Why Are All the Villain's Underlings Traitors?

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Fang Yunjian died while playing a game and transmigrated into the interstellar world of a book, becoming the ruler of the Norsen Empire, a tyrant who held absolute power.

In the original story, the tyrant relied on his immensely powerful and utterly loyal army to rule arbitrarily, levy exorbitant taxes, treat human lives as worthless, and wage endless wars. Under his rule, the Empire's people lived in misery. In the end, he was defeated by the Moya Empire, where the male lead was from, and the tyrant killed himself on his throne, ending his notorious life.

Sitting on the throne, Fang Yunjian looked at the crowd kneeling below. Their name indicators were "a sea of red, with a few scattered spots of green," and he fell into deep thought.

He's completely surrounded by red names. Tyrant, if you don't fail, who will?

The good news: since his transmigration had been an accident, Fang Yunjian received a little compensation. He was permanently immune to pain, and no matter how badly injured he was, he couldn't die.

The bad news: the male lead's plot-mandated kill was not covered by that last part. If he was killed, he would really die!

There was nothing for it. Fang Yunjian had to maintain his tyrant persona as best he could while doing everything in his power to hold on to the few green names he had left.

He took the green names' advice, avenged them when they were hurt, looked after their lives, and if a green name wanted his life, he would stab himself without hesitation...

After all that effort, his plans were indeed a resounding success

Every green name turned red.

Seeing no hope at all, Fang Yunjian gave up resisting and sank into despair. When he tried to kill himself out of boredom, his former green-name subordinates, now red, pretended to panic and stopped him.

He could only think how agonizing it was to wait for death. He wished the male lead would just kill him the next second.

Until the day enemy warships came to their borders. Fang Yunjian watched as all the red names joined forces to fight the enemy, protecting him on every side.

At last, he realized something was wrong.

In the game, red and green names represented enemies and allies. In this world, they represented only factions.

And Fang Yunjian was the ruler of the red faction.

The Norsen Empire was the most mysterious power in the interstellar world.

People always liked to make things up and disparage what they could not understand. So, according to the rumors, not a blade of grass grew in the Norsen Empire, the supreme emperor was abandoned by everyone, and those around him were all waiting for a chance to kill their ruler.

When war broke out and the Norsen Empire emerged victorious, revealing its true face to the entire interstellar world, all anyone could see was a prosperous city that shone through the chaos, and people who were cheerful, warm, and full of hope

And before a crowd of ministers kneeling in reverent loyalty, amid a surging sea of cheers, the ruler sat quietly on his throne, his eyes lowered as he gazed upon the world like a god.

Those rumors led me astray! Those rumors led me astray!

[We came with ulterior motives.

We gained trust through deception,

We showed our abilities amid doubt,

We saw ourselves in the desire to kill,

We saw what was broken in our submission.

May the glory of the Empire

never fall]

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1. The gong is the personal guard who protects and serves the shou, and the first person to change from a green name to a red name.

2. Because the shou cannot die and for other reasons, there will be many scenes where other people misunderstand him, imagine things about him, and feel sorry for him.

3. There are also other supporting characters who have one-sided feelings for the shou. They'll compete and fight over him, but from beginning to end, the shou only responds to the gong.

4. I'll add more if I think of anything.

Theme: Sincerity will always be answered.