After I Transmigrated into a Book, We Agreed to Grow Old Together. Where Are You, Darling?

[Dual Male Leads + Transmigrate into a Book + Teacher and Disciple + System]

Shen Nanci x Li Yang

System: He is a tool to help you clear the game.

Li Yang: He is the reason I defy the rules.

Li Yang, an overworked office worker and writer, transmigrates into the down-and-out male lead of his own book and gets saddled with a useless System.

"Fail to become regent by following the plot, and you will be erased immediately."

On the brink of death, he is taken in by Shen Nanci, a refined scholar who becomes his master.

His master is an NPC, existing solely to teach him strategy and the art of war.

But when his master takes a poisoned blade for him, and Li Yang sees the light in his eyes,

Li Yang knowingly falls headlong into love.

The System’s warning rings shrilly: "Do not develop unnecessary feelings for an NPC!"

In those cool, clear eyes, he glimpses a tenderness that should not be there.

“Master, your student… has a question he cannot resolve today.”

By the flickering candlelight, he leans down and brushes a fingertip across the other man’s cool lips.

“Which matters more: the bonds of propriety and morality… or loving you?”

On the eve of their parting, drunkenness shatters every restraint.

Their clothes fall to the floor. The System’s alarm shrieks like a blade, yet cannot sever their mingled breaths before the desk.

He promises, “Master, I will return and spend our lives together.”

But he fails to see the compassion in his master’s eyes, already aware of how it will all end.

He finally climbs to power over a mountain of corpses, becoming the sinister regent from the book,

all so that one day he can protect that small, cherished glimmer of moonlight.

But when he returns, the mountain hut stands empty.

[System has detected that the NPC’s mission is complete. The NPC has been erased.]

“I defied fate and fought for this realm, all just to… hear you say you never existed?”