Impersonating a White Lotus

Male/male romance! Male/male romance! Male/male romance!

What?! A white lotus?! Who’d want to be that fake, saccharine fool?

System: [Host, you have to pretend to be a white lotus if you want to survive.]

Qiao Ran: No! I’m going to be a playboy and have every beauty in the world for myself.

The System fell silent for a long while. [Fine. Then the Host can just wait to die.]

All right, all right. If pretending to be a white lotus is what it takes to stay alive, then I’ll do it. As long as I survive, that’s all that matters...

“Lin Yan, actually, he and I aren’t the same person.”

“I know.”

“You like him, and you still say that to me?”

“I like both of you.”

“I don’t like that answer. You’ve fallen for two different souls inhabiting Qiao Ran.”

“Yes.”

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