[Proud, aloof, and precious, yet adorably contrasting, a beloved little prince on the bottom × a vying, possessive arms dealer consort on top]
Miyu is currently the most popular legend at Saint Flos Royal Academy.
There is no one else.
He is the second son of the empire's chief president and the royal family member with the greatest public influence. Ever since birth, he has been the darling of the people and a prodigy admired by the whole world.
Unfortunately, he is a frail, short-lived invalid, precious and fragile as glass.
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Miyu died after being assassinated, tragically, at the end of his first academic year.
The public protested, the academy shut its doors, and the whole empire mourned him.
Miyu came back to life, reborn on the day he first enrolled.
The good news: after being reborn, he was neither sick nor weak anymore.
The bad news: well, his corpse, er, his body was not quite functioning properly. Little things went wrong from time to time.
The strange thing was, everyone at the academy looked at him as if they had seen a ghost.
Miyu was puzzled. He touched his face. "But nothing's changed at all?"
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He had no idea that, ever since his first day at the academy, the school forum had been in an uproar, cursing him out:
"What is this?! This year's special-admission students are unbelievably brazen! There's actually a freshman daring to impersonate His Highness!!! And apparently he's a mute who can't speak???"
"Did he get his face made to look like His Highness??? What kind of cloned sheep is this? Expel him already!!!"
"Agreed! Does he think that because His Highness is sick and absent from school, he can take his place?! The nerve!!!"
"I can't stand this! It's an insult to His Highness!!! Where are F4 and the Prince Squad? Get over here and kick him out, now!!!"
*At Saint Flos Royal Academy, everyone from nearly the entire school is considered part of the Prince Squad, with Miyu at the center and F4 forming the radius.
Besides their noble, illustrious backgrounds, exceptional talents, and flawless good looks, F4 are all devoted followers of His Highness Miyu.
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F2 comes from the Federation's foremost medical family. He's F1's best buddy, with a gentle appearance and a mild temperament, making him the easiest member of the Prince Squad to talk to.
As the eldest son of the royal family's personal physicians, he'll inherit his father's title and become His Highness's personal health advisor.
F3 comes from the oldest archbishop family in the Holy City. Red-haired and green-eyed, he's playful and unruly, second only to F1 in his nasty, capricious streak.
As the next royal oracle, he made a mistake during a royal celebration when he was seven. His Highness Miyu rescued him with a single sentence, and from then on he prayed and performed rites for His Highness day and night.
F4's identity is sensitive. This foreign prince, with brown hair and blue eyes, comes from one of the most remote countries on the Central Continent.
During a civil war, his family seized power with the Federation's help. He enrolled for political reasons, and especially to build a good relationship with His Highness Miyu, the most popular figure in both the Empire and the Federation.
Miyu, who had only been to school twice in his previous life: ...F4? No idea. Never heard of them.
Were they those people his older brother had forbidden him to meet?
But one man looked very familiar. Miyu remembered him as his future "consort."
Miyu vaguely recalled that, before the assassination, his consort had been insisting on breaking off their engagement.
Oh, so his consort was F1.
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Then someone saw with their own eyes the new special-admission student casually coming and going from F1's private lounge, relying on his face that looked just like the prince's.
The "fake" who should have been reduced to a public lackey was not only left alone, but anyone who tried to approach him received warnings one after another.
Even the other three staunch supporters of His Highness fell at the feet of this mute special-admission student.
The whole academy was shocked, and the entire Central Continent was in an uproar.
Rumors soon spread like wildfire: "The future consort has betrayed the prince and fallen for a poor student."
Miyu: Why does that sound kind of familiar...?
For once, the royal family's official account remained silent. Just as public opinion was about to collapse, a low-key clarification appeared.
It came from Miyu's personal social media account: Thank you all for your concern for us. We're having a great time going to school together! @Yuchi Ling.
Content warnings:
① Reborn, not transmigrated into a book. Warning: lots of old-school melodramatic tropes and plotlines.
② Mimi is the absolute center of the whole story, with the highest status of all! The ultimate VIP among VIPs. When he returns after being reborn early in the story, his original self is still alive, so he's mistaken for a fake special-admission student. But anyone who dares bully him is doomed.
③ 1v1. The genuine consort is F1, and there's a very important reason!
④ The original Miyu and the reborn Miyu are fundamentally the same soul in the same body. There will be some selfcest, but not much.
⑤ Mimi is the second son, but that doesn't matter. His older brother is the ultimate younger-brother-obsessed type, with a hint of incest. His brother will become president in the future because he wants Mimi to succeed him as king!
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