The northern and southern kingdoms stand opposed, while savage beasts watch them hungrily and the devouring ants wait for their chance to strike.
In his previous life, he schemed his way onto the throne, only to lose the person who loved him most. He committed every kind of evil, and somehow received his “comeuppance,” getting the chance to live his life over. He swore that this time, he would drag that lotus-pure person into the mire and sink into depravity with him.
He was the person in this world closest to Buddha. He died before the other man for the sake of the people and the realm. Yet when fate gave him the chance to live again, would he choose to redeem him as he had in his previous life? A love-hate relationship, rebirth, transmigration: everything you want to read is here.
A mad tyrant in the early chapters who becomes a loyal, pitiful puppy later VS a cold, Buddhist monk early on (who will return to the secular world), then a scheming strategist.
Also known as The Tyrant Gets Even Crazier After Faking His Death and The Mad Emperor’s Favorite.