[Two male leads + young child in the early chapters + everyone faces a redemption arc]
In college, Shen Jue played a strategy management game where he ruled over the human race in another world.
A hardcore min-maxer, Shen Jue chose to boost his people's racial stats, turning humanity from livestock at the bottom of the food chain into a mighty empire.
But the stats got so high that the System accused him of cheating and started punishing him.
No matter what Shen Jue did, the game always ended badly:
His subjects and subordinates rose up, overthrew his rule, and killed him.
After his death, he was branded a tyrant and reviled for generations.
Furious, Shen Jue deleted the game and quit.
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But ten years later, Shen Jue dies from working overtime and finds himself inside the game world.
Every face beyond the summoning circle belongs to a subject who once killed him!
Shen Jue slowly exhales his soul. "This is the end for me."
Why are they still trying to kill me?!
But instead of killing him, the new king picks him up tenderly.
The subjects who betrayed him kneel at his feet, kissing the tops of his shoes and begging for forgiveness.
Shen Jue is baffled.
What do you mean, you know you were wrong?
Who are you calling a wise king? Wasn't I a tyrant?
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The wise king Sylves is the treasure of the human race.
He tears down the temples that worship the demon race, opens iron mines, invents firearms, establishes schools, raises silkworms and spins silk. Even after being poisoned unconscious, he samples every herb, pouring his heart and soul into building light and heavy industry, medicine, education, and more for humanity...
But the people were blinded by the evil god, and believed he was a demon who sought to destroy their faith.
While he lived, everyone hated him, hating him for resisting.
They could have survived as slaves to the demon race, so why force them to take up arms and fight to the death?
Only after he died did they begin to miss him, realizing that the world would never again have a god as benevolent as he was.
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