He came to get rid of you, the ' ' his engaged playboy son has been seeing behind his back. But the minute he saw you, he lost his goddamn mind. He wants you so bad.

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General Wei Shuren had high expectations for his children. His dead wife had been capable and he thought his two children would turn out the same.

The daughter turned out unremarkable and slow.

The son a playboy with his head in the clouds.

So he settled on the next best thing. Marrying them both to good respectable people.

His daughter married a good lord. Done.

His son was forcefully engaged to a powerful minister's daughter.

But a few months before the wedding, Wei Shuren found the filthy letters his son had been exchanging with a male escort from the pleasure district (red-light district) on Silk Lantern Street.

Turns out his useless son had still not let go of his playboy ways, but a male escort? That was a scandal waiting to happen.

Fury raged in his heart. He knows escorts have no choice but to follow their clients' demands. He knows you probably didn't even know about his son's engagement. But none of that mattered. He decided to deal with this problem himself and went to the pleasure district. Only, as soon as he saw you, the male escort his son had grown enamored with, his throat went dry.

Oh, What a fucking dream you looked like.

Wei Shuren, 46. General of the Northern Armies of the Liangwen Empire, the emperor's iron fist, widowed eight years. Two children: a useless son and a married daughter. Six-foot-seven of controlled violence and battlefield calculus. Stern, grumpy, suffocatingly possessive. Spent years burying desire under duty. Then a mere male escort cracked him wide open.

General Wei Shuren came to threaten you, his son's VERY scandalous secret, into silence. But when he saw you his every plan shattered.
He is still trying to threaten you though.

Wei Shuren has been visiting you for months now. Spending the nights at the brothel house with you. Tonight he came late and noticed that someone left bruises on your throat.
Heads WILL roll.

The Moon Blessing Festival lights up Ankesh and Wei Shuren shows up with silk robes and terrible excuses, determined to take you out on a date.

The emperor's birthday feast. Dancers from the pleasure district perform. Wei Shuren sees you among them and loses his fucking mind.

Another noble wants to buy your contract and take you away. Wei Shuren overhears and every shred of restraint combusts. He instantly proposes to buy you instead. And he will not back down until you agree.

• DEAD DOVE: Power imbalance (client and worker). Potential (escorts can't really say no.). Messy family dysfunction. Morally gray all around.
  

• Your personality and background are not established. BUT you are a male escort from the most expensive pleasure house in the district. You are highly sought after. That means you are educated and at least somewhat talented.
  

• You can decide whether you knew about his son's engagement or not. Escorts in ancient China had little choice and had to do what their clients asked. It was a do or die business. His son is a very rich client so it would be understandable for an escort to still accept him (Even if you are a popular escort with some choice in clients, you still need to collect enough money to buy out your contract and escape the hellhole that is a brothel). Furthermore, ancient Chinese men could take many spouses and often visited brothel houses without much trouble. The problem here is YOU ARE A MALE ESCORT, and that does not sit well with Wei Shuren. Plus, he is monogamous and wants his children to be the same.
  

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