(Draft in progress)
In old-school melodramatic stories, there is usually a "caught in the act" scene. A stable hand, security guard, lackey, or thug is bribed or forced by a vicious villain to defile a rich young lady, until her Prince Charming shows up and punishes him savagely.
Bai Yu specializes in playing these cannon fodder roles: the gold-digger who lures the protagonist into eloping, the stable hand framed for adultery, and so on.
Except that in Bai Yu's stories, all those rich young ladies inexplicably turn into young masters.
And he isn't the one on top, either.
[Innocent passerby waiter x wealthy young master]
A group of rich young heirs on vacation plan to take scandalous photos of the protagonist and ruin his arranged marriage to the male lead.
After drugging the protagonist, they forcefully lock an innocent passerby waiter in with him.
But the male lead, who is supposed to come teach him a lesson, never shows up.
The female lead, who is supposed to fight back with all her might and refuse to let him touch her, has turned into a tall, burly man.
And the victim's pleas to buy time have somehow ended up coming out of Bai Yu's mouth.
Waiter Bai Yu, covered in hickey marks: ...We're both men, so why am I the one getting pinned down?
[Swaggering thug x undercover big shot]
The person the villain has taken by force refuses to submit. The villain grabs his lackey Bai Yu and says, "If you don't give in, I'll have this thug defile you."
The aloof beauty coughs up blood, defiant: "Do whatever you want."
Bai Yu and the drugged aloof beauty are locked in a dark room. Suddenly, someone lands on top of him, knocking him down.
He says helplessly, "Miss, don't worry. I can't do it... Just make a couple of noises..."
The aloof beauty gathers up his long hair, his gaze dark. "If you can't do it, then make some noise."
[Vicious bodyguard x gloomy ghost of a true young master]
The fake young master bribes the bodyguard to find a way to drug and defile the real young master.
For the money, he goes through with it, whipping and trampling him viciously.
But he never expected the drugged real young master to be as strong as an ox.
Even with him underfoot, the young master pries open his handcuffs with his bare hands and grabs the bodyguard by the ankle.
[Illiterate, handsome stable hand x intellectual crown prince]
A stable hand from a European-style ducal estate catches the eye of noble youths with his impressive horsemanship. When they need someone to frame the crown prince for having sex with a man, they pick him. But when they catch them in the act, everyone's eyes are on the handsome stable hand.
The noble youths: "Cold and uninterested? That's only because this guy can't get him excited! If it were me, I could definitely do it!"
[Gold-digger who lures a wealthy young master into eloping x wealthy young master]
[Beautiful idiot who only drags others down x vengeful ghost destined for a ghost marriage]
[Pretty, two-faced lackey x student council president at an aristocratic academy]
One after another, the people Bai Yu is supposed to defile in the stories, the ones who should hate him to the bone, end up running away with him, utterly devoted to him.
And just like that, the caught-in-the-act scenes become real.
Everyone wants to know: just what kind of fox spirit is this stable hand, lackey, or security guard? How do these young masters and big shots fall for him at the drop of a hat?
After meeting Bai Yu: So he's a flawless gem like this. What a lucky guy!
Wait, which one of them was actually defiled?
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Reader's guide:
1. A passerby becomes the white moonlight (or yellow moonlight), and there will probably be a lot of doting on the shou. From universally disliked to universally adored.
2. Both leads are virgins.
The blurb was screenshotted on October 4, 2025.
Theme: A flawless gem hidden in the rough