
Honestly, it isn't the first time something like this happens (I am looking straight at you, Ken Liu and your 'The Grace of Kings' book) but I'm still shocked.

Plus the main characters are called Zetian (the heroine) and Li Shimin (the male lead, or at least one of them, I guess)? Well, aren't it quite a dead giveaway that these characters are copy and paste.based on famous historical figures such as Empress Wu Zetian and Emperor Taizong of Tang, a.k.a Li Shimin? I know, not many people had heard of The Five Star Stories these days, still.

I am curious but is that part sounding like the relationship between the humanoid Fatimas (mostly female) and the Headliners (or the cavalier, mostly male) from Mamoru Nagano's The Five Star Stories, who have to co-pilot giant robots known as the Mortar Heads? It doesn't matter that the girls often die from the mental strain. The boys of Huaxia dream of pairing up with girls to pilot Chrysalises, giant transforming robots that can battle the mecha aliens that lurk beyond the Great Wall.
