The General's Guide to Self-Rescue

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How can a general whose achievements overshadow the throne retire from court unscathed and enjoy his later years with absolute certainty?

Profess his loyalty to the emperor? No. Resign of his own accord? No.

Answer: Make the emperor fall in love with him.

Cheng Yu transmigrated into a book, into the body of a general who shared his name. The general had followed Xie Jingping before he became emperor. Back then, Xie Jingping was still a sunny young man, full of passion.

Who could have guessed that this little sun would later turn into a cruel, murderous, obsessive tyrant who spared no one around him?

The general expanded the borders, quelled the rebellions, and helped him ascend the throne. But once all was at peace, Xie Jingping grew suspicious of him, gradually stripping him of his military power, and ultimately discarding him once he was no longer useful.

Cheng Yu: So emperors really are all the same!

He didn't think this would do. He hadn't worked himself to death from overtime in the twenty-first century, so he couldn't die in such a miserable way here. For the sake of his own safety, and because all he wanted was to spend his later years in peace,

After reading so many BL novels, he'd come up with a method that he thought was absolutely foolproof: make the emperor fall in love with him!

And so, the mighty general embarked on the path of seducing (not really) the emperor.

He couldn't put it off. He had to win Xie Jingping over while he was still a little sun!

Xie Jingping thought Cheng Yu had been acting strangely lately. For the past few days, he hadn't been studying warfare or practicing with weapons. Instead, he seemed to have started studying him. (?)

Cheng Yu: What do you usually like to eat? Drink? Do? Do you have any hobbies?

Xie Jingping: ?

Besides studying him, Cheng Yu seemed unusually clingy. He'd even followed him right into bed!!

Cheng Yu: I came to discuss something with you.

Xie Jingping: All right... No, wait... If you want to talk, then talk. Why are you taking your clothes off? ...You can't take mine off either! What's wrong with you???

When Xie Jingping woke up the next morning and saw the person lying in his arms, he thought mournfully: It's over. What in the world is going on?

P.S. The final version will be the one that counts. Before it's finished, anything may change.

Theme: Staying alive is what matters most