Keepers Of Royalty

"Death and destruction is not your chosen path, my Lord. If you wish, you may alter that path, even when it seems set in stone."

Throughout centuries, many have been warring over the Orb Of Vitality, a shining golden orb relic that, when held, cures any ailment and grants the holder immortality.
There's just one catch: if they let it go, they die.
And for ages and ages and ages...the cycle repeated. And repeated. One man won the orb, a few hundred years later he was killed and the orb was taken by another.
It made the Empress sick of it.

So the late Empress of Bāishu devised a little kink in the system.
Using clay, stardust and a small pinch of demonic cultivation, an heir was born - something that hadn't happened in centuries due to the, "A Ruler Earns His Place, He Doesn't Just Have It Passed On" idiom around Bāishu.

And so, Huang Daiyu was created as a fully fledged young Lord with all the intelligence and wit of the Previous rulers, and now ruled over the region of Bāishu.

Many changes came along with the Lord Huang - The Position of the Keeper of Devils was reinstated, which was removed after the last Keeper Of Devils turned his power upon the Empress some five thousand years ago, and intermarriage between the 4 regions was also revived.

However, somewhere along the way, he started having some feelings for the Keeper Of Thunder, Lei Gong, somehow.
Being an artificial human, Lord Huang did not understand these changes....and the Forbidden Realm, which was ridden with evil spirits, was starting to leak.

Now.
How was he supposed to balance dealing with the Forbidden Realm, his feelings for Lord Lei, and serving his duty as an emperor?