Also known as The Imprisoned Dragon and After the Tyrant Had Me Beheaded, the Great General Was Reborn (I'm a tyrant, but can I still be saved? I'm in a hurry, please answer online, QAQ...)
CP: A fierce foreign vassal, a bad-tempered but easily soothed attack × A sweet-tongued, ruthless emperor with a black-sesame-dumpling heart, the receiver
Synopsis
When Li Xu, emperor of the Zhao Kingdom, died, he kept dreaming of a man in black. The man's tall, proud figure was stained with blood, seeming both ghost and god, as his low laugh flickered in and out: "Your Majesty, do you regret killing me?"
Li Xu regretted it, every bit of it.
That man had once been his most prized general, whose achievements were unparalleled: he had swept through Jiangbei, pacified Nanzhao, and secured Shuofang. Unfortunately, he was far too unruly, repeatedly breaking the law, until at last he conspired with a foreign tribe to rebel!
Li Xu was furious: The evidence is irrefutable. Fu Ying must pay for his crimes with his life.
As he faced execution, Fu Ying offered no defense. A faint smile touched the lips that were usually so reckless and unrestrained, and he glanced lightly at Li Xu.
Little did Li Xu know that this glance would lodge in his heart and become his demon.
After Fu Ying's death, the Prince of Zhennan rallied rebels and stirred up chaos. Li Xu labored day and night until his old illness returned. As he lay dying, he dreamed once more of Fu Ying, the man he had killed with his own hands.
"Why... did you betray me?"
He asked again and again, but the man never answered.
As death approached, Li Xu thought, If I could start over... I would see for myself what drove him to do it.
And he would use Fu Ying to root out the rebels, then decide how to deal with that insolent man.
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Li Xu was reborn.
This time, he resolved to feed the wolfhound first, then set his plan in motion to make the wolf devour the tiger.
He suppressed the resentment in his heart, appointed Fu Ying great general, bestowed a courtesy name on him, helped him put on his robes and take off his armor, and treated him even better than he had in his previous life...
No matter how rude Fu Ying was, Li Xu put up with it.
But the more he did so, the more things started to feel wrong.
Until one day, in the military tent, the great general's hand landed on his backside.
Li Xu was about to slam the table and rise, but a hand clamped over his mouth. "Shh. We're going into battle tomorrow. Your Majesty won't be able to help me, and I'm afraid I won't be able to help Your Majesty either."
Li Xu was so furious he could see stars. The word "Kill" caught in his throat, and before he could say it, the other man had thoroughly ravished him.
At the victory banquet, Li Xu had only just suppressed his murderous intent when Fu Ying leaned close to his ear. "From what I saw yesterday, Your Majesty didn't seem unhappy."
Li Xu endured it.
"Is Your Majesty so angry because you want to kill me to punish me?"
Li Xu: Mm... How could I not?
In this life, Li Xu watched the empire's borders expand and peace settle across the land, enduring it again and again.
In one bloody battle, Fu Ying suffered dozens of wounds and lost consciousness. He was carried back wrapped in his battle cloak.
Li Xu shed tears of genuine grief, knelt by his side, and whispered a prayer: "If you survive, I will do anything."
The first thing Fu Ying said when he awoke was, "Does Your Majesty mean it?"
Li Xu: "..."
He regretted it.
The foreign vassal chuckled by his ear. "A ruler's word is law. Your Majesty, it's too late to regret it now."
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