I Don't Want to Be the Emperor of a Fallen Kingdom

Romance Conquest System 8528 is a seasoned System that has completed many missions. Its Hosts have come from feudal, industrial, information, and interstellar societies. It doesn't much like taking on Hosts from the first two, since it has to explain what a System is.

For its latest mission, 8528 bound itself to a feudal-era girl... boy... probably a girl?

No matter. A woman would be better suited to the System's mission objective!

But it never dreamed this Host would be reborn!

Worst of all, the most urgent task now was to provide its new Host with psychological treatment and find a way to carve out a path to survival :)

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Xu Shen, raised as a prince from childhood, died on the road into exile at eighteen. When he closed his eyes and opened them again, he had returned to the age of nine, less than a month away from his bloody accession to the throne and the future in which he would be shunted from place to place.

Xu Shen's heart had already given up. He'd originally hoped to struggle a little.

What could he possibly do in less than a month? The future held nothing but days trapped like a caged beast. Better to lie flat and wait for death. Maybe that way he could live a little longer.

When Romance Conquest System 8528 bound itself to him, Xu Shen didn't even panic. Calm and pessimistic, he told 8528, "I have only nine years left to live. Do you think I have the heart for romance and love? Let's talk about staying alive first."

8528 was shocked. "You're only nine! In nine years, you'll only be eighteen! And how do you know you'll only live to eighteen?!"

This was a disaster! The years after eighteen were the golden age for a System like her to complete missions! What was the point if her Host died at eighteen?

Xu Shen, pessimistically waiting for death, told her indifferently that he had been reborn. 8528 was shocked again. "Out of thousands of worlds, an event like rebirth might happen only once in hundreds or thousands of years, and it happened to you! Aren't you the chosen one?"

She rolled up her electronic sleeves. "The strong never complain about their circumstances. Your granny here has strength and methods to spare. Come on, let's conquer a path to survival!"

Tips:

The protagonist isn't morally upright, and can even be ruthless and unscrupulous. Read with caution.

The female lead was raised as a boy from childhood. She's an unloved fake prince, and even the author doesn't know whether she'll openly appear as a woman by the end.

Theme: Never give up, and there's still hope.