The Male Lead I Raised Has Won Me Over?! (Also known as: Half a Hairpin Pendant)
The first half features a younger man pursuing an older woman; the second half features an older man pursuing a younger woman. After the heroine finishes building the game's setting midway through the story, she leaves the game. When she returns, Mo Huaixu is already older than Zhao Zhiyao.
Orphan Zhao Zhiyao, dying of heart disease, receives a notification from the game System: raise the male leads for them, and they will extend your life?
Of course she'd agree to a deal like that.
Loving parents, a thoughtful younger brother, a dashing young general, a chief minister devoted to the people, a hostage prince from Nanxun, a brother and sister who are assassins...
And the young male lead, Mo Huaixu, who always looked at her with possessive eyes.
Every blade of grass and every tree in the game world became an indelible part of Zhao Zhiyao's memories. Before the game began, they had all been nothing more than a few lines of code.
“So my existence gives these data a tangible meaning.”
(Mo Huaixu's perspective)
I thought I was going to rot away in this suffocating palace. During my time as a hostage, I found my moon. She was a phoenix roosting in a parasol tree, an immortal who pulled me out of the mire. Later, I learned she was the eldest princess of Western Chu, Zhao Zhiyao.
On the first day we met, she told me she would help me rule the world.
She was good to me, better than anyone. Her kindness made no sense, but I craved it.
“Big Sister, the parasol tree is blooming.”
I miss you.
One day.
Mo Huaixu leaned against the bedside, tracing Zhao Zhiyao's celestial features with his eyes. He kissed her from her forehead down to her lips.
“Yao Yao, you can only be mine.”
Half-asleep, Zhao Zhiyao pushed Mo Huaixu's face away.
“You've been unable to escape for ages.”
