The Lazy Fake Prince

In the first year of Zhenghe, not long after the new emperor ascended the throne, he brought back his younger brother Xiao Buyu, who had been living among the common people, and made him a prince. Xiao Buyu had grown up wild in the mountains. He climbed onto the roof of Chongwen Hall to catch birds and caught fish from Taiye Lake to roast and eat... The whole court sighed. Poor little prince. His life would be short, and who knew how gruesome his death would be this time! Xiao Buyu heard that the new emperor was ruthless and had killed all his brothers who disobeyed him. Terrified, he tried to run away in the middle of the night, but he hadn't even made it out of the palace hall before they caught him and dragged him back. Xiao Buyu: “Your Majesty, Imperial Brother, big brother, Brother, please, let this lazy fish go!” Xiao Shen: “Have you finished today's lessons? Bring them to Me.” Xiao Buyu: “Huh???” He realized the emperor really seemed to be raising him as the heir. That made him even more panicked! How many heirs in history had come to a good end? Xiao Buyu muttered, “How many times do I have to say it? I'm not your younger brother. What on earth are you trying to do?!” To make himself look like no threat to the throne, he doubled down on having fun and behaved as outrageously as he could! The officials gradually caught on. The little prince was extremely mischievous and stupid beyond belief, and not at all like the new emperor. That was exactly his saving grace. As long as he stayed this stupid, he would probably live a good long while. Several of Xiao Buyu's older brothers hurried to the capital to pay their respects to the emperor. The new emperor was cruel by nature. Their little brother must be living in terror every day, trembling as though walking on thin ice! Instead, they found their little brother sprawled across the imperial desk, shouting, “I want to have a snowball fight! I do!” The emperor wore a dark expression, but all he did was warm his little brother's bare feet with his hands. Also known as: "The Tyrant Insists on Raising Me as His Successor, But What Should I Do as a Lazy Fish?" "He Runs, He Chases, He Can't Escape: Keep the Throne Far Away from Me!" "What Happens If I Refuse to Be the Tyrant's Little Brother Ten Thousand Times?" "An Impossible Choice: Crown Prince or Empress? Or! Or! Or!" "A Record of the Emperor and the Crown Prince's Daily Life" A timid but spirited, cheeky, live-in-the-moment lazy-fish bottom × a sinister, ruthless top who raises his lover as the crown prince and is a truly patriarchal old-school authority figure Reader's guide: 1. The story makes it clear from the beginning that the leads are not related by blood. 2. This is still a lighthearted story about daily life at court and among the aristocratic families of ancient times. 3. The story focuses on raising the child and everyday life. It starts when Xiao Buyu is nine, and the romance only begins once he's an adult. Here's another similar upcoming palace-life sweet romance. Visit the author's page to add it to your reading list: Title: "I'm Not Afraid of My Regent Brother!", A stunning, universally adored, seductive, foolish emperor bottom × a sinister, ruthless, doting-on-his-younger-brother, extremely possessive regent top Blurb: Li Baojuan, a pretty-boy idol, transmigrates into the body of an abandoned prince. He's given to the powerful court official Huo Wuhan to raise when he's still a child. Huo Wuhan is bloodthirsty and ruthless, a warmonger who wins one battle after another and builds towers of enemy corpses, stacking them into countless hills and walls. The surrounding tribes call him “the Heaven's Punishing Blade.” The empire's lands are subdued, and after Huo Wuhan returns to the capital, he holds power over all under heaven! Li Baojuan grows up following Huo Wuhan from one battlefield to another. Everyone believes the useless prince Li Baojuan must have been ground down by Huo Wuhan until he's hardly human. But, as it turns out, Huo Wuhan acts as both mother and father to him, personally feeding him and soothing him to sleep. He only pities the hardship the boy endures on campaign, and ends up raising him to be even more extravagant and debauched than the crown prince in the palace! Not long after they return to the capital, Li Baojuan takes the throne, while his Brother Huo Wuhan becomes regent. Li Baojuan has been spoiled all his life, so he immediately does everything a foolish emperor ought to do. But he never expected his brother to change. Though Huo Wuhan still feeds him and tucks him in, now he wants to raise him to the level of Qin Shi Huang and Emperor Wu of Han! “Tsk, tsk, the regent is lecturing His Majesty again. Listen to him cry! Poor emperor.” “Just a few days ago, the regent pinned him to the imperial bed and punished him for trying to find beauties from the Western Regions. He came crawling out in tears, only for the regent to grab his feet and drag him back. I couldn't bear to watch.” “It's no wonder the regent gets angry. His Majesty is outrageously handsome, but all he knows how to do is play around. So what if all the nations come to pay tribute? One look at His Majesty's face and they're all acting like they've lost their minds. They refuse to leave and wish they could cling to him every day!” “Did you hear? The prince of the Western Regions and the crown prince of the Northern Di got into a fight over which of them His Majesty likes playing with more.” “That doesn't even top the strangest thing. A couple of years ago, His Majesty went on campaign with the regent and the Turkic khagan saw him from afar. The khagan had a portrait painted and carried it around with him every day. When the regent killed him, he was still clutching the portrait. The regent was so furious he hacked him into mincemeat!” “Brother, I'm not afraid of you! If you're going to keep being so mean, I'll stop letting you be regent. I'm the emperor!” “You little brat. You're the emperor, and I'm your brother. Get over here and bend over.” Li Baojuan obediently bent over his brother's lap. His bottom and the backs of his thighs burned from the slaps, but he didn't dare cry loudly. He only whimpered and begged for mercy. Huo Wuhan was exceptionally tall and had spent years on the battlefield. The boy emperor in his arms looked all the smaller against his massive frame, with nowhere to run. “You can indulge in wine and women and be debauched all you like, but you dare go around seducing people too! A foolish emperor deserves to be punished, and so does a little slut!” Another modern-day story with a similar setting is coming soon. Visit the author's page to add it to your reading list: "Escape from the Golden Cage of a Patriarchal Older Brother", An overbearing, patriarchal older brother is too strict with his younger brother, so the younger brother rebels and runs away. He enters the entertainment industry, acting in short-form melodramas and web dramas, becoming an idol and performing hot dances at concerts to tease fans, all just to spite his brother. Theme: Stay true to yourself, and you'll see things through to the end