Playing the Tyrant in My Dreams Every Night

Jiang Yongjing is a minor actor with no connections, abandoned by his agent. Every day, he has to hustle for work on his own, and the pressure is crushing. He thinks his life must be so miserable that it's gradually driven him insane, because every night he has the strangest dreams. In them, he becomes... the last tyrant of a dynasty on the brink of turmoil, with the realm itself in mortal danger. In his dreams, he squeezes the people dry with taxes, indulges in debauchery, and commits every manner of evil, caring nothing for their lives. The dynasty even runs on a high-martial-arts system, and this tyrant is absurdly powerful. A single palm strike can unleash true qi, and he doesn't have to worry about being assassinated. Jiang Yongjing, just starting to get the picture: Ah... me? I'm the tyrant? The next second, Jiang Yongjing again: Hahaha! I get to enjoy being a tyrant in my dream without any consequences. This is awesome! Dreams really are the best. You can have anything you want in them! Dressed to the nines, he goes to court. Annoyed by the eunuch beside him muttering away, Jiang Yongjing waves a hand. “Drag him out and behead him!” A righteous official steps forward to remonstrate, and Jiang Yongjing points at him. “Haha, behead you too!” One beheading gets you two heads for the price of one. Wipe out an entire clan whenever he feels like it. Hehehe! How come nobody told him being a tyrant was this much fun? He's willing to spend the rest of his life as a tyrant in his dreams! As the ministers wail and lament, the man said to have been both regent and the emperor's uncle steps forward to advise him. Dressed in splendid silks, he has refined and beautiful features, an upright bearing, and unmatched elegance. Jiang Yongjing: “Behead... I mean, look at the throne beneath me, Uncle. Why don't you come sit here and rest for a while?” Jiang Yongjing thinks his nightly dreams of being a tyrant must be relieving his stress, because his acting career in real life is gradually taking off, and his popularity keeps climbing. He's also becoming more and more comfortable playing the role of the last tyrant. He spends his days lounging around the palace, beheading people when he's bored and cuddling up to his uncle whenever he likes. He can do whatever he wants. Life couldn't be better. All he has to do is wait for someone to raise an army, overthrow the dynasty, and behead him too. Then the dream will finally be over. But why, as he keeps playing tyrant, are all the people left kneeling and calling him a wise ruler? Why is the dynasty getting more and more prosperous?! Who wants to be a hard-working, exhausted wise ruler? Go away! He must not have beheaded enough people! Despondent, Jiang Yongjing returns to his bedchamber to complain to his uncle. His uncle, only seven years older and the man who raised him, gazes quietly at Jiang Yongjing with dark eyes. “Your Majesty, have you finally come to kill me, the traitor who betrayed the country?” Modern-day bonus 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 especially good at playing a tyrant. Director: ? Agent: ? After the series airs: Agent: Holy crap, you really are a tyrant! *A commanding, wolf-dog younger top who is a star by day and a tyrant by night x a handsome, refined older bottom, a scheming and patient uncle. Both are each other's first, happy ending. *The uncle is young, just from a higher generation, and is not related to Jiang Yongjing by blood. *Jiang Yongjing is a goofball in his own thoughts, but keeps up appearances in front of others. *There wasn't room for everything in the blurb. Both worlds are fictional, with many original settings. Please don't nitpick or draw parallels to real life. Jiang Yongjing thinks it's a dream, but it isn't. There are scenes set in the real world, as well as career-related plotlines (later, he can even unleash true qi with one palm strike outside the dream :p). Later on, there will also be romance between him and his uncle in the real world. Anything more would be a spoiler. *Readers who are strongly opposed to the couple dynamic, please proceed with caution. 2026/2/13, thanks for your support~ Novel Recommendation Break Please add my upcoming novel, Making the Dragon-Aura Protagonist My Cultivation Furnace [Book Transmigration], to your reading list if you're interested. Blurb: Chi Xiuhui transmigrates into a modern cultivation novel as a cannon-fodder villain. As an early cannon-fodder villain who opposes the dragon-aura male lead, his family is bound to be rich and powerful, and he has a beautiful, spoiled genius younger sister. The dragon-aura male lead, who will one day command the winds and clouds and stand at the peak, is bound to suffer all kinds of setbacks early on, while also winning hearts and collecting rare treasures along the way. Chi Xiuhui's family is one of those little setbacks. His younger sister happens to take a liking to the dragon-aura male lead, who's quietly keeping his head down and growing stronger. She insists on using her power to kidnap him and force him to become her eighth... male concubine. When Chi Xiuhui arrives, the dragon-aura male lead has already been tied up like a parcel. He glares furiously at his sister and at Chi Xiuhui, her accomplice, with the look of someone thinking, “Don't bully a young man just because he's poor.” How can he deal with this looming deadly crisis? After gazing at that handsome face, with its striking features and sharp eyes, for a moment, Chi Xiuhui turns to his sister. “Since he's exactly my type, why not let me have him?” That's right. Chi Xiuhui discovers that the original owner's cultivation technique is a harvesting art. By absorbing other people's power, he can increase his own strength. The stronger the target's innate talent and fortune, the more effective the technique. In that case, the best choice is obviously the dragon-aura protagonist, who has the strongest talent and fortune in the world! So Chi Xiuhui marries the dragon-aura protagonist by force first. No matter how defiant he is or how hard he tries to escape and fight back, Chi Xiuhui keeps catching him and raising him as a cultivation furnace to harvest over and over. He also uses the protagonist's good fortune to find rare treasures everywhere, then tosses him a few scraps of kindness as payment. When the time is right, after surviving his immortal tribulation, Chi Xiuhui gives the dragon-aura protagonist the boot, boldly tears through the void, and returns to his own world to enjoy life. Perhaps Chi Xiuhui had treated him fairly well, and the other man's talent really was top-tier. Even after being used as a cultivation furnace again and again, he managed to keep up in strength. But Chi Xiuhui never imagined the other man would keep following him. When he wakes and opens his eyes, the first thing he sees is a figure kneeling on the ground, teeth clenched in anger. “Are you testing me on purpose again?” *An unconventional marriage-before-love story (.). A ruthless, controlling top with no conscience x a defiant, strong bottom with plenty of dragon-aura-protagonist energy. Both are each other's first, happy ending. *The original novel's setup applies only from the start. The younger sister won't have any romantic storyline. *Fictional setting, in a modern world where everyone cultivates. *Readers who are strongly opposed to the couple dynamic, please proceed with caution. Theme: Strive for a better new life.