Turncoat Minister

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When Xiao Cisheng's army reached the city walls, Chu Mingyi opened the gates and surrendered with the young emperor, welcoming the Xiao clan into the capital.

Once a brilliant talent whose fame had shaken the age, he had single-handedly propped up a crumbling dynasty for seven years. Before he was even twenty-four, illness had left him frail and broken. He had yet to fulfill his life's ambition, but had already become the treacherous turncoat everyone despised.

Now he even had to personally welcome back Xiao Cisheng, whom he had once ordered into exile and who considered him a sworn enemy.

Chu Mingyi didn't know this was only the beginning of his nightmare.

By day, he was a minister reviled by all. At night, he slept in his enemy's tent, exhausted in body and mind. As Chu Mingyi endured each day in torment, he discovered that Xiao Cisheng's younger brother, the guard who had sworn to protect him, and the old friend who had once watched him with a deep gaze before they ultimately went their separate ways had all developed an extraordinary obsession with him. One by one, they began to bare the fangs of mad dogs.

One tangled grudge after another drained the life from him, while cruel truths put him through the wringer again and again. When Chu Mingyi finally decided to be selfish for once and end this endless nightmare, those people each came to their senses and knelt beside him, half begging and half threatening him to stay alive.

But Chu Mingyi poured out the medicine in his bowl and sat motionless day after day, waiting for the last snow of his life.

A seemingly gentle and easygoing, actually stubborn and vengeful, sickly gentleman shou X a devoted gong who switches seamlessly between peacock and mad dog, etc.

Content warnings: 1. Sickly shou, coughing blood every three days and passing out every five, but he's tough as nails.

2. One-on-one pairings in different arcs, mad-dog characters whose secret crushes fall apart, a rivalry over the shou, and multiple happy endings.

3. The gongs' feelings are extremely obvious. There has to be possessive, obsessive love. Whether the shou returns their feelings depends on the situation.

4. The author's tastes are conventional. While writing, I get possessed by whatever is fun and write it. This story is melodramatic and vulgar, with everything from forced marriage and confinement to groveling arcs and physical and emotional abuse.

5. Probably not suitable for readers who are extremely protective of one character or pairing.

The blurb can't cover every possible content warning. If anything makes you uncomfortable while reading, please stop.

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Can Someone Please Care About the Imperial Physicians' Lives?

After the deranged emperor said for the umpteenth time, "If you can't cure him, I'll have you all buried with him!", He Jiao quit on the spot.

Word had it that the emperor had forcibly brought a man back and insisted on making him empress. But the man was devoted to the court and refused at all costs. The two of them had been locked in a vicious cycle of emotional and physical torment, just like characters from a novel brought to life.

Now the man was hidden away in a room. The bed curtains were drawn, with only a hand visible. No one could see his complexion or feel whether he was warm or cold. His pulse was perfectly ordinary. The emperor insisted his beloved was gravely ill and threatened to bury the Imperial Hospital with him if they couldn't cure him.

He Jiao had worked hard to secure a position at the Imperial Hospital. All he wanted was a decent salary and a quiet life supporting the blind man he'd taken in. He never expected to spend the last six months with his life hanging by a thread, facing death threats every few days.

He couldn't take it anymore. He Jiao decided to resign.

But before he could submit his application, the blind man at home panicked first.

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Duan Wushang had once slipped up and lost his sight. A young doctor who claimed his family had practiced medicine for three generations took him home.

The young doctor had excellent skills and quickly cured his eyes. To carry out his secret plans, Duan Wushang continued pretending to be blind and stayed at the young doctor's home for nearly half a year.

He Jiao began to doubt his medical skills, until he passed the Imperial Hospital's entrance exam and hurried home to share the good news. For the first time, Duan Wushang, who never smiled properly, genuinely curled his lips into a smile.

Over time, Duan Wushang fell for the young doctor. So during the day, while the man went to work at the palace, he returned to the palace in disguise and found all sorts of ways to bring him over for a secret look. At night, he went home as a blind man and enjoyed being cared for by the one he loved.

Only later did the man whose life had seemed destined to keep rising realize that love gained through deception was only pity, not love.

So what? If the man ran away, he would bring him back. Keep tending to him every day, and love would eventually bloom.

He Jiao X Duan Wushang

A low-energy, pessimistic doctor who seems alive but has already checked out, shou X an energetic, theatrical regent who thinks he's the hero of an overpowered power fantasy, gong

A worn-out, melodramatic cliche! Early on, their feelings are mutual because of a deception. Later, he runs, the other pursues, and he can't escape. There is confinement, a groveling arc, and a setting where same-sex marriage is legal.

Theme: Never let your integrity be broken or your principles waver.