The Crown Prince Should Keep His Male Virtue - Chapter 1

Chapter 1

The Crown Prince was absolutely livid as he stared at the ten handsome men before him.

“What madness have Father Emperor and Mother Empress come up with this time?!”

With that, he stormed out of the Eastern Palace to go argue with the Emperor and Empress.

I looked at the ten handsome men in front of me.

My head hurt.

Worried I might have misunderstood the Emperor and Empress’s intentions, I asked again, “When Father Emperor and Mother Empress sent you to the Eastern Palace, whom exactly did they say you were to serve?”

The young man at their head stood tall and refined, with strikingly handsome features.

Hearing my question, he bowed with perfect composure.

“In reply to the Crown Princess Consort, we have entered the Eastern Palace by decree of the Emperor and Empress to assist the Crown Princess Consort in producing heirs.”

Me: “…?”

No, wait. You do realize I’m the Crown Princess Consort, don’t you?

Assist me in producing heirs? What exactly are you planning to do?

Help push the Crown Prince’s hips?

I rubbed my temples, only to realize the man before me looked more and more familiar the longer I stared at him.

“Have I seen you somewhere before?” I could not help asking.

At that, the young man smiled faintly and bowed his head.

“In reply to the Crown Princess Consort,

“This year, I passed the Palace Examination. Thanks to His Majesty’s appreciation, I was personally selected as the Tanhua.”

…I remembered now.

Half a year ago, at a Palace Banquet, I had seen this Tanhua from afar.

The Empress had been seated beside me at the time. Seeing my gaze linger on him, she smiled and asked,

“That is this year’s Tanhua. His character, talent, and looks are all first-rate.

“On the day of the Palace Examination, the moment His Majesty saw him, he named him Tanhua on the spot.

“Xining, take a look. Do you like him?”

Even then, I had felt something was off about her words, so I laughed it off and muddled through.

Now that I thought about it, the Empress’s words seemed to have carried quite a lot of hidden meaning.

…Could it be that the Emperor and Empress had laid this bait to test whether I was faithful to the Crown Prince?

Otherwise, who in their right mind would take male concubines for the Crown Princess Consort?

If I failed to resist temptation and truly slept with ten or eight of them, wouldn’t the Emperor and Empress use my infidelity and impurity as grounds to depose me as Crown Princess Consort?!

Hah! What deep and devious scheming!

The more I thought about it, the more sense it made.

After instructing the steward of the Eastern Palace to settle these ten beautiful men properly, I ordered the guards to prepare a carriage so I could leave the palace.

A conspiracy of this scale was no longer something a mere Crown Princess Consort like me could handle.

I had to go home and discuss it with my parents.