A Powerful Minister Reincarnated into a Wealthy Family’s Adopted-Heir Novel

Xiao Lanzhi was the youngest chief counselor in the Dali dynasty. After the new emperor pacified the realm, Xiao Lanzhi was poisoned and died.

After death, Xiao Lanzhi transmigrated into a novel about a wealthy family and became a sickly adopted son everyone could bully.

The doctor had issued a death notice: he wouldn’t live past this winter.

The wealthy family was a maze of intrigue, with danger lurking everywhere.

A seemingly loving adoptive father, an adoptive mother who ignored him, an imposing and taciturn eldest son, a refined and courteous second son, and a sunny, innocent fourth son.

Every one of them wanted him dead.

Because he wasn’t the “adopted son” in the novel’s title. He was the real young master, while the second son was the true protagonist, the “adopted son.”

The other protagonist was also the only “friend” who had pretended to get close to Xiao Lanzhi at school to make the fake young master jealous.

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Later, Xiao Lanzhi met another man: the other protagonist’s younger brother, born into nobility yet treated worse than a dog.

He had a face very much like the new emperor’s.

It felt as if time had gone back ten years. A boy, bullied until he was barely human, knelt ramrod straight before his wheelchair. “Scholar of the Imperial Academy, I want to study.”

He still couldn’t bear to turn him away.

Dressed all in white, Xiao Lanzhi crouched down and stroked the little dog’s head. “Want revenge? I’ll help you.”

Then one day, he discovered that his poor little dog was actually a vicious wolf in disguise.

Bonus scene:

Lu Ao’s god had died. Driven mad, he made everyone pay, himself included.

When he opened his eyes again, he had arrived in the twenty-first century.

His god still wasn’t here. Lu Ao killed himself, until he came across a man in the hospital who shared his god’s name and face.

He had to kill him first.

No one else was allowed to share his god’s face.

After trying to kill him several times, he realized:

It was really him!

In his previous life, Xiao Lanzhi had felt only familial and sovereign-subject affection for him.

In this life, he would kill his former self from the past for good, change his face to one Xiao Lanzhi would like, and act like the kind of person Xiao Lanzhi would love.

He wanted no familial affection, no loyalty between ruler and subject, and no other kind of love. He wanted Xiao Lanzhi to love him!

He could be whatever Xiao Lanzhi liked. What did it matter if he had to keep up the act for the rest of his life?

Reader’s guide:

Both protagonists transmigrate into books.

A sickly, aloof, clever, older beauty as the bottom × a loyal, cunning, younger, unhinged top.

In his previous life, the bottom was paralyzed from the waist down and used a wheelchair. He was an exceptionally career-driven, cold-hearted political machine who had never imagined the top might love him.

The top is bad, very bad. He was a tyrant in the ancient world, with no morals or humanity. To him, only the bottom was a god; everyone else was an insect.

Theme: Hope can bloom even in dire circumstances. Never give up!