"What is going on?"
Qin Yu looked around. Instead of seeing soldiers slaughtering the commoners, he saw five hundred thousand soldiers kneeling on the ground, kowtowing to the crowd of civilians.
His face was filled with utter bewilderment.
He still did not understand what had just happened.
In just a brief moment, things had completely exceeded his expectations.
Qin Yu's smile froze on his face, and he felt an overwhelming sense of absurdity in his heart!
He instinctively looked up at Qin Xiao. The moment their eyes met, he saw the disdain and contempt in Qin Xiao's gaze.
It was as if he had been nothing but a leaping clown from the very beginning.
The joy of victory shattered inch by inch!
Replacing it was a surging, furious rage!
"What on earth are they doing!"
"So what if they saw their parents? A soldier's bounden duty is to obey orders. This prince commands them to kill their parents, so why aren't they killing them!"
"A bunch of traitors! A pack of rebellious thieves!"
"Lieutenant, this prince orders you to take command of the army again and lead the men to slaughter all these commoners!"
Qin Yu roared at the group of lieutenants behind him. His body trembled continuously from anger, and the sword in his hand was nearly resting on a lieutenant's neck.
"Whoever refuses to charge, kill them! Keep killing until they charge into the enemy lines!"
"I am the highest authority here! I am the heavens! You all must obey my commands!"
The lieutenants remained expressionless. Their faces were cold, and the looks they gave Qin Yu were filled with murderous intent!
One of the lieutenants flicked Qin Yu's sword away with a thrust of his spear.
"Prince Qi, are you ordering us to murder our own parents?"
His voice was laced with fury.
For a son to murder his parents was the ultimate treason against the natural order!
Let alone a lieutenant, even an ordinary commoner could never do something so utterly devoid of conscience!
Especially when they heard Qin Yu's outrageous remarks, the veins on their foreheads bulged with anger.
Qin Yu remained completely oblivious, still firmly clinging to his twisted logic.
"My official rank is higher than yours, so you should obey my orders. On what grounds do you disobey? You are committing treason!"
"Believe it or not, I will sentence you all to death!"
Seeing the change in the lieutenants' attitudes towards him, he continued to boast of his authority.
The lieutenants were so angry that they laughed.
"You absolute idiot! Who do you think you are!"
"Without us, you are nothing!"
"We followed you in rebellion for the sake of our futures, to earn the merit of establishing a new emperor!"
"But look at you! You told us you wanted Emperor Qinwu to ascend the throne again! Then what exactly does it mean for our border army to follow you in rebellion?"
"And now you want us to murder our own birth parents!"
"Qin Yu! You stupid fool!"
...
The lieutenants could no longer hold back, their faces twisting into savage scowls as they roared.
This was a female-oriented romance world, but there were still normal people in it.
They had endured time and time again, thinking that since they had reached the final step and were about to attack the capital, they would just put up with it.
But hearing Qin Yu say they should raise their butchers' knives against their own parents made them completely snap!
Being insulted by so many people, Qin Yu's anger rushed to his head. He raised his fist and swung it at a nearby lieutenant.
"How dare you disobey this prince's orders? Then I will use you as an example to warn the others!"
"Get lost!"
A burly lieutenant was infuriated. He swung his long staff and smashed it down hard onto Qin Yu!
Qin Yu was beaten black and blue, blood spraying wildly from his mouth.
And it did not end there. One lieutenant after another stepped forward to gang up on Qin Yu!
Fists rained down upon him like a torrential downpour.
"Ah!"
"Stop it, you bastards! I am Prince Qi! Stop it right now!"
Qin Yu hugged his head and wailed on the ground.
Punch after punch landed on his body, causing him a burning, agonizing pain.
His internal organs felt as if they had been shifted out of place.
Blood splattered across the ground as if it cost nothing.
"I beg you, stop hitting me. I was wrong, please stop..."
Qin Yu's voice grew weak as he begged for mercy, bursting into tears.
