After Becoming Disabled, the Powerful Tycoon Raised a Lion Cub

["The Farmer's Beautiful Little Merman" is being updated daily. Give it a try if you're interested!] Cen Wang was a zombie king who destroyed himself in the final days of the apocalypse. He accepted compensation from the System: a chance to be reborn as a powerful figure in the human world, with a well-behaved little cub thrown in as a bonus. The newly reborn big shot Cen Wang looked at his badly injured legs in the wheelchair, then at the ugly cub in the beast cage, whose skin had peeled away to expose bloody flesh and who was barely clinging to life. He promptly shut off the System. The ugly cub stayed anyway. It grew fur and turned into a fluffy white ball. One stroke earned a little howl, and it was clingy, too. Clutching a baby bottle, it leaped onto Cen Wang's lap. Awooo! Feed me! It jumped out of the bathtub and bit Cen Wang's pant leg, its fur and eyes all damp. Awooo~ Scrub my fur. Cen Wang kept hovering on the brink of becoming a dad, but the soft, delicate little lion cub ran away. Only after Cen Wang brought the System back online did he learn that he was a stepping stone for the male lead gong to rise to power in this world. The little white lion he'd lovingly raised was the great villain once rescued by the male lead shou, and after recovering his memories, he'd seize the male lead shou by force. What should you do when your pet goes missing? Let the male lead shou go, and lure it out. They say that the disabled heir of the Cen family is hopelessly devoted to his little white lion. Unfortunately, he can't get around easily, so he hopes to find a partner who loves children like their own and will help raise the precious little one. The male lead shou, burdened with the crucial task of stealing confidential information, eagerly showed up at the door. Who could have guessed that when he arrived at the former marshal's home, a giant white lion would lunge at him with its jaws wide open? Male lead shou: I died before I even got started. Where's the cub you promised me? Cen Wang grabbed the great white lion by the tail. The majestic beast transformed into a beautiful white-haired, blue-eyed young man, who looked back at him with aggrieved eyes. “Why are you pulling the little darling's tail?” Cen Wang: ...That's hot. The male lead shou, watching from the shadows: A life-or-death romance between a handsome man and a beast? Got it, I'll back off! One day, everyone was astonished to see the disabled heir of the Cen family back on his feet, looking dashing as he boarded a spaceship with a beautiful young man in his arms. His precious little white lion was nowhere to be seen. Li Si smiled at the camera. “The little darling's past his expiration date. I'm his big darling now.” Everyone: Such a spicy romance! [Blurb for The Farmer's Beautiful Little Merman] Jiang Yindong dreamed that he died a tragic death. In the dream, he admired the impoverished young man Ji Ning and scrimped and saved to bring him meat and rice. Suddenly, the young man came into a fortune and once again became someone the little village could only aspire to. By chance, Jiang Yindong discovered that the young man he loved had secretly kept a bewitching beauty in his bathhouse. He angrily demanded an explanation, but his childhood friend arrived to take the young man back to the city and trampled Jiang Yindong to death with a single hoof. Jiang Yindong: He's just an honest, poor man. How could he possibly suffer such a fate? Following the events from his dream, Jiang Yindong found the beauty he'd glimpsed for only an instant. He parted his thick, seaweed-like black hair, revealing a captivating face, as a pearl rolled from the corner of the merman's eye... Without hesitation, Jiang Yindong carried the merman away. Pearls were worth a lot of money. Faced with the beautiful little merman, Jiang Yindong was cold and stern. “Cry.” The merman reluctantly shed a few pearl tears, which the man tucked inside his shirt. The next morning, Jiang Yindong woke up scowling, his upper body soaked. Every last pearl had melted into water. Jiang Yindong was cold and hard-hearted. “Go catch some fish.” The merman sheepishly rubbed his fingers together. “I, I don't know how to catch fish.” What a loss! A few of the merman's uses: When the little green-tea lad came by to beg for things, saying, “We don't have enough rice or flour at home...” The little merman on the bed wiggled the tip of his tail and shoved a handful of sunflower seeds into his mouth. Chewing, he said with a troubled, guilty look, “Sigh, it's all my fault for eating so much. Now Brother Dong doesn't have any food saved to lend to his unfortunate friend...” The lad ran off before he could even finish. When Jiang Yindong was restless at night and couldn't fall asleep, The little merman sharing his bed rubbed his hands together. “Brother Dong, I'll help you sleep well.” In the end, Jiang Yindong held the beautiful young man, whose tail had turned into legs. What a bargain! At first, the merman took advantage of the poor, uncouth farmer's ignorance and made him grand promises. “I promise I'll produce pearls as soon as I can!” Later, when the pearls melted into water, the merman hurriedly tried to appease the poor man with his tail. “My scales! My fish scales are worth a lot!” Unfortunately, this time the poor man had gotten smarter. He wasn't interested in a few little scales. He wanted the whole tail! The little merman, held by the tail and