The Retired Emperor’s Cat [Reborn]

[Completed. Please give it five stars. Kisses~] The Crown Prince Really Isn’t Sick is currently being serialized Synopsis: Bai Yiqing spent twenty-two years as a sickly invalid. In the end, the Bai family was implicated in a rebellion, and the ruler ordered the entire clan punished. Bai Yiqing died in prison. After wasting his whole life, Bai Yiqing prayed that he would be born into a good family in his next life. But in the blink of an eye, he woke up as a tiny black kitten. The kitten hadn’t taken more than a couple of steps when he ran into the retired emperor, who had just abdicated. That neurotic retired emperor who had ascended the throne at ten, abdicated at twenty-two, then suddenly changed his mind at twenty-five and came back to seize the throne… Bai Yiqing suddenly realized he had gone back three years. He looked at the dirty paw prints on the retired emperor’s robes and trembled in fear. The retired emperor lowered his eyes, his gaze cold, as if he were looking at a dead thing. Bai Yiqing: … Had he been given another chance at life just to die in a different way? The timid little kitten: “…Meow?” To stay alive, he acted cute, played dumb, wheedled, and rolled around, doing his best to be a cat and cling to the emperor’s favor. At long last, he managed to climb onto the emperor’s lap. But after only a few days of comfort, someone kicked him right back into his own body. #What does it mean to be right back where you started?# #My head hurts# #The emperor’s favor belongs to the cat. I get nothing# When they met again, Bai Yiqing was kneeling on the ground. The retired emperor tipped up his chin and looked down at him with a cold, unreadable gaze. “Your eyes look familiar.” Bai Yiqing: ???! If I tell you I’m your kitty, will you believe me? ﹊﹊﹊﹊﹊﹊﹊﹊﹊ · Ill-tempered emperor gong X Reborn shou who fears death and knows how to act cute · I’m terrible at writing synopses. Give it a try~ · No need to tell me if you drop the story. Friendly feedback is welcome. [Updates at 9 p.m. If there’s no update, I’ll post a notice. The chapters being unlocked for free are 32–36; if you’ve read them already, please don’t buy them again. [Exclusive to Jinjiang Literature City. No piracy. If chapters repeat, clear your cache or delete your download.]] Synopsis drafted 20200830, saved. The Crown Prince Really Isn’t Sick On the first day after transmigrating into a book, Chu Xu was snatched away by the notorious treacherous minister Xuan Zhihe and taken to a palace retreat, where he was forced to impersonate the missing crown prince. All because he had exactly the same face as the crown prince. In the original story, Xuan Zhihe was the great villain who schemed against the male lead at every turn and fought him for the protagonist shou. The crown prince Chu Xu was impersonating was a textbook cannon-fodder character, soon to be executed for treason as the plot unfolded. “…” What kind of ridiculous plot and setting is this? To stay alive, Chu Xu chose to aid the villain rather than offend the powerful minister or the male lead: If Xuan Zhihe told him to go east, he wouldn’t turn back until he hit the eastern wall. If Xuan Zhihe told him to impersonate the crown prince, he’d play the sickly invalid so convincingly even his own father wouldn’t recognize him. If Xuan Zhihe told him to warm his bed, he wouldn’t even ask… Wait, what? There’s something wrong with him. He can’t do this. He absolutely can’t! With the plot already falling apart beyond recognition, Chu Xu seized the chance while Xuan Zhihe was busy changing the dynasty and made a snap decision: run! To hell with the great villain, to hell with the cannon fodder role. He was off to live a free life! The old dynasty fell, and a new emperor took the throne. Just as the old officials and the city’s residents were fretting over the change of power, they saw the new emperor rush out of the city at the head of a mounted entourage. ??? Rumors immediately spread through the city, and everyone offered their own explanation. After people in the know let something slip, the rumors finally settled on one story: the new emperor had gone to hunt down a remnant of the old dynasty. If the new emperor was pursuing him in person, he had to be a major holdout. He would probably die horribly, everyone thought. But a few days later, they saw that very “major holdout” nestled in the new emperor’s arms, held close with unmistakable possessiveness, and riding grandly into the palace in the imperial carriage. Everyone: “…?” That holdout was impressive indeed. He had managed to win over their new emperor in just a few days. Theme: Someone who once lost the light and fell into darkness must now emerge from the darkness for the sake of the light, embrace it, and learn to love and be loved.