Tears

Everyone knows Pei Zhiyan is a treacherous minister who rose to power by crying.

One tear at the corner of his eye, and the emperor’s heart softens. One sob from his throat, and the entire court falls silent in fear.

Yet no one knows that those tears are a lovebug, and those sobs are poison.

[Volume One: Tears Bewitch the Emperor]

He kneels before the throne and weeps for the late emperor. The new sovereign personally helps him onto the imperial bed.

He leans over the desk and weeps over state affairs. An old cabinet minister hangs himself that very night.

He reclines on the couch and weeps over the borderlands. The enemy commander suddenly dies.

The entire court curses him: "Pei Zhiyan, you calamity who brings ruin to the nation!"

He wipes away his tears and smiles. "That’s right. But which of you dares not cry?"

[Volume Two: A Bloody Edict Turns the World Upside Down]

When the crying lovebug begins to turn on him...

Every tear gouges out a piece of his flesh, and every sob burns away a piece of his soul.

Those who once lived by his tears now want to drink his blood to survive.

"Doesn’t Your Majesty love to see me cry?" His bloodstained fingers brushed over the emperor’s sword. "Now... it’s your turn."

[Volume Three: Nine Palaces Weep for the Realm]

History later recorded:

On the day Pei Zhiyan died, the entire nation wept, and rain poured from the heavens.

The emperor held his corpse and wept for three days. His tears turned into blood-red lovebugs, which burrowed into the seven orifices beneath the emperor’s ceremonial crown...

[Reader Advisory]

A genuinely weepy gong (pretend) x a cold-blooded minister (for real)

"Tears" are both a weapon and a curse. Every chapter is full of political intrigue.

Inspired by the Ming dynasty Embroidered Uniform Guard and witchcraft cases, but every character is evil.

Theme: Ancient political intrigue, danmei