A Concubine's Face Was Born to Go Viral~

There was no other shortcut—he just had to study!

To make up for this weakness, he had even resisted watching the mech battles on the Virtual Network, and resisted checking out gossip about himself. He studied single-mindedly, focused to the point where he rivaled students preparing for college entrance exams.

Since he had no plans to obtain any law-related certification and only wanted to "popularize legal knowledge," he achieved remarkable results in just a few days.

He went from a legal illiterate who knew absolutely nothing to... a qualified ordinary citizen.

At least he would no longer make a fool of himself over basic common sense.

As the top priority, Jing Yi reread the relevant provisions on "extracting sperm from fallen school-level officers to cultivate descendants" several times.

This regulation had considerable practical significance.

Developing the five major planets, guarding against increasingly rampant space pirates, suppressing ever-growing mercenary groups, deterring alien neighbors itching to make a move... the military was becoming more and more important, and it needed more soldiers and officers. In this kind of "semi-wartime" state, how could they make more people want to enlist and strive to become outstanding soldiers?

The Federation had come up with many methods.

For example, raising the status of military personnel, increasing their rights, establishing an absolutely exemplary spokesperson for recruitment, bombarding people with advertisements, subtle ads, and product placements in film and television to brainwash them, improving soldiers' salaries and benefits...

This provision was part of military benefits. It gave ordinary soldiers greater motivation to climb higher while also ensuring that superior genes had a chance to continue.

A Concubine's Face Was Born to Go Viral~

Once he understood the law, the situation became clear.

The known necessary and sufficient conditions for Major Qin to leave behind descendants were—being a school-level officer or above, and having a spouse. Jing Yi met the latter requirement. That meant this absurd marriage was a transaction. Jing Yi would bear the unpleasant reputation of being a widow, but from a practical perspective, the Qin Family was immensely wealthy. As long as he stayed put and behaved himself, he could live a smooth life.

But all those assumptions rested on the premise that the Qin Family bore him no ill will.

As mentioned before, Jing Yi had watched melodramatic palace intrigue dramas. Never mind whether those stories were exaggerated—the central message was still reliable: aristocratic households ran deep as the sea, and wealthy families easily bred all kinds of filth...

Leaving everything else aside, the fact that the Qin Family insisted on having him marry in was absurd enough! Who did not know that the original owner had been a brainless little expert at courting death? Was it not just a title? Plenty of people could see the benefits in it. With proper planning, it could become a ready-made marriage alliance. If they wanted to keep things simple, they could even find some loyal subordinate to make do. After all, laws were dead while people were alive. They were not powerless commoners. Once there was a child, they could dissolve the marriage—who would dare say anything?

Jing Yi was not some naive fool. He had been an orphan and had difficulty walking. He had endured countless hardships growing up. If he were still naive after all that, then even with a cheat ability, he would never accomplish anything.

No matter how he looked at it, the Qin Family was brimming with ill intent.

He did not have enough information, nor could he be bothered to spend all day making blind guesses. In any case, he was certain he had to find a way to escape the Qin Family's control.

After carefully going over the cards he had in hand, Jing Yi sighed and admitted that compared with the powerful Qin Family, he was nothing more than a tiny ant. If they truly wanted to crush him, it would not take much effort. The Jing Family behind him was unreliable. He would have to rely on himself for everything.

After thinking it through, Jing Yi was instead brimming with confidence in the face of this predicament.

As he logged onto the Interstellar Network, he sneered. If this were an ancient household-intrigue setting, I really would be crying to heaven and earth with no one to answer. But compared to that hard mode, this futuristic interstellar setting is so easy!

It was certainly easy for the powerful and privileged to crush an ant. But what if that ant was famous across the world? Who would dare act rashly then? Their reputation could be ruined in minutes! Put simply, he needed to arm himself with a shell, making anyone who wished him harm wary of consequences. When the gains from dealing with him were far less than the cost, he would be safe.

First, he had to become an internet celebrity.

Back on Earth, internet celebrities could roughly be divided into three types depending on their approach.

The first relied on beauty and buzz. They uploaded photos online whenever they had nothing better to do, all of them heavily edited, smoothed-skinned, sharp-chinned, and long-legged. Those with recognizable features stayed popular longer, while those without them faded like a flash in the pan. Their teams hyped them up endlessly, and that was usually enough to make them familiar faces.

The second relied on being bizarre and shameless. They either went against the grain by posting ugly photos, made bizarre remarks, posted nude or explicit photos and videos, or tied themselves to celebrities through dating rumors. In short, they catered to the public's appetite for ugliness. With enough hype, they could also draw attention.

The third type was... politicians and wealthy people with distinctive personalities. Their every microexpression and little gesture enriched netizens' meme collections, and people paired them up into imaginary couples, weaving all sorts of fantasies around them. These people generally had no intention of becoming famous; somehow, they simply struck a chord with the public and went viral in a way that left people sighing.

In any case, as times developed, becoming an internet celebrity required increasingly unconventional tactics. People had seen too much and their tastes were getting heavier and heavier. Without some real tricks up your sleeve, at best you would be a flash in the pan, forgotten within days.