Luo Shuang

Luo Shuang is the surviving fourth princess of Qingwu Kingdom and the sovereign whom Du Ge serves during his second Alien Star Battlefield. Betrayal leaves her wounded, hunted, and suspicious of everyone; under Du Ge's severe instruction, she becomes a claimant able to command an intelligence organization, administer territory, reward armies, and accept the burdens of being the first female emperor in her world's history. Her reign survives conquest but not Pan-Universal Entertainment's later harvesting of the planet, after which Du Ge eventually recovers her soul.

Biography

The last princess in the Misty Forest

Duke Dingguo's rebellion kills Luo Shuang's father and brothers and drives her out of Qingwu Kingdom. She has already endured betrayal, hunger, cold, and days of pursuit when Dragon Fang assassins corner her in the Misty Forest. Her guards kill all but one of the fifteen attackers, yet every guard also dies, leaving the wounded princess alone with Leng Shi—the assassin newly possessed by Du Ge. Luo Shuang keeps her dagger raised and refuses to trust his claim that he is a Qingwu spy, but she also recognizes that killing him would leave her too weak to escape. Her decision to pretend belief is therefore a deliberate survival tactic, not the credulity Du Ge initially hopes to exploit (Chapters 299–300).

Luo Shuang's remaining purpose is revenge and restoration. Her first plan is to reach the Qinglan Sword Saint, her nominal master, and ask him to persuade Chongming Kingdom to intervene. She knows the chance is poor but sees no other institution with enough strength to oppose Duke Dingguo. Du Ge instead challenges her assumption that only a man can rule, criticizes both her inability to hide emotion and her reliance on inherited connections, and offers her the choice between obscurity and the hardship required to become an empress. She chooses the harder path, gives him her personal jade pendant as a pledge that she will remember his loyal counsel, and accepts him as her teacher (Chapters 300–301).

During five days in the forest, Du Ge makes Luo Shuang hunt, build shelter, practice martial arts, and repeatedly confront the memories that would otherwise make her retreat. She begins as a sheltered princess who fears both her pursuers and the man protecting her; she sleeps with a dagger and warning devices, tests whether Du Ge desires her, and uses the title of imperial teacher partly to establish a boundary between them. His refusal to exploit her and his relentless self-training gradually replace fear with near-dependent trust. She eventually undertakes the daily discipline without prompting and emerges from the forest declaring that she will defeat Duke Dingguo, become the first empress, and create a prosperous new order (Chapters 301–303).

Her education becomes political as soon as they return to settled land. Du Ge demonstrates how a claimant with no army can force landowners to supply money and grain, manufacture moral justification, and turn compromised people into future agents. Luo Shuang objects that threats dressed as persuasion may ruin her reputation and harm unwilling followers if she fails. She nevertheless studies the method, questions its weaknesses, and learns the larger lesson: legitimacy, public promises, material resources, and a network of small supporters must be accumulated before grand allies will treat her cause seriously. Her unease remains important, because she does not simply adopt Du Ge's ruthlessness without asking who will bear its cost (Chapters 303–305).

Heavenly Demons, Dragon Fang, and a public cause

Luo Shuang's first encounter with another Alien Star warrior reveals how far her judgment has developed. When Wu Chang poses as a celestial being, she questions why an immortal would need a mortal body and why he chose a weak host, while Du Ge maneuvers him into service. She promises Wu Chang the office of national teacher if he aids her restoration, yet continues watching both men rather than accepting either explanation at face value. Her royal identity gives their improvised coalition a cause around which warriors can gather, but she understands that supernatural allies may also be deceivers with goals of their own (Chapters 306–308).

Du Ge turns Luo Shuang herself into a political trend. Stories of miraculous escapes, gender equality, royal marriage, and celestial assistance spread across Chongming Kingdom, some flattering and some hostile. Luo Shuang dislikes rumors treating a female ruler as unnatural or reducing her succession to marriage, and she refuses the idea of adopting an heir from relatives who abandoned her family. She nonetheless accepts that controversy makes her visible to supporters who would otherwise never know she survived. The campaign shifts her from private fugitive to public alternative: women, merchants, craftsmen, students, and hidden Alien Star warriors can now attach their ambitions to her restoration (Chapters 309–310, 315–318).

