The Sickly Beauty Substitute Called It Quits

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Shen Yu was sincerely in love. For that person’s sake, Shen Yu ignored his illness-ridden body and plotted to overthrow the tyrant. It was only after Shen Yu died that he learned the truth. He was a character in a book, and the man he loved only viewed him as a stand-in for the protagonist. To pave the way for that couple’s happiness, Shen Yu lost everything.

After he was reborn, the sickly Shen Yu was so done with that.

As for that man, whoever wanted him could have him.

Shen Yu took his half-brother’s place and became the male concubine of the tyrant. The tyrant didn’t like men anyway, and Shen Yu didn’t have much time left. Since he was going to die, he might as well go to the palace to sit around and wait for death.

After entering the harem of the tyrant everyone feared, Shen Yu ate and drank without a care in the world.

The tyrant, with long black hair on his shoulders and crimson eyes, didn’t hide his hostility. He grabbed Shen Yu by the neck. “You’re not afraid to die?”

Shen “Just get it over with” Yu felt a little excited. “Are you going to kill me now?”

Tyrant: “? ? ? ? ?”

Shen Yu entered the palace expecting to die, but he waited and waited and waited. In the end, the officials petitioned to make him the empress, and the tyrant cured his deadly illness.

Shen Yu: “…”

Shou: jumps frantically up and down on the gong’s bottom line but never dies

Gong: all he can do with the shou is lower his bottom line again and again

Associated Names
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病美人替身不干了
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Recommendation Lists
  1. Wei Aixia's Already Read List 1
  2. Tbr rebirth
  3. BL Historical
  4. To Be Read
  5. Finished, may re-read later when bored

Latest Release

Date Group Release
04/27/25 Serafin_Translations c192
04/13/25 Serafin_Translations c190
04/13/25 Serafin_Translations c189
02/17/25 Serafin_Translations c188
02/05/25 Serafin_Translations c187
02/03/25 Serafin_Translations c186
07/11/24 Serafin_Translations c185
07/11/24 Serafin_Translations c184
07/11/24 Serafin_Translations c183
06/26/24 Serafin_Translations c182
06/26/24 Serafin_Translations c181
05/30/24 Serafin_Translations c180
04/21/24 Serafin_Translations c179
04/14/24 Serafin_Translations c178
04/14/24 Serafin_Translations c177
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Dianille
Dianille rated it
March 11, 2022
Status: c141
Pretty good. The MC and ML is good for each other. I swear at the beginning the ML needs a professional PR team. I don't think MC is weak, he's surprisingly stubborn behind that docile behavior. Though, he often give way for the ML, it's not always. The ML always in state of horknee while the MC is constantly repulsed by attachment. I think this story is kind of sweet.
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Miss Millie
Miss Millie rated it
March 10, 2022
Status: c248
Finished reading this on mtl... I tried to comprehend as much as I can given the inaccurate TL and grammar and I still loved it!! I've seen this on Foxaholic and I know that this still has a long way to go before the entire novel gets translated. It's a pity that the side stories were not available in the mtl site where I was reading this on. : (
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russianoatmeal
russianoatmeal rated it
July 12, 2024
Status: c43
A very easy read. There is drama but it never gets shoved in your face and is resolved fairly easily. I really enjoy this couples relationship and the development felt very natural.

I dropped at ch.43 because the I'm not a fan of court dramas but thought I'd get this one a try. I realized once more these stories are not my vibe lol

The translation is wonderful! They did such a lovely job and the notes at the end of each chapter were very helpful.
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RavensChrome
RavensChrome rated it
May 24, 2024
Status: c179
First things first, I see that some reviews addressing the non-con aspect of this story. While I do not condone s*xual harassment or s*xual assault of any kind, having the non-con scene does not make this a bad story to read. I like to use Game of Thrones and its book series as an example of having this while still being vastly popular to the masses. It's a tool to enhance the reading experience not in a s*xual stimulating way but a way to develop the relationship between MC and... more>> ML.

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Plus, later in the story, the MC even states that he's not against or dislike being s*xual with ML. Just that he doesn't have the stamina to keep up. And the author purposefully keeps the s*xual scene short, vague, and abstract to leave it up to reader imagination.

This is also in a setting of ancient China where concubines, which is what the MC is and is the only one, are expected to relieve the s*xual frustration of the Emporer whether they like it or not. It's a duty to fulfill, not a relationship built upon emotions. If anything, ML is very lenient to MC throughout the beginning of the story. Then they start indulging once they start to actually like each other.

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With that being said, this story is very easy to read in my opinion. This is one of those self-indulgent stories where MC is an overworked office worker that doesn't give a f*ck anymore. Literally. He doesn't care about the consequences as long as it doesn't affect his quality of life but he cares enough to where his actions doesn't affect those that don't deserve it. He's not one of those MCs that want to save the world or fight fate with a machete, he just want to sit tight and live life.

It's there that MCs character development blossoms. Beaten down like a stray dog and with no expectations for the people around him, MC learns what life can be and it's like reading a coming of age story. MC learns to love life again.

The ML is almost like an accessory to MC's development to learning to love life again. Yes, the ML has his own character growth, but the main focus is the MC. The ML is literally there to play the good supporting husband for his wife. It seems shallow to describe him as such but ML's character growth is just the typical 'melting the ice from his heart' type of guy. Standard stuff.

Of course, the setting is ancient China, so there will be epic face slapping, ans dog-blooded drama. That balances so well with the romance. It gives reason for the MC and ML to interact at the beginning of the story. In turn, their budding relationship help drive the plot by giving solutions and uncovering mysteries surrounding them.

I think what this story does really well is that they don't drag out an issue or lead on the reader for no reason. There's always a clean resolution without dragging out the details of it.

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Example, there are a few points in the story where someone f*cked around, gave us a good foundation on how'd they went about it and why, and kept the interest there. And a clean break from those issues were simply stating that they either got punished accordingly or straight up killed. No extra details and moved on to the next plot point.

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The one thing I will complain about are the scene transitions. This is more on the translators. It's not a problem with the current translator but the initial one that started on this story didn't have a line break to indicate a scene transition like the current one does. While this story is easy to read, it can be a little disorientating because a sudden scene change. But it's not enough to knock a star off.

5 stars!! <<less
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Bl_23 rated it
March 28, 2024
Status: --
I love this novel the relationship between the MC and the emperor are just so good I love how the emperor just absolutely spoil the MC I love this kind of story when it comes to a novel and I love you protective the emperor is toward the MC and I love to court drama.
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Jackaloe.22
Jackaloe.22 rated it
November 18, 2023
Status: c141
I dropped it at ch 141 bc it was really dragging on. The author oftentimes uses conversations between commoners as a way to “prove” to readers MC/ML’s actions made progress. It got repetitive. MC and ML have a good relationship- they don’t argue, no pointless misunderstandings, and the ML didn’t do anything awful to Shen Yu’s close friends/ family (which is more than could be said for many popular web novels). ML is very doting and will bend to Shen Yu’s will time and time again (but some of their... more>> bed scenes r giving dub con/ non con sorry but even if u agree to s*x at first u can revoke consent at any time and Shen Yu’s descriptions of crying and begging for him to stop and needing to stop making sounds so ML stopped going harder and faster just made me </3). This novel is not sexist which is a plus- yay gender equality! Really I’d give this a 3.5 but novelupdates doesn’t do half star ratings and this novel won’t be getting 4 stars from me. <<less
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