The Fake Prince Turned Out to Be a Love Scammer [Interstellar]

More than twenty years after the imperial bloodline was declared extinct, a young stowaway named Bai Qi is suddenly identified as a surviving royal heir.
To the rest of the Empire, it looks like a miracle: a nobody from the bottom of society rising overnight to become a prince. Even if he’s nothing more than a powerless puppet with weak mental strength and no ability to pilot mecha, it’s still a life most people would envy.
But Bai Qi knows better.
Because this “miracle” was never luck.
It was a lie he built with his own hands.
Posing as a lost prince to investigate a long-buried case, Bai Qi inserts himself into the orbit of Randall Seleres, one of the Empire’s most powerful dukes. On the surface, he plays the obedient, harmless royal hostage. In secret, he runs wild under another identity—one infamous across the galaxy as a cunning criminal, a shameless flirt, and a top-tier wanted fugitive.
No one realises the Empire’s useless puppet prince and its most elusive outlaw are the same person.
No one except Randall… who suspects far more than he lets on.
Cold, composed, and impossible to read, Randall claims to despise Bai Qi’s lies, arrogance, and provocations. Yet the harder he tries to corner this slippery fox, the more their dangerous game spirals into obsession. What begins as suspicion becomes pursuit, and pursuit becomes something far more intimate—and far more dangerous.
Then Bai Qi’s carefully crafted deception spectacularly collapses.
On a battlefield broadcast across the stars, the Empire’s legendary S-class mecha—silent for decades after the fall of the royal bloodline—is awakened by none other than the galaxy’s most wanted criminal. And when the mask comes off, the face beneath belongs to the Empire’s so-called useless prince.
With the truth exposed, the Empire thrown into chaos, and every faction closing in, Bai Qi has bigger problems than war, politics, or the mystery of his own identity.
Like whether there’s legal immunity for a prince accused of seducing a duke.