Crossdressing For The Emperor
Lioren “Lio” Veylan has always survived by wit, lies, and instinct, scraping by on the fringes of Kaldor Kingdom. One stormy night, he discovers a gravely injured stranger and, desperate to protect himself, pretends to be a girl—Liora—to earn the man’s trust and care. But this stranger is no ordinary man: he is Emperor Kaelric Valen Drazor, the feared “Iron Emperor,” presumed dead after a violent coup.
When Kaelric regains his memory, Lio’s carefully constructed lie threatens to unravel entirely. Forced into a marriage under the guise of nobility, he must navigate a treacherous court filled with scheming nobles, deadly threats, and Kaelric’s icy, calculating gaze. Every step is a test, every word a risk—yet the bond they forged in secrecy remains unbroken.
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Chapter: Chapter 27 : Carl’s POVLio was still talking about the park when we got home.Honestly, I expected it. When something gets him excited, he really gets into it, thinking about it from every angle and saying everything there is to say. It’s one of the things that makes him easy to be around. His enthusiasm is real and he’s not ashamed of it. He doesn’t pretend to be interested; he just is.“Every week,” he said, dropping onto his mat and kicking his shoes off. “We’re going every week. No matter what, we’ll make time for it.”“We’ll make time for it,” I said.“You say that now.”“I mean it now. It’s a park, Lio. It’s not going anywhere.”He pointed at me. “Neither are we, and that’s my point. We live here. We should actually live here, not just work, sleep, and eat. The park is part of that.”I couldn’t disagree with his thinking. I didn’t really want to. He was right; we had been sticking to a small area since we arrived – the house, t
최신 업데이트: 2026-06-02
Chapter: Chapter 26 : Carl’s POVThe next morning, I woke up earlier because Lioren wouldn't stop coughing.It was the kind of cough that wakes you up before you're fully awake, pulling you from sleep before you're ready. I lay still for a moment, hoping it would pass. But it didn't. Then I heard Lio moving uncomfortably on his sleeping mat, so I sat up.The light coming through the window was still dim, not yet sure what kind of day it would be. I got up and went to Lio's side of the room. He was lying with his knees pulled up a little, his forehead wrinkled, and his breathing uneven."Lio."He opened his eyes and looked at me, trying hard to pretend he was okay. "I'm fine," he said right away. That told me he wasn't fine at all, because people who are really fine don't feel the need to say it before you even ask.I crouched beside him and put the back of my hand on his forehead. He was hot. More than hot, actually. He felt like he had a fever."You h
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Chapter: Chapter 25 : Lioren’s POVThe idea came to me while I was still sitting at the table, turning my empty bowl slowly in my hands and staring at nothing in particular. Carl was quiet next to me, doing that thing he does when he's thinking hard. His jaw would tighten a little, and his eyes would look far away."What if we use the money we have for something small?" I said. "A little business. Something we can run from here."Carl looked at me. "Like what?""I don't know yet. But we have a little saved now, and if we're careful, we can use it to start something instead of waiting for someone to ask us to clear their yard."He was quiet for a moment, and I could see him thinking about it. Carl doesn't dismiss ideas quickly, but he also doesn't jump into things without thinking them through. That's one of the things I like most about him. He takes his time with decisions, like he takes his time with cooking, carefully with focus."It's not a bad idea," he said
최신 업데이트: 2026-05-31
