Reborn as the Frail Young Study Companion of a Tyrannical, Brooding Emperor

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[Clumsy, frail young study companion x prince who is a prime candidate for becoming a tyrant]

Shen Xuefeng became a minor villain destined to be cannon fodder in the palace intrigue game The Great Ji Dynasty 2077: aloof and ethereal, slender as a willow in the wind, with a face that's terribly misleading.

Just as the ministers were doing everything they could to uphold the court and lead the Great Ji Dynasty toward glory and prosperity

Shen Xuefeng was diligently completing his character's mission: raise a tyrant.

As soon as he came of age, he set his sights on the Third Prince, Ji Wu, who would one day take the throne, and successfully became his study companion.

While other study companions supervised their princes' studies, Shen Xuefeng did Ji Wu's homework for him.

While other study companions kept their princes company as they read, Shen Xuefeng took Ji Wu out to have fun everywhere.

While other study companions offered advice, Shen Xuefeng made outrageous declarations:

"Your Highness is heaven's chosen son. If anyone says you don't know your studies, I'll be the first to object!"

When Ji Wu went to a flower-viewing banquet, he helped notify all the noble young ladies.

When Ji Wu went to read forbidden books, he kept watch outside the library.

When Ji Wu skipped class to paint, he ground the ink and praised the painting to the skies.

"The person in Your Highness's painting is so lovely and moving... Wait, why is it my face?!"

At the year-end assessment, after being battered by countless assignments, Shen Xuefeng earned the highest grade. Ji Wu was right there beside him.

Shen Xuefeng: ...?

As he stared blankly at the results, Ji Wu leaned close and smiled faintly:

"Xuefeng is so delicate and frail. How could you withstand the hardship of all that coursework? So I finished it ahead of time every time."

Later, Shen Xuefeng discovered that in the game's original story, Ji Wu wasn't a wise ruler at all. He was the tyrant who killed his brother and seized the throne.

The Crown Prince he was supposed to help raise had already lost all chance of inheriting the throne.

Watching Ji Wu cheat his way all the way to the position of Crown Prince

Shen Xuefeng: ...I'll keep smiling and carry on.

Attack's perspective:

Silent and violent, with countless deaths on his hands, Ji Wu had spent a dull, joyless life. He had prepared to lie low and wait for a chance to end it all,

until one day, a beautiful young man excitedly pointed at him:

"Dad, I want to be the Third Prince's study companion!"

"I'll do your homework, darling" talkative, sickly beauty receiving x mischievous attack who quietly studies hard because he cares about his beloved

#Please be civil in the comments and treat each other kindly

#The receiving character thinks that he can go home once he finishes his mission

#The Great Ji Dynasty is entirely fictional, with plenty of original worldbuilding

#This is essentially a fun, silly story. After all, it's a game, so anything can happen

#Study companions are selected every year, with no age limit. A prince can freely change study companions

One-on-one + happy ending

-3- Lalala~

Let me recommend another historical danmei novel from my profile, coming soon: The Scum Gong Regrets It After the Gong Is Replaced. A dog-chasing-to-the-crematorium, gong-replacement story~

Xiao Deng was a lamp, small and inconspicuous.

When he was young, Cui Yuanzhi saved him, and to repay the favor, he willingly became Cui Yuanzhi's magical artifact.

He had no name. Cui Yuanzhi called him Xiao Deng, and that became his name.

From then on, whenever Cui Yuanzhi went out on a cultivation expedition, Xiao Deng followed by his side, scouting the way and driving away the darkness.

He liked Cui Yuanzhi, and Cui Yuanzhi liked him too. But as the perfect leader of the Qingheng Sect, Cui Yuanzhi was admired by countless people. How could he ever stop for a little lamp?

It was all right. Xiao Deng waited and waited.

Until one day, during an expedition, Cui Yuanzhi unhesitatingly drove his sword through Xiao Deng's heart

With a snap, the lamp broke.

Before his consciousness faded, unfamiliar sights flooded his mind. Only then did he realize he was merely a supporting character in a storybook, whose sole purpose was to live for Cui Yuanzhi, the beloved protagonist.

So a lamp's life was truly insignificant in that magnificent, sweeping tale.

But at last, he would be free.

A year after Xiao Deng disappeared, the leader of the Qingheng Sect fell into madness.

At first, he laughed and cried hysterically in the sect, talking to himself. Later, he clutched his fiancee, who was about to get married, and kept asking her:

"Sorry, have you seen my lamp?"

The long years of regret tore another personality out of Cui Yuanzhi. That consciousness broke away from his main self and fled the Qingheng Sect, driven by a mad obsession, searching everywhere without finding him.

Only then did the leader of the Qingheng Sect return to his former gentle and powerful self.

Everyone in the world knew that Wei Jin, senior disciple of the Huixuan Sect, came from a powerful family, had exceptional cultivation, and was famously difficult to approach.

Unlike Cui Yuanzhi, who traveled everywhere forming soul pacts with rescued demon spirits, he looked down on everyone, was highly selective, and had never formed a pact with anyone despite years of cultivation.

When he visited the Qingheng Sect as a boy, he accidentally caught Xiao Deng peeking at him and teased Cui Yuanzhi:

"He's so reckless. Why not send him to Huixuan to learn some manners?"

Yet this very same person, the moment he heard the lamp break, silently went searching. With his own hands, he picked up the burning shards one by one.

"Some scoop the moon up, while others look down on it", The Science of the Heart

#Dog-chasing-to-the-crematorium, replacement gong, reduced to ashes

#Happy ending

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