The lieutenants looked at one another and all let out a sigh.
They knew that Qin Yu's momentum was entirely gone.
And the true master of this situation was only one person...
More than a dozen lieutenants walked forward a dozen paces and looked up at Qin Xiao on the city wall.
Their hearts were filled with melancholy, defeat, and a pale sense of powerlessness.
But mostly, it was a deep, profound despair!
Qin Xiao had done absolutely nothing. He had merely looked down upon the entire battlefield from the very beginning, yet he easily suppressed this army of five hundred thousand.
He did not use martial force, but rather the deepest human morals, family ties, and affection.
"Perhaps our Great Qin truly can unite all nations under His Majesty's rule!"
"Yes, His Majesty is too terrifying. We are simply no match for him."
"I thought this war would be an overwhelming victory. I never expected... His Majesty did not deploy a single soldier, yet we are the ones who suffered a crushing defeat!"
Their words were full of deep emotion.
The crowd arrived at the base of the city wall and, without another word, knelt to the ground in unison.
"We guilty generals kowtow to His Majesty!"
"Long live the Emperor! Long live! Long, long live!"
With the generals who commanded the five-hundred-thousand-strong army taking the lead, the entire army of five hundred thousand also dropped to one knee.
"Long live the Emperor! Long live! Long, long live!"
The sound shook the clouds and echoed through the heavens!
The civil and military officials were all dumbfounded at this moment.
The officials who followed Qin Xiao trembled with excitement.
"We won! His Majesty won!"
"With just a single move, he suppressed an army of five hundred thousand and turned defeat into victory! His Majesty is truly a god among men!"
The looks they gave Qin Xiao were filled with endless fanaticism and worship!
Meanwhile, the officials who had followed Emperor Qinwu were all deathly pale, their bodies trembling uncontrollably.
The fear in their hearts was like a massive shadow, swallowing them whole!
Thud.
One official's legs gave out, and he knelt on the ground.
The rest of the officials quickly followed suit, dropping to their knees.
"Spare our lives, Your Majesty!"
"We were wrong, please forgive us!"
"It was Emperor Qinwu who forced us to side with him! Our bodies were in his camp, but our loyalties remained with you!"
"Your Majesty, we are all officials of the Great Qin. We beg you to spare our lives. If we die, who will govern the Great Qin? Please give us a chance!"
"If you want to kill someone, kill Emperor Qinwu! He is the greatest menace!"
"Yes! Emperor Qinwu forced us to do all those terrible things!"
...
Seeing that Emperor Qinwu's cause was lost, a group of opportunistic officials did not hesitate to kneel and declare their loyalty.
Emperor Qinwu's face was as black as the bottom of a pot. His eyes were wide open, staring in sheer disbelief at the subjects groveling at his feet.
Once, these people had been his trusted confidants!
Now, just to survive, they did not hesitate to surrender to Qin Xiao.
How utterly absurd and laughable!
"You... you bunch of traitors! I trusted you so much, and now you pin all the blame on me! Have you no shame facing me?"
Emperor Qinwu was so furious that smoke practically blew out of his ears, his beard twitching awry.
He never could have imagined that the trusted aides he had carefully cultivated were all traitors!
Instead, he became the ultimate scapegoat.
Qin Xiao looked down at the civil and military officials at his feet, the corners of his mouth curling up into a mocking smile.
"Without you lot, the Great Qin would cease to function?"
Those officials thought Qin Xiao was actually relenting and nodded hastily.
"Yes, yes, yes, Your Majesty. If the Great Qin loses us officials, who will govern the country?"
"Your Majesty, we all know we were wrong. You cannot kill us."
Hearing such words, Qin Xiao immediately laughed.
"Hahaha! Are you threatening your Emperor?"
The laughter dripped with biting mockery!
The crowd remained dead silent, not even daring to draw a heavy breath.
When the laughter finally ceased, Qin Xiao's gaze turned abruptly frigid as he looked down at the officials assembled before him.
