After Being Forced Out of Office, the Once-Hated Nun Eloped with Me

After establishing a unified Human Empire, Yang Hao was falsely accused and forced from power because he had distributed benefits unevenly among the nobles, the church, and the landowners. Not one of the people he had supported ever spoke up for him. Or perhaps they were simply unable to. The incident came to be known as the [Silent Exile].

After returning in humiliation to the village where it had all begun, he was greeted not by the friends he had once helped, nor by the village chief who had once saved his life, but by the annoying nun Teresa, with whom he had never gotten along.

"Did you come all this way just to mock me?"

"It's certainly amusing to see you in such a sorry state, but there's no place for you in this country anymore. Here, bread for a homeless, scrawny little puppy. Don't dwell on it. Those wicked women have nothing to do with you now. Come with me."

...Ten years later.

"I've come to reclaim what's mine."

As the allied forces of the elves and demons attacked the Human Empire, now fractured by internal strife and external threats, every human could see that the man hailed as king by the elves and monsters was none other than the regent they had driven away all those years ago, with the nun at his side.