Du Ge captures the local Dragon Fang leadership and installs Luo Shuang as its concealed new head. She forgives Yu Hongsheng's attempt on her life because his experience and authority are still useful, then studies the organization's reports instead of treating it as a mere band of assassins. Du Ge teaches her to balance factions, cultivate direct loyalists, suspect even apparently obedient subordinates, identify the power behind the organization, and use its intelligence to find officials, generals, and other talents. Luo Shuang recognizes that her position initially depends almost entirely on Du Ge, but she takes responsibility for learning administration so Dragon Fang can become her institution rather than another borrowed weapon (Chapters 312–315).

When Huangfu Yue raises Luo Shuang's banner and appears trapped at Yutang Pass, Luo Shuang correctly suspects an open trap but insists that ignoring the first female general to support her would destroy the credibility of every promise she has made. She enters the pass with Dragon Fang's assassins, publicly denounces Huangfu Yue for betraying their shared cause, and physically places herself between the general and Du Ge when the confrontation becomes dangerous. After Huangfu Yue yields, Luo Shuang accepts her surrender and later receives Huangfu Xing's allegiance, converting an operation meant to capture her into the first real army under her flag (Chapters 318–325).

From Yutang Pass to a rival state

With territory and troops at last, Luo Shuang begins making decisions as a ruler rather than a symbolic claimant. She asks to review Du Ge's proposed appointments before approving them, receives surrendered generals in her own name, and orders Dragon Fang's experts into a force dedicated to her security and special operations. At Yutang Pass she implements education for girls, elevates women, merchants, and craftsmen, and issues donation certificates promising future repayment or honors. These policies draw supplies and loyalty, but she challenges the unequal treatment of wealthy donors and common people and insists that promises must eventually be honored. Du Ge's schemes create the opening; Luo Shuang's concern for credibility pushes the emerging regime toward obligations it must fulfill (Chapters 325–327).

The movement expands rapidly through a mixture of victories and publicity. Luo Shuang's flag rises over Yutang Pass, Linyang, and Langping, while proclamations describe her as a ruler who protects ordinary people and opens advancement beyond hereditary elites. She meets donors and local families personally, thanks them in public, and becomes the focus through whom surrendered officers can convert compromised service into legitimate merit. Although much of her heroic reputation is crafted by Du Ge, her willingness to stand behind the promises gives the propaganda a continuing political object (Chapters 325–329, 335, 343).

Her relationship with Du Ge also changes once she understands what he is. Luo Shuang first asks whether he is a Heavenly Demon after realizing how unnatural his knowledge and abilities are; he refuses the label while promising that no one will harm her. When he later reveals his true name, the ranking contest, and the fact that his supposed “torture” keyword is another disguise, she does not reject him. She credits him with saving her life and offers to cooperate with whatever behavior strengthens him, even accepting further blows from the King-Beating Whip. More importantly, she chooses to hear the deeper truth someday despite his warning that it could endanger her world, promising not to let him face his enemy alone (Chapters 313, 327, 331, 335–336).

That loyalty is not passive obedience. Luo Shuang questions military plans, worries about confronting grandmasters, and tries to rescue Du Ge when Cao Lin appears to overpower him. She also experiences jealousy and romantic attachment, both toward Du Ge and toward women who share dangerous intimacy with him. Those feelings expose how dependent she remains on her teacher, but they do not stop her from carrying out public duties: after Cao Lin's surrender, she receives the strategic legitimacy offered by Chongming's imperial teacher and uses it to present her government as the emerging lawful order rather than a border rebellion (Chapters 334–345).

War, coronation, and vengeance

Luo Shuang's court develops while several kingdoms and Alien Star factions attempt to destroy it. She sits at the head of military councils, asks about enemy grandmasters and force distribution, and evaluates whether to defend three cities or strike directly into Qingwu. Du Ge and the supernatural warriors still determine the most difficult battles, but Luo Shuang provides the sovereign authority that joins Dragon Fang, Huangfu Xing's troops, surrendered Chongming armies, merchants, reformers, and the Heavenly Spirits and Earthly Fiends into one command. Her cause grows from a few thousand troops to hundreds of thousands, and cities begin surrendering without resistance because officials now expect her rule to endure (Chapters 334–366).

