I’ll be continuing this from where it was left off by the previous translator. This is the third arc.
Grand Tutor, Will You Marry Me?
Dong Haoyang opened his eyes laboriously.
He was cold and hot and felt very uncomfortable. His throat was dry and hoarse as if it was burning. He moved his body and found that it was a bit disengaged. He struggled for a while before he managed to make a sound.
“Water-” The voice was dry and coarse.
“Madam! Young Master is awake!” The maid in a green dress standing by the bed was surprised to see Dong Haoyang awake.
A beautiful woman of more than 30 cried and threw herself on Dong Haoyang with heart-breaking tears trickling down her face. “My poor son! How could you be so careless! Let Mother see how you are.”
Dong Haoyan opened his mouth, but it was hard to make a sound. At this time, the maid came over with a bowl of water, and the beautiful woman hurriedly took it. With the help of the maid, she helped Dong Haoyang up and fed him. Only then did Dong Haoyang feel much more comfortable, yet he felt exhausted and he fell asleep again.
In his sleep, Dong Haoyan remembered what had happened.
After his good apprentice had created the SSS class mecha, he felt that it was no longer challenging inside the academy, so after bidding his brother and good apprentice goodbye, he began his interstellar travels. Unfortunately, in the second year of his travels, the ship he was traveling in encountered a particle storm and the entire ship was instantly wrecked.
As he scoffed that he was about to take a trip to hell, a voice suddenly popped up inside his head.
“I’m the God of this world. Would you like to live on?”
Although Dong Haoyang was surprised, he nodded immediately. Then dizziness struck him, and he was sent to this place. There was a wall of light in his mind, which narrated the price he had to pay to live, the background of this world, and what would have happened.
His mission was to prevent the future Yanning Emperor from succeeding to the throne.
Emperor Yanning, now known as the Ninth Prince Hengrui, was a lustful and tyrannical ruler who never gave a damn about the people. During the three years of his reign, he built huge palaces and observation decks in many places, for which he imposed forced labor and made the people suffer. Not only that, because of his massive construction projects, the state treasury was tight and couldn’t afford the construction of his next palace. Tens of thousands of people were starved to death in the years of drought coupled with heavy taxation. The people had been grieving for a long time and had no choice but to rise up in revolt for survival, but Emperor Yanning ordered a bloody suppression. The courtiers were furious at Emperor Yanning’s so they wrote to admonish him. Emperor Yanning was enraged that he sentenced all the courtiers to a hundred strokes of the cane, and the two leaders were even executed. For a period, blood flowed in rivers in Yuanning Kingdom.
Although Emperor Yuanning’s regime was quickly overthrown in the end, everything he had done before had so debilitated the Yuanning Kingdom that there was no way to restore it to its former glory within a few years.
Dong Haoyang’s current circumstances, on the other hand, was quite interesting. The body owner’s grandfather, Dong Boyu, was the right minister of Shangshu Province. He was in charge of the Ministry of War, Justice, and Industry with great authority, and was appointed by the Emperor himself as the GrandMaster between the previous period. Whereas Dong Haoyang’s father, Dong Wenbai, was much worse. He was only a young minister in the Imperial Court, in charge of the Emperor’s horses. Compared to his grandfather, who was full of wisdom and knowledge, his father was really a bit of a loser. Not only was his knowledge poor, his character couldn’t be picked out as good. Emperor Yuan Jing was so impressed by his grandfather’s accomplishments that he reluctantly handed his father the vacant post of Young Minister of the Court of Imperial Stables.
Dong Wenbai wasn’t learned, but he was quite obsessed with love. When he was young, he wrote a lot of love poems that made the young girls blush all over their faces. At the age of 20, Dong Wenbai’s parents arranged his marriage to Ji Wenhui, the daughter of the Assistant Minister of War of the Ji family, who was an outstanding lady. Ji Wenhui was a sensible, stable, and dignified lady. However, she was too solemn and uninteresting for Dong Wenbai’s liking. After four years of marriage and the birth of a son, Wenbai once again sank into the world of the ladies.
Not long after, Dong Wenbai brought back a gorgeous and quite charming woman, and insisted on taking her as his concubine. Dong Boyu almost beat him to death in his fury. The woman at first glance looked like she was from an indecent place. How could Dong Boyu agree to his son taking a woman from inside a brothel into his home? But Dong Wenbai forced him to a dead end, because the woman was already pregnant. At the urging of his grandmother, Dong Boyu finally relented and let the unclean woman into the house.
Soon after, the woman gave birth to a son. Dong Wenbai was overjoyed that he doted on the child and named him Dong Zhe’an. The child was also Dong Haoyang’s younger half-brother. The two were four years apart, the same age difference as himself and Dong Qingzhan, but the difference in character between Dong Zhe’an and Dong Qingzhan was very different.
