What Bad End Could Befall a Straight Guy Who Plays Dating Sims?

I don't smoke, drink, gamble, or visit brothels. What's wrong with playing an otome game?

The straight guy Huo Yezhen swears he only played it to learn, to study what made the men in otome games so popular and take a few pointers from his "seniors."

But that doesn't mean he wanted to transmigrate into the game and become its "heroine"!

His current identity: the fresh-out-of-college, naive young man desperately looking for work, and distant cousin of the boss of an Italian clam seafood company. Wait, isn't he a guy? Why is he the otome game's "heroine"?!

But there was no time to think about that. To make a living, he had to hurry off in search of a job, while avoiding the strange "male leads" who kept coming at him from every direction.

His first job was as a personal assistant to the director of a port trade group. It seemed perfectly ordinary, but in reality...

His boss, drunk in the middle of the night, laced their fingers together. His deep blue eyes were full of determination.

"Xiao Zhen, could you... please pay attention to me?"

He bit off his glove, pinned Huo Yezhen's resisting hands down with one hand, and tentatively touched his upper lip...

His second job was as a receptionist at the Mori Detective Agency. Beika Town seemed peaceful and quiet, but who told him he'd run into three murder cases in a single day?

A police chief he happened to meet always seemed unusually warm toward him. Beneath his carefully maintained facade lay feelings even he couldn't quite explain.

"Xiao Zhen, it's dangerous here. I'm worried about you."

Huo Yezhen was forced to place his hand on the police chief's chest. His heart was beating fast, as if to prove just how worried he was.

In the distance, a silver-haired man's expression shifted unpredictably. At the next corner, Huo Yezhen was dragged into an empty alley.

"You seem to be getting pretty close to him. But, baby, don't touch other men who don't matter."

He took the hand Huo Yezhen had used to touch someone else and licked it slowly.

After being pursued by all kinds of anonymous perverts, Huo Yezhen decided the world was too scary. He'd better pack his bags and go to Italy to stay with his cousin.

He'd heard his cousin was gentle and handsome, surrounded by reliable companions, and ran a publicly traded company with tens of billions in liquid assets...

But his cousin, who seemed so gentle and harmless, also had a formidable side. And the bodyguards around him seemed to have some bad ideas of their own.

"Xiao Zhen, if you're willing to come back, that means... you're not going to leave again, right?"

The brown-haired man turned away and quietly shut the door, a smile of total control on his lips.

His usual gentleness became an undeniable certainty that allowed no refusal. Poor Huo Yezhen could only curl up in a corner and bury his head in despair.

--- Damn it, aren't they brothers? Don't trick him into coming here just to kill him!

Huo Yezhen slumped in defeat. He was wrong, so wrong. The second and third dimensions really were worlds apart. None of those men in otome games could be trusted!

But it was already too late to see the error of his ways. A bunch of men showed up at his place, claiming they'd missed him terribly since they parted.

He felt like he hadn't done anything at all, yet a crowd of men came flooding to his door, their affection levels maxed out as if they'd conquered themselves. Every one of them harbored feelings they couldn't put into words.

Huo Yezhen wiped his sweat and barricaded the door. What was wrong with this otome game world?!

PS: (1) Straight means he straightforwardly likes men!

(2) A daily-life romance conquest story. OOC is to be expected!

(3) The conquest targets have a tiny bit of stalkerish obsession (they're actually on their second playthrough after being conquered).

(4) The male lead gets forcibly conquered, a little bit of a universal heartthrob. Everything unreasonable is because this is fanfiction!

Theme: Boys need to protect themselves when they're out and about, too