Assigned to the Ruined Prince

BL Historical Romance | Palace Intrigue | Slow Burn

Yi Yinxiang is the kind of prince people warn you about. He is loud where he should be discreet, arrogant where he should be grateful, and currently confined to the Eastern Courtyard for behavior the court prefers not to describe in detail.

Gu Yanzhi is sent to watch him.

Once the youngest son of a powerful marquis, now wearing the title of eunuch, Gu Yanzhi is competent, cold-eyed, and entirely uninterested in indulging a scoundrel prince with too much time on his hands. He expects drudgery. Ji Wenyuan expects to make him miserable.

Neither expects anything more than misery.

What begins as daily irritation turns into collaboration, then into something far more dangerous: effectiveness. With Gu Yanzhi's sharp mind and Yi Yinxiang's refusal to stay small, the Eastern Courtyard becomes a place of quiet advantage.

Somewhere between petty arguments, shared schemes, and victories no one is expected, affection takes root, soft, persistent, and increasingly impossible to ignore.

The palace thinks it has quarantined a nuisance and buried a fallen noble.

It has, instead, given a reckless prince the one person clever enough to help him take everything back.

A slow-burn historical BL full of banter, political revenge, and a love that grows sharper the longer it's underestimated.