[Selfish, self-centered beauty of a top, born to greatness × lovestruck, self-deluded, looks-obsessed straight-guy bottom]
The top is the cannon-fodder fiancée in a novel about a mighty hero breaking off an engagement.
Beautiful and spoiled, he privately breaks off his engagement to the hero under his family's tacit approval, then faces a three-year pact.
The humble good-for-nothing transforms into the exalted Son of Heaven, while the top is left with nothing.
He resents it. He is foolish. He swears to make the hero pay.
But even in death, he doesn't get his wish. The one who collects his body is still the hero. Looking back on his life, he finds himself ridiculous and pitiable.
When he opens his eyes again, he has returned to the year he broke off the engagement, one month before it happens. He decides to change his fate.
But as he looks at the leaky thatched hut before him, he is confused. Has his family fallen on hard times...?
And what is this Dragon Hero Reverse-the-Tide System in his mind?
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The bottom transmigrates into a world of immortal cultivation. He thinks it's the classic tale of an orphan rising from humble beginnings, only to discover he's been born into a good family.
His parents dote on him, and his grandparents spoil him even more. If not for his memories of his past life, he would have become a tyrant who bullied men and harassed women.
Then one day, the bottom discovers he also has a fiancée, a young genius who has unfortunately become a good-for-nothing whose cultivation has stalled.
What a textbook Dragon Hero opening.
Breaking off an engagement is risky these days, so the bottom decides to take things slowly.
Then, on that day, in the reed marsh, aboard a small boat, the cool, otherworldly boy presses a sleeve sword to his throat and asks with a conflicted look, "Are you here to break off our engagement?"
The bottom: "My wife is so hot. I mean, the wind is really strong."
The top: ? (waiting for the engagement to be broken so the Dragon Hero System will activate)
What he never expected was that the Dragon Hero had come to force him into marriage.
Reading guide:
1. One-on-one, both leads are each other's only partners. The leads aren't perfect, so readers with extreme preferences should proceed with caution. The romance involves their past lives and gets a little melodramatic, with secret love and a bitter love-hate relationship.
2. Includes some immortal-cultivation and leveling-up plotlines, with some original worldbuilding.
3. Thanks to all the lovely readers for reading.
Theme: Love going both ways.