After His Death, the Former Emperor Became Everyone's Beloved

[Devoted, obsessive, loyal-to-the-death top x goofy, protective emperor bottom]

Xie Zhi played a city-building game. He started out as a poor little lord with barely a coin to his name, recruited troops and grew his power step by step, conquered far and wide, and eventually unified the continent of Olin and ascended the throne.

It was a pretty satisfying story.

But after only a few days of enjoying his good life, he died while touring the countryside.

Snap!

Many years later, he unexpectedly transmigrated into the game.

Huh? What's with all these refugees? Where's my land reform? What's with all these shuttered shops? Where's my tax reduction policy? What's with all these orphans? Where's the orphanage I built?

It turned out that the former emperor had died thirty years ago. The current regent, Xilisi, was a cruel dictator who had completely ruined the empire the late emperor had worked so hard to build.

At that moment, the System chimed in:

[The suffering people have built a church and put up a portrait of the founding emperor, praying every day for the wise and mighty former emperor to return and save them from their misery. Your mission is to kill the villain Xilisi so you can leave the game and return to the real world.]

Oh? So the people's plan worked. They actually summoned him, the former emperor, back...

*

Xilisi had been a man of few words since birth. You could whip him three times without getting a word out of him. He was an unsellable commodity at the slave market, until one day, a godlike figure bought him for three silver coins.

It was like a kind stranger finally taking a rain-soaked stray dog home.

He was eight that year. For the next ten years, he never left Xie Ertian, his king, for a single day, minute, or second.

Everyone mocked him for being nothing but a personal slave, with no official position or title, and no prospects of marriage. But Xilisi didn't care. All he cared about was what delicious food he would make for His Majesty that day.

Until the day Xie Ertian toured the countryside. Xilisi had only stepped away to buy fireworks. When he returned, Xie Ertian was lying in a pool of blood, a knife embedded in his chest.

He would never forgive himself.

One day, thirty years later, just as Xilisi's heart had turned to ash, someone with Xie Ertian's face appeared before him.

With a cheeky grin, he said his name was "Xie Zhi" and that he was a new temp worker.

Hah, what a pathetic performance! Even looking at him for another second would be an insult to the late emperor!

When you truly love someone, you don't find a replacement for your one true love. You'd only be disgusted!

*

At a grand banquet in the imperial palace, after Xilisi had once again given Xie Zhi a hard time,

the gentlemanly and elegant deputy said in front of everyone, "Since the regent doesn't like the little guy, I'll gladly take him off your hands."

Xie Zhi was speechless: ...I raised both of you. Could you not be like this? This is love with seven different shapes!

Xilisi flew into a rage. Unable to wait for the banquet to end, he grabbed Xie Zhi by the wrist and dragged him away from the deputy.

On the balcony, Xilisi pinned him between himself and the railing, and demanded in near desperation, "Answer me, what exactly are you..."

They were on the fifth floor, on a balcony where one misstep could send someone plummeting to their death. This was a real life-or-death question.

The System sent him ten warning pop-ups: [You must not reveal your secret identity now!!!]

Xie Zhi closed his eyes and answered in despair, "I loved you, save the big one, save you."

Xilisi: ?

Content notes:

The bottom is adored by all. Both leads are sexually and emotionally exclusive. HE.

Upcoming novel: The Black Moonlight Returns and Gets Bound to a Fertility System by Mistake

Lin En could hardly believe that a month ago he was a college student in his prime, and a month later he was a divorced mother of two.

A month ago, Lin En transmigrated to another world. He heard that three thousand years ago, a Light God hated by both gods and mortals had fallen. That god had poisoned the Creator God, felled the World Tree that gave birth to elves, and destroyed the prosperous ancient kingdom of Thebes. Gods, humans, elves, and vampires all hated that god.

Recently, the whole continent had been searching for someone suspected to be the Light God's reincarnation. Anyone with black hair and black eyes was not to be spared.

Lin En: A Light God? How awful! Wait...black hair and black eyes? Isn't that me?

[Ding-ding! Host, please don't worry. This System will do everything it can to help you get through this!]

"Great! Let's see what golden finger I have!" Lin En cried with joy.

[This is a Fertility System, designed to encourage transmigrators to meet the three-child quota and raise the birth rate in the divine realm!]

Lin En let out a strangled "Gah" and fainted. When he woke up, he asked weakly, "Do men have to give birth too...?"

[They can, dear.]

"With whom?"

[The Creator God, the God of Love, and the God of War.]

"Then I'll choose..."

[There's no need to choose. They're all yours,] the System helpfully explained.

*

Three months later.

God of Love: Although you came to me three thousand years ago after your ex-boyfriend died, carrying his daughter, I still raised her well for you.

Lin En: (sucking in a sharp breath)

God of Love: Let me play the piece I wrote for you one more time. Stay and listen before you go. I'll always be waiting for you to return. This will always be your home.

God of War: Although you were already carrying our twins three thousand years ago, you still wouldn't trust me. You secretly ran away and were killed, taking all three lives with you. But after you died, I jumped into the underworld too.

Lin En: (vision going dark)

God of War: Isn't this better? Stay. Even in hell, a family should be together.

Creator God: Although you ran away from home while I wasn't looking, dated three young men, and then killed me after they put the idea in your head, I never blamed you.

Lin En: ...Father, I miss you so much.

Creator God: Let this last fragment of my soul protect you one final time. You'll have to walk the road ahead on your own. Don't forget me.

Reader's guide:

1. This story contains childbirth, and lots of it.

2. Bottom: a natural scumbag, adored by all and born to shine.

The domineering, patriarchal Creator God: If you ever stop depending on me, that means I've failed you.

The reformed playboy God of Love: Obsessed with playing the part of a helpless mistress.

The younger, sunny God of War: His dream is to have his wife and children at home.

3. The ending is 1v1.

Theme: Building a world where humans and AI live together in harmony.