The Pretty Little Darling Just Wants to Survive

[Please add my upcoming book, I Never Meant to Make My Bro Act Like a Dog?!] Mu Xueji had only dozed off in class. When he opened his eyes again, he'd transmigrated into a book. He was blind and mute, and his family was going to send him to marry a brutal prince who killed without blinking, as a good-luck bride? [Your character: Born with a disability, your birth mother died young, your father doesn't care about you, your stepmother can't wait to throw you out, and everyone hates you!] [Main quest: Raise the male lead's favorability to 100%.] Mu Xueji almost wanted to hit 321 and start over. What kind of nightmare setup was this from the start?! On their wedding night, Mu Xueji stared at the unconscious male lead on the bed. Remembering what a scumbag he was in the story, Mu Xueji delivered a righteous slap in the name of justice. And that one slap woke the man from his coma! “Who are you?” “...” You're asking a mute? From that slap on, everything seemed to gallop off in a very strange direction. Wasn't he supposed to be following the everyone-hates-him script? This wasn't what he'd signed up for! The male lead was supposed to be cold-blooded, merciless, and tyrannical? Then who was this lunatic who secretly followed him around all day and got jealous over nothing? When he secretly met another transmigrator, an imperial physician, in the imperial garden, his cold-hearted husband suddenly appeared and said, “Just passing by.” When the crown prince kept pestering him again, the man appeared out of nowhere and pulled him into his arms. “Please show some restraint.” When he set a trap to teach the vicious extra who was supposed to kill him in the original story a lesson, his good husband actually had the man tied up and thrown into the dungeon, ready to finish him off with one stroke! [Even though everyone hates you, you're so stunningly beautiful that nobody can take their eyes off you!] Mu Xueji had no trouble believing that. After all, every night, when he cried until he looked like a tear-stained cat, Xie Zhige would gently tuck his disheveled hair behind his ear and coax him in a low voice: “I want to see your face.” Mu Xueji diligently avoided the relentless advances of the various male characters losing their minds, waiting until he'd raised the favorability enough to escape this novel full of lunatics. But Xie Zhige gazed at him with affection and said, “Hydrogen, helium, aluminum, beryllium, boron, carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, fluorine, neon.” How many people have transmigrated into this book?! Xie Zhige was listening to music through his headphones while crossing the street when a speeding delivery truck came out of nowhere and sent him flying. When he opened his eyes again, he was lying on a bed in wedding clothes, his face burning with pain. And beside him was someone holding up a hand and staring at him with an innocent expression. Only when those familiar eyes appeared before him did Xie Zhige, a materialist for over a decade, finally believe that immortals really could descend to the mortal world. [What do you do when you suddenly marry your longtime crush?] Cold on the outside, warm-hearted, scheming, and devoted top × spoiled, calculating, flirty bottom Reading guide: 1. Both transmigrate. 2. The top has a crush on the bottom, and pampers him. The top isn't very nice at the beginning because he's afraid the bottom might not be the person he has a crush on. Once he recognizes him, he'll love him all the way. 3. The bottom has a slight everyone-loves-him quality, meaning even passing extras might be interested in him. But the main couple will remain devoted to one another, physically and emotionally, in a one-on-one relationship. 4. The author isn't very educated, so please don't dwell on logical holes or bugs. The setting is fictional, so don't nitpick the details. [Upcoming story blurb] Hopelessly romantic, pure-hearted, universally adored bottom × fake-nice, truly twisted top Song Muxiang is a hopeless romantic who'll date anyone, a pretty face with a head full of wood. After his breakup party, he mistook a high-proof liquor for a soft drink and blacked out. He woke up alone in a hotel room. He thought it had just been a secret one-night mistake, until the doctor told him with a grave expression: “You're pregnant.” “Male pregnancies aren't unheard of, but they're quite rare.” Song Muxiang stood outside the hospital, utterly lost in the wind. Who was the father? He had no idea. All he knew was that his friends at the party had told him the man who took him away had introduced himself as his new boyfriend. He swallowed his pride and called the exes he'd blocked, only to get more scorn and ridicule in return. Just then, his childhood friend, who had been living abroad for years, suddenly returned to the country. A day apart felt like three years. The once nerdy little boy had changed completely and become the new heir to his family's business. Song Muxiang thought he was about to make a fool of himself in front of an old friend, but the other man made a shocking offer to raise the child: Xia Zhaoye: “If you're willing, I can be the child's father.” Song Muxiang: “...The child isn't yours.” Xia Zhaoye: “I don't care.” Love letters that inexplicably appeared between the pages of books, secret glances that always seemed to follow him wherever he went, and even anonymous packages that turned out to contain... baby supplies. They all showed just how special he was to this childhood friend. The angel and devil battling inside him continued to struggle, until his considerate, gentle “friend” pinned him in a bathroom stall. Song Muxiang didn't even have the strength to reply, and could only let the man on top of him have his way. “I don't expect to be your husband... But could you at least let me stay by your side?” His indecision melted away completely. They had barely enjoyed two days of intimacy when a report from the hospital struck like a bolt from the blue: “We're sorry. It was all a misdiagnosis.” “You aren't pregnant.” Song Muxiang: “...?” But I'd already found a dad for the baby! Xia Zhaoye grew up with Song Muxiang, watching him get close and flirt with one boyfriend after another. He could only watch the person he loved find happiness as a “friend,” never daring to hope for more. Then came the news that the pure moonlight he'd admired for years had “been tricked into getting pregnant and doesn't even know who the father is.” The desire he'd kept buried finally surged out, impossible to conceal. If everyone's allowed to date him, why can't I? Song Muxiang was terribly nervous, but finally decided to come clean: “...I wasn't actually pregnant.” He watched the glass in Xia Zhaoye's hand crack in an instant. The next moment, someone grabbed Song Muxiang by the back of the head. The man in front of him bit down on him like a wolfhound. Only after his mind turned hazy and his thoughts went blank did he see the other man's true face. “Did you think I was easy to fool?” “But what can I do? I can throw away the last scrap of my dignity... as long as you'll love me.” Only then did he realize how, for all these years, his gentle and considerate childhood friend had harbored the most twisted and shameful thoughts about him. He was a complete mad dog. Reading guide: 1. Both are virgins, both are virgins, both are virgins. 2. The bottom has dated a lot and is extremely popular, but there's only one actual male lead. The others are scummy extras. 3. No pregnancy. Theme: If love lies beyond mountains and seas, the mountains and seas can be crossed