A guy who spent his first life being good gets everything taken from him, so he comes back swinging to be the worst possible tyrant, and watches in real-time horror as his evil schemes accidentally turn into galactic peace infrastructure. The show knows exactly what it is doing when it plays this contradiction straight instead of winking at the camera. Liam doesn't want to save anyone; he wants to conquer. The universe keeps making him a hero anyway, and watching him fail upward is genuinely funny because the pacing never lets you sit in the joke long enough to get bored with it.
Liam gets a second chance at life in a sprawling intergalactic empire, and he's determined to make it count. In his previous life he stayed honest and responsible, only to die buried in debt after his wife betrayed him. Reborn into a ruling family, he decides to become the galaxy's most ruthless tyrant and take whatever he wants. There's just one problem. Every villainous plan he tries somehow backfires into success. His rule brings peace and prosperity. His people adore him despite his best efforts to be despicable. Caught between his ambition to be genuinely evil and a universe that keeps rewarding him, Liam lands in a whirl of galactic chaos, magic and mecha action. It's a comedy of misunderstandings about a would-be villain who can't stop impressing everyone.
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