After Feeding My Sickly Cousin

[This story is complete! Please leave a rating! My male-lead-focused imperial exam novel, *Raising a Husband Through the Imperial Exams: The Nine-Leak Fish*, is updating now. Head to my author page to check it out!] Liang Yan, a rich second-generation heir who took over a potato chip factory built to help poor communities, got himself bound to a useless System after absentmindedly tapping a shake-to-win ad. He then woke up in the body of a boy with the same name and face as his own. The good news: He was the son of the crown prince, and he would receive a ten-billion bonus if he ascended the throne. The bad news: His crown prince father was framed for treason and poisoned to death. Liang Yan was stripped of his status and exiled. Fortunately, he had a System space. It was useless, but at least this wasn't a doomed start. On the road to exile, his sickly cousin Shen Fengzhu suspected his identity and held him hostage with a jade hairpin. The escort official was greedy and lecherous, making things difficult for him at every turn. Then they ran into bandits... He faced every kind of hardship, and the useless System even told him he couldn't go back. The young prince, once bullied because a tiger had fallen to the plains, finally became a military governor who dominated a region. Looking at his elite troops and generals and the gold and jewels in his treasury, Liang Yan thought: At last, I can rebel! “Your Highness, if you want to raise an army, you'll have to wait a little longer.” Liang Yan: “My Fengqing, do you know I intend to rebel?” Shen Fengzhu: “We've shared a bed for years. How could I not know?” Liang Yan pulled him into his arms and fed him a little tomato he'd grown himself. “Cousin, if I ascend the throne, will you be my empress?” [A gentle, devoted, talkative, fatherly, possessive top × a ruthless, pampered, sensitive, sickly beauty bottom] Reader's guide: 1. This is set in a fictional dynasty, with the administrative system modeled on the Tang Dynasty. 2. Its original literary secret identity was *Phoenix Follows the Void*. Its melodramatic secret identities were *My Sickly Beauty Cousin Falls for Me*, *A Guide to Raising a Phoenix*, and *A Guide to Rebellion*. 3. One-on-one romance, with mutual devotion between the top and bottom. There's plenty of plot and romance, and I love writing clingy, affectionate scenes. If that's not your thing, please click away. 4. The author is hopeless at titles and blurbs, so I recommend reading the story itself. Yes, you read that right. I'm shamelessly plugging my own work. Theme: When one path ends, another opens up.