After Restarting the Game, I Became the Most Popular Person in the Galaxy

Zhong Yue played a holographic interstellar dating game and cleared it with ease. She just accidentally strayed from the intended route, turning a perfectly good romance route into a power fantasy about conquest. By the late game, she had conquered the entire universe, become its one and only ruler, and left the whole world without a single opponent.

Then she looked back at the ending:

Everyone gets a bad ending. Congratulations, player, on unlocking the hidden endings [Lonely Throne] and [Calamity Tyrant].

Zhong Yue: "..."

This ending was sort of right, but also not quite. No matter, she eagerly prepared to start a second playthrough. She had gone off track last time, but this time she would turn over a new leaf, learn from her mistakes, and focus on romance, aiming for a perfect Happy Ending for everyone!

The only thing was, all the romance options in the second playthrough seemed way too easy to win over.

In the first playthrough, the imperial crown prince had been overthrown and his country destroyed by her on her path to conquering the universe. He had originally been cool, rational, and stubborn, never willing to say an extra word to her, and had ultimately died in battle for his empire.

In the second playthrough, he suddenly came right up to her and declared, "The empire should have been gone ages ago," even urging her to destroy it soon so she could become its ruler and make him her queen.

In the first playthrough, the powerful and domineering ruler of the Ninth Star Domain, the universe's strongest merman, had been arrogant and self-absorbed, treating her as his sworn enemy. She had killed him herself, and he had died saying he would hate her forever.

But in the second playthrough, he suddenly left the Ninth Star Domain, which he had never been willing to leave, and followed her around with a gentle expression, trying to raise her like a child. Whenever he had the chance, he asked how many merfolk she wanted to have.

In the first playthrough, she had also had a loyal, powerful, and steady half-mechanical general, rational and restrained, undefeated on the battlefield. In the second playthrough, he suddenly went crazy, abandoning the battlefield to become her househusband, even openly declaring that he wanted to be her dog.

Even the artificial intelligence whose core she had modified in the first playthrough started making yandere-like declarations in the second, as if it had completely broken down.

Faced with all this, Zhong Yue simply smiled in silence. Yeah, she had no idea. Surely none of this had anything to do with her, right?

After all, she had been very restrained this time around. She had absolutely no desire to conquer the world again out of boredom. She had been diligently preparing for romance the whole time. Maybe the game had a bug.

Anyway, they're all throwing themselves at her, how great!

Zhong Yue wasn't opposed to it at all. In fact, she recommended adding more. Players liked completing every route, and besides, they were all the ones who took the bait!

A dating game? Easy as pie!

In the old calendar year 732 of the Starsea Era, the great ruler Zhong Yue, later known as the "Calamity Tyrant," burst onto the scene, united the Third Star Domain, and established humanity's first empire. Twelve years later, she united all nine star domains.

Then she went on to destroy the entire universe with her own hands.

Everyone knew that the queen was forever exalted above them, volatile and capricious. She saw no one, caring only about the boundaries of her universe. All anyone could do was look up to her.

Many people loved the queen, but no one ever dared to cross the line.

Many hated her so much they went mad, but no one could get within a step of her either.

But whether they loved her or hated her, not one of them knew why the queen had suddenly decided to destroy the world.

"There is no love in this world that I want," the ruler replied in the moment before the world was destroyed.

And so the plan to "kill the tyrant" began.

Return to twenty years earlier and give her all the love in the world.

Find her, make her yours, or let her make you hers.

[Reader Advisory]:

1. An invincible Mary Sue power fantasy. The heroine gets whatever she wants, and she doesn't have much of a moral compass. In her first playthrough, she was a real fourth-dimensional disaster.

2. This is not a strong female lead story. The heroine is the strongest, except in the early stages, but all the grand, impressive elements serve the romance. The author is very much a simple-minded romantic who loves seeing the heroine dominate in her career. Readers who want little to no romance and don't want men bothering the heroine should stay away.

3. The author's tastes are extremely varied, and their collection includes all kinds of stories. Readers who are particular about an author's preferences should enter at their own risk!

4. No problematic multiple-partner relationships.

Theme: Be enterprising and strive to do your best.