After Choosing the Twisted Villain

In the second year of Yingcheng, the Cangming State Preceptor was sentenced to death for colluding with his homeland. Remembering how loyally the Cangming State Preceptor had served him in his childhood, the new emperor spared him a drawn cup of poisoned wine.

The people all said the new emperor was merciful.

But Xu Jinhuan couldn't smile.

Because he was the Cangming State Preceptor who had been given the poisoned wine.

After living a second life, Xu Jinhuan was once again sent to the Great Jing Dynasty as a hostage. He looked at the young new emperor standing before him and felt nothing but disgust.

So when the current emperor asked him to choose a prince to tutor personally, Xu Jinhuan turned away without hesitation and chose Xiao Heng, the villain from his previous life.

In his previous life, Xiao Heng had been the greatest obstacle to Xu Jinhuan as he helped the new emperor conquer the realm.

At the time, Xiao Heng was out of favor. His mother was merely a palace maid, and the princes and princesses bullied him like a dog every day.

Xu Jinhuan took Xiao Heng's small hand and said firmly to the emperor, "I want him."

From then on, Xu Jinhuan devoted all the effort of his previous life to raising Xiao Heng, determined to give him the realm.

But one day, Xiao Heng's gaze toward Xu Jinhuan changed.

On the day he helped Xiao Heng ascend the throne, Xu Jinhuan faked his death and slipped away, planning to retire to the mountains, roam wherever he pleased, and stay out of court affairs for good.

But rumors from Yanjing reached Xu Jinhuan: after the Grand Tutor died, the new emperor Xiao Heng had opened his coffin and turned the capital upside down.

Xu Jinhuan didn't believe them.

It wasn't until he heard that Xiao Heng was about to hold a selection for consorts that Xu Jinhuan, enjoying his freedom abroad, decided to see what kind of woman Xiao Heng might like. He disguised himself and returned to Yanjing.

But the moment Xu Jinhuan entered the capital, he saw Xiao Heng standing not far away. The man's eyes fixed on him as he smiled.

When Xu Jinhuan woke up again, he found a golden chain locked around his ankle.

And sitting by the bed was Xiao Heng, dressed in imperial robes.

The man's palm slid over Xu Jinhuan's ankle as he spoke with an obsession Xu Jinhuan could hear in his voice: "If you chose me again, why did you have to die a second time?"

There was an unmistakably sick edge to Xiao Heng's tone.

"Big brother, I want you to be my empress."

1. Both leads are reborn. The recipient is reborn first, while the attacker only returns to life later. At the beginning, the attacker is a puppy-like boy who suddenly falls in love.

2. This is a practice novel for writing political intrigue. I'll start it whenever I feel like challenging myself to write political intrigue.

3. The style is more colloquial than classical.

Theme: Learn to see people for who they are.