“Didn’t you listen to me?”

One day at the age of twenty, while dozing off in front of the emperor, Asha suddenly faced a demotion. From the imperial palace guard, he was sent after four years to a coastal village’s defense force, where he was now living leisurely in a crumbling, dilapidated house.

Though he was an emperor and a knight, Kiel—his older brother’s friend and someone he’d known since childhood—was more than a brother to him. Having been too comfortable with Kiel, Asha found himself not only demoted but also jilted by the princess, veering off the path to success and running alone toward some unknown destination.

Every year, Asha had received a demotion as a birthday gift from the emperor, and finally, after his twenty-fourth birthday had passed, he received another message.

This time, it wasn’t a demotion order but a command to return to the imperial palace.

At the summons of Kiel—who adored Asha so much he’d jokingly say he wanted to “bite him to death”—Asha returned to the palace. There, he discovered that all his friends had married and were raising children, prompting him to resolve to embark on his own marriage venture…

But something was strange. There were no marriage prospects.

Even though he was marrying late—far too late—and naturally most people his age were already wed, there should’ve been at least three or four others who, for various reasons, had passed the typical marrying age. Yet there were none.

Moreover, due to Kiel revising laws and issuing ordinances during Asha’s absence from the palace, further restrictions had been imposed, leaving him with even fewer potential partners…

Before he could even voice that something felt off, Kiel—the monumental bachelor emperor who, for the past seventeen years, had been singularly obsessed with Asha and had worked tirelessly to legalize same-s*x marriage by searching for a lost stone tablet inscribed with ancient laws—had briefly demoted Asha as part of his plan. Now, having completed all preparations, Kiel began executing his scheme to marry Asha…

Whether Kiel’s oblivious, steamed-bun-like incarnation, Asha, would successfully wed him remained to be seen…

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