Naruto has made a friend. Good news: We get along really well. Bad news: Not from this world. Good news: We'll be able to meet up soon. Naruto: Basket Village is filled with constant intrigue, and I can't stand it even for a second! I'm going to sea! I want to be the man who becomes the Pirate King!
Good news, I'm reborn! Bad news, I'm a villain!
Reborn as a villain, Chen Qing decided to give up and live his life peacefully, no matter what the fate script was. He would never provoke the protagonist.
Who would have thought that he would be accidentally bound to the wife-loving system, and would have to conquer the Destined Empress and marry her?
That was the protagonist's favorite girl, so of course Chen Qing refused.
However, he found out that the protagonist still had to stay in seclusion and sign in for another thirty years, and it turned out that he had been reborn first!
Faced with the temptation of massive rewards from the system, Chen Qing said: I'm sorry, protagonist, I... made a mistake.
Xiao Jin transmigrated into a melodramatic angst-filled novel as a cannon fodder side character.
A strange woman who was disabled, disguised herself as a man, and obsessed with the male lead.
None of that mattered though, because she wouldn’t survive more than three chapters.
The cannon fodder was the third prince of the current dynasty—an accomplished war hero with a fearsome reputation that spanned the empire. Enemy armies trembled at the sound of his name. He was known as the “Ghost Rakshasa.”
Yet this god of war was gravely injured and crippled, coughing up blood after taking just a few steps.
He also developed tuberculosis and hovered on the edge of death.
There was only one reason for this: it was an angst novel. The male lead was the Crown Prince, and the female lead was a fallen princess from a ruined nation.
The cannon fodder’s only role was to destroy the heroine’s country, then die beautifully.
At this moment, Xiao Jin stared at her ruined legs and the pool of blood she had just coughed up. Her mental state completely collapsed.
She kindly told the butler to prepare a coffin—she’d lie down soon.
Then the mechanical voice of a system rang out.
“Warning! Host’s life has only 48 hours remaining. Please complete the first task as soon as possible to extend your lifespan.”
“Task 1: Interrupt the wedding — forcibly marry the heroine who is about to wed the second male lead.”
“Friendly reminder: Only after completing all tasks and getting killed by the heroine, Chu Shao, will your life countdown stop and you can return to your original world.”
Xiao Jin was silent.
In her mind, she pictured a terminally ill cancer patient in a wheelchair dramatically crashing the heroine’s wedding.
“…”
Xiao Jin: “Can I choose death instead?”
System: “Nope, Host.”
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After many twists and turns, Xiao Jin finally completed all the tasks.
That day, the sky was vast and clear, autumn geese flew south.
Chu Shao stepped over the corpses of cannon fodder and returned to her homeland, ascending the throne in glory.
The whole empire bowed before her.
Xiao Jin, in prison robes, sat in a wheelchair, escorted by imperial guards, looking up at the new empress.
She was content.
Everything was ready—now she just needed Chu Shao to kill her.
Empress Chu Shao, with unparalleled beauty, stood with twelve ceremonial tassels hanging from her crown. Sword in hand, she descended the steps and gazed gently at Xiao Jin.
Just when Xiao Jin thought she was about to be stabbed through the heart, Chu Shao raised her sword and slit the throat of the imperial guard beside her.
The rest of the guards turned pale and fell to their knees.
Chu Shao, hands dripping with blood, crouched in front of Xiao Jin. As though gazing up at a deity, she stared at her for a long time.
She placed the bloodied sword aside and said in a trembling voice:
“Don’t leave me.”
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[IMPORTANT WARNINGS!!]
1. While the tone of the story is marked as lighthearted, some parts are definitely not.
2. Chapters 138–140 and 77–80 involve side couples and previous-generation characters. They’re melodramatic, not pure (non-virgin), and written to tie together the story’s logic—please read the author’s notes for context before purchasing.
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How to Enjoy This Story:
1. This is a cathartic fantasy story set in an alternate world—historical accuracy is not the goal.
2. The female lead, Chu Shao, is a yandere and mentally unstable. The system doesn’t do much—Xiao Jin mostly survives by being awesome.
3. The ending has a twist, but it’s a happy one. Timeline explanations are in the author’s note for Chapter 175.
Tags: Strong leads | Transmigration | Gender disguise | Cathartic read | Light tone
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Xiao Jin
Chu Shao
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One-sentence summary: Don’t leave me.
Theme: Though physically broken, the will remains unyielding. Charge forward with courage.
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His remarkable transformation from death row prisoner to emperor tells the story of a life that speaks volumes.
