The Cold Palace Prince's Young Companion [Book Transmigration]

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Synopsis: When Li Yao transmigrates into a book, he's in the middle of pinning the future emperor, the Fourth Prince, to the ground and bullying him mercilessly. His heart turns cold. To save his own skin, he tries his hardest to get on the Fourth Prince's good side and enters the palace as his study companion. Years later, the Fourth Prince pins him down and bullies him mercilessly. Li Yao can't help wondering if he'd been out of his mind back then.

A little more detail: Li Yao looks at the Fourth Prince before him, who's twelve years old but somehow a little thinner and more frail than Li Yao, an eight-year-old baby. Then he looks at his personal servant, who just shoved the Fourth Prince to the ground, and at the cloth doll that's been trampled to pieces. Uh, he thinks he's probably doomed. Tsk, with those fierce little eyes, he's clearly destined to be the Big Boss. Well, is there still time to make things right?

Little Yao: Y-Your Highness, I asked my mother to sew you a new doll. Will you let me make it up to you?

Fourth Prince: (A contemptuous look) (Thinking: My late mother sewed that for me. Can you really replace it?) (Ignores him, adds another grudge to his little notebook.)

Little Yao: Your Highness, will you let me be your study companion?

Fourth Prince: You? Do you know the classics? Are you good at calligraphy? Can you ride and shoot? Can you...

Little Yao: I-I can't do any of those things.

Fourth Prince: Heh. What's the use of having you as a study companion if you can't do anything?

Little Yao: But the Empress is my aunt, the Empress Dowager is my great-aunt, my grandfather is the Duke of Dingguo and the emperor's father-in-law, and my father is the mighty General of Weiyuan...

Fourth Prince: (A resentful little look, adds another grudge to his notebook.)

Later...

Fourth Prince: Little Yao, you're amazing at math! You're amazing at grilling meat! The potatoes you grow are amazing too! Y-You're the cutest of all!

Li Yao: Heh, really? I seem to recall someone saying something different before.

Little Yao starts out as the beloved study companion, then becomes the darling of everyone. Anyone who refuses to accept it gets taken down!

P.S. The emperor is not the Empress Dowager's biological son, and Li Yao and the Fourth Prince are not related by blood.

Please add my new novel, After Transmigrating into a Book, I Went from Cannon Fodder to a Beloved Little Darling, to your reading list! Mwah!

Ling Yao dreams that his world is merely a book called The Legitimate Son of the Marquis's Family Seeks Revenge. His legitimate older brother, Ling Yan, is the protagonist, while Ling Yao is just cannon fodder who disappears before the first ten chapters are over, an important catalyst in the protagonist's childhood descent into darkness. His father is devoted to Ling Yao's mother and dotes on his concubine at the expense of his wife. This supposedly drives Ling Yan's mother to her death from grief. His father also favors Ling Yao from childhood and ignores Ling Yan. Most importantly, Ling Yao isn't even his father's biological son. Of course, that's what Ling Yan believes: the first part is false, but the last part is true.

After waking up, Ling Yao remembers his gruesome death in the dream and his legitimate brother's protagonist aura, which later lets him cut a swathe through the world. He resolves to cling to his brother for dear life and never let go!

But then a series of strange things happen. His gravely ill father, who had stopped breathing, comes back to life. His mother's death turns out to have a hidden story. And neither he nor his brother is their father's biological child. Later, even more shockingly, Ling Yan starts looking at him differently! (Their feelings begin to go beyond brotherly affection only after both of them, and everyone else, know for certain that they are not related by blood.)

Ling Yao looks horrified.

Ling Yan (the corners of his mouth curl in an inscrutable smile): What? Is that not allowed?

Ling Yao (like a quail): O-Of course I'm more than willing.

Interview: How does it feel to go from cannon fodder to everyone's beloved little darling?

Ling Yao: Thanks for asking. My marquis father is too handsome, my real father is too powerful, my real mother is too talented, my adoptive older brother's protagonist aura is blinding, and a bunch of people who admire my parents keep making their intentions known, openly and behind the scenes...

I'm a happy little slacker now. I don't want to work hard. Leave me out of it.

This novel could also be called My Protagonist Brother's Dad Is Such a Tragic Cuckold!, Transmigrated as a Little Cannon-Fodder Tagalong to My Brother as He Turns Evil, or The Love Affairs My Protagonist Brother's Mother Left Behind.

A fake cannon-fodder, real beloved darling who only wants to cling to someone powerful X a brooding, inscrutable protagonist who becomes fiercely protective and has an absurdly strong protagonist aura

Theme: Redemption and being redeemed, growing up and understanding yourself