Chapter: Chapter 24 : Lioren’s POV"I had a dream," I said, before he could speak.He stopped stretching his arms and looked at me fully. "A dream?""About the Emperor."The words hung in the air between us. I watched his face change as he heard them. He didn't say anything right away, which was something I had learned to like about Carl. He didn't rush to fill the silence. He sat on his mat, folded his hands, and gave me his full attention, like he did for things he truly cared about."Tell me," he said simply.So I told him everything. I told him about the gold and the diamonds, about feeling silk on skin I'd never touched, about a kingdom bowing to me and a heavy crown on my head. I told him about Kaelric standing beside me, tall and calm like I remembered him, his eyes holding that quiet power that never left him, even when he was hurt and weak in my care. I told Carl about the moment just before I woke up, when the Emperor leaned toward me with a soft look on his face, something I didn't expect from a man like him
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Chapter: Chapter 23 : Lioren’s POV I never expected to dream. I had been so tired when I finally lay down on my mat that I thought sleep would just take me somewhere blank and quiet, the kind of deep, dreamless rest that belongs to tired bodies and minds without worries. And for a while, that's exactly what happened. I drifted away from being awake quickly, sinking through my thoughts without any effort at all.But then the dream came.It didn't arrive with the confusing feeling of most dreams, where ordinary ones start in the middle of a scene in some almost-familiar place that almost makes sense. This one came in slowly, like curtains being pulled back to show something that was already set up and waiting behind them.I was standing in a room so large that the walls in the distance were hard to see. The light inside was golden and seemed to come from nowhere in particular, like it was coming from everywhere at once, making everything it touched soft. The floor under my feet was
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Chapter: Chapter 22 : Lioren’s POVI think the most amazing thing in the world isn't power, or money, or beauty. It's finding someone who chooses to stay with you when they could easily leave. Someone who walks into hard times with you, not because they have to, but because somewhere along the way, they decided your life and their life weren't completely separate anymore.I had been thinking about this since we walked home from Boro's yard. The money felt warm in Carl's hand, and we were both tired in that good, satisfying way that comes from a full day of real work. We sat at our low table in the fading light coming through the open window and spread the coins out between us to count them properly.It was a good amount. Not a lot of money, but enough to last us a week if we were careful. I felt joy seeing those coins that had nothing to do with how much they were worth. It was the joy of something earned. Something clean."This will be more than enough to keep us going," I said, looki
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Addicted to His Bitter Rival
In the glittering corporate empire of Apple City, power is everything—and no rivalry burns hotter than the one between billionaire CEOs Kael Virex and Lucian Thorne. For years, their names have defined corporate warfare: hostile takeovers, ruined deals, and a relentless battle for dominance where neither man is willing to lose.
When Thorne Dynamics suddenly collapses, Kael finally claims the victory he has chased for years. Lucian loses his company, his fortune, and his reputation overnight, leaving Kael convinced that his greatest rival has finally fallen. But when Kael summons Lucian and offers him a humiliating ultimatum, Lucian accepts far too easily—awakening suspicions Kael cannot ignore.
What begins as a cruel display of control quickly turns dangerous when one reckless demand pulls them into a night neither can forget. Kael expected submission. Instead, he finds himself drawn deeper into an obsession he can no longer deny, while Lucian remains calm, unreadable, and far from defeated.
As tension turns into a volatile attraction, Kael uncovers a hidden conspiracy behind Lucian’s downfall. His own trusted CFO, Adrian Kross, working with the secretive Helix Circle, has manipulated both empires for a larger takeover—and Kael is next.
