My New Neighbor Is My Otome Game Husband

[Conquest + Online Scamming + Surrounded by Powerful Elites + Pheromones + Everyone's Dream Girl (Men and Women Alike)]

[Pure and Tempting, Sweet Girl with a Tomie-like Physique x Dark, Mind-Reading, Lustful, Gentle, Scheming Older Man (Lustful Only for the Female Lead)]

[The Male Lead's Official Wife in Name, a Mistress in Practice, with the Tricks of a Brothel Hostess]

Xiao Yi is a beta tester for the full-dive otome game Star Campus.

For the year she played it, every day was either spent doing quests or on the way to do quests. The main story barely got updated, and she never even got to see her husband.

And whenever she wanted to quit, the game, which normally never listened to player feedback, would update her husband's card pool to tempt her into staying.

So Xiao Yi, who had sworn to quit after pulling his wedding card, angrily spent 30,000 yuan, only for it all to turn into fragments without a single hit. She even reached the guaranteed final pull, then died in her wedding dress right in front of the male lead.

Haha, the lousy game had used her husband to set her up. She should have stopped spending.

Then Xiao Yi was reborn in the world of Star Campus, clueless and with no memories, and lived there for a year.

The System found her and said: If you want to return to your original world and recover your memories, become an online scammer targeting the three male leads. Reel them in for a combined total of 100 million, then meet them in person and let them discover the truth. That will complete the mission.

The three men were:

Male Lead 1, Bai Rong, the handsome star of the Command Department.

Male Lead 2, Lu Yan, the heir apparent of the Infantry Department.

Male Lead 3, Mu Ci, the person in power in the Mental Power Department.

An online scammer targeting otome game male leads? Was this setting from a Japanese dating sim or something? What Chinese otome game would dare use a setup like this?

And conquest?

Xiao Yi, whose face blindness had begun with her growth period and who could see emoji-like expressions above people's heads, said, "Huh?"

Wasn't this practically a free win?

Looking at all the people and male leads in front of her, each with a penguin above their head and a dazed "You're my wife" expression, Xiao Yi was baffled.

Mu Ci was a calm madman. In public, he was the gentle, mature, and reliable head of the Mu family.

But in truth, he was cold, selfish, intolerant of fools, and self-serving.

He saw nothing wrong with that, until Xiao Yi's death made his perpetually smiling face turn utterly dark.

"Why? Why!! We were about to get married, so why did you disappear? Did you discover my dark side, my baseness, the wretchedness hidden behind my back...?"

If that was it, he could pretend to be refined and cultured for the rest of his life. If that was what she liked, he could stop being himself and hide his desires.

As long as she didn't leave him.

And it seemed his prayers really had worked. After everything ended and he was reborn,

he saw her again in a cafe.

He had no time to feel glad. When he heard Xiao Yi's thoughts and saw her looking at him like he was a stranger, Mu Ci broke down.

"Which double-door crispy snack is blocking the way? Nice guy, awful person."

Xiao Yi, holding a tray, tilted her head at the man blocking her path.

Mu Ci, whose dog was actually a snake and who had to wear glasses because he was nearsighted: ^_ ก.

Before he could even feel resentful, he heard the thoughts of the man at the next table.

[Like you like you like you like you like you like you like you like you like you like you like you like you like you like you like you like you like you like you, will you marry me will you marry me will you marry me so cute cute so cute so cute cute so cute]

So noisy.

Mu Ci turned his cold gaze toward him.

He saw the shameless man accept the coffee Xiao Yi had brought over and say in a calm, serious tone:

"I've figured it out. You were right last time. Women can have several husbands and concubines too."

"And I'm a traditional, feudal sort of person, so I don't mind being the little one."

Mu Ci, who had finally found his wife again: ^ ^

You're acting as if I'm dead, aren't you?

My wife is this cute. Of course I know that. Why do you keep going on about it?

Heh. You think you can start as the little one and take over? My wife is young and naive, so that's fine. As for the rest of you, just wait to die. ^⌯^

Brief Blurb

After Xiao Yi pulled her wedding card, she died, lost her memories, and was sent by the System into the world of an otome game.

But all around her was a battlefield of jealous rivals, and she knew nothing about it. Everyone else was too afraid to show their feelings in front of her, maintaining a facade of harmony while tearing each other apart and slandering one another behind her back.

Meanwhile, Mu Ci had thought his wife was dead and wanted them to die together for a happy ending. But after killing himself for love, he was reborn, and found Xiao Yi among a heap of trash, trash, "little cakes," trash, and more trash.

Though Xiao Yi was face-blind and didn't recognize him, she'd even complained that the double-door crispy snack was blocking her way.

Still, Mu Ci remained determined to seduce Xiao Yi without letting her notice.

Including, but not limited to, playing the roles of doctor and patient, and even pretending to be "himself" alongside another version of himself from this world, putting on a show of "Wife, open the door, it's your husband" and letting himself be the other man's side piece.

After enduring plenty of hair-pulling and seeing that the moon shone on everyone but them, the other powerful elites finally had an epiphany: "I've figured it out. I don't mind being the little one, either."

Mu Ci: Sorry, I already played the little one myself. ^ ^

Reader's Guide

1: 1v1, single-couple, first-time romance; height difference 163 x 192. The female lead is the most beautiful, and the male lead is pure in every respect, with only the female lead in his heart from beginning to end. (For specific content warnings and the reason she pretends to scam people online, see the author's note after Chapter 1.)

3: Men and women alike love the female lead. She has natural charm, a great personality, and a Tomie-like physique. She will go through a growth period of face blindness and won't recognize people, as well as an oral fixation period when she likes to bite things. I won't say what she'll be biting later, hehe.

4: Nobody wants the female lead to have a partner. As long as no one else takes the top spot, everyone thinks they still have a chance. The top-tier daddy who can read minds quietly gets jealous and is extremely possessive; he might even do something really outrageous (?).

5: A future world with a small amount of pheromones, but no ABO setting. Everyone has a spiritual form they can transform into. The female lead is a rabbit, and the male lead is a snake.

Theme: Love can overcome every hardship.