Reborn, I Dote Only on the Sickly Strategist

[Upcoming story: "The Cannon-Fodder Real Young Master Awakens." The blurb is below. Take a look if you're interested.] For the sake of his mother and younger brother, Pei Jiao had risked half his life to claim the throne as crown prince. His hands were stained with blood, yet the day before his coronation, his younger brother killed him with his own hands. Only as he lay dying did he learn that he was an illegitimate child born of his mother's affair, and had never been worthy of possessing the empire. Reborn at sixteen, he saw his five-year-old younger brother being bullied. Pei Jiao: Great! He saw his mother framed by the empress and neglected by the emperor. Pei Jiao: Great! His mother wept and begged him to protect her. Pei Jiao smiled brightly, but inwardly didn't care. He was determined to seize the empire, but this time he would never do all the work for someone else to reap the rewards. In his previous life, Shen Huaijiu fell out with the prime minister for his sake. He didn't even get to see his mother one last time, and despite his illness, he helped Pei Jiao ascend the throne. As Pei Jiao's adviser, Shen Huaijiu's fate was all too predictable. In this life, Pei Jiao would protect him and make sure he lived a peaceful, happy life. Until one day, Pei Jiao saw a wall full of portraits in Shen Huaijiu's secret room. Each one was vivid, showing him happy or sad, lovestruck or laughing. Only then did he realize Shen Huaijiu had ulterior motives. Pei Jiao: Since Ajiu is so deeply in love with me, I may as well grant your wish. Shen Huaijiu: ...Your Highness, you mustn't. Shen Huaijiu had always known he wouldn't live long. The man who shone like a pearl could never be his in this life, so he was content to stay by Pei Jiao's side as an unremarkable adviser. But suddenly, everything changed. "Ajiu, I won't let you go." "Ajiu, I am the King of Hell. Those little demons wouldn't dare take you." "Ajiu, live for me, all right?" "All right." A ruthless, obsessive, sickly beauty gong × a frail beauty shou (they dote on each other) Upcoming story: "The Cannon-Fodder Real Young Master Awakens" Sheng Jinxi awakened after dying once. It turned out he was the cannon-fodder real young master in a story about switched-at-birth young masters. In the story, he was just an ordinary student. His beloved, Shen Zhou, sold him to a group of school bullies, and only then did he realize it had all been a trap. He fought back, but in the end he was powerless to resist, becoming their outlet. When they were in a good mood, they treated him gently; when they weren't, they beat and abused him as they pleased. Sheng Jinxi was covered in bruises, and after an explicit photo scandal, he was forced to leave school. Everyone loved the fake young master. Those people treated Sheng Jinxi like a substitute, tormenting and sexually abusing him without restraint. Even after his biological parents learned the truth, they refused to acknowledge him and told him to go as far away as possible, afraid that even the slightest association with him would taint them. Meanwhile, the fake young master was cherished like a pearl. His parents gave him all their love, and the group of lunatics were his devoted lackeys, giving him the moon when he asked for the stars. In the end, he even got his wish and married Shen Zhou's biological older brother, Shen Ji, the head of the Shen family. Sheng Jinxi couldn't understand why Shen Zhou had been so cruel to him. Only later did he learn that Shen Zhou had done it all to protect the person he loved. That trash didn't deserve to compete with him; only by destroying them could he win his beloved's favor. Sheng Jinxi laughed until his heart broke when he heard that. The words "the person he loved" were laughable beyond belief. Only when he stood on the rooftop did he understand what freedom was. In the blink of an eye, he was back on the day he first started school, the day the bullies set their sights on him, and the day Shen Zhou "rescued" him from danger. Sheng Jinxi curled his lips into a smile, turned around, and went to the bathroom to grab a mop. If he couldn't escape his fate, then no one else would get off easy! A mop smeared with shit would take down anyone it touched. The lunatics who abused him, his biological parents and their family, the fake young master who knew the truth but pretended to pity him and pushed him into the abyss, and... Shen Zhou. He would drag every last one of them down from their lofty positions and into hell, where they would never be reborn. A little scene: Shen Zhou had gone to great lengths, but Sheng Jinxi always kept him at arm's length. When he heard that Sheng Jinxi had a boyfriend he was deeply in love with, Shen Zhou hurriedly took Yu Chen to catch them in the act. Ignoring the staff's protests, he kicked open the hotel room door. The chaotic, bare-skinned scene he imagined wasn't there. There was only one person standing in the middle of the room, reading through a document. "Brother?" "Brother Shen?" They spoke at the same time. Before they could ask anything, Sheng Jinxi emerged from the bathroom in a bathrobe, his hair still wet. When he saw them, a trace of confusion flashed in his eyes. "What are you doing here?" Shen Ji put down the document and walked up to Sheng Jinxi, facing Shen Zhou. "Let me introduce you. This is your sister-in-law." Theme: Pursue a fulfilling life. Hard work will bring a beautiful future