Survival Guide to a Restricted World

Bai Yuanzhou was shy and innocent, and had never been in a relationship in his life. Then one day, he found himself inside an erotic novel, playing a minor role as a disposable tool character.

Luckily, he got bound to a System that could point him in the right direction.

System: “The original novel’s male lead is devoted, loves deeply, and is wealthy. He’s been secretly in love with his ideal woman since his student days. But she went abroad to study, and his family was pressuring him to marry. When he was feeling down, he met you at a bar and thought you looked somewhat like her. After signing a sugar-baby agreement with you, he entered into a fake marriage.”

“Once his ideal woman returns, the two of them will hit it off, lose themselves in passion, and cheat on you behind your back, making you part of their bedroom games. In the end, he’ll cruelly dump you, the wicked male supporting character, throw you into the sea to feed the sharks, and reach a happy ending.”

Bai Yuanzhou was full of righteous indignation. “That’s awful!”

System: “To avoid your death, the first thing you need to do is seduce the original novel’s male lead and get him to keep you.”

Bai Yuanzhou’s righteous indignation instantly deflated. “...?”

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Following the System’s instructions, Bai Yuanzhou went to a bar and entered a private room.

The man swirling his glass looked mature and sexy. Two buttons of his shirt were undone, revealing glimpses of his broad, muscular chest.

Wearing a waiter’s uniform, Bai Yuanzhou stiffly fell onto the man just as the System had instructed, putting on an act as he said, “Oh no, I fell.”

The man quickly dodged to the side, but still got splashed with liquor. He narrowed his eyes. Just then, the waiter raised his head. His pretty, delicate face was flushed, and his eyes were watery. The man’s heart skipped a beat.

The waiter took a deep breath, as if preparing to unleash some kind of big move.

Bai Yuanzhou threw caution to the wind. He pinched himself until his eyes welled up, and a tear fell with each blink. In an instant, he spun himself a sob story: a gambling-addict father, a sick mother, a younger sister in school, and a life in ruins.

Finally, overcome with emotion and sounding utterly sincere, he asked, “Will you keep me?”

*

After fake-marrying the original novel’s male lead, Bai Yuanzhou had a carefree life. His husband gave him plenty of money and hardly ever came home.

As soon as the ideal woman returned, Bai Yuanzhou followed the System’s survival guide to the letter, seducing his fake husband’s younger brother every day, then trying to seduce the ideal woman.

His attempts at seduction were incredibly clumsy, yet both he and the System thought they were ingenious.

In the original story, his fake husband would get carried away with passion with the ideal woman at a class reunion, then again in the office, and then again with her in their marital bed.

Following the System’s instructions, Bai Yuanzhou would sneak into their trysting spots at exactly the right time, hoping to give them a fright. He mischievously thought that scaring his fake husband into impotence would be best, but for some reason, he always arrived to find no one there.

He was frustrated that he had followed the System’s instructions every time, so how could he keep missing them? Before he could figure it out, a hand suddenly shoved him down onto the bed.

His fake husband’s voice was low and hoarse. His eyes were bloodshot as he stared at him. He bit down on the soft flesh of Bai Yuanzhou’s neck and ground his teeth against it, but never dared bite hard. “Stop flirting with other people, baby... I’m really going crazy.”

The man’s overwhelming jealousy and pain were no longer held back. Intense possessiveness poured from those steady, mature eyes as he stared at the young, handsome boy he was paying to keep.

Bai Yuanzhou was stunned, and finally understood: The System’s guide was wrong!

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Reader’s Guide:

1. The bottom is not a pushover. The story includes non-consensual and coercive scenes, as well as an abundance of melodrama.

2. The bottom is addicted to sex.

3. The original story’s plot is not entirely accurate, and there are secrets surrounding the so-called ideal woman.

4. More to be added.

Theme: The power of offering love and care