Mu Li, a legendary federal agent, wakes up one day to discover that he's become an 18-year-old omega.
His dad is a gambler, his mom is gravely ill, and his life is a wreck... This down-and-out young omega from a noble family is about to enroll in the most prestigious aristocratic academy in the neighboring empire.
Mu Li had planned to keep his head down, find a chance to throw the empire's political scene into chaos, or bring intelligence back to the Federation. Instead, he discovers he's inside an old-fashioned school romance novel and gets caught up in the emotional entanglements of the F4 and the sweet, innocent heroine.
Director Mu: Wait, you people in the Empire are this wild?
The poor but resilient and talented heroine is bullied. Mu Li had planned to stay out of it, but he can't bear to watch, so he steps in to protect the poor young man.
But the chuunibyou, violent school bully pins him against the wall. "Man, you're playing with fire."
For the sake of his mission, he easily takes first place in the major exam, snatching the student council president's long-secure top ranking.
Beneath the president's neat uniform are layers of hidden wounds. In the rain, he looks like a lost puppy. "Y-you're different."
A moment of carelessness leaves him drenched in icy water, washing away his plain-looking disguise and revealing a stunning face, his white shirt clinging to his lean waist.
The ill-tempered playboy lifts his chin. "To have missed a beauty like you... That's a serious failure on my part."
Out of a sense of responsibility as an "adult," Mu Li offers a few words of guidance to a gloomy young man who's lost his way.
The gloomy, obsessive illegitimate son gazes at his delicate collarbones, his eyes filled with unhealthy infatuation. "No one's ever said anything like that to me."
Mu Li doesn't get it. Mu Li is deeply shocked. He complains to his good friend, the sweet heroine, that the Empire is going from bad to worse with every generation.
Unbeknownst to him, the handsome young man has eyes only for him, like a young lion ready to devour its prey at any moment.
"That's right," says the future Imperial Marshal, reborn in the darkest period of his life. "The decadent nobility must be overthrown."
I will become the new emperor.
And you will be my empress.
Note:
1. This is a purely modern alternate universe, with no sci-fi or futuristic elements.
2. The protagonist is absurdly, invincibly strong in a fight.
Theme: Perseverance