An Honest Man Enters the Everyone’s-Darling Simulator

Coming soon: After Her Conquest Failed, She Faked Her Death. The blurb is at the very bottom

Easygoing Fake Wife & Devoted Widower

Blurb:

Bo Yunong is a diligent, conscientious, honest person.

By accident, she transmigrates into the hottest game of the moment, The Popularity Simulator.

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[Choose your background: Noble or Ordinary] - [Ordinary]

In the third year of Yuanzhen, the emperor finally finds the younger sister who had been lost among the common folk for years.

Bo Yunong looks at her lavish outfit. "...They call this ordinary?"

[You are now of marriageable age. The emperor offers to help choose a consort for you: Agree or Disagree] - [Agree]

Many seek her hand, but the emperor gives none of them his approval.

[The victorious general waits on the road you must take to enter the palace: Meet him or Don't] - [Don't]

The general sweeps aside the palace servants blocking his way. "The princess and I weathered hardships together. We swore our love to each other. Don't stop me, I must see her!"

[You hear a strange noise behind the rockery. It seems a rising court favorite has been drugged: Help him or Don't] - [Don't]

The rising court favorite stops the figure trying to flee. "Your Highness still has no sense of restraint when it comes to medicine..."

[A wandering swordsman applies to become your personal guard: Agree or Disagree] - [Disagree]

The swordsman sets aside his usual pride and kneels before her. "If you dislike someone, Your Highness, I can kill them for you."

[It seems you've run into trouble]

Bo Yunong had only wanted to escape becoming the center of a crowd of admirers and ending up in a love-triangle fiasco. Instead, she watched herself go further and further down the path of being surrounded by husbands.

She'd only been playing along. Why were three or five men now demanding that she give them a title?

[The emperor seems to know your predicament. Would you like to ask him for help?] - [Yes!]

At last, she finds the most reliable man in the world.

"Elder Brother, save me!"

[Congratulations, you've unlocked the grand slam achievement]

Bo Yunong: Huh?

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The emperor is a diligent ruler renowned as a wise sovereign. He is reserved by nature, and the only person he cares about is the younger sister he lost so many years ago.

Now that he has found her, he intends to find the best man in the world to marry her.

Until he starts dreaming.

In his dreams, he and Yunong drink the nuptial cups together, and spend their nights in passionate bliss. The man who has always been restrained and aloof loses himself to desire, calling her again and again: "Nongnong..."

He ruins one marriage arrangement after another for her, only to see her smiling and chatting as she charms one man after another.

She is his only family and the only one he loves. Even if the whole world condemns him and history curses his name, he will keep her by his side forever.

A straightforward heroine who doesn't realize she's flirting & a jealous, lovestruck hero who realizes his feelings too late

#No writing advice, please

#The heroine and hero are not related by blood, and both know they are not related when they fall in love

#All male characters are chaste in both body and heart. The emperor has no harem (don't ask if that makes sense)

#The heroine transmigrates into an ancient setting

#Blurb screenshotted on 2025/12/11

#Character art thanks to mhs Bailifenlan o

Please add After Her Conquest Failed, She Faked Her Death to your reading list!

Ying Shixue transmigrates into a world of cultivation. She has no spiritual roots, no powerful backer, and is an ordinary person through and through.

By a twist of fate, she binds herself to a System. If she clears a game, she can obtain spiritual roots and begin her path to cultivation.

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"A-Xue, did you ever truly care for me?"

The man before her approaches slowly, sword in hand. His eyes are icy and his lips curl in a cold sneer. He is nothing like the refined, aloof man who used to smile so warmly.

[Warning! Warning! Your conquest is about to fail! The male lead's anger has reached its peak. Prepare a response immediately!]

To hell with this! I'm done!

She spent nearly a century on her conquest, going from a celestial attendant to a celestial lord's wife. She dutifully played the part of a gentle, demure wife to a husband as cold as ice, with no tenderness or affection to spare.

And now she was going to fail with only one-thousandth of the conquest progress left.

Ying Shixue furiously swiped through the floating menu.

The Dream Delivery Agency, a management simulation game. Easy to pick up, and highly rewarding. This one! Never again would she touch a conquest game!

After selecting it, she turned and jumped off the cliff, faking her death.

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Celestial Lord Taiyi is widowed, and the people of the immortal realm are all talking about it.

Who doesn't know that woman was nothing but a shameless pest who used underhanded tricks? Now that she's dead, everyone can celebrate!

But nobody expected the once-cool and restrained celestial lord to go mad after sorting through his wife's belongings. After failing to take his own life, he rushed down to the mortal realm and vanished without a trace.

Mo Fuyi was born with little family affection. He kept his distance from the wife he had been forced to marry.

Later, he hated her for being a liar. He wanted to tie her up and demand to know whether she loved him at all.

Later still, he became a widower. He hated himself for not realizing his late wife's feelings sooner. A-Xue had loved him most of all.

In the end, he found her. Ying Shixue really was a liar!

But this time, he would never let her go. Even if he became a ghost, he would cling to her and never let their entanglement end.

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Bonus Scene

This is the tenth year since A-Xue died.

After searching high and low for years, Mo Fuyi is finally reunited with her...

His once-elegant, gentle, moonlike wife is lounging on a rock in the sun, legs crossed, with a storybook resting on her face.

In a flippant tone, she says, "One hundred big dreams or thirty small ones, no refunds. The menu's over there. Pick one yourself."

Easygoing Fake Wife & Devoted Widower

Written to satisfy my personal tastes... She pretends to love him until he truly falls for her, then he chases her after she's gone. After they go through life and death, he discovers she never loved him. Furious, he captures her and makes her "love" him. The main appeal is their endless entanglement and his refusal to let go, haha.

Theme: Moving forward hand in hand