Big Brother, I'm Useless, Please Save Me

Devoted emperor gong x laid-back, spoiled prince shou, not biologically related

Overworked employee Xie Zhitang dies suddenly after staying up all night and wakes up as a disposable prince in a political intrigue novel.

The prince is breathtakingly beautiful and has two trump cards: his emperor elder brother and his empress dowager mother. Despite getting the best possible start, he insists on rebelling and plotting treason, and dies miserably in prison before turning thirty.

Xie Zhitang takes one look and thinks: He doesn't even know how to cling to a powerful patron! Leave it to me!

His elder brother loves pastries, so he goes to the imperial kitchens to make some for him himself.

“Bad news, Your Majesty! The young prince snuck into the imperial kitchens for pastries and accidentally started a fire!”

The emperor: Put it out! Save him!

His elder brother needs a fearsome imperial beast by his side!

“Bad news, Your Majesty! The young prince insisted on fighting a civet cat in the imperial garden and fell into the water!”

The emperor: Save him!

His elder brother needs someone attentive and considerate by his side!

“Bad news, Your Majesty! The young prince made a whole set of green-head placards with his own name on them and hung them in the Imperial Bedchamber Bureau!”

The emperor: Save him... Wait, what?

Thanks to Xie Zhitang's tireless efforts, he finally established himself as a useless little darling, and his place in the emperor's heart grew ever more secure. The emperor feared he might melt if he held him too tightly, and feared he might fall if he let him walk alone.

Xie Zhitang gloats: Is it really that hard for brothers to get along?

Everyone knows that Great Zhou was founded on military might, and that Emperor Xie Zhang is a fearsome god, ruthless and cold-blooded.

Yet the young prince is the exception.

To His Majesty, the young prince is the moon in the sky, a treasure in his hands, and an untouchable vulnerability.

Only Xie Zhang knows what kind of forbidden, sordid thoughts he has about that brilliant moon, thoughts he dares not reveal to anyone.

“Elder brother! Elder brother...”

What was it his elder brother needed again?

Drunk and barely conscious, Xie Zhitang wraps his arms around the emperor's waist and acts spoiled as he did when he was a child. Hee hee, elder brother, food, save me.

Xie Zhang carefully gathers his treasure into his arms, his expression tender in a way rarely seen.

His brother, his wife.

Of course he must protect him at all costs.

The vast empire and the glory of generations to come, he will share it all with the person before him.

[Reading Guide]

The shou is not the emperor's biological child. The gong and shou are not related by blood.

Their romance begins after they both learn they are not related by blood.

Feudal patriarchal emperor x spoiled prince, gong dotes on shou

Archived on September 5, 2026

Theme: Learn to love.