Saving the Tyrant for Fifteen Years [Reborn]

In his previous life, Song Yuheng chose the wrong person to support.

He chose the kindhearted and benevolent Second Prince, and trampled the gloomy-eyed Fourth Prince in the corner into the dirt. Later, Fourth Prince Zhou Jie climbed over a pile of corpses to take the throne and became a tyrant. He imprisoned Song Yuheng for five years, then gave him a cup of poisoned wine.

Only as he lay dying did Song Yuheng learn the truth:

The boy who had saved him in the snow all those years ago, telling him, "Read more books, and bring peace to all under heaven for generations to come," had been Zhou Jie.

And Song Yuheng had personally pushed his savior, the very person he had looked up to as an ideal, toward his death. He had become the ruler of a fallen kingdom and died young at twenty-eight.

Song Yuheng died filled with regret.

Reborn, he returned to the day he had to choose which prince to support.

This time, Song Yuheng went to the boy in the farthest corner, the frail one everyone had abandoned and treated like a plaything. He crouched before him and held out his hand, his gaze gentle.

"Your Highness, you still have me."

The battered little wolf cub looked up, wary and guarded, his eyes full of disbelief.

Song Yuheng taught him to read and write, to hide his strengths and turn circumstances to his advantage. He tended his wounds and took blades meant for him, drawing him out of the abyss little by little. He told him, "Your Highness, don't put yourself down. You're wonderful," and, "Even if millions turn their backs on you, you will still have Song Yuheng."

Later, the boy grew up and became more and more like a wise ruler.

Song Yuheng cheered inwardly: Wonderful, wonderful, wonderful!

Then one day, the young man stopped calling him "Teacher" and started calling him "Ah Heng" instead. Things began to feel wrong...

The young emperor's eyes reddened as he gripped Song Yuheng by the wrist, his voice low and hoarse. "I've learned everything Ah Heng taught me. Now it's Ah Heng's turn to learn."

Song Yuheng turned and ran as soon as he heard that.

This is bad, bad, bad!

But the moment he took a step, someone pulled him back and pushed him onto the imperial throne.

He looked up and met the young man's burning gaze. Song Yuheng instantly blushed. "...Learn what?"

Zhou Jie smiled, lowered his head, and bit his reddened earlobe. "Learn... how to be my empress."

Song Yuheng: No... Hm? There is no "no." Wonderful, wonderful, wonderful!

Zhou Jie: Meow, meow, meow?

Song Yuheng: In this life, Your Highness didn't turn out crooked, but he did fall for men... What can I do? I raised him, so of course I'll spoil him myself.

Reader's Guide:

1. Possessive, yandere emperor gong x cool, gentle statesman shou

2. The gong starts out as a pitiful little thing, then becomes an intensely possessive lunatic. Younger gong, raised by the shou

3. Mutual devotion in bold and underlined: no angst in the romance, they spoil each other rotten, save each other, 1v1, happy ending

4. The cover was generated directly by AI. If it resembles yours, please let me know and I'll remove it.

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Theme: Love and peace