The Kid I Raised Has Designs on Me

Before transmigrating, Chu Yaoguang dreamed the same continuous dream for a long time.

In the dream, she was in the imperial palace, where she met a frail boy of six or seven. His eyes were vacant, his body covered in wounds, and he was crouched in a corner of a dilapidated palace wall.

From the palace maids and eunuchs passing by, she learned who he was.

Fifth Prince Zhao Yanhua: His birth mother died because of him, he was born with a stutter, he had an eye condition, and he was unloved by the emperor...

The boy seemed to have given up on life. He felt his way to the lotus pond, intent on ending it all. At the last moment, Chu Yaoguang grabbed him without a second thought.

No one else could see her, but Zhao Yanhua, despite his impaired vision, could.

"Are you... a fairy?"

Born into the imperial family, Zhao Yanhua should have lived in luxury, but instead he was treated like dirt and bullied by everyone.

His eyes were too weak to see clearly, yet one day, after being tormented, he saw someone dressed strangely and surrounded by a radiant glow. She struck from the shadows and took down the two eunuchs who had bullied him.

Zhao Yanhua was astonished that he could see her, and even more astonished that no one else could.

Afraid to speak rashly, he pretended to feel his way despairingly toward the lotus pond, and was duly rescued again...

Zhao Yanhua didn't know whether the person before him was a fairy or a spirit. He only knew that she talked with him and cured his stutter, found a way to treat his eyes, made delicious food for him, taught him to read and write, and even lifted the curse that marked him as the cause of his mother's death. She helped him step into the sunlight and enter the court.

From then on, his world was no longer dark. So he was even less willing to let her know that his attempt to end his life had only been a test.

But she came to see him less and less often... Had she realized that he was, by nature, a vile and twisted person?

Everyone pitied Fifth Prince Zhao Yanhua for his miserable childhood, but admired his strong will. When he grew up, he became a man of graceful refinement, gentle as jade.

Few knew that his true nature was vengeful and bloodthirsty, a demon wearing human skin.

Those traits became all the more apparent after he ascended the throne and gained absolute power.

In the first year of Xunguang, he had every palace servant who had ever bullied him beaten to death, leaving the whole palace in fear.

In the second year of Xunguang, he executed several innocent women and sorcerers, and voices began to accuse Zhao Yanhua of tyranny.

In the third year of Xunguang, he showed no filial piety, drove the Empress Dowager to her death, and had several imperial censors beaten to death. His reputation as a tyrant grew worse, finally provoking discontent throughout the court and country...

And then she suddenly transmigrated into this world!

In a woman's body, but wearing a male official's robes!

And she was told she was about to go before the emperor!

Her identity as a woman disguised as a man, guilty of deceiving the emperor, made her lower her head and fall into deep thought...

The dream she'd thought was only a dream really existed in another world!

She hadn't dreamed of Zhao Yanhua for only two or three months, and he'd already become the emperor of Great Yan, and a cruel tyrant at that?!

Since she'd raised him, Chu Yaoguang figured they had some affection between them. If she revealed who she was, Zhao Yanhua surely wouldn't make things difficult for her. He might even help her.

She enters the palace full of anticipation, only to see someone being punished outside the hall. Stunned, she asks the eunuch guiding her what's going on and learns that the woman being punished is guilty of deceiving the emperor and claims to be named Chu Yaoguang.

The real Chu Yaoguang standing there: !!!

Should she be glad that she's now Official Chu?

PS: At first, the heroine is older than the hero. Later, the hero is older than the heroine.

June 9, 2024

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