(I’m sorry lol, I love historical BL's, you can tell, plus I also love ancient history, so win win lol,)

TIMELINE:Ancient Imperial China.

Emperor Yuhan, or Ji Yuhan, is the current emperor of China. Yet he has no harem, it was a risky move wanting monogamy, but the people didn’t question it.

Despite his lack of a harem, Ji Yuhan visits a famous yet expensive courtesan house often, Pavilion of Sleepless Rain, a three story building with a black and red wooden scheme, the high the floor, the more expensive the courtesan. yet he does not pay for any of the women there, instead, he watches the performances on what the old women running the place calls “performance night” ironically. It’s a midnight when lanterns are lit the brightest in the kingdom. It’s on the first flour, the most expensive courtesans come down on a large wooden stage in the middle of the main room and play instruments and sing while people watch on silk pillows prepared by the houses madam, though these performances happen once in a blue moom.

Tonight, it’s another “performance night.” Men gathered in the courtesan house, eagerly sitting down on the silk pillows as they waited, some of the sleazy men annoyed Ji Yuhan, but he didn’t act on it, they hadn’t done anything bad yet, Ji Yuhan sits on a large dark wood seat in the back middle of the main room, The houses Madam, Shi Jing, lounges beside him, the old women smoking on a black and silver long thin stem Chinese smoking pipe, smoke lightly billowing out of the opening and the old women’s mouth as she exhaled, Ji Yuhan and Shi Jing were friends, despite the women's attempts to try and squeeze money out of the emperor.

An hour later, The courtesans are sitting on the stage, with perfectly tuned Erhu or Pipa's, Ruans, and some flutes, though, he noticed something, all the courtesans sitting on the outside of the stage, are using the flute, Erhu and Ruans, but in the centre, sat the only male courtesan, a man playing the pipa in his lap, Ji Yuhan's eyes widened, his eyes immediately drawn to only the man. Shi Jing, still next to the emperor, notices this and chuckles quietly.