silent lover (哑奴, yǎnú)
read chapter 1 here!
Summary: The Prince of Zhenbei possesses authority that reaches all the way to heaven, surpassing tens of thousands of people. The Prince of Zhenbei is licentious and lustful, not distinguishing between female and male partners, with a brutality beyond compare—though he has taken nine concubines as wives, not a single one has managed to survive. This time, the Prince of Zhenbei has become interested in the daughter of the prefectural magistrate. To prevent her fate of being tormented to death by the Prince of Zhenbei—as the crown prince was switched with a raccoon dog1—a mute slave from the magistrate’s residence was sent as a substitute on the marriage sedan. The mute slave was born with the beauty of an exiled immortal, but also the disability of voicelessness. Because of his appearance that might attract misfortune, he was locked away in the courtyard by his mother. Suddenly one day, the prefectural magistrate’s household bestowed upon him the name of Shen Yu and sent people to teach him how to serve a personage before delivering him onto the bed of the “Living King of Hell.” Will he become the tenth ghost to die unjustly under the Prince of Zhenbei’s body?
Cruel prince slag gong * delicate mute slave shou. HE.
Secondary ships that come and go.2 Angst-y body but sweet heart/interior.3
cicadacricket notes:
1. Reference to an old Chinese story about replacing an important figure (the crown prince or the prefectural magistrate's daughter) with an insignificant substitute (an animal or the mute slave.)
2. 有副CP出没3. 虐身甜心文. I think it means angst-y at first but gets sweet later on?Please note, I have not finished reading this novel and I am reading as I translate. If any part of the translation is wrong or could be improved upon, I would be super grateful if you could tell me! And I put the title as "Silent Lover" because that's how the manhua adaptation (which is how I discovered this story) of this novel translated it.
silent lover (哑奴, yǎnú)
read chapter 1 here!
Summary: The Prince of Zhenbei possesses authority that reaches all the way to heaven, surpassing tens of thousands of people. The Prince of Zhenbei is licentious and lustful, not distinguishing between female and male partners, with a brutality beyond compare—though he has taken nine concubines as wives, not a single one has managed to survive. This time, the Prince of Zhenbei has become interested in the daughter of the prefectural magistrate. To prevent her fate of being tormented to death by the Prince of Zhenbei—as the crown prince was switched with a raccoon dog1—a mute slave from the magistrate’s residence was sent as a substitute on the marriage sedan. The mute slave was born with the beauty of an exiled immortal, but also the disability of voicelessness. Because of his appearance that might attract misfortune, he was locked away in the courtyard by his mother. Suddenly one day, the prefectural magistrate’s household bestowed upon him the name of Shen Yu and sent people to teach him how to serve a personage before delivering him onto the bed of the “Living King of Hell.” Will he become the tenth ghost to die unjustly under the Prince of Zhenbei’s body?
Cruel prince slag gong * delicate mute slave shou. HE.
Secondary ships that come and go.2 Angst-y body but sweet heart/interior.3
cicadacricket notes:
1. Reference to an old Chinese story about replacing an important figure (the crown prince or the prefectural magistrate's daughter) with an insignificant substitute (an animal or the mute slave.)
2. 有副CP出没3. 虐身甜心文. I think it means angst-y at first but gets sweet later on?Please note, I have not finished reading this novel and I am reading as I translate. If any part of the translation is wrong or could be improved upon, I would be super grateful if you could tell me! And I put the title as "Silent Lover" because that's how the manhua adaptation (which is how I discovered this story) of this novel translated it.
