I Only Like You Because You're Handsome on Danmei AI Translations

Chapter 1

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Chapter 1#

[First Life]#

Before my buddy fell in love with my brother, I thought I was the luckiest transmigrator in the world.

Actually, calling him “buddy” is flattering myself a bit.

The truth is, he is the current Crown Prince, and I am the second son of the Prime Minister and the Crown Prince’s study companion.

When I transmigrated to this fictional dynasty, the original owner of this body—who unfortunately slipped, fell into the water, and died, allowing me to take advantage of the situation—was only seven years old. Meanwhile, his older brother from the same mother was already twelve, the eldest legitimate son, and extremely talented.

Chapter 2

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Chapter 2#

I can’t let him ruin my brother, or ruin himself. I have to straighten him out.

I’m bent myself; how can I straighten someone else out?

So two years later, when the late Emperor died suddenly from “saddle wind” (died during sex), the Crown Prince was about to ascend the throne, and my brother was about to get married, he still liked him.

The fact that the new Emperor had a crush on my brother, I reckon besides himself, only I knew.

Chapter 3

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Chapter 3#

The second time I slept with Scum Emperor Chu, I didn’t bleed.

It wasn’t that his technique had improved; it was that I had made sufficient preparations in advance.

Although it was still face down the whole time, I didn’t see his face, was called until I wilted, it was a bit painful, a bit swollen.

But at least it didn’t tear or break, so I didn’t have to secretly find an unfamiliar doctor for medicine when I went back.

Chapter 4

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Chapter 4#

But he is not an ordinary friend with benefits.

He is the CEO of this dynasty.

Not only do I have to keep him for the New Year, but I also have to enter the palace to bang him on the morning of the first day of the Lunar New Year.

Actually, I had a “heart-to-heart talk” with him on the 29th of the twelfth lunar month. Logically speaking, it should last at least until the 7th of the first lunar month.

Chapter 5

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Chapter 5#

And then?

Then, under Guan Mingyue’s suddenly bright eyes, I fled from the Guan residence in embarrassment.

When I returned home from the Guan residence, the person sent from the palace was already waiting in my courtyard.

Although I guessed that with Scum Emperor Chu’s personality, having been hit where a man cares most about his face, he would sooner or later seek to regain his ground.

But I didn’t expect him to be unable to wait even a day.

Chapter 6

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Chapter 6#

Guan Mingyue and his senior brother, one the contemporary Song Ci and the other the contemporary Hua Tuo, examined carefully for a long time and finally reached a joint conclusion: my sister-in-law died of natural difficult labor.

Childbirth in ancient times was a major tribulation for women, and it was common for both mother and child to die, not to mention that my sister-in-law was carrying twins.

Although the Prime Minister’s residence had made various preparations in advance, the limitations of the times were there, and no amount of preparation was 100% safe.

Chapter 7

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Chapter 7#

I was very touched, and then pretended not to understand what he was saying.

As a poem testifies:

A friend with benefits is precious,

But life is more valuable.

For the sake of freedom,

The former can be thrown away.

But I can’t keep letting Chu Ruiyuan send eunuchs to my house every few days to summon me to the palace, and then go home late at night or even the next morning.

Chapter 8

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Chapter 8#

I had a great time with Chu Ruiyuan that night, but the next morning I found something was wrong.

My lips were really swollen from kissing, which was one thing. The most important thing was that my legs were so weak from the sex that I couldn’t walk.

Fortunately, after I struggled to put on my clothes, the chief eunuch who stayed behind to serve me offered me some medicine to reduce swelling. He said that Scum Emperor Chu also found his lips slightly uncomfortable before going to court, so he asked the imperial physician to send some medicine.

Chapter 9

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Chapter 9#

After Chu Ruiyuan carried me to the bed, he actually started to dry my hair, and he was so gentle that he didn’t dare to use force. He dried it until I was scared, and I really wanted to ask him what was wrong with him.

But fortunately, after my hair was no longer dripping, he finally spoke: “I know you are not comfortable in your heart, but I am the ruler of a country. Marrying a wife and having children is a state affair, and it cannot be neglected because of private feelings.”

Chapter 10

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Chapter 10#

I raised Mu Ruilin for more than half a year, transforming him from a scrawny little chick into a fair-skinned boy who looked twelve or thirteen.

Watching this truly handsome boy grow taller day by day and his demeanor becoming more and more like a graceful young master, and now having to send him away, I actually felt a bit reluctant.

Unfortunately, first, his paternal family came to claim him, so I had no reason to keep him. Second, in the past six months, Chu Ruiyuan sometimes chose my house as the location for our banging, and his reaction to Mu Ruilin became increasingly displeased each time.

