Savior Fu Xuexing was about to retire and spend his days gardening and fishing when, without warning, he was dragged back to the first world he'd ever saved.
The villain had been defeated, and misfortune had passed.
He'd only been gone for thirteen years, so why was this world falling apart again?!
And his return was hardly dignified. He was frail, sickly, and barely alive.
A System was also right on his heels, endlessly warning him: Multiple high-risk corruption points detected. An alarm will sound.
[Former lover]
The Empire's Rose had become His Imperial Majesty, the Emperor.
As the destruction-level alarm blared incessantly, the Emperor pinned his former mentor against a holographic star chart, his golden hair falling before Fu Xuexing's eyes.
"You taught me to read star charts, and said every star had its own course."
"What about your course?"
"Are you always going to leave?"
[Beloved friend who died in battle]
The navigator and his knight met again in a museum displaying the wreckage of mechs.
In the shadows, inside a matte-black exoskeleton covering his entire body, a human heart beat with "hatred."
The mechanical lenses deep in his pupils still scanned Fu Xuexing's condition.
His steel fingers roughly dug into the scar left by the old neural interface.
"Fu Xuexing, you betrayed the only person who could find you in the depths of space."
[Blood and bone | Father and son]
"Brother?" the youth ventured at their first private meeting, his voice deliberately warm.
"They all say I'm a tactical genius."
"But I think..."
"I was born knowing how to do this."
Their blood relation hardly needed a report to prove it.
[Gestational parent: Fu Xuexing]
[Genetic template: Encrypted / Insufficient permissions]
[Development progress: Successful]
"So," the Empire's traitor stood before him again with the report in hand.
"I'm not your younger brother."
His voice was calm, as quiet as the stillness before a storm.
"I'm your... 'longing'?"
How ironic.
He had repaired rifts in galaxies, reversed the collapse of civilizations, and stopped the end of the world twenty-seven times.
But now Fu Xuexing himself
had become this world's oldest, deepest, and hardest-to-heal wound.
Like an old idol cracked down the middle.
Even as the alarms blared, he still chose to turn off the alerts about eliminating the villains.
A thousand times, ten thousand times, he would still save this world from disaster.
Reader's notes:
- Includes male pregnancy. Pregnancy-and-birth plot warning.
- Beautiful, strong, tragic, saintly bottom. A true savior.
- The love interests compete fiercely for him.
- No incest or father-son romance. There is a family relationship storyline.
Theme: Love is a discipline to be learned.
