Surprise! I'm Both the Hero and the Villain

[Passionate young top-scorer seme x sickly, treacherous grand minister uke | Narcissus romance]

The young top-scorer Yan Rongjin transmigrates into the future, only to discover that another version of himself has become a treacherous grand minister!

The grand minister is wicked through and through!

He has refugees massacred during a natural disaster, gets a general killed during a war, and even...

forces Yan to write policy essays, then mischievously hangs them behind an erotic fire-safety painting!

Yan Rongjin breaks down. "How could you be a bad person?"

The treacherous minister taps the cold blade of his sword against Yan's cheek. "What makes you think you know me best?"

"Because the seventeen years beneath your feet are mine: the hardships we saw together, the vows we made, the essays we wrote..."

Yan Rongjin's tears spill over.

"But I don't know you anymore..."

The treacherous minister loves teasing the young top-scorer.

He disguises himself as Yan's teacher, teaching him poetry and literature and giving him his family fortune.

All so he can watch Yan tie his clothes, tuck him into bed, and secretly warm his feet with his hands while pretending he is asleep.

But he never expected his fake death to expose his true identity.

The young top-scorer clings to him, sobbing so hard he can barely catch his breath, and asks, "Are you good or bad?"

The minister smiles. "I once had a strange dream that told me someone had to play the villain."

He had to bring ruin to the nation, and he had to die.

"When we were seventeen, we swore that if the country were ever in danger, we'd stop it even if it cost us our lives!"

He remembered.

So he would play the role.

He would act it out with all his might, scheming in secret while pretending to obey!

At last, Yan Rongjin pieced together the clues, like a string of teardrops, and found the answer.

He built a grand tower at great cost to the people, but beneath the stone carts lay buried grain.

He brazenly offered up the imperial robe, but exposed the embezzlement of public funds used to make the molds for the Bureau of Imperial Treasury.

He was harsh and cutting toward loyal ministers, but slipped in contradictory information to provoke impeachment and debate...

Day after day, through his "treacherous minister act," he saved this era in loneliness and despair.

No one saw the fortune he had poured out, his ailing body withering away, or his ardent loyalty.

The people would still tear into his flesh and blood, and he would be remembered as a foul villain for all time.

Yan Rongjin would never forget.

His teacher had just returned from quelling a rebellion when the foolish emperor tortured him to the brink of death.

A warm, rough fingertip wiped away Yan's tears.

His split lips trembled into a smile. "Don't cry."

"Xiao He, an age of peace is almost... here."

But, Teacher, a golden age shouldn't devour people.

Only by killing the bloodthirsty maw on the throne can you live, and the common people live.

I won't let history wrong you. I'll fight alongside you for a true

age of peace and prosperity.

Note:

Both the main and secondary couples are selfcest romances. In the main pairing, one side transmigrates with two bodies and two souls; in the secondary pairing, there is one body and one soul.

Theme: It's enough for just one person to know the truth