A powerful, beautiful, sickly godfather bottom × a younger, obsessive, clingy top who's a wolf to everyone else but a sheep in front of his godfather
Li Tianchong transmigrated into an old-school, melodramatic novel with a completely broken moral compass, becoming the same-named cannon-fodder villain and godfather. He knew the story inside out.
The protagonist, Qiong Hao, was the despised emperor of the realm. He was cruel and bloodthirsty, treating human lives like weeds. The reason the protagonist was so obsessive and twisted was Li Tianchong.
In the original novel, Li Tianchong was even more deranged than Qiong Hao.
They say, “Dragons raise dragons, phoenixes raise phoenixes, and a rat's pupil learns to dig holes,” so a wicked chancellor like the original Li Tianchong, whom everyone wanted dead, could only raise a tyrant who brought ruin to the country.
Li Tianchong remembered the original plot:
He had personally guided Qiong Hao's hand as they killed the previous emperor.
He had planted an incurable poison in Qiong Hao's body.
His greatest pleasure had been watching Qiong Hao slaughter loyal ministers.
His ending was to be torn apart by five horses and left on display in the streets by Qiong Hao.
Li Tianchong: ...Help.
Fortunately, when he arrived, the tyrant was only eight years old, so there was still time to change things. Li Tianchong took on the task of raising the future emperor into a gentleman who cared for all the people under heaven.
The Four Books, Five Classics, Six Arts, the zither, chess, calligraphy, painting, poetry, and prose: he taught him whatever he could think of.
When someone bullied the tyrant, Li Tianchong shielded him.
When the tyrant fell ill, Li Tianchong brewed medicine, fed him rice porridge, and kept watch by his bedside day and night.
When the tyrant did something wrong, Li Tianchong couldn't bring himself to punish him. He would send him outside to kneel, then slip a soft cushion under his knees moments later.
He raised the child with painstaking care for ten years. Fortunately, the child didn't grow up crooked, and even became a pitiful little thing who loved to cling to him.
When Li Tianchong scolded him, he clung to him and begged.
When Li Tianchong tried to hit him, he clung to him and cried.
When Li Tianchong got angry, he clung to him and coaxed him.
His fatherly affection was overflowing. Just when he thought he'd raised a good son and could settle down for a comfortable old age, everything changed.
One day, he fell asleep for no apparent reason, and the tyrant climbed into his bed in the middle of the night.
His whole body went limp as water.
The clingy little darling kissed him obsessively and murmured in a hoarse voice, “Godfather, I am your heaven.”
Theme: Parents are a child's first teachers.