The Beautiful Prince and His Loyal Hound Ascend the Throne [Reborn]

[A wooden but vindictive beauty of a top x a dark-skinned, flirtatious, loyal puppy of a bottom]

Xie Yu, Prince Ning and the current emperor’s only full brother, was reborn.

In his previous life, the emperor, who couldn’t stand his brothers and uncles, slaughtered them all. Xie Yu didn’t escape either.

If I’m going to get killed even though I don’t care about the throne, then I might as well usurp it!

Prince Ning, who knew nothing except listening to music and having fun, decided to become emperor!

From then on, Xie Yu played the good-for-nothing in front of the emperor and shut himself away at home to plot his coup.

“Build schools and train talented people?” Never heard of it.

“There’s a coal mine in Hedong?” Don’t know anything about it.

“A thunderbolt that explodes?” Not familiar with it.

Before long, Xie Yu ran into a problem.

There was a young general whose family had served the emperor loyally for generations, and he was always clinging to Xie Yu.

Xie Yu, suspicious of everyone: “Could he be planning to report me?”

But the young general had an army at his command... and that was awfully tempting!

Seeing the undefeated Ye family army, Xie Yu couldn’t help looking at them with longing.

Ye Huaiyu, obediently: “Your Highness likes them?”

Xie Yu: “I do! ...No, I don’t...”

Ye Huaiyu: “If Your Highness likes them, how about I send some soldiers to protect you?”

Xie Yu, forcing himself to stay calm: “Hold it together! This has to be a trap!”

After somehow acquiring a few elite troops, Xie Yu realized that the young general always gave him whatever he asked for.

He tested the waters one step at a time, and the young general yielded one step at a time, until the tiger tally in the young general’s hands ended up in his own.

Xie Yu: “Yes! I’ve won him over! Once I take the throne, I’ll make A Huai a great general!”

Ye Huaiyu: “Sure, Yu-ge. No problem, Yu-ge. Leave it to me, Yu-ge.”

Ye Huaiyu watched Xie Yu establish private schools to enlighten the people, repel foreign enemies, and guard the borders. Xie Yu became a Prince Ning revered by the people, just one step away from the throne, yet he never seemed to catch on.

Then, in the blink of an eye, a kiss landed on Ye Huaiyu’s forehead.

Xie Yu had seen that kiss in a dream.

In his previous life, the great general who should have been rewarded after returning victorious from battle instead dragged the emperor out of the palace and killed him. Then he prostrated himself before Xie Yu, kissed his forehead,

and killed himself with his own sword.

Xie Yu sat bolt upright from his dream: “...Huh?!”

Theme: He who wins the people wins the realm