My Father Was Pretending in Both LivesMy Father Was Pretending in Both Lives

Synopsis

[If a son does not resemble his father, the father loathes him; if a son resembles his father, the father suspects him] Father and son & rebirth & redemption & doted-on by all In his previous life, Emperor Jianxi, Xiao Lin, was a cold-blooded tyrant known throughout the realm, who had never shown mercy to anyone. Crown Prince Xiao Huaijin was the child his first wife had traded her life for, and should have been cherished in the palm of his hand, yet he was framed for treason by villains, deposed and imprisoned, and to the very end never received a single proper look from his father. On the night of the palace coup, the Second Prince Xiao Yu raised troops to storm the palace. The Crown Prince, dragging his sickly body, rushed out of the Eastern Palace and used his own life to block a fatal blade for Xiao Lin. Before he died he said: "Father, look... your son was very good." At that moment Xiao Lin realized that the only person in his life he had wronged was the one he himself had destroyed. Reborn in a single morning, Xiao Lin returned to when the Crown Prince was not yet as tall as his knee. The little dumpling timidly crouched outside the hall doors, wanting to come close but not daring to. Xiao Lin, as always, kept a cold face, said nothing, explained nothing. But the brick that tripped the Crown Prince would vanish the next day; the brothers who bullied the Crown Prince would inevitably fall into misfortune within three days; and when the Crown Prince stayed up late reading, there was always a cup of warm tea that was never too hot to hold on his desk. The entire court of civil and military officials all believed His Majesty was as cold to the Crown Prince as ever. Yet they did not know that every night, deep in the night, that iron-hearted emperor sat alone by the Crown Prince's bedside, repeating over and over— "...Father is here."