unable to move, sobbed miserably. The tail belonged to the man, so naturally he could control the legs it turned into as well. Later, the merman found his chance, packed his things, and moved out of the Jiang household. He waited a long time, but the poor man never came to take him home. Instead, word spread through the village that the man was getting married. Pearl tears pattered down onto the little wooden bed... Under cover of darkness, the little merman snuck back to the man's house again. [Next up: "After the Scum Gong and the Universally Hated One Enter a Marriage Alliance". Please add it to your reading list!] The wealthy older man Liang Yue was invited to appear on a dating reality show. Before filming began, he discovered that he was a scum gong in a novel, already married and about to join the show to seduce the pure and adorable male lead shou. Unfortunately, he ran into his secret husband, Ye Cheng. Ye Cheng was adopted by the Ye family. He was gloomy, liked to ride on other people's fame, and bullied the male lead shou. To marry into a wealthy family, he used underhanded tactics to take the male lead shou's place in his arranged marriage with Liang Yue. His adoptive parents despised him, and the whole internet cursed him. In the novel, Liang Yue took revenge on behalf of the cutie and made the universally hated one suffer an utterly miserable fate. Liang Yue: Hmm... What exactly did I do to him? On the dating show, Liang Yue swiped past the male lead shou's plain features and chose the universally hated one as his partner. For a failed challenge, the penalty was to sit on your partner's lap and eat. The universally hated one's body went stiff. Liang Yue stumbled over his words. “Baby, you're soft.” He thought the comment would annoy him, but the gloomy universally hated one's ears turned bright red. He stammered, “Y-You're pretty hard, too.” The male lead shou looked like he'd just eaten something rotten. During a biscuit challenge, the universally hated one couldn't bite down in time and fell far behind the male lead shou. Liang Yue smiled. “Looks like you'll have to do another penalty challenge.” The universally hated one beat the male lead shou by a second and kissed Liang Yue on the lips. He apologized stiffly. “I had to do it to win.” Liang Yue smiled, unbothered. “As long as you didn't use your tongue.” Looking at the universally hated one's moist, rosy lips, Liang Yue wondered how anyone could hate him. His mouth was pretty sweet. Before the show aired, the whole internet waited for the drama. Clickbait headlines did their thing: Click here to see the ill-tempered, demanding wealthy old man and the gloomy, unruly universally hated one tear into each other. Everyone said this gossip was almost too much to stomach! ["Old Man" smiling.jpg] [Universally hated one!? He's clearly a gorgeous man who's all talk and soft everywhere else!] [Can't wait to see you two tear into each other in bed!] After the show, Liang Yue was about to talk to Ye Cheng about ending their marriage when, on a rainy day, he found a shivering stray cat. Liang Yue took him home and said considerately, “Make yourself at home. I don't live here.” The universally hated one, drenched from head to toe, lowered his head. “You just don't want to see me...” Liang Yue smiled. “I'm afraid I might not be able to stop myself from doing something to you.” Ye Cheng blushed. “Then you don't have to stop yourself.” Liang Yue: ? Later... Liang Yue: Hmm, the original plot was great after all. This is really fun. - One day, evidence of the Ye family's illegal activities was suddenly released. Their company went bankrupt in no time, and the male lead shou, the Ye family's biological son, fell from grace. The adopted son Ye Cheng's miserable childhood was exposed, and his top-tier looks won him countless fans. Job offers poured in. On screen, Ye Cheng outperformed a host of celebrities in sports and artistic events. Beneath his once-terrible reputation lay a talent others envied. People realized that even after becoming a star, Ye Cheng remained cool and aloof, yet one word from Liang Yue was enough to make him blush from his ears to his neck. The ship's fans cheered and waved their banners. - Ye Cheng was exposed for kissing a young thug outside a hotel. People in the industry mocked him, saying that the canary had grown its wings and the wealthy old man had been abandoned. The increasingly down-and-out male lead shou heard that the wealthy old man preferred thin, gloomy young men. He hurriedly threw on a flimsy white shirt and went to Liang Yue's home, only to arrive just as Ye Cheng was being dumped. He quickly raised his phone to livestream the scene. “Don't be mad...” On camera, Ye Cheng stood right in front of Liang Yue, his face and eyes red, about to be abandoned. The male lead shou thought, This is my chance! Liang Yue: “I shouldn't be mad?” Ye Cheng's bright eyes were frosty as he replied coldly, “Brother Yue, you should be mad. You're mature and steady. How could they make you look like some kind of thug?” Liang Yue: “And how are you going to make it up to me?” With red ears, Ye Cheng pleaded, “The new cat tail hasn't arrived yet. Please let me off this once, Brother.” Liang Yue: ...He only wanted a kiss. The male lead shou's phone dropped onto the grass. His fans saw stars, then slammed the table in fury. [Quick, quick! Post your location. It can be delivered tonight!] [Delivery service plus 10,086 more!] Theme: Growth requires companionship