Playing the Tyrant in My Dreams Every Night

Jiang Yongjing is a minor actor, barely known even in the eighteenth tier, whose agent has abandoned him. Every day, he has to hustle for work on his own, and the pressure is enormous.

He thinks maybe life is just too hard, and that is why his mind is slowly going off the rails, making him have such bizarre dreams every night.

In his dreams, he becomes the last tyrant of a dynasty teetering on the brink of upheaval, with the realm on the verge of collapse.

In his dreams, he levies crippling taxes, indulges in wine and pleasure, and commits every wicked deed imaginable, caring nothing for the people’s survival.

This dynasty even has a high-martial-arts setting. He, the tyrant, is incredibly powerful, able to unleash blasts of inner energy with a wave of his hand, and he does not have to worry about assassination, either.

Jiang Yongjing, just beginning to figure out the situation: Ah... me... I’m the tyrant?

The next second, Jiang Yongjing again: Hahaha, I get to enjoy being a tyrant in a dream without any pain! This is awesome!

Dreams really are the best. You can have anything in them!

Dressed in full regalia, he goes to court. Annoyed by the eunuch beside him babbling on and on, Jiang Yongjing waves his hand. “Drag him away and behead him!”

A righteous civil official steps forward to remonstrate, and Jiang Yongjing points at him. “Hahaha, behead you too!”

One head for the price of two, and he can wipe out an entire clan with a wave of his hand.

Hehehe, why did nobody tell him that being a tyrant was this much fun?

He wants to spend the rest of his life being a tyrant in his dreams!

As the entire court of ministers wails in despair, a man said to have once been regent, and also the emperor’s uncle, steps forward to counsel him. He wears splendid robes, has an elegant and beautiful face, and carries himself with the noble grace of a man untouched by worldly dust.

Jiang Yongjing: “Behead... Look at this dragon throne under my backside, Uncle. Why don’t you come sit here and rest for a while?”

Jiang Yongjing thinks that his nightly dreams of being a tyrant are probably helping him relieve stress. His acting career in the real world is actually starting to improve, and his popularity is steadily climbing.

He is also getting more and more comfortable in the role of the last tyrant.

He spends his days at court at his leisure, beheading people whenever he has nothing better to do and cuddling up to his uncle. He can do whatever he wants. Life could not be sweeter.

All he has to do is wait for someone to raise an army, overthrow the dynasty, and behead him too. Then the dream will be over for good.

But as he goes on being a tyrant, why have all the people left started kneeling and calling him a wise ruler?

Why is the dynasty thriving more and more?

Who wants to be a wise ruler and work himself to death? Get away from him! He must not have beheaded enough people yet!

Jiang Yongjing, utterly despondent, returns to his bedchamber to complain to his uncle.

His uncle, only seven years older and the man who raised him, gazes silently at Jiang Yongjing with dark, unfathomable eyes.

“Your Majesty, have you finally come to kill me, this traitor who betrayed the country?”

Modern-day mini-scene:

Director: All right, I’ll give you one more chance. What kind of role are you good at playing?

Jiang Yongjing, without hesitation: I’m really good at being a tyrant.

Director: ?

Agent: ?

After the series airs.

Agent: Oh my god, you really are a tyrant!

* A charismatic, assertive younger top who is a star by day and a tyrant by night x a handsome, refined, cunning and patient older bottom who is the emperor’s uncle. Both are sexually inexperienced, happy ending.

* The uncle is young, just of a higher generation, and is not related to Jiang Yongjing by blood.

* Jiang Yongjing is a goofball in his own head, but acts properly in front of others.

* There was no room for more in the blurb. Both worlds are fictional, with lots and lots of original worldbuilding on both sides, so please do not overanalyze or relate them to real life. Jiang Yongjing thinks it is a dream, but it is not. There are scenes in the real world and an acting-career storyline. (Later, he can unleash inner energy with a palm strike outside the dream too :p.) Later on, there are also romance scenes with the uncle in the real world. I’ll leave it there for now to avoid further spoilers.

* Readers who are extremely particular about sexual roles, proceed with caution.

--- 2026/2/13, thanks for your support~

Recommendation break

A little promo for my upcoming novel, Let the Dragon Protagonist Become My Cultivation Cauldron After Book Transmigration.

Blurb:

Chi Xiuhui transmigrates into a modern cultivation novel as a cannon-fodder villain.

As an early cannon-fodder villain who opposes the dragon-protagonist male lead, his family is bound to be rich and powerful, and he is bound to have a beautiful, spoiled genius younger sister.

The dragon-protagonist male lead, who will one day command the winds and clouds and stand at the very top, is also bound to suffer all kinds of setbacks early on, while gaining admirers and rare treasures along the way.

Chi Xiuhui’s family is one of the dragon-protagonist male lead’s minor setbacks.

His younger sister happens to take a liking to the dragon-protagonist male lead, who is quietly keeping his head down and building up his strength. Insisting on using her family’s power to have him kidnapped and kept against his will, she plans to make him her eighth... male favorite.

When Chi Xiuhui arrives, the dragon-protagonist male lead is already tied up hand and foot, glaring furiously at his sister and at Chi Xiuhui, her accomplice, with the look of someone thinking, “Don’t bully a poor young man; one day I’ll rise above you all.”

How can he solve this deadly crisis that is about to unfold?

After staring for a moment at that handsome face, with its fine features and sharp eyes, Chi Xiuhui turns to his younger sister.

“Since he looks so much like my type, why not give him to me?”

That’s right, Chi Xiuhui discovers that the cultivation method practiced by the original owner is a harvesting technique.

By absorbing other people’s power, he can increase his own strength. The stronger the other person’s talent and fortune, the more effective the harvesting.

In that case, naturally, harvesting the dragon-protagonist male lead, who has the strongest talent and fortune in this world, will work best!

So Chi Xiuhui forcibly marries the dragon-protagonist first. Even when faced with his defiant attempts to escape and fight back, Chi Xiuhui repeatedly captures him again, raising him as a cultivation cauldron so he can harvest him to his heart’s content.

He also makes use of the dragon-protagonist’s fortune to find rare treasures in all kinds of places, then gives him a few small favors in return.

When the time is right, Chi Xiuhui passes his immortal tribulation, kicks the dragon-protagonist to the curb, and breaks through the void with carefree flair, returning to his own world to live the good life.

Perhaps Chi Xiuhui was reasonably nice to the dragon-protagonist, and the other man’s talent really was top-tier. Even after being used as a cultivation cauldron and harvested again and again, he somehow managed to keep up in strength.

But Chi Xiuhui never expected that the other man would keep following him.

He wakes up and opens his eyes to see that figure kneeling on the ground, gritting his teeth in angry resentment.

“Are you testing me on purpose again?”

* An unconventional love story that starts with marriage and grows into love. A strong, controlling top with a terrible conscience x a fiercely defiant bottom with all the flavor of a dragon-protagonist. Both are sexually inexperienced, happy ending.

* The original book’s setup only applies from the start. The younger sister has no romance scenes.

* A fictional setting with modern cultivation for everyone.

* Readers who are extremely particular about sexual roles, proceed with caution.

Theme: Work hard toward a beautiful new life