"Every single one of you was born into noble and wealthy clans. You became officials for no reason other than to line your pockets more conveniently! To oppress the common folk! Have you ever made a single contribution to the foundation and future of our Great Qin!"
"Without you parasites, our Great Qin will only grow ever more powerful!"
nd fell into a coma while saving his younger sister from an out-of-control car. He became a vegetable. No one knew that his consciousness had crossed into a world of cultivation. Over the course of sixty years, he began as the lowest kind of mine slave, struggling to survive amid mountains of corpses and seas of blood. By sheer chance, he eventually obtained the complete memories of a fallen Immortal King. Alchemy, medicine, formations, feng shui, physiognomy, artifact forging… Every great inheritance of the cultivation world was now his. But when he opened his eyes again, he discovered that ten full years had passed in the modern world. To pay for his treatment, his father had sold the family’s shop and house, leaving himself covered in lasting injuries and illness. His mother had cared for him day and night, and more than half of her hair had already turned white. His younger sister, who had been only fifteen back then, was now twenty-five. To help repay the family’s debts, she had been forced to lower her head and put on a smiling face in places of glittering lights and endless revelry. Only then did Chen Xuan understand that what he had lost was not merely ten years. He had lost the life his entire family was meant to have. The good news was that he had brought back the memories of an Immortal King’s entire lifetime. The bad news was that his soul had returned alone—his cultivation had not come with him. Spiritual energy was scarce, resources were depleted, and the modern world still had firearms, surveillance, capital, and laws. If he wanted to protect his family, break free from everyone’s control, and become truly invincible beneath the heavens, he would have to start all over again.
s the Eldest Princess, renowned for her cold and aloof detachment, became the most docile of lambs, obeying his every command without question. But when the final move was played on the chessboard, as Gu Chenghan seized everything and ascended on the verge of apotheosis, that very Princess suddenly embraced him from behind, her tone carrying a dependence never heard before: "Wait... you haven't yet... commanded me to love you forever." Gu Chenghan froze abruptly. She... hadn't been hypnotized?! ... [The Eldest Princess's Diary] [When my soul was extracted, becoming the sole spectator outside my own shell] [At first, there was overwhelming fury, until I saw] [How he used my sword to effortlessly shatter my inescapable doom] [How he wielded my authority to eradicate fatal conspiracies I had never even detected] [Like a deity, he rescued me from the deep mire I was trapped in] [If not for those annoying vixens, he and I would be a match made in heaven] [I think I am ill, gravely ill] [My deity should belong to me alone] ... "Hypnosis? Oh, it succeeded, my dear Master." "Only this time, it's my turn to hypnotize you."
] [Lone Wolf, No Male Gaze] [Protagonist is pursued early on; extreme protagonist-stans, stay away!] The "Carnival Paradise" descends and slowly devours the real world in the form of a game. By chance, Zhu Yan awakens the talent [Roleplay], becoming one of the first beta players. He thought he could develop safely, but after clearing the first instance, he is branded by humanity as the chief culprit behind the game's spread—a traitorous villain. A villain? Who would ever... become one! He'll be the villain! From then on, Zhu Yan is not only a player but also a lackey for the Carnival Paradise. Between the straight path and the crooked path, he chooses the con. With his left hand, he dons the villain's mantle, staging scenes within instances, infuriating players who decry him as a despicable traitor, all while the game happily promotes him. With his right hand, he joins the non-human organization "Fangcun Mountain," which opposes the Carnival Paradise, transforming into a mysterious player who slaughters game bosses, earning cheers of "Long live the expert!" from fellow players. Gradually, Zhu Yan rises to become an S-rank human player in Fangcun Mountain's archives, while also being the Carnival Paradise's certified top game Boss. But when the final war erupts and both major factions place their hopes in him— Players tag his various aliases: "Experts, this offensive depends on you." The Carnival Paradise's supreme Boss throws an arm around his neck: "Bro, you're the iron, I'm the steel; you can't let me down again!"
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