The Imperial family of the Yong Dynasty, the Lans, were famously a family of madmen.

They possessed bloodlines of innate nobility, peerlessly beautiful features, unparalleled intellect, and personalities marked by coldness, cruelty, madness, and delusion.

This very nature destined them to slaughter one another for the throne, until victory or death.

Born exceptional, yet destined for a miserable end.

Lan Yihuan had been the victor in the previous succession war.

He ascended as an exalted sovereign. During his reign, the nation prospered and enjoyed peace, yet his kin perished one by one, leaving him utterly alone.

He ultimately died from exhaustion, only to be remembered posthumously as a harsh and ungrateful ruler.

‘Fine, fine. Serves me right. I never wanted this job anyway!‘

When he opened his eyes again, he found himself reborn as a six-year-old prince, bound to a system.

The system boasted loudly about helping him become Emperor.

Lan Yihuan: “…I’d rather just die and go back.”

He planned to outsource the tasks the system assigned him.

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【A qualified Emperor must thoroughly study the Four Books and Five Classics.

Today’s task: Read ten volumes of the sages’ writings.

Task reward: A plate of cherries from the South Sea tribute!】

Lan Yihuan took the Crown Prince’s hand and placed rare, hard-to-find books before him.

“Study diligently! Once you finish, Father Emperor will look at you with newfound respect!”

“As for me… I’ve got cherries to eat.”

In this life, Lan Yihuan desired only to enjoy the perks of an Emperor without enduring its hardships.

To achieve this dream, he resolved to use the Imperial System to cultivate promising talents as tools to help him realize his dream.

*

Though bearing the title of Crown Prince of the Yong Dynasty, he was constantly suspected by the Emperor, and the father and son had always been at odds.

One night, he suffered a nightmare: he lost the throne and died in despair.

The root of all this misery? Six-year-old Lan Yihuan.

A strategist advised, “Your Majesty, the Seventh Prince possesses the majesty of a dragon and the grace of a phoenix. His piercing gaze betrays ambition. He must be eliminated!”

Taking action against a six-year-old child seemed pointless.

The Crown Prince cast a cold glance at the boy still lazily in bed in broad daylight, then walked away.

Little did he know then that this child would come to occupy such a significant place in his heart.

Unfazed by his coldness, the boy silently stood by during his anguish, fiercely defended him against the Emperor’s injustices, and would often lift his smiling face to declare:

“I like Brother Crown Prince the most.”

Those words redeemed countless nights of bitter resentment.

Eventually, he realized the depth of the boy’s place in his heart.

It surpassed even… that throne.

“I don’t want to be Emperor anymore,” he confessed to his beloved younger brother. “All I want is for you to be safe and happy.”

The Crown Prince failed to notice the shock and anguish in Lan Yihuan’s eyes.

Until the next day, when he saw the little brat fawning over that Third Brother who always opposed him——

“I like Third Brother the most!”

Crown Prince: “!!!!!”

*

The Crown Prince finally understood.

To win Lan Yihuan’s affection, he didn’t need to abandon the throne for him, he needed to——

Work for him!!!

Seriously, who wouldn’t love a stand-in worker who “does the job while you collect the pay”?

The ministers panicked.

Because they noticed the Crown Prince showed more enthusiasm at work than ever before!

—Does raising children also require internal competition?

Finally, the Crown Prince ascended the throne.

Lan Yihuan also reunited with his biological parents, restoring his true identity.

On the day of the coronation, the Emperor exceeded protocol by conferring the title of Regent Prince upon Lan Yihuan, bestowing upon him the title “Chen.”

Thus, throughout this dynasty, all knew that the Emperor lived a life of celibacy, his harem forever empty. His sole, lifelong love was Prince Chen.

Having ascended this throne, my sole wish is to surrender the world to win your favor.

PS: The protagonist is not of Imperial blood; the gong and the shou share no familial ties. No intimate actions occur before the truth of their origins is revealed.

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