Shen Yuan is the third son of a prosperous merchant family — jianghu and cultivators? That's far below his family's standards; they know just enough to stay young and stunning, not enough to be immortal
His family trade silks to nobles and royal houses, and sometimes, secrets and rumors. Rumors are paid for in gold and blood, and Shen Yuan grows up learning that sometimes they claim the lives of newbors, like the one his mother lost years before his own birth
Shen Yuan is in mediocre health – something about having been attempted to poison when he was a baby. His cultivation keeps the poison at bay! Although until he learned how to cultivate, well... He uses a cane for a reason
All his life after he has been the weak and sickly child— Now as an adult, he actually still is. Although he has already established his own business dealing in books, paper and gossip, with his small, well-appointed house and loyal servants, Shen Yuan still doesn't leave the house much. He's quite prone to getting tangled up with poisonous flowers or aphrodisiac-stinging insects! And he doesn't want any of that, thanks! He doesn't want to get a wife! Not because he doesn't want to get married—what young man wouldn't want a good marriage? It's just that, well... Shen Yuan knows himself
He actually knows that he will not be a good husband: he can provide financially and that will be enough for many women, but to make them happy? Being able to raise a family? No, no. Shen Yuan is in poor health and has a fragile heart. He's not up to that kind of trot
Fate doesn't seem to tell him the same thing when a child falls on his doorstep. Shen Yuan notes: a spoiled brat dressed in elegant robes. Definitely a young master from a wealthy family running away from home. But he's no more than ten years old!
Anyway, Shen Yuan serves him some soup, brushes his hair, talk to the little troublemaker, gives him some money to pay for transportation, and tells him to go home. There is nothing so serious that it cannot be solved by talking! (even if Shen Yuan doesn't follow his own advice, he knows it's good advice!)
It doesn't take too many days from the child's going home until he returns to his doorstep. This time, however, accompanied by someone who is clearly his father, because they are carbon copies of each other. Shen Yuan stands, tremblingly supported by his cane, not understanding who this handsome man is and why he is looking at him as if he wants to eat him alive
Well!! Shen Yuan has soup to offer and many questions to answer! And the handsome man introduces himself as Luo Binghe, Emperor of the Three Realms... And Shen Yuan has no idea who he is. Wait, wait. Is he kidding? As far as Shen Yuan remembers, that is not the Emperor's name and he is not that... Young and handsome either
It's fine, Shen Yuan doesn't care. The man isn't kind, but he's grateful, something of a favor that must be paid—Shen Yuan has no idea why! He sent the boy home, he did what anyone would have done! He didn't even accompany him back, although he kept an eye on which carriage he got into and made sure it was a reliable coachman
Anyway, anyway. Shen Yuan extends an invitation to lunch which is extended to Luo Binghe preparing a dinner and then the servants of his house preparing the guest rooms and... Well, Shen Yuan could have made a friend in a crazy rich cultivator with a son who doesn't know how to control who calls himself the Emperor. Should he do some research into the cultivation world he lives in and from which his family so jealously kept him away?
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