The History Usurper

Kneeling beneath my dragon throne is a group of programmers. On the first day after I became a puppet emperor, I saw the world’s source code. The Imperial Observatory controlled the “variables of fate,” court historians wrote the “predetermined event stream,” and pop-up windows hovered over the heads of every official: [Loyalty: ???]. The late emperor’s death was no conspiracy. It was a forced plot event triggered when the System reached [Jingkang Year Three]. They wanted me to be a quiet puppet and follow the script to its perfect conclusion: “tyrant, fall of the realm, suicide.” That was until I found a comment in my own death flag: #Note: This character’s original ID, ‘Zhao Huan,’ was overwritten by an unknown anomaly three years ago. Awaiting deletion. I laughed. All right. Then let the hacking begin. I’ll seize the permissions. I will rewrite this false firmament into a world for humankind.