She also strengthens herself. Years earlier she had treated Qinglan Sword Sect training as a royal credential and later regretted not learning enough to defend herself. The forest regimen gives her a renewed foundation, while her sincere belief in Du Ge's favorable Zodiac Fortunes later lets the luck attached to them accelerate her understanding. In slightly more than ten days of intensive cultivation she reaches the Prenatal Realm. The advancement does not make her the equal of the grandmasters deciding wars, but it removes some of the physical helplessness that defined her flight and gives the future empress a confirmed martial attainment of her own (Chapters 300–302, 305, 320, 352).

After victory at Chongling, Luo Shuang demonstrates a more mature command presence. She listens to Du Ge's report, rewards Wu Chang and other contributors, gives titles to surrendered officers, and orders Lin Qing to recall forces still attacking her cities. The methodical distribution of merit shows that she has absorbed the administrative lesson Dragon Fang began: victories must become offices, chains of command, and personal obligations to the throne. Her gratitude to Du Ge remains immense, but the public act is hers, and it consolidates an army that has absorbed former enemies as well as early followers (Chapters 365–366).

Luo Shuang ascends the throne once she commands dozens of cities and half of Chongming Kingdom. During the ceremony she accepts Du Ge's final admonition that an emperor must keep the world in mind, hear criticism, endure humiliation, and restrain herself through virtue, propriety, and responsibility to the people. Her emotionally charged response to his discipline helps transform the King-Beating Whip into the Admonition Cane, but she regains composure and completes the ritual when her ministers call her back to state business. The ceremony establishes her as the first female emperor rather than a princess temporarily commanding rebels (Chapters 367–369).

Her first independent act from the throne is to rewrite the ceremony around gratitude. Luo Shuang recounts Du Ge's service, deliberately removes its uglier details, names him Loyal and Righteous King, and grants him extraordinary privileges, including the right to punish rulers and ministers. The awards alarm officials because they make him nearly a second sovereign, revealing that her personal attachment still distorts her political judgment. She then rewards the remaining ministers and announces policies centered on gender equality, broad education, and the social standing of previously neglected groups, tying her legitimacy to the reforms that built her coalition (Chapters 368–369).

The final campaigns realize the goal that kept Luo Shuang alive in the forest. Du Ge's coalition conquers the rest of Chongming, defeats Qingwu's resistance, and lets Luo Shuang exterminate Duke Dingguo's family, avenging her father and brothers. Beihai then submits, and within a little more than four months she unifies the kingdoms as the most powerful empress of the age. The speed and supernatural force of the conquest mean she does not win by personal arms, but she supplies its durable political center and assumes responsibility for the vast realm left when the Alien Star Battlefield ends (Chapters 370–375).

Harvested world and recovered soul

Du Ge's departure leaves Luo Shuang ruling a world he knows Pan-Universal Entertainment may punish. He hides warnings about the civilization in his writings, but cannot remain to protect her. Later, Pan-Universal Entertainment harvests the inhabited planet, extracts its people's souls, and converts their world into a Simulation Field. Luo Shuang loses her body and sovereignty in that process; her survival continues only as a stored soul within the reproduced world (Chapters 375, 447, 479).

Her fate becomes one of Du Ge's reasons for continuing the fight. He remembers his promise to her alongside other companions taken from harvested worlds and refuses to secure only his own freedom. When Pan-Universal Entertainment prepares for its final confrontation with him, it gathers Luo Shuang and the others closest to him as prospective hostages, confirming both that her soul remains intact and that their bond is considered strategically useful against him (Chapters 647, 653).

After defeating Pan-Universal Entertainment, Du Ge gathers the souls held in the Simulation Field and reunites with Luo Shuang. She is among the majority who decline immediate rebirth through possession of another person's body and choose to continue living in the simulated world until a body can be made for them. By the end of the story Du Ge has recovered his full power, the relevant stellar maps, and the ability to recreate bodies and return his companions, but Luo Shuang's physical restoration is not explicitly completed. Her latest confirmed state is therefore a free, recovered soul awaiting that next step by choice rather than by captivity (Chapter 655).

