You can criticize the author, but please don't attack my protagonist (bows)
Wu Yang always believed he'd lived honorably and done nothing wrong in his life. Unfortunately, fate had given him a frail body.
He'd been trapped among bottles of medicine from a young age. When the end was near, he actually felt relieved. It was his own little ones he felt sorry for.
They weren't real little ones. They were characters in a game Wu Yang happened to discover.
In the game, the little ones were four major villains, and the player had to lower their corruption levels by completing missions.
Little One Number One: A little fox with ten tails, deemed an ill omen.
Little One Number Two: A beautiful merperson, driven from the waters by their people and left with their vocal cords severed.
Little One Number Three: A little lion with a broken tail, cast out by his family because of his physical disability.
Little One Number Four: A half-human, half-beast eagle, artificially bred and captured for research right after birth. Though on the verge of death, he still longed to soar through the sky.
Each of the four little ones had their own hardships. At the very beginning of the game, all four were world-destroying demon kings.
As Wu Yang diligently lowered the little ones' corruption levels, he also had to help them evade the emperor's kill order.
Emperor Liu Yuan was a major obstacle to the little ones' safety! With him around, how could Wu Yang leave them behind and go off on his own?
So, in the very last second before his death, Wu Yang was still thinking of his precious little ones. The next second, he opened his eyes to see the black-haired, red-eyed emperor staring intently at him.
Wu Yang:!
After transmigrating into the game, Wu Yang was delighted to discover that the story was set before the little ones had begun to turn evil!
With saving them foremost in mind, Wu Yang set off to find them.
Later, the emperor fixed his red eyes on Wu Yang and, with all the arrogance of an emperor, pouted possessively. "Why do you only look at them and not me?"
Wu Yang sighed. "You're jealous of the little ones? Aren't you embarrassed?"
The emperor snorted, hoisted Wu Yang over his shoulder, and showed him in no uncertain terms just how frightening it was to ignore an emperor!
Theme: Live life well