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This paper examines Meatbun Doesn’t Eat Meat’s The Husky and His White Cat Shizun (ERHA) as a significant text within the contemporary danmei (Chinese BL) genre. Moving beyond its surface as a romantic fantasy, the paper argues that ERHA functions as a complex psychological narrative that deconstructs the conventional “tyrant” archetype through the mechanisms of rebirth, retroactive memory, and ritualistic suffering. By analyzing the protagonist Mo Ran’s journey from a genocidal emperor to a repentant disciple, this paper explores the novel’s core thematic preoccupations: the cyclical nature of trauma, the ontology of evil (nature vs. nurture), and the proposition of atonement as an embodied, violent process rather than a spiritual abstraction.

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Traditional xianxia narratives often present villains as inherently corrupt or power-hungry. ERHA complicates this by framing Mo Ran’s tyranny as a product of compounded trauma: the loss of his mother, starvation as a child, manipulation by the secondary antagonist (Shi Mei), and—crucially—the suppression of his own memories. In his first life, Mo Ran embodies what philosopher Hannah Arendt termed the “banality of evil”; his atrocities (including the massacre of an entire sect and the mutilation of his master) are not calculated but desperate, reactive acts of a broken psyche. By showing the “evil emperor” as a suffering child, the novel forces a reconsideration of moral judgment, suggesting that villainy is less a choice than a wound left to fester. This paper examines Meatbun Doesn’t Eat Meat’s The