Martial arts, leadership, and rule

Qinglan training and the Prenatal Realm

Luo Shuang receives martial instruction as a nominal disciple of Qinglan Sword Sect, the customary relationship through which royal families maintain ties with powerful sects. She does not devote herself deeply enough to become a leading disciple, and during her flight she relies on guards, a dagger, medicine, and determination rather than a named sword technique. Her lack of mastery is a recurring limitation: assassins leave her gravely wounded, she cannot safely descend Yutang Pass's cliffs without being carried, and she is unable to affect clashes between grandmasters (Chapters 299–300, 305, 320, 339–342).

Du Ge rebuilds her practical foundation in the Misty Forest through daily exercise, hunting, shelter-building, and martial practice under fatigue. This training is not attached to a named cultivation method, but it changes her discipline and restores the habit of persistent work. Later she cultivates under the five-star fortunes published for her in the Linyang Daily. Those fortunes only produce their extraordinary effect when the recipient sincerely believes them; Luo Shuang's trust in Du Ge causes promised insights and favorable conditions to become effective for her (Chapters 301–303, 339, 352).

In just over ten days, Luo Shuang breaks through to the Prenatal Realm, whose defining local feature is an uninterrupted circulation of true energy. The advancement is accelerated by fortune rather than shown as the result of a particular Qinglan technique, and no later formal realm is established. It gives her stronger personal capability but does not replace generals, guards, or grandmasters, so Du Ge continues keeping her close during major battles. After her soul is extracted, the Prenatal body is no longer available to her; by Chapter 655, a recreated body is possible but not yet confirmed (Chapters 352, 370–371, 447, 655).

Political judgment and administration

Luo Shuang's principal developed skill is rulership. Du Ge trains her to hide immediate reactions, question information, distinguish a subordinate's interests from their words, balance rival factions, and turn promises into enforceable obligations. Dragon Fang gives her a practical school: she studies personnel and target reports, learns why an order dependent on an old leader is not yet her own power, and begins cultivating officers who answer directly to her. She does not master these lessons immediately, and Du Ge frequently corrects missed implications, but her questions become progressively more strategic (Chapters 301, 304, 314–315, 318, 325–327).

Her administration combines reform with credibility. She supports girls' schooling, gender equality, broader education, innovation, merchants, and lower taxes, using excluded groups as a new political base. She is more cautious than Du Ge about coercive fundraising and propaganda, repeatedly asking whether promises are fair and whether subjects will be repaid. That concern supplies an important counterweight to his opportunism: her legitimacy depends not merely on issuing donation certificates but on accepting that the future state owes what those certificates promise (Chapters 315, 325–329, 369).

As commander, Luo Shuang does not devise every campaign or defeat the strongest enemies herself. Her demonstrated strength lies in receiving surrender, converting military victory into rank and office, questioning plans in council, and keeping disparate forces attached to one throne. Her limitations remain visible in her dependence on Du Ge's strategy and supernatural strength, and in the excessive privileges she grants him at coronation. Even so, by the Chongling victory she can methodically reward contributors and issue orders to former enemy armies, a marked change from the princess whose entire strategy once consisted of asking her nominal master for help (Chapters 300, 325, 354, 365–369).

Personal resolve and symbolic leadership

Luo Shuang's royal identity is not a supernatural power, but it is the coalition's essential organizing symbol. Du Ge can spread stories and manipulate trends, yet supporters need a claimant whose survival, grievances, promises, and future office make their own risks meaningful. Luo Shuang personally answers that need by appearing at Yutang Pass despite a trap, defending her first female supporter, meeting donors, accepting generals, and publicly binding herself to reform. These acts turn manufactured attention into commitments that can outlast a single rumor (Chapters 318–329, 343–345).