Chapter 11

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Chapter 11#

The power of habit is truly terrifying.

Especially when he is also good-looking.

And, he has a big tool and good skills.

The CEO of this dynasty’s final decision on the case of him being reverse-raped was to handle it coldly.

Neither the Empress nor Consort Shu was demoted, but all the palace servants in their two palaces were replaced. The Empress was also ordered to hand over the affairs of the central palace to female officials. The two of them were fined a year’s salary, ordered to reflect on their mistakes behind closed doors, and were not allowed to leave their respective palace gates without an imperial order… This was forcibly separating this pair of lovebirds, who were not far apart but could not see each other.

Chapter 12

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Chapter 12#

“Do you know your crime?” Chu Ruiyuan made me kneel in the carriage and asked me with a sullen face.

I was at a loss, but I thought there was only one reason, “…Marrying Fang Xueying as my wife?”

He smiled even more coldly: “So you know.”

I thought about it, this pot seems a bit heavy, I can’t carry it, so I said carefully: “Didn’t Your Majesty allow it?”

Chapter 13

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Chapter 13#

In the blink of an eye, two years passed.

My nephew and niece have grown to be ten years old, and Chu Ruiyuan’s son, who might become the only son, Crown Prince, and the next CEO, is also three years old.

Regardless of how the little prince’s mother is evaluated, he himself looks tiger-headed and tiger-brained (sturdy and cute), with bright and spirited eyes, very lovely.

I often stay overnight in the palace, so I am very familiar with this child raised by Chu Ruiyuan. To say something reckless, it feels like I have a godson myself.

Chapter 14

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Chapter 14#

When Guan Mingyue led the Dali Temple in the open, and Chu Ruiyuan’s spies investigated the poisoning case in the dark, I returned to the Prime Minister’s residence, whiter and fatter.

After this incident, almost no one was missing from the Prime Minister’s residence and my Tea Classic Pavilion.

Except for the manager of the Tea Classic Pavilion who was in charge of purchasing, and my fellow countryman and concubine, Fang Xueying.

Chapter 15

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Chapter 15#

Of course, the most important reason they made me close my business and reflect at home was that they finally discovered the truth about me not returning home at night to “look after the business.”

That day, after I sent Fang Xueying “to the west,” as soon as I got home, I saw several of my capable subordinates from the Tea Scripture House kneeling in the courtyard.

And my parents were waiting for me to go back and kneel in the ancestral hall.

Chapter 16

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Chapter 16#

I don’t think I’ve called him Scumbag Emperor Chu in my heart for five or six years.

Tsk.

But that night, Scumbag Emperor Chu couldn’t salvage his male ego on me.

Because, on the way to the palace, under the guard of a dozen imperial guards, I was kidnapped.

In broad daylight, under the clear sky, someone dared to kidnap the person the emperor wanted to hook up with right under the emperor’s nose.

Chapter 17

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Chapter 17#

After that, Chu Ruiyuan sent someone to take me to live in the side hall of his palace.

I was really bored after staying in the palace for ten days. Besides teasing the little prince who came to play with me, I acted out the drama of my heart being cut like a knife twice in front of the little prince’s father who came to see me.

Every time, the little prince’s father would leave with a pale face, looking as if it was him who was heartbroken, not me.

Chapter 18

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Chapter 18#

Extra: First Life (Part 1)#

When Chu Ruiyuan first met Liu Jun’an at the age of nine, he thought he was stupid and lazy. He simply couldn’t understand how his father, the Emperor, could have chosen such a person as his study companion.

But that stupid and lazy person was blessed with a fool’s luck, living a carefree life every day. This made Chu Ruiyuan feel a sense of laziness, often thinking how wonderful it would be if he could be like him.

Chapter 19

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Chapter 19#

Chu Ruiyuan always felt that when Liu Jun’an was smart, he was truly smart, but when he was foolish, he was truly foolish.

But he never expected Liu Jun’an to be foolish enough to plead for Fang Xueying.

Fang Xueying was suspected of plotting against the imperial heir, who might be the only imperial heir in his life. How could Liu Jun’an, how could he plead for Fang Xueying?!

Chapter 20

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Chapter 20#

[Second Life]#

Before I met my classmate, I thought I was the most fortunate transmigrator in the world.

Actually, calling him a classmate is a bit of an exaggeration.

The truth is, he was the Crown Prince of the current dynasty, and I was the second son of the Prime Minister’s family, also serving as the Crown Prince’s study companion.

When I transmigrated to this fictional dynasty, my original body was only seven years old. He, oh, no, I had a loving pair of parents who were devoted to each other, a talented elder brother who was already famous at twelve, and a future sister-in-law who was even more renowned than my brother.

