After the White Moonlight Faked Their Death, Everyone Went Mad

Xie Qieshen is the Empire's sharpest sword.

He earned a fearsome reputation in his youth, once using his mental power to forcibly destroy the mechs of over a thousand enemy troops. He also infiltrated an enemy planet alone, taking control of it despite suffering severe injuries.

In the combat footage, Xie Qieshen looks down gently, blood spattered across his pale neck. He smiles faintly and raises his eyes, revealing a delicate beauty mark beneath one eye. Against the glaring crimson backdrop, he is breathtaking and utterly terrifying.

He suffered such grievous injuries only to seize an experimental drug from the enemy's research institute, one that could cure the Crown Prince.

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Xie Qieshen grew up studying alongside several heirs in the royal palace. Among the princes, he was the most useful blade.

Everyone tacitly understood the relationships between them, and in private they spun all sorts of scandalous tales about General Xie. Even details like the beauty mark beneath his eye turning red in the morning and his wrist trembling were described as if they were fact.

But on his way home from his final campaign, Xie Qieshen's spaceship exploded.

In his final moments, he discovered that the Crown Prince had orchestrated everything.

Through the agony, barely conscious, Xie Qieshen thought that he had repaid them with his life.

Then he opened his eyes, only to find himself reborn after his own death.

He had been reborn in the body of a young nobleman who had just come of age and looked remarkably like his former self.

Worse still, because of that face, the Second Prince, whose beloved was said to have died, took an interest in him and decided to send him into a political marriage.

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At a royal palace banquet, someone grabbed Xie Qieshen by the wrist in a corridor and pinned him in a corner.

The man before him was not his fiancé, but Lin Fuci, his sworn enemy in his previous life.

He gave his enemy what he hoped was a harmless smile. Lin Fuci, however, grabbed him hard by the jaw and said coldly and maliciously,

"What's with the act? You have that face, so you can marry Hector. But it won't do you any good with me."

Xie Qieshen smiled faintly, thinking coldly to himself.

In his previous life, he had been investigating Lin Fuci's treason. Once he had gathered all the evidence, he would have the emperor cut off his head.

"Really?" As he thought this, he suppressed the glint in his dark eyes, then jerked his head up and yanked Lin Fuci closer.

In the dim light, Xie Qieshen's exquisite, sharp features came into view. His wrist was still held in a painful grip, but he spoke nonchalantly.

"Then why are you looking at me as if you want to kiss me?"

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Please note:

* The protagonist is everyone's unattainable first love. Everyone except the love interest will face a miserable end, and fail.

* Since the protagonist has a betrothal after being reborn, the story may include the much-loved (or much-maligned) bride-stealing plot.

* This is an extremely messy and melodramatic story, and may contain major landmines. If I haven't mentioned something, it may still appear. I'll add warnings for anything I think of before I start posting.

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