What Do I Do? My Dad Is a Villainous Big Shot!

[Next book: The Cold Palace Prince Signs In and Ascends the Throne] (70% paywall protection, 72 hours. Creating stories isn't easy, so please support the official version.) When Zhao Baoya, who had spent years wandering a barren star, was dying of hunger, she made a wish. She wished that in her next life she'd have a warm home, a loving father and mother, and enough to eat at every meal. When she opened her eyes, she had become the foolish granddaughter of Old Man Zhao in Zhuling Village, in ancient times. Half her wish had come true. She had a home, but it wasn't warm. She had a loving father, but her mother had died giving birth to her. There was food, but when her father was away, she never got enough. Death was a small matter. Starving to death was serious. If she couldn't eat her fill, no one else would either. Zhao Baoya flipped the table and urged her father to split from the family and set up a household of their own. Her doting father not only set up his own household, he even changed his name. Then Zhao Baoya was horrified to discover that her father was the mad villain from a popular story: cursed to bring death to his mother, wife, and children, he joined the army and slaughtered his way to becoming a regent, defying heaven and earth, only to be dismembered by the male lead in the end. And she was his short-lived biological daughter, the very child whose death drove him to become a villain! The little girl sat beneath the persimmon tree in the courtyard, fretting as she watched her tall, valiant father. First: She absolutely could not die young. Second: She couldn't let her father join the army. With that in mind, Baoya hid her father's greatsword. As long as he didn't enlist, everything would be fine. But unexpectedly, her father abandoned the martial path and took up the pen. With his extraordinary talent, he went from knowing nothing about literature to becoming a powerful chief minister who held the whole court in his grasp. He even planned to control the emperor and command the feudal lords. Little Baoya: All roads lead to Rome, but my father keeps taking detours toward certain death. In the end, she could only hope the butterfly effect would make the male lead disappear. Instead, her father picked a son-in-law from among the candidates who had passed the exams: the male lead, who would rather die than give in. Little Baoya gazed up at the sky in despair… Ever since her little girl woke from a high fever, she'd liked to chatter mysteriously with a bunch of animals, and claimed the animals had told her all sorts of secrets. Later, someone asked him what his secret was for giving up the army, taking up the pen, and rising all the way to chief minister. Zhao Lin smiled cryptically. "Aside from my extraordinary talent, I also know all my enemies' secrets." Note: Little Baoya's catchphrase: "My father is just a frail scholar. Don't bully him." Her strong-as-an-ox villain father: "Sob, sob." Everyone: "Are you sure you know what 'frail' means?" P.S. The heroine can only understand animal language. She does not transform into an animal, and the little animals cannot speak. [Next book: The Cold Palace Prince Signs In and Ascends the Throne] Li Yan transmigrated into the eleventh prince of a palace intrigue and succession mobile game, a prince who had been born prematurely and died in the Cold Palace. From the start, he was in the Cold Palace, born prematurely, and poisoned by someone. Just as his health bar was about to run out, the game's sign-in System came online. [Ding! The Harem Sign-In System has been activated. Newbie gift pack being delivered: +10 health, one map of the Cold Palace, and a three-minute newbie protection period. Host, please sign in daily and complete System check-in tasks. Do your best to survive until the age of 99.] From then on, the sickly eleventh prince, who could die at any moment, diligently signed in and completed his tasks, becoming the most inconspicuous person in the palace. Taking advantage of his poor health, he lay down, spat blood, pretended to die: a three-in-one combo. The princes: What threat could the eleventh prince pose? It's a miracle he's even alive. The consorts: What threat could the eleventh prince pose? It's a miracle he'll reach adulthood. The emperor, obsessed with pitting his children against one another: What threat could the eleventh prince pose? Fight and squabble all you want, but don't accidentally hurt him. Come here and let Father hold you. And yet, after all his older brothers were gone, he was still alive! He kept lying low, and before he knew it, he was the last one standing... Many years later, Li Yan sat atop the throne everyone had fought over, looking through the System panel at a string of bizarre rewards and a health bar that was already completely full. He couldn't help but reflect: At first, I only wanted to stay alive. Theme: May all the poor scholars under heaven find joy.