Her resolve is strongest when personal survival and public duty conflict. She refuses quiet anonymity in the forest, tries to aid Du Ge against Cao Lin, accepts a coronation that makes her responsible for more than family revenge, and later chooses truth about the Alien Star warriors even after being warned it may endanger her world. Her emotional dependence on Du Ge is simultaneously a strength and a weakness: it sustains extraordinary trust and cooperation, but also makes her jealous, invites humiliating discipline, and contributes to politically disproportionate rewards. She is therefore neither Du Ge's puppet nor an entirely independent sovereign; her achievement comes from learning to act through a relationship that empowers and constrains her at the same time (Chapters 301–302, 313, 331, 336, 339–340, 367–369).

Endurance and battlefield limitations

Luo Shuang survives severe wounds, bereavement, flight, hunger, and the collapse of every familiar institution without abandoning her goal. She can use a dagger, ride with an army, withstand strenuous training, and continue governing under the threat of assassination. She also retains enough composure to perform publicly even when frightened or emotionally shaken, an ability she did not possess at her first meeting with Du Ge (Chapters 299–303, 313, 319–325, 367–368).

Her battlefield limitations are explicit. Before reaching the Prenatal Realm she is one of the weakest members of her traveling group, and afterward she still cannot decide grandmaster-level combat. Du Ge carries or guards her during dangerous movements, keeps her near because enemies may target his loyalty through her, and repeatedly prevents her from entering fights beyond her ability. Luo Shuang's power is consequently strongest at the level of commitment, legitimacy, and command; her martial cultivation supports survival but never becomes the basis of her empire (Chapters 320, 331, 339–345, 352, 370–371).

Power progression

Relationships

• Du Ge: Luo Shuang accepts Du Ge first as a necessary protector, then as imperial teacher, confidant, object of romantic attachment, and indispensable architect of her reign. His methods often frighten or humiliate her, but she questions him, learns from him, discovers his true identity, and chooses to cooperate. He later makes rescuing her soul one of the obligations that keeps him fighting Pan-Universal Entertainment (Chapters 299–336, 367–369, 647–655).
• Huangfu Yue: Huangfu Yue begins as bait in a plan to capture Luo Shuang. Luo Shuang risks entering Yutang Pass because abandoning the first female general to raise her banner would betray their shared cause, then accepts her surrender and makes her a leading commander of the new order. Their common attachment to Du Ge introduces rivalry, but Huangfu Yue remains the first female general under Luo Shuang and later reaches the grandmaster path (Chapters 318–325, 339–341, 367, 374).
• Wu Chang: Luo Shuang recruits Wu Chang when he claims to be a descended celestial warrior. She remains skeptical of his story but gives him a place to prove his bravery, and he becomes one of the fighters whose service she rewards after Chongling (Chapters 306–309, 319–320, 365).
• Cao Lin: Cao Lin marches against Luo Shuang as Chongming's God of War. After Du Ge defeats and coerces him, Luo Shuang receives his surrender and gains both a grandmaster and tens of thousands of troops, a turning point that makes her claim nationally credible (Chapters 337–345).
• Qinglan Sword Saint: Luo Shuang is his nominal disciple and initially treats his support as her only hope of restoration. He neither captures nor openly assists her, choosing seclusion while acknowledging that the forces around her are reshaping the world (Chapters 300–301, 316–317, 353).

Items

• Personal jade pendant: Luo Shuang gives the pendant to Du Ge as a pledge that she will remember his counsel and never harm him. Du Ge later presents it to Huangfu Yue as evidence of her identity, making it both a private token of trust and a credential of royal legitimacy even though Huangfu Yue initially rejects the proof (Chapters 301, 321).
• King-Beating Whip: Luo Shuang reluctantly names and signs the vine whip Du Ge uses to discipline her, formally authorizing it to punish foolish rulers and treacherous ministers. At coronation she grants it back to Du Ge as part of his office (Chapters 313, 367–369).
• Admonition Cane: The King-Beating Whip manifests as this derivative control item during Luo Shuang's enthronement. Luo Shuang is the repeated target and essential catalyst for its creation, but Du Ge remains its wielder and owner (Chapters 367–369).
• Imperial regalia granted to Du Ge: Luo Shuang bestows an Emperor's Token and Imperial Sword on Du Ge, exempting him from kneeling and authorizing him to execute first and report afterward. They are instruments of his exceptional office rather than her combat equipment (Chapter 368).