I Was Transported into a Game and Joined the Villain's Rebellion

What's it like for a game designer to transmigrate into their own game?

Xi Lanqing: “Thanks for asking. I was sent back to my hometown, had just gotten off the carriage, and then news came from the capital that the emperor was dead. My hometown is now controlled by the main antagonist, and he wants me to join his rebellion!”

The Winds of a Great Nation was the first game Xi Lanqing designed after graduating. It was built around political intrigue, warfare, infrastructure, and unifying territory, with plenty of exhilarating wish fulfillment. He had just finished the proposal and was about to submit it to a major company when Xi Lanqing transmigrated into the game he had designed, accompanied by a System calling itself “the strongest game.”

The System said that if he wanted to make The Winds of a Great Nation the strongest game, he had to lead by example and guide the players through the joys of gaming.

So when the city walls fell and the buildings collapsed, he moved bricks with his bare hands and taught the players how to rebuild the walls. When foreign forces invaded, he donned armor, took up a sword, and led troops against the enemy, helping the players rack up huge amounts of experience. When the capital fell, he carefully coordinated plans on every front, seized it back, and made it his own...

Once the players became more and more hooked on the game and could play just fine without his guidance, Xi Lanqing decided to step back and become a behind-the-scenes game GM. He never expected the main antagonist to refuse to let him go, and to have him dragged back in the middle of the night.

“The realm is within our grasp. How can Yining stand by and do nothing?”

Having heard that the young son of the Minister of Revenue was a useless pretty boy, good at neither letters nor martial arts, Yun Zunyue thought he could make use of him and invited him to his residence. But he fell for him at first sight, and repeatedly wavered between the beauty and his great cause.

Xi Lanqing had never seen such a wishy-washy antagonist. He kept saying he was going to rebel, but never got around to it. Instead, every day he came by to fuss over Xi Lanqing. Everything was ready, so why wasn't he going through with it?

After a long struggle, Yun Zunyue finally decided to give up his grand ambitions and enjoy some romantic time with the beauty. But when he came to his senses, the beauty had already led everyone into the capital and marched straight to the imperial palace.

Yun Zunyue: “And you call this a useless pretty boy?!”

After they captured the imperial palace, the beauty ran off, leaving him a message: “The realm is yours. Until we meet again!”

Yun Zunyue flew into a rage when he read it and had the gorgeous beauty kidnapped back in the middle of the night. “Compared with you, what is the realm worth?”

A seemingly frail beauty who can move bricks with his bare hands and works as a GM, the receiver x a fake playboy who secretly trains troops and is always ready to rebel, the giver

Content warnings:

* Players as an invading force, ancient setting with no fantasy elements

* Plot-focused, with a slow-burn romance

* This is a fictional world, and every setting serves the story. The author's writing is amateurish, and many things won't stand up to close scrutiny, so please don't overthink them.

* The receiver is a stunning beauty, so the giver does fall for him because of his looks, but won't force him. He's also not blinded by love and can always be relied upon to keep the bigger picture in mind.

Theme: Every generation brings forth new talent, each shining in its own way for centuries!