Everyone in the Land Is Begging the Crown Prince Not to Die!

The Crown Prince of Great Wei, Xiao Zhichu, is famously sickly. Born prematurely, he was frail from birth and suffered from asthma. Before he was even a month old, the imperial physician diagnosed him as unlikely to live past one. The Emperor of Great Wei refused to believe it. He couldn’t accept that his own child wouldn’t live to see their first birthday! He held the baby, who wasn’t even a month old. The wound on his abdomen still ached, but he barely noticed; his entire attention was on the child in his arms. The baby was about the size of his palm, breathing faintly, as if he could disappear at any moment... At the thought, the Emperor’s heart began to throb. He rubbed his face against the baby’s warm, soft cheek and decided that from that day on, he would stay by his child’s side without leaving for even a moment. Perhaps deep down, he understood that the child might not survive. He wanted to spend whatever time remained with him. But the Emperor of Great Wei didn’t know that his child, whom he had named Xiao Zhichu, had transmigrated from a wasteland, and that the thing Xiao Zhichu had been best at in his previous life was staying alive. The Emperor of Great Wei murdered his brother and imprisoned his father, climbing to the throne over the bodies of his own kin. The ministers lived in constant fear. After all, this was a man who would even turn against his own family, so when they knelt before him at court each day, they hardly dared to breathe. When they learned that the palace had a young master and that the Emperor doted on him, they were relieved to think His Majesty finally had a weakness. But they soon realized they had relaxed too soon. The young master was frail because he was born prematurely, and the imperial physicians had declared that he wouldn’t live to see his first birthday! For them, this was truly terrible news! Everyone had seen how mad the Emperor was before the young master came along. They couldn’t even imagine how much madder he would become if the child suddenly stopped breathing! So every day, the first thing the ministers did was ask whether the young master was still breathing. [Anti-piracy measures enabled: 50%.] [Paragraph comments are open. Feel free to leave a comment~] Content warnings: 1. Xiao Zhichu has no romantic pairing, but his father has a male partner, and the father gives birth to a child. 2. The main plot is about raising a child; there isn’t much court intrigue. 3. This is a feel-good story about everyone doting on the protagonist, with a coming-of-age arc. Please read these warnings before deciding whether to continue. Thank you. Theme: Hold on, and the day you’ve been hoping for will eventually come!