What? The Disgraced Crown Prince I’ve Been Raising Online Is My Child’s Father!

[Raising a child + adorable kid + healing + mutual devotion + past and present lives + heartwarming]

On a cold, rainy night, Jiang Li finds a little boy dressed in ancient-style clothes. He is drenched and looks utterly pitiful, so she takes pity on him and brings him home.

At the same time, an unremovable app called “Survival Simulator: The Disgraced Crown Prince in the Cold Palace” installs itself on her phone.

On the screen, a man lies in the snowbound cold palace, nearly frozen to death. He looks exactly like the little boy.

She plans to send the mysterious child away, but the boy calls her “Mother” and bows to her respectfully, like a young actor who wandered off the set of a period drama!

Jiang Li is stunned, speechless, then furious with embarrassment.

She is just a lowly wage slave whose life consists of going to work and coming home from work. When did she get a four-year-old son dumped on her?

Just as he is about to be sent away, the little boy’s eyes fill with anxious tears. He points at the screen, then at Jiang Li. The meaning is obvious.

Jiang Li: “Oh, got it. You came here from the game. You’re the disgraced crown prince!”

So now she has a little one to raise in real life and an old one to look after in the game.

Instant noodles, electric kettles, military coats...

A quick scan with her phone, and they can all be exchanged for cash in the cold palace!

The disgraced crown prince kneels before the empty air, worshipping her as a goddess.

Jiang Li waves shyly. “Oh, it’s nothing. I’m just the delivery person for modern technology and clever contraptions.”

Jiang Li always thinks she is just playing a child-raising game, until New Year’s Eve, when she sets off a firework display for the disgraced crown prince on the screen.

She has no idea that the little boy, clutching her phone, quietly calls out to it:

“Father...”