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This is probably the absolute worst "good" novel I have read to this date. I honestly cannot comprehend how it has 4 stars. I gave to a go because I was bored an had nothing better to do and I swear this novel makes so sense whatsoever. The MC is probably the most insufferable idiot in existence, a classic Japanese Harem protagonist that is somehow surpasses all xianxia MCs in how ret*rded you could possibly get. He doesn't make a single decision that makes sense and gets led around the nose by literally any character he meets, yet he somehow manages to profit from the situation each time. I.e. He'll buy 300 heavily overpriced spaceships that he can't afford just because the saleslady showed him her underwear, and the next day he'll magically receive money to pay for it. He the most sorry excuse for a ruler in existence, who pretends to be a self-indulgent evil lord yet keeps donating obscene amounts of money (despite being in debt) to random people that he just met. His situation with women is what you would expect from a Japanese cuck protagonist; His goal was to build a harem yet despite being surrounded by transcendental beauties that would die for him and an Android that was built to his desires (Author also emphasized that fact that she had a s*x function), he somehow doesn't like any of them and remains a virg*n for 50+ years.The world itself is somehow even worse. The author clearly doesn't understand how big a galaxy is. The MC supposedly owns an entire galaxy, which should have hundreds of billions of stars, yet he is perpetually stuck on a single plane and wracked with debt, despite having access to literally limitless resources. His territory was ruined to the point where his parents threw away everything and fled, yet this clown somehow managed to revitalize everything by just lowering the taxes?!?! He literally does nothing that any ordinary, functioning human could not yet is perceived as the reincarnation of Einstein by the very people who were able to overcome humanity's greatest every challenge and conquer space. Furthermore, it is impossible to manage a territory of this scale without technology beyond the grasp of current humanity yet for some s*upid reason everyone in the empire despises AI and we have seen no semblance of a single computer or the internet so far. The story also contains magic for reason, which is never really explained nor even used apart from instances where it conveniently makes the MC strong without any training or fills plotholes.TLDR; If I wanted to write the faults of this novel it would take my all night, so I'll just say that the MC is a failure of a human being that claims to be evil but is a chronic yes-man and giga pushover that would give all his money if you begged extra hard. The author himself has no concept of how empires work, or how space works, or how ruling works, or how large-scale wars work, yet wrote this anyways. The only thing good about this novel is the quality of translations.