Bring an Alpha Aboard

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Novel blurb:

The first thing everyone in the Star Alliance knows: Dai Jizheng, the youngest captain, has an ex who became emperor in a neighboring empire. That ex is now dead.

The second thing everyone in the Star Alliance knows: Dai Jizheng brought Professor Shang aboard his ship, and the professor looks just like his ex. He's obviously a stand-in.

If he's a stand-in, they'll inevitably get divorced. But when Dai Jizheng goes to file the paperwork, he discovers...

Civil Affairs Bureau: H-hello. According to your prenuptial agreement, ownership of the Apton Empire, currently under your spouse's name, will be transferred to... you?

Dai Jizheng: ???

The next day, Apton's new emperor is crowned. It's none other than Captain Dai's ex and stand-in, and the empire formally sends the Star Alliance a marriage proposal.

Star Alliance: For the sake of peace in the universe, how about you go marry into their royal family?

Dai Jizheng: ???

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In his previous life, Qin Xiao was a military general. After transmigrating, he somehow ended up as the crown prince's tutor.

As the saying goes, a military general teaching culture means a student is bound to fail the imperial exams. In short: a disaster.

And that unlucky prince is none other than Sui Xu, the little brat Qin Xiao raised in his previous life. What can he do? He'll just have to bluff his way through.

Qin Xiao's lesson: Confucius said, "One should persuade others with reason."

The young wolf Sui Xu immediately grabs a knife: "What's there to say? Cut him down!"

Sui Xu: ...

Although the Sui family has an unwritten tradition of sacrificing the imperial tutor to heaven whenever a new emperor ascends the throne, Qin Xiao originally thought Sui Xu was too reckless to ever become emperor. That was fine by him. He'd enjoy each carefree day as it came.

But he never expected Sui Xu to return from the battlefield at eighteen and rise straight to the throne, where he was crowned emperor.

Qin Xiao packed his things that very night and ran for it.

Qin Xiao: Why wouldn't I run? Should I wait for that brat to sacrifice me to heaven?

A month later, a small town in the southern border gains a new schoolteacher.

"Sir, I heard you used to work at the palace. Have you ever met the emperor?" a child asks.

Qin Xiao smiles with narrowed eyes. "No, I've never met him. We don't know each other."

"You don't know each other?"

A familiar, chilling voice rings out from behind him.

"Qin Xiao, are you going to leave me behind a second time?"

Theme: Peace in the universe concerns us all