Your Majesty, He Pretended for Two Lifetimes

[If a child does not resemble the father, the father dislikes him; if a child does resemble the father, the father distrusts him] Father and son, reincarnation, redemption, and a group-favorite story.

In his previous life, Emperor Jianxi, Xiao Lin, was known throughout the world as a cold-blooded tyrant who showed mercy to no one.

Crown Prince Xiao Huaijing was the child his legitimate wife risked her life to give birth to. He should have been treasured in the palm of the emperor’s hand, but he was falsely accused by villains of rebellion, stripped of his title, and imprisoned, never once receiving even a glance from his father before he died.

On the night of the palace coup, the Second Prince Xiao Yu rose in rebellion and forced his way into the palace. The crown prince dragged his sickly body out of the Eastern Palace and used his own life to block the fatal blade for Xiao Lin. Before dying, he said, "Father, look... your son was very obedient." Only then did Xiao Lin realize that the only person he had ever truly wronged in this life was the one he had destroyed with his own hands.

After being reborn, Xiao Lin returns to the time when the crown prince is not even as tall as his knee.

The little dumpling cowers timidly outside the palace gate, wanting to come closer but not daring to.

Xiao Lin is still as cold-faced as ever, saying nothing and explaining nothing.

But the brick that made the crown prince trip will disappear the next day. The brothers who bullied the crown prince will have terrible luck within three days. When the crown prince stays up late reading, there will always be a cup of warm tea on the desk that is not too hot to touch.

All the civil and military officials think the emperor is as indifferent to the crown prince as before. They do not know that every late night, that iron-hearted emperor sits alone by the crown prince’s bed, repeating over and over:

"...Father is here."