This Page Isn't in the Original Book

[Dual Male Leads] [Transmigrate into a Book] [Bickering Couple] [Mutually Devoted] [Older Love Interest] [Tsundere]

When Qi Zhao wakes up, he has transmigrated into the novel he finished reading the night before, as a cannon-fodder character who shares his name and won't live past twenty-five.

The good news: he has a prestigious family, loving parents, a crowd of friends, and more money than he could ever spend. The bad news: in the original story, the Qi family is convicted of a crime, and he dies miserably in prison. As for why he dies, the book doesn't say a word.

Qi Zhao thinks it over. He still has two years until he turns twenty-five, so he may as well focus on staying alive for now.

The trouble is, he crosses paths with Pei Jiming, the Deputy Minister of the Court of Judicial Review, a man renowned for being aloof and hard to approach. Qi Zhao finds him cold and meddlesome, while Pei Jiming thinks this young master of the Qi family is spoiled, sharp-tongued, and a complete nuisance. Whenever they meet, they can't help trading barbs.

Yet whenever something really happens, Pei Jiming is always the first to arrive. Qi Zhao complains that Pei meddles too much, but the next time trouble arises, he still instinctively turns to him. One keeps getting more involved, while the other stubbornly denies he cares. Neither intends to make a move, yet they gradually grow closer.

At first, Qi Zhao only wants to find a way to live past twenty-five. But then he realizes that something even harder to figure out than his death sentence might be Pei Jiming.

Wait, was this really in the original story?