I Don't Want to Be Disciplined with a Rod

The young emperor, Song Yufu, was dazzlingly handsome and had been diligent since childhood, devoting himself to governing the country.

But he was exhausted.

One day, he suddenly discovered that he was a character in a cultivation game, and the person raising him was his Regent Father, Xiao Zhuo, who held absolute power and controlled the court.

Song Yufu: ...Regent Father, can't you just become emperor yourself?

This is exhausting. I can't be emperor anymore.

Why not be a foolish ruler?

Then Xiao Zhuo could depose him.

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Song Yufu started courting disaster. Today, he forced a young general to stay the night.

Tomorrow, he'd flirt with the newly crowned top scholar.

The day after, he'd provoke and humiliate the young heir of a marquis's household.

The young general, the top scholar, and the marquis's heir were all so humiliated that they blushed furiously in Song Yufu's presence, again and again.

Song Yufu lived in luxury and debauchery every day, wearing his suicidal antics right on his face.

Song Yufu waited for Xiao Zhuo to depose him, but instead Xiao Zhuo pinned him down on the imperial bed. "Your Majesty, enough fooling around."

The ruler's cane smacked Song Yufu's backside. Ashamed and furious, Song Yufu berated Xiao Zhuo: "Regent Father, you are usurping your superior!"

Xiao Zhuo's expression didn't change. "I have supported Your Majesty every step of the way."

"If an illegitimate son can do it, why can't I?"

Song Yufu panicked. He wanted to be a good emperor after all, but his Regent Father gave him a lesson with a cane.

Outside the bedchamber, the great general, the newly crowned top scholar, and the marquis's heir all knelt in a row, saying that His Majesty was still young and didn't know better, and begging Xiao Zhuo to spare him.

Afterward, whenever Song Yufu's thoughts wandered, his Regent Father, the great general, the newly crowned top scholar, and the marquis's heir would take turns educating him.

Song Yufu: "..."

He used to have just one dad. Now he had a whole bunch.

The feudal big-daddy Regent Father / the gentle, refined top scholar / the capable young general who gallops across battlefields / the marquis's heir VS the proud, spirited young emperor who wants to slack off but keeps getting disciplined with a cane (our darling is so spirited and proud, and truly irresistible: the kind of person everyone likes and falls for at first sight)

A series of alternating 1v1 relationships

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1. The Regent Father is a modern person. When the little one was young, he'd put on SpongeBob for him and spoil him rotten. Once he grew up, though, the Regent Father became so strict that the little one couldn't take it.

2. The little one has an open mind from having received two different kinds of education, and he turns out to be a very good emperor.

3. The romance and governing the realm are split sixty-forty, maybe seventy-thirty.

4. The love interest is only keeping our darling in line. The spanking, ahem, is that kind of spanking.

Theme: Devote yourself to governing the country.