Qi Lingyu was the Crown Prince of the Great Zhou Dynasty.
He was dark-hearted and vicious, a madman with a cruel and twisted nature. He secretly founded the assassination organization Dusk, which far surpassed the Eastern and Western Depots, and kept a large force of highly skilled death warriors under his command. But to inherit the throne without a hitch, he presented himself as a noble and upright gentleman.
The palace attendants all called him benevolent and handsome, kind-hearted and unfailingly gentle.
There was a fifth prince from an enemy state held hostage in the Great Zhou palace. He was around Qi Lingyu's age, exceptionally handsome, and constantly bullied by the palace attendants.
The more miserable Shang Jinghuan looked, the more Qi Lingyu wanted him. A wicked idea suddenly took root in his mind.
In the midst of the palace attendants' abuse, he rescued Shang Jinghuan and brought him back to the Eastern Palace. He gave him delicious food, fine drink, and fun things to do, all to cheer him up.
The Crown Prince was famed for his virtue, and the palace attendants all adored and supported him.
He made Shang Jinghuan fall in love with him.
On the day Shang Jinghuan confessed his feelings, Qi Lingyu joyfully locked him away.
He humiliated and trampled him without restraint.
He did everything he wanted to him again and again, watching him suffer between desperate desire and despair.
The good days went on, one after another, until...
The Yue Kingdom sent people to bring Shang Jinghuan back and enthrone him as emperor.
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After biding his time and recovering his strength, Shang Jinghuan raised an army against the Great Zhou. When he learned that Crown Prince Qi Lingyu was leading the troops, he took to the battlefield himself and captured him alive.
Shang Jinghuan did to Qi Lingyu as he had once been done to him, imprisoning him and binding him from head to toe.
Looking at the Crown Prince before him, devastatingly handsome despite being covered in blood, Shang Jinghuan recalled everything that had happened between them. In unbearable anguish, he gripped Qi Lingyu's chin and pulled him close.
Qi Lingyu curved his lips into a smile. “Shang Jinghuan, I've missed you so much. I went to war for you, after all. Don't disappoint me.”
Seeing that he was in enemy territory and still had the nerve to provoke him, Shang Jinghuan seized him by the throat and kissed him hard.
“Shut up.”
A turn of fortune (the enemy nation's emperor) x a master strategist (the Crown Prince)
Shang Jinghuan x Qi Lingyu
Top x bottom
Dual-emperor CP
Notes:
1. It looks like forced love, but it's really just part of their game. The Crown Prince is always the one in control, even when he's captured.
2. Mainly from the bottom's perspective. Both are virgins, one-on-one, happy ending.
Theme: Be true to yourself.
