stebeee:Two more days left to 2021 guys are y’all ready because I am not ;-; ready ;-; to ;-; give u
stebeee:Two more days left to 2021 guys are y’all ready because I am not ;-; ready ;-; to ;-; give up the holidays and go back to slaving away at work. Anyway here’s a really cute-ass transmigration rec! A bit similar to SVSSS in terms of premise, but not as disaster gay as SQQ or LBH or SQH are, although… that could be up for debate hahaha!My Top 2020 Danmei Rec ListAnother Rec List- Part of Min’s ‘Why You Should Read’ Series -Summary:Rich and handsome CEO Xiao Yu An finds out he has a terminal illness (cancer), and dies while he’s reading this online novel, where a king mistreats the crown prince from a neighbouring state which sent him over as hostage after losing a war, and ends up being killed by the crown prince years later (SVSSS much?!). He wakes up AS THE KING, and afraid of dying, he immediately goes about befriending the prince, Yan He Qing. Yan He Qing falls in love with Xiao Yu An while being his friend/hostage/bodyguard, and Xiao Yu An tries to avoid all the deaths he read in the book, while making sure Yan He Qing manages to find his four wives, one of whom is supposed to be Xiao Yu An’s sister.Of course, because Xiao Yu An showed him warmth and kindness, Yan He Qing ends up falling for him instead, and Xiao Yu An is an absolute oblivious idiot because he REALLY doesn’t realize until much later. Yan He Qing ends up declaring war on Xiao Yu An’s kingdom because he is duty bound to do so, but doesn’t hurt Xiao Yu An, wanting to keep him by his side, but YHQ’s scheming uncle drives a wedge between them, and XYA leaves, breaking YHQ’s heart.They meet again a few years later, where XYA is training to be a physician in a small village and chances upon a severely injured YHQ. There, he realizes that it was all a misunderstanding, and that YHQ actually LIKES, LIKES him, but before they can enjoy this short period of happiness, disaster strikes again.*I like this one a lot because it deals with the inevitability of fate and duty etc., but also gives a really nice ending, including a supposed short arc where YHQ and XYA transmigrate back to the modern world, and he introduces YHQ to advanced technology, but also sees the people who died living happily around him, finding ways to be together again despite their tragic ends in the pastRead:Novel (Online) | Novel (Print) - Not Available | Novel Translations | ManhuaCharacters:1. 萧予安 Xiao Yu An - A CEO in the modern world who dies of a terminal illness when he’s at his prime, and transmigrate into the novel he was reading before he died, where he’s the main EVIL villain protagonist. He knows all of the plot points and how he dies at the hands of Yan He Qing, a defeated enemy state’s crown prince, after his character by the same name Xiao Yu An basically mocks/bullies/tortures him while he’s captive in his kingdom. Eager to avoid a death where his throat is slit in front of everyone after Yan He Qing’s kingdom invades, as a CEo who is very good at business and deals, he decides to be friends with YHQ instead.CEO look - When he first wakes up as Emperor Xiao Yu An - Beautiful XYA:Originally, the Xiao Yu An in the novel is an irresponsible emperor who takes the throne after his father dies, and then he spends his days in sin - sleeping with both men and women, wining and dining, wasting his days away in pleasure as his kingdom falls to nothing (while also making YHQ’s life very difficult for him). When he first wakes up in this world in XYA’s body, Xiao Yu An chases away all his young and pretty beaus, and starts taking things seriously.He also admits to YHQ right off the bat that he’s from the modern world and proves to YHQ that he’s not the original XYA, which YHQ believes, so YHQ knows that he’s like technically alien!XYA throughout the novel.He releases YHQ from prison and lets him follow him as a bodyguard of sorts, and has good feelings towards YHQ, not that he knows what they are. According to the novel, YHQ has four wives, one of who is his sister. In order to avoid her tragic end (in the novel she helps YHQ when he’s invading her country, but because she betrayed XYA and her people, she ended up killing herself as well), XYA plays matchmaker and starts to direct YHQ and his sister, and subsequently all of YHQ’s supposed wives together, much to YHQ’s displeasure.Knowing who dies and lives in the novel, XYA tries to save his closest friends and allies, but deaths are inevitable - if he saves one, someone else is destined to die, much to XYA’s anguish. In the end, YHQ is still returned to his country, and then he is duty bound to strike against XYA’s kingdom. XYA surrenders, and due to YHQ’s scheming uncle who can see that his nephew is strangely obsessed with XYA, he make XYA think that YHQ wants to keep him at his side as a eunuch to torture him, and so XYA leaves. Not knowing this, YHQ thinks that XYA is rejecting his feelings, and lets him go.XYA realizes his feelings for him a few years later when he’s training as a physician and chances upon an injured YHQ, and they talk it out! He’s really oblivious and it takes him that long to realize that YHQ has never shown any signs of interest at the supposed four wives he has, and that XYA has been one-sidedly shoving YHQ at these women without realizing who he really wants.2. 