Chapter 21

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Chapter 21#

I am a man with the mental age of someone in their twenties. I’m not afraid of ghosts.

But I’m afraid of death.

So when the emperor, with ill intentions, appointed me as the crown prince’s study companion and ordered the crown prince’s tutors to treat me well and not to punish me for minor mistakes, I felt that my future was bleak.

I would either fail the mission of a profligate son leading others astray and offend the most powerful man in the country, or I would succeed in the mission and offend the most powerful woman in the country.

Chapter 22

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Chapter 22#

At first, I actually suspected that Chu Ruiyuan was a reincarnator.

After all, his attitude towards me was a little too kind and amiable. He was either treating me like a younger brother or raising me like a pet.

I secretly wondered if there was a “previous playthrough” or something, where I first served as his study partner, then became a loyal minister who helped him ascend the throne, and finally, we spent a lifetime as a wise ruler and a virtuous minister in perfect harmony.

Chapter 23

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Chapter 23#

My buddy is not only a modern-day Sherlock Holmes but also a contemporary Song Ci. He can casually recount a past case that makes me want to kneel and call him “master.”

And while he’s captivating me with his stories, the one often sitting beside him with a “I see you showing off” expression is his senior, the divine physician Jiang.

Today, I’m here to bid farewell to Guan Ruiyue and get medicine from Physician Jiang.

Chapter 24

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Chapter 24#

The CEO of our dynasty’s love—truly it could move heaven and earth… and move his romantic rival as well.

Originally, although Chu Ruiyuan liked my brother, he did save my sister-in-law’s life. I shouldn’t have kept calling him Emperor Scum Chu.

But the day after my nephew and niece’s full-month celebration, he summoned me to the palace and said he was fond of me and wished to form a “cut-sleeve” relationship with me.

Chapter 25

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Chapter 25#

“Jun’an, how about I give you a courtesy name as well?” After dinner, Chu Ruiyuan had the accompanying eunuchs clear everything away. Then he carried me onto the bed, held me in his arms, and said, “Since you’ve opened this teahouse, I’ll call you ‘Mingzhi.’”

The two characters sounded faintly familiar, as if I’d heard them somewhere before—but it had been too long, and the memory was blurred.

Chapter 26

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Chapter 26#

Mm. I took it in the end.

Then I passed out and slept for three days.

But I woke up.

No slap in the face. Not dead.

Afterward, I went to ask Doctor Jiang about this “Broken Fate.”

Doctor Jiang thought for a long time before finally remembering. He said it was a rare medicine from the southern frontier, capable of breaking the love-gu used by the royal house of the Southern Kingdom.

Chapter 27

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Chapter 27#

Yes. Irritated.

I don’t even know why—just irritated. Extremely irritated.

In the blink of an eye, three years passed.

On the surface, the relationship between me and the CEO of our dynasty only grew more inseparable and tender.

Perhaps on Chu Ruiyuan’s side the feelings truly deepened. On my side, however, it was my acting skills that improved.

Yes. My affection toward Chu Ruiyuan has mostly been an act.

Chapter 28

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Chapter 28#

Holy crap. A fellow countryman!

I immediately claimed kinship with this transmigrated comrade from the same era.

After talking with Fang Xueying, I realized my fellow modern soul had it far worse than I did.

He used to be a man.

The gold-chain-wearing tough-guy type—the kind who went out with a kid trailing behind to peel garlic for him.

But after transmigrating, before he could accomplish anything, he first got cut “down there” and ended up inhabiting the body of a baby girl who had just died.

Chapter 29

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Chapter 29#

Extra: Second Life (Part One)#

Chu Ruiyuan never expected to live a second life—returning to the time just after his childhood encounter with Liu Jun’an.

The moment he awoke, he resolved to make amends for everything he had missed, done wrong, or regretted in his previous life.

Yet in life, eight or nine things out of ten go against one’s wishes.

He reunited with Mingzhi—but Mingzhi no longer remembered him.

Chapter 30

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Chapter 30#

Extra: Second Life (Part Two)#

When Chu Ruiyuan heard the report, it felt like a dream.

In the previous life, after so many trials and tribulations, he and Mingzhi had still remained together until the age of twenty-seven.

How could it be that in this life—when everything was well except for “Broken Fate”—that person died at twenty-five?

He felt as though he had only paused to think for a moment. When he came back to himself, the sun outside had already slanted westward.

Chapter 31

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Chapter 31#

[Third Life]#

I think the most treacherous saying in this world is: “A man about to die speaks from the heart.”

The saying itself isn’t really the problem — but when you’ve spoken from the heart and died, and then the next second you open your eyes to find yourself reborn… and on top of that, the person you bared your soul to might very well be reborn too?