He lived a difficult life, but he was kind and compassionate to his people, easing taxes and levies, and brought the Han Empire to its peak, becoming the first legendary emperor to expand its
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"Ding! Congratulations to the host for activating the [Emperor's Rise System]. One point per second. Time is power!"
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There is no way out in the Ming Dynasty, so go out and build an empire yourself!
Many years later, everyone looked at Zhu Gaoxu's fiefdom and fell into deep thought.
"How come the Han King's fiefdom is stronger and larger than the Ming Dynasty?"
Zhu Di looked at this scene with his eyes shining, and came to Zhu Gaoxu.
"Second brother, let me ask you a favor..."
The legendary tale of the Xyrin Empire is not about its struggles… or the tempest of another world or some cultivation myth. This is a super-serious, super-hard sci-fi novel about saving the world.
Take what I’m saying seriously…
Not.
Okay, this is just a funny story about a deceptive human emperor, bringing his bunch of slippery alien leaders to have fun saving the world every day.
Chen Jun is an unmotivated otaku who turns into the Emperor of an ancient intergalactic magic sci-fi empire. With the aura of a stay-at-home dad, he is nothing but a middle-aged man who adopts a group of lolis… and an army of freeloading aliens that came out of nowhere. Er, what?
Ahem. Really though, this is a super-serious story… a super-mega-ultra-serious sci-fi story.
For the Empire!
Framed by a coalition of nobles, the decorated war hero Farra Jago is stripped of the Count title he was promised.
Tossed aside like a beggar, the king grants him the lowly title of Baron and exiles him to a remote fiefdom in the mountains.
An ennoblement in name, an exile in truth.
Fara accepts it all with a smile. The moment he does, the ‘useless’ system that lay dormant within him finally awakens to its second stage.
Faction Bound: Jago Barony.
Kill count after your faction declares war will be counted as the host’s.
A smirk plays on Fara’s lips.
“To kill one is a crime; to slaughter ten thousand makes you a hero!”
In this chaotic era where crowns are stained with blood and thrones are built upon bones, there must be a place for me, Farra Jago!
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Elves? Dwarves? Werewolves? Orcs? Vampires? Dragons? Ghosts? Angels? Demons?
When my grand army descends, there is only one choice: SUBMIT!
Those who follow me shall prosper; those who oppose me shall perish! The Empire’s iron cavalry will fight from the underworld to the heavens, slaughtering their way from hell to paradise. Where they pass, all races bow in servitude. Within the Empire’s borders, there is no dissent.
“The Elven Queen? In my eyes, she is merely skilled at singing and dancing. Wouldn’t you agree?”
“Does it look like I’m negotiating with you?!”
“Have her brought to me on her knees. Otherwise, my three million iron cavalry will slaughter her city and exterminate her clan by dawn.”
“You know… I think I preferred you when you were still wild and defiant.”
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In the seventh year of Guanghe, the Yellow Turban Rebellion erupted.
Qiao Yan woke up, bound to the strategist system with code 068, from the body of a dying girl amidst a field of corpses.
The system informed her that her goal was to become the top strategist in the realm.
Sitting atop a high mound of graves, she heard slogans in the distance proclaiming “The blue sky is dead, the yellow sky will rise.” Without hesitation, she allocated all her beginner points to her constitution.
System: ??????
Qiao Yan: Zhou Yu died at the age of thirty-five, Guo Jia at thirty-seven, Lu Su lived to forty-five. A strategist who laughs last lives longer than anyone else, like Sima Yi.
System: You make sense, but please put down the spear.
[Host has achieved achievement, dissuading Lu Bu from joining Dong Zhuo 1/1, progress reward has been sent to the backpack]
Qiao Yan: 🙂
The strategist system 068 felt that it had encountered a host that was not quite normal.
She applied to learn about farming and garrisoning.
Qiao Yan: Zao Zhi pioneered farming, was enfeoffed as a marquis, Zhuge Liang led a northern expedition, established farming in the front lines. A strategist who doesn’t know how to farm is not a good strategist.
[Host has achieved achievement, persuading Qingzhou soldiers to join 1/1, progress reward has been sent to the backpack]
She gathered Jia Xu and Li Ru.
Qiao Yan: The three giants of the Yingchuan, Nanyang, and Runan clans won’t accept me, so why not let me form my own clique?
[Host has achieved achievement, persuading Zhang Xiu to join 1/1, progress reward has been sent to the backpack]
She…
She…
She…
Strategist System 057: I envy you. You’ve encountered such a proactive host. Has she become the top strategist in the realm?
Strategist System 068: Thanks for the invitation. The system’s achievements have been exhausted, and the host has proclaimed herself emperor.