晏河清 Yan He Qing - The crown prince and to-be-emperor of the enemy state, who falls in love with kind, warm and capable Xiao Yu An. He’s really conflicted because he wants to stay by XYA’s side, but is also duty bound to take revenge for his country, and so he does. Above all, no matter what, YHQ wants to keep XYA safe and right next to him, but is unable to do so initially. He misunderstands XYA’s leaving the first time, thinking that XYA has rejected and hates him.YHQ when he’s younger and still bodyguard to XYA - YHQ when he’s older and Emperor, finding XYA again:They meet again in the midst of another war, as YHQ is found unconscious and injured by XYA in a neighbouring town close to the location of the battle, and initially he’s blind and XYA eats this herb that changes his voice from male to female, so he doesn’t realize it’s XYA at first. Halfway through, his sight recovers and he realizes who he is, and in order to keep staying at his side, YHQ deliberately makes his wounds worse and deepens the cuts etc. everytime XYA leaves so he doesn’t recover. As long as he doesn’t recover, XYA cannot force him to leave.He confesses properly a few days later and they clear up their misunderstandings from before. However, before they can enjoy being with each other, they’re separated at war again, get back together again, and then are separated by XYA’s death again (but XYA re-transmigrates back into another body later on, and it’s a happy ending!)Other Things I Like in the Novel:They go light lanterns together and it’s the cutest thing ever because YHQ is looking at XYA when he’s not looking and already knows how much he likes the man but XYA is all “MY FRIEND, MY BROTHER WHO IS STRAIGHT AND LEMME MATCHMAKE HIM WITH SOMEONE ELSE”Their gazes?!!! Idk who the artist is but DAMN they draw YHQ and XYA SO WELL, and the eyes are so expressive?!!When YHQ confesses properly after they are reunited a few years after, XYA is absolutely flabbergasted and he’s like “WHAT HAPPENED TO MY STRAIGHT DUDE WITH FOUR WIVES? I MADE HIM GAY? ME?!” and then he was like “Yan-xiong, there are a lot of likes. Do you like like me, or is it the family ‘like’?” - YHQ goes “It’s the kind of like where I want to tie you to bed and keep you hidden away from the rest of the world for the rest of your life, so that you can only see me and no one else, what kind of like do you think this is?”Everyone calls YHQ respectfully as the Emperor and only XYA is like idgaf and thinks “I’m a 霸道 CEO” and he goes like “Brother Yan!” all the timeXYA is dumb af in the beginning but once he realizes that YHQ likes him and that he likes him back, he goes full-on best boyfriend mode - considers how possessive YHQ is and makes sure the man knows he can have him entirely, avoids OG Wife No. 4 because he knows he has unfairly pushed YHQ and other women together before this after misunderstanding YHQ’s affections - he’s just “okay I’m his now, I should make sure he does not misunderstand”Spoilers: It’s technically impossible for them to be together considering all the deaths hanging between them (even tho it’s not any of their faults directly), plus XYA’s position as the former Emperor, and YHQ as the new Emperor after a hostile takeover - A lot of people want to see XYA dead while others have a score to settle with YHQ, so XYA dies once, but transmigrate back into another XYA’s body from another state three years later that’s supposed to be allies with YHQ’s kingdom. This body looks exactly like the modern world him, and before he woke up in this body, this XYA was trying to seduce YHQ for nefarious reasons and YHQ absolutely detests him. So when new!XYA finally goes to find YHQ, YHQ throws him out, doesn’t recognize him and is so disgusted he doesn’t even want to talk to him, and they literally nearly miss each other but thankfully they don’tAfter YHQ gets him back he’s so happy?! SOOOO happy, cannot believe that XYA is in his bed, and he has found him back again ;-;EXTENSIVE EPILOGUES I’m talking about almost 30 or more extra chapters and arcs, it’s the cutest thing ever! -- source link
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