Chapter 32

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Chapter 32#

Well — still intact.

In fact, he seemed sharper than me, if anything.

From that day on, we played Go every day for a month, and I won every single game.

But winning by exactly one stone each time, and being repeatedly praised for my “profound skill” — I couldn’t decide whether he thought I was an idiot, or whether he was mocking me.

This was a man who’d been CEO for two entire lifetimes. The mind of an emperor was simply beyond reading.

Chapter 33

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Chapter 33#

If everything I’m thinking right now could somehow take physical form, it would be a wall of words so dense you couldn’t even make out my face behind it.

Setting aside the absolutely catastrophic matter of me carelessly revealing that I’d been reborn — Chu Ruiyuan’s current state alone was enough to confound me even if you swapped my brain out for a supercomputer.

If he only had memories from the first life, there was no reason for him not to have saved his mother, since he’d done exactly that in the second life.

Chapter 34

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Chapter 34#

And then the two “Heavenly Fire Sect members” who had been holding us at swordpoint let out a shout and fled in opposite directions.

And then the guards who had been “poisoned to death” and lying on the floor all simultaneously “rose from the dead” at that signal, surged forward as one, and pinned Guan Mingyue to the ground.

The guard captain then bellowed, with a delay of God knows how long: “ASSASSIN!”

Chapter 35

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Chapter 35#

I lingered at the funeral home’s entrance for a long while before finally deciding to consult Chu Ruiyuan first on how to proceed.

Judging by the events of my previous life, I suspect this dynasty’s CEO-to-be would be particularly keen to eliminate the Southern Kingdom’s CEO-to-be.

But if Dugu Yan had reincarnated again, my momentary pity might well allow this terminal adolescent to stir up more trouble.

His affection runs deep as the sea, yet alas, I cannot swim.

Chapter 36

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Chapter 36#

But my sister-in-law has always been sharp as a tack and quick to grasp things, even across lifetimes. Even if she’d seen through my affair with the CEO of this dynasty, she’d never blurt it out rashly. And given my parents’ and brother’s imagination, there was no way they could have guessed the truth so early on.

I felt a mix of anxiety, panic, and utter bewilderment, yet obediently knelt before the ancestral tablets of the Liu family, awaiting my father’s reprimand.

Chapter 37

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Chapter 37#

The imperial wedding entailed far greater preparations than any mortal marriage, and three months passed in the blink of an eye.

By convention, the soon-to-be CEO’s wife ought to remain secluded at home during this period, intensively studying court etiquette. But in my case, if confined indoors for three months, I’d likely suffocate before the end. This dynasty’s CEO, who’d only just regained access to meat, would surely go bad first.

Chapter 38

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Chapter 38#

Once Chu Ruiyuan had returned from attending to official business, I had a serious and earnest discussion with him.

I primarily addressed two matters with him. The first was to subtly suggest that the eunuchs in his entourage required disciplining. The second was that, though I found it painful and unwilling, considering he was, after all, an emperor, I could not be intolerant when he chose to take a consort and produce an heir.

Chapter 39

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Chapter 39#

This bloody mess of seniority.

Being men ourselves, how could I have momentarily forgotten that a man’s fondness for bedtime roleplay is equally timeless, irrespective of whether he’s straight or gay.

In any case, whatever games Chu Ruiyuan fancies in bed, I’m not the one who’ll bear his child.

It was Consort De who, quite peacefully and smoothly, bore him a son in one go.

Then, tragically, the Noble Consort of Virtue ‘bled to death’ and departed for the imperial temple on the western outskirts of the capital, becoming a Buddhist nun.

Chapter 40

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Chapter 40#

Upon returning to the Prime Minister’s residence, I paid my respects to my newly adopted sister before feigning interest in her talents.

My sister-in-law quipped from the sidelines, ‘The Empress inquires so meticulously—could it be she intends to personally select a match for Xueying?’

I shook my head. ‘My Tea Classic Pavilion is opening a branch in the eastern part of the city. My visit today was rather rushed, and I hadn’t prepared a proper gift for Xueying. I thought of offering this shop as a present instead. But with this establishment, she’ll inevitably have to appear in public to oversee accounts and manage affairs. I wonder if she’d be willing?’

Chapter 41

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Chapter 41#

Extra: Third Life#

When Chu Ruiyuan was reborn once more, he felt little surprise.

Yet after such a long interval, the prospect of seeing Liu Jun’an again suddenly stirred in him a faint sense of trepidation at returning to familiar territory.

Liu Jun’an was now but a ten-year-old child.

The sovereign who had passed away peacefully in his sixties in his previous life gazed upon the youthful form of his lover across two lifetimes. He felt both tender affection and a hint of the doting affection one might reserve for grandchildren.