[Two male leads + Transmigrate into a book + System + Ancient-style court intrigue + Silly sweet romance + One-on-one, both chaste, happy ending]
Unhinged Regent Gong × The most timid, yet most willing to die, screenwriter Shou
Pei Quezhi is a little-known screenwriter. After writing an 800-character scathing review of a badly concluded political-intrigue novel and “putting real feeling into his rant,” he’s chosen by the System and transmigrates into the book as a minor reader who won’t survive thirty chapters.
From the start, he’s in a dead-end situation: he’s holding a cup of poisoned wine meant for Xie Wujiu, the story’s big villain.
Pei Quezhi acts decisively and pours the poison into a flowerpot. “Your Highness, this flower looks like it could use a little poison.”
Xie Wujiu: “?”
To stay alive, he binds himself to a defective System. His mission is to keep the villain’s corruption level maxed out. So he diligently smashes the keepsake of the villain’s late mother, ruins the exquisite chess game the man has spent twelve years arranging, and even presents him with a clock at his birthday banquet.
The entire court is scared stiff. Xie Wujiu crushes three teacups, but his corruption level keeps plummeting.
[Warning: Unknown data detected: “heart-flutter level”,]
Pei Quezhi: Something’s wrong. Why is the villain looking at me more and more strangely?
Later, the Regent, whose power eclipses everyone at court, corners him in a plum grove, his voice hoarse. “Did I say you could leave?”
Later still, as snow falls at Vermilion Bird Gate, the man holds his memorial tablet and tears down half the capital. “I can do without the empire. Pei Quezhi, you have to come back and comfort me.”
He stole him away from the plot, and Pei Quezhi brought him back from hell.
The writing is very nice. It is sweet with a touch of cruelty, a touch of sadism with sweetness, and mixed with tactics. In addition, the main system seems to be playing a big game. I hope the ending is good.