I Played an Otome Game in Space and Became the Rebellion's Spiritual Leader

Li Wei, a well-known game designer, is pulled by the System into a broken interstellar beastfolk dating sim.

She becomes a starving stray kitten, so weak that her eyes glow green.

With everything going wrong from the start, before she can even save herself, the System dumps all her missions on her at once.

The main storyline of the dating sim has collapsed. After players finish winning over the characters, the male leads, who should have loved the heroine until death, all kill her after reaching their happy endings, turning the happy endings into bad ones and driving countless players to mental breakdowns.

Her mission is to reach a happy ending with any one of the male leads without getting killed and turning it into a bad ending.

Li Wei looks at her skin-and-bones body and the enormous “bill” she receives after being sent to a beastfolk hospital for treatment, and her vision goes dark.

Men can wait. Making money to buy her freedom comes first. If she doesn't pay the bill, the authorities in this world will auction her off piece by piece to cover the debt.

Li Wei discovers that beastfolk have powerful mental energy and are prone to going berserk. When they are not fighting, they need entertainment to calm them down. So she picks up her old line of work and makes a dating sim called My Lover Is the Ultimate Weapon.

On launch day, a famous streamer tries the new game. Drawn in by its description of “the ultimate pure-love experience,” he opens it with a sneer, only to be left sobbing uncontrollably after getting hit with the bad ending.

At first, the beastfolk who download it scoff: A lover? Can you eat one?

Later, after experiencing it in first person, they cry, “My hubby/wifey/lover...”

The dating sim sweeps across the entire interstellar network. Countless beastfolk with troubled minds scoff at it, but after seeing recommendations and reviews, they click to play on a trial basis, only to be left in tears, sobbing their hearts out.

Their violent mental energy has calmed down, but the emotional aftershock of being hit with those tragic endings leaves them aching with longing.

Desperate for happy endings with their digital lovers, the beastfolk shower the game with gifts and doggedly play through countless bad endings.

The beastfolk who have been emotionally wrecked: “This lousy game! It took my coins, ruined my youth, and broke my heart. I'm quitting!”

Until someone finally grinds out a happy ending

For the first time ever, the beastfolk across the entire interstellar network are harmonious and friendly.

Mu Zhiheng has no idea what kind of world he is in. Though he possesses independent thought, he can only helplessly watch the world repeat its cycle and fall apart again and again.

When he learns that the world he lives in will reset whenever a certain “person” dies, he turns completely dark.

After investigating, he discovers that his world will only truly be free if the “person” trying to win his affection dies for good.

Then he comes across a dating sim called My Lover Is the Ultimate Weapon, and suddenly everything makes sense.

So

They are only paper characters, designed to be conquered and toyed with.

After spending money to gain top-ranker privileges, he asks the game's creator:

“If the world is fake and our fates are already decided, what are we supposed to do?”

Li Wei receives this philosophical message while chewing a snack and casually replies, “My fate is mine to decide, not heaven's.”

Mu Zhiheng, who has already made up his mind to die: I understand. Thank you.

Li Wei stares at those four characters, lost in thought...

What exactly did this top-ranked player understand?

The next day, the Bluefeather star system launches a rebellion, and the empire suddenly falls into civil war.

Li Wei, who is trying to figure out how to get close to the male lead: Wait, isn't this what she is supposed to do later, after she wins him over?

But the plot somehow plays out on its own. When she sees that she has been branded a rebel leader and put on the wanted list,

Li Wei: ?!!!

Knowing the plot has completely collapsed, Li Wei decides to lie flat. But even so, she still forms bonds with the five male leads from the dating sim.

The wolf-type general is described as having a stern face and an aura as cold as a thousand-year-old glacier. In reality, he is a hardcore cat lover. Though allergic to cat fur, he pets her real form while frantically taking allergy medicine.

The fox-type movie star is described as charming and burdened with countless romantic debts. But when he saves her, he merely touches her hand and inexplicably blushes, then proceeds to win himself over with frantic self-delusion, becoming absurdly devoted.

The leopard-type noble young master is described as a pure and passionate ray of sunshine. In reality, he is a deranged, sinister obsessive, his mind full of imprisonment, possession, and coercive love. The way he looks at her sends chills down her spine.

The snake-type upperclassman is described as gentle and full of love for life. Then his identity is exposed: he is the most ruthless and bloodthirsty leader of the rebel army. He remains gentle toward her and insists on inviting her to become the rebel leader's wife.

The rabbit-type boy is described as a soft, obedient, tearful healer. To fight alongside her, he sobs uncontrollably while smashing invading insect soldiers' heads with his tiny fists, then tearfully begs her to comfort him.

Li Wei: This world has completely gone off the rails.

Theme: Life requires the courage to keep moving forward