Forced into an uneasy alliance, Kael and Lucian must fight side by side against enemies hidden behind wealth, betrayal, and power. But in a city where control means survival, the greatest risk may not be losing their empires
It may be losing their hearts to the one person they were meant to destroy
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Chapter: Chapter 25Lucian was quiet for a moment. The particular quiet of someone absorbing a small thing that was not actually small. "Alright.""Though," Kael said, "the wall above the shelving could take one thing. If you wanted it."Lucian looked at the wall. "One thing.""Something you actually want there. Not decoration."Lucian thought about it for the rest of the afternoon. Kael let him think and went back to his own work, the ongoing complexity of the restructure, which was in its final stages but still required daily attention. They worked in their separate rooms and came together in the kitchen at six when Kael made dinner because it was his week to cook and Lucian's to choose, which was a division that had emerged without discussion and suited both of them.Lucian chose simply. He always did. Something with pasta that Kael had made before and made well.Over dinner Lucian said, "A map."Kael looked at him."Above the shelf. A specific map." He looked at his plate. "There's one I've been look
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Chapter: Chapter 24The office took two weekends to build properly.Not because it was complicated. Because Lucian had opinions about it that he expressed with the same precision he brought to everything, and Kael had opinions that differed from his on several specific points, and the process of reconciling those opinions was slower and more interesting than either of them had anticipated.The first weekend they moved furniture and disagreed about the desk.Lucian wanted it facing the wall. Kael thought this was wrong and said so. Lucian explained, with complete patience, that facing the wall removed visual distraction and allowed for deeper focus. Kael pointed out that the windows were on the adjacent wall and facing away from them defeated the entire purpose of building the office around them. Lucian looked at the window. Looked at the wall. Looked at the window again.The desk faced the window."You could have just said I was right," Kael said."I could have," Lucian agreed, and moved on to the questi
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Chapter: Chapter 23Kael drove. Lucian didn't argue about it, which was its own kind of progress. He sat in the passenger seat with his phone in his hand and didn't look at it, which meant he was thinking about something he hadn't said yet.The hotel was in the financial district. Understated from the outside, the kind of place that communicated expense through what it didn't do rather than what it did. No unnecessary signage. A doorman who recognized Lucian and didn't react to Kael's presence, which meant he was well trained or had been briefed, and Kael suspected the latter."How much did you bring," Kael said in the elevator."Not much.""You said that already.""It's still true."The room was on the fourteenth floor. Lucian opened it and Kael followed him in and understood immediately what not much meant to a man who had been living out of controlled necessity for eleven weeks.Two bags. A garment rack with perhaps two weeks of clothes. A laptop case and a secondary hard drive. A single shelf of book
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Chapter: Chapter 22The restructure took eleven weeks.Kael had said months and he'd meant it, but Lucian worked the way he did everything, with a precision that compressed timelines without appearing to rush them. He found the load-bearing points in the legal architecture the way Kael found them in acquisitions, identified what needed to move first and moved it, and the rest followed in the shape it was supposed to.They worked well together.That was the thing neither of them had said out loud and both of them had noticed.Not without friction. Lucian held information longer than was useful and Kael pushed back on it every time, and occasionally the pushing back became something louder than a boardroom should contain. He made decisions alone when he should have consulted and then presented them as considerations rather than conclusions, which Kael saw through immediately and said so. Lucian, for his part, had opinions about the pace of certain things that differed from Kael's and expressed them with a
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Chapter: Chapter 21Kael didn't message him. He had enough to manage and Lucian was not someone who needed checking on.At eleven thirty Adrian called.Kael stared at the name on the screen for a long moment.Then picked up."Adrian."Silence for a second. Then, "You knew."Not an accusation. Something flatter than that. The voice of someone who had arrived at a conclusion after a long time of not wanting to reach it."Yes," Kael said."How long.""Long enough.""He came to you.""Yes."Another silence. Longer. Kael let it exist without filling it. He had nothing to perform for Adrian anymore."I built something real," Adrian said quietly. "Underneath everything else, the actual work was real.""Some of it," Kael said."Most of it.""Adrian." Kael kept his voice even. "The mechanisms you used don't become legitimate because the outcome had legitimate elements. You know that.""I know that," Adrian said. Quieter still. Not arguing. Just saying it back, the way people repeated true things they hadn't fully
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Chapter: Chapter 20Kael woke at six to the sound of someone already awake.Not loud. Just present. The particular quality of an apartment that had another person in it, small sounds that wouldn't have registered if he'd been alone. A cabinet. Water running briefly. The specific silence of someone moving carefully in an unfamiliar space.He lay still for a moment and listened.Then he got up.Lucian was in the kitchen when Kael came out. He had found the coffee, which said something about him, and was standing at the counter reading something on his phone with the focused stillness of someone who had been awake for a while.He looked up when Kael appeared."It broke at two," Lucian said. "All three outlets simultaneously."Kael moved to the counter and looked at his own phone. Seventeen missed calls. Forty-something messages. News alerts stacked behind them like a collapsed wall.He read the top three alerts and set the phone down."Adrian," he said."His legal team issued a statement at four. Denial." L
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