Gender Bender
Lanterns Convey Longing
Vice Minister Ye and I had become bitter enemies. We were constantly at each other’s throats, neither of us willing to yield an inch.
One night, completely wasted, I even started shouting in the tavern: “Hey! Brothers! Tie up Beauty Ye and carry him to this Young Master’s room! I’m going to show him a real good time!”
In my drunken stupor, I thought I heard his hoarse voice roaring: “…You were the one who provoked me first. Why do you keep messing with me… We’re both men, what am I supposed to do…”
Men?
But I’m a girl!
The General Above
I woke up in my arch-rival’s bed.
His clothes were in disarray, his body was covered in red marks, and his eyes were clouded with the lingering haze of intimacy.
Shocked and enraged, I pointed at him and yelled, “Traitorous Chancellor, how dare you defile me-”
“This Chancellor has fulfilled every custom from the three letters to the six rites. Why would I not dare?” he countered calmly.
“Nonsense!” My eyes widened. “When did I ever marry you?”
“Not long ago,” he said, his long eyes narrowing as he looked at me, “while you were suffering from amnesia.”
