The Empire’s Darling Flower: A Performance Guide [Interstellar]

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Beautiful, delicate, lazy general (shou): Actually, he's neither delicate nor weak.

Perfectly image-conscious top-tier star emperor (gong): His public image is all a facade.

Plot and romance, happy ending, both virgins, no angst, mutual pampering.

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While everyone else transmigrated into books, Xia En ended up in a game, specifically a space-war game.

Other people transmigrated into books and turned their lives around in spectacular fashion. His game's ending had the entire world wiped out.

Other people had a System. He had one too, but his was an untamed System.

Other people gained followers by joining livestreamed reality shows. He went on reality shows to wreck the place and send people to their graves.

Other people acted cute and sweet while hiding their true colors, winning over villains. He dropped his delicate-flower act and tried to set himself up as a strong, powerful type, only to be won over by the villain... No, wait, put through the wringer by the villain...

Xia En: That's enough, isn't it? My back hurts.

Lei Yi: I'll rub it for you. A little massage will make it feel better.

The game is set in the year 3967 of the Galactic Era. Xia En is a good-for-nothing with zero psychic power, playing the role of a fallen noble who is bullied by everyone.

Emperor Lei Yi, who possesses the highest level of psychic power, is ruthless and seemingly invincible. In private, however, he needs emotional suppressants to stay stable.

Human emotions? They don't exist.

Until one day...

Lei Yi lost control of his psychic power and accidentally kissed Xia En. Everyone discovered that Xia En was the only person immune to psychic power.

The delicate flower had become His Majesty's emotional stabilizer?!

The tyrant had become a devoted husband? The plot was starting to change direction.

The frail beauty who had barely registered in the story suddenly became terrifyingly powerful, and everyone who had bullied Xia En got their comeuppance.

He cut off the relatives who had bitten the hand that fed them.

In the military exercise, he struck a heaven-shaking blow with sheer strength.

The green-tea official from another planet, the domineering-CEO-type elite, and others all had their masks torn off...

Psychic power, special abilities? None of that mattered. After all, Xia En could gain whatever ability he wanted.

Xia En kept leaping back and forth along the plotline of this world, but he never managed to escape one person's grasp.

One day, an earth-shattering scandal broke...

During a livestream of a royal reality show, the camera accidentally cut to the wrong scene. Emperor Lei Yi and Xia En sat facing each other, their expressions serious.

"Explain this. Why was Lord Ye Lixun wandering around your garden for three days? He came down with a fever afterward," Emperor Lei Yi asked solemnly.

"Oh, maybe because it's winter, Your Majesty," Xia En replied gently. "People catch colds easily in winter."

"Wasn't it because you refused to see him?"

"Hm? I did want to see him, but Your Majesty, have you forgotten that you were in my bed at the time?"

"Oh..."

Huh?? The audience erupted. Is this something we're allowed to watch without paying? Are they going to kill us for seeing it?!

In short: Set in a galactic empire, Xia En tries to save himself, pursuing both physical pleasure and love, while also maintaining peace across the stars.

Theme: There are no good wars, and no such thing as bad peace.