The textbooks in Tang's elementary schools say, "Our Great Tang has vast territory." In reality, it's all there for the pirates to plunder. They can come and loot you whenever they like.
The textbooks in Tang's middle schools say, "Our Great Tang has a vast population." In reality, it's all there for the markets to exploit. They can sell you off whenever they like.
The textbooks in Tang's universities say, "Our Great Tang is free, equal, civilized, and progressive." In reality, the college students are all crying out, "We don't want equality or freedom. We just want to stay alive."
In Galactic Year 1688, the Pirate Empire swept across the galaxy, unstoppable. The last republic, Tang, was like an isolated island caught in the tide of history. No matter how you looked at it, it was doomed.
Li Mo, nicknamed Li Xiaobai, is delicate and sickly, and always getting into trouble. He's a spoiled young aristocrat, and his only redeeming quality is having a good father. Yet the heavens have thrust a great burden upon him. The universe has no eyes, and for some reason, the mission of saving a doomed world has fallen to him. Before Li Xiaobai has even grown up to become Li Bai, he is already unwillingly saddled with two great historical missions: first, to become king, and second, to save his country.
Ye Xiangyun was once named Lu Xiangyun. She's a brilliant, all-around talent, a heroine in her own right. Her only shortcoming is having a deadbeat father. Yet with neither her grandmother's affection nor her uncle's love, she insists on taking it upon herself to save a doomed world. As soon as Lu Xiangyun changes her name to Ye Xiangyun, she resolves to achieve two great ambitions: first, to become king, and second, to save her country.
Men and women working together makes the work easy. In the year the Emperor of Tang stirred up trouble, Li Xiaobai was twelve and Ye Xiangyun was twenty-eight. Together they were exactly forty, just enough to meet the minimum age to run for emperor.