Naturally, Dong Qingzhan was the cloud and Dong Zhe’an was the mud.
He and the owner of the body have the same name, and looked exactly identical. The reason the original owner lost his life was because he fell into a pond. Since he couldn’t drink all the water and the pond was dug deep, the original owner of the body drowned. It was for this reason that Dong Haoyang woke up hot and cold, and extremely uncomfortable.
Everyone thought he was reading on the rockery next to the pond, and accidentally fell into the pond. But in reality, he was pushed in. And the person who pushed him was his half-brother, Dong Zhe’an, who was cowardly on the surface, but was in fact treacherous and cunning.
When everyone’s impression of Dong Zhe’an remained timid and cowardly, the host was trapped by him countless times. The host once saw Dong Zhe’an when he had an accident, and questioned him when he woke up if he was the culprit, only to be severely reprimanded by his father. Although his mother believed him, there was nothing she could do about it.
A trace of amusement flashed in Dong Haoyang’s eyes, suddenly feeling that this world was also interesting.
According to the original course of the world, the original body died in the fall into the water. And as the concubine’s son, Dong Zhe’an, as the only male son of the Dong family, naturally inherited the family properties.
What was even more interesting was that Dong Zhe’an took the family property and married a general named Tian Yi.
According to that light wall, romance between men in this world wasn’t common, but it was recognized. However, rarely of the big families would marry a man. After all, passing on the heritage was of importance. At most, they would only be taken as a male concubine. Dong Zhe’an, on the other hand, had been in love with General Tian since he was a child and vowed to marry him as a man’s wife. And the only thing he relied on to become a proper wife as a man was the huge family property of the host. So under his mother’s guidance, he planned to rob the host’s fortune for himself.
In fact, he succeeded. Not only did he secure this share of the Dong family fortune, but he also engineered a romantic affair with General Tian and managed to marry into the Tian family to become Tian Yi’s righteous wife.
The story of Dong Zhe’an didn’t end there.
Emperor Yanning was tyrannical and ruthless; the courtiers were already resentful; and Tian Yi, who served as a General of the Flying Cavalry, was likewise discontented. However, because of his loyalty to the Yuanning Kingdom, he only advised Emperor Yanning, but never turned his heart against him. At that time, Dong Zhe’an, who was already Tian Yi’s wife, was very dissatisfied. He designed to kill Tian Yi’s entire family, then pushed the blame all onto Emperor Yanning.
When Tian Yi offered advice to Emperor Yanning in the Imperial Court that day, Emperor Yanning flew into rage and smashed his head with a ruler, and promised to kill his whole family. Tian Yi ignored it at that time. But when he returned home, he found corpses lying everywhere, and the only one left alive was his wife. When Dong Zhe’an woke up, he panicked and fearfully described to Tian Yi how they had been assassinated. He had escaped death by playing dead after his own serious injury. As if jolted by a thought, Dong Zhe’an told Tian Yi that he had accidentally seen a tattoo on the arm of one of them. After hearing Dong Zhe’an’s description, Tian Yi’s eyes cracked in fury because that tattoo was etched on the body of Emperor Yanning’s secret guard.
After his family was slaughtered, Tian Yi’s rage was so overwhelming that he immediately summoned his troops and staged a coup. It was called “Execution of the Heavenly Wishes”.
The tyranny and cruelty of Emperor Yanningleft him without any public support in the court, even among the palace guards. When Tian Yi started the siege, the palace guards didn’t stop him, but instead led the way for them. 81 secret guards were Emperor Yanning’s only escort, but although they were highly skilled in martial arts, they were no match for a thousand elite soldiers and were killed in just one hour.
Emperor Yanning eventually died in Tian Yi’s hands.
His head was hung in front of the city for three days and suffered countless people’s spitefulness, with rotten vegetable leaves and rotten eggs being thrown at his head incessantly. If it weren’t for fear of splashing themselves, people would have even thrown dung on him. The depth of the people’s grievances was evident.
Three days later, Tian Yi ascended to the throne as the new Emperor, named Yuan Qi, and issued a series of decrees to alleviate taxes and corvée, much to the joy of the people. On the other hand, Dong Zhe’an became the first male Empress in history. He was praised by all the officials and loved by the people for his wit and intelligence, and for having helped Emperor Yuan Qi solve his political problems many times.
After watching all this historical progression, Dong Haoyang couldn’t help but quirk his lips up, his eyes shining with interest.
“I’m certain there’ll be no lack of fun in the future.”
As for his mission of stopping Emperor Yanning, he had two choices; one was to stop Emperor Yanning from becoming the Emperor, the other was to turn him into a good Emperor.
Dong Haoyan’s alluring eyes rose up in a subtle arc, looking charming and bewitching.
Wouldn’t it be fun to teach a tyrannical prince to be a benevolent and good Emperor?
Peek-Aboo 
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