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[Please add my upcoming novel, The Plot Is Starting [Book Transmigration], to your collection!] Shao Yi died, then was caught by a System and sent to ancient times to become an emperor… More precisely, a tyrant. The last emperor of the Shao dynasty had just ascended the throne when he tripped over the threshold and died. So the System grabbed Shao Yi, a tyrant from a parallel world, to keep history on track. System: All you have to do is follow the course of normal history and act like a tyrant until the Shao dynasty is destroyed. Then I’ll send you back to life. Shao Yi: I’m not that interested in coming back to life, actually. System: …Please, I’m begging you QAQ Anyway, amid the System’s wailing and to keep this world from breaking away from history and heading toward destruction, Shao Yi began his career as a tyrant. But being a tyrant wasn’t so easy. Shao Yi gazed at the officials in court, each of them practically wearing a sign that read “I’m very competent,” and fell into deep thought. So how had his other self managed to ruin this country completely? System: See the first minister on your left? The tyrant started by executing him. Shao Yi: …I’m not killing people. I’m a law-abiding citizen under socialism, after all. He looks so refined, I’ll send him to the border instead. Ten months later. “Reporting!!! Lord Qin has seized thirteen cities from the Great Zhen Kingdom, broken through its capital, and brought back the king of Great Zhen as a prisoner!” Shao Yi/System: … Shao Yi: Fine, fine. Next. Who should I deal with? System: The third person on your right. The tyrant had him dismembered while alive. Shao Yi: No, that’s too cruel. I’ll send him to a poor region to serve as a county magistrate. Surely he can’t make much trouble there. Half a year later. “Reporting!!!! A plague has broken out in Pinghu Commandery. Lord Yuan rallied the merchants and medical clinics and cured it!” Shao Yi/System: … Shao Yi: System, is there anything else we can try? System: …See the top scholar in front of you? Humiliate him as much as you can and make him hate you. Then he’ll help the new emperor plot to overthrow you. Shao Yi: That’s easy. I can do that! The emperor holds a grand wedding and marries the newly appointed top scholar as his empress. Three months later, Shao Yi climbs out of bed. “System, I think he’s trying to kill me in a roundabout way.” System: …I’m already dead. Shao Yi: Come on, don’t be like that. In a way, we’ve completed the mission, right? The last emperor of the Shao dynasty had no heirs because he was gay, so the dynasty fell. That sounds plausible enough. System: Get lost!!! - This novel will be available for purchase on Thursday, September 8. - Reader’s guide: ① The system of government is cobbled together from various TV dramas as needed. It’s not rigorous, so don’t overthink it. ② The plot is idealized. Best not to think too hard. ③ The original emperor had consorts and romantic relationships but no children. After the protagonist transmigrates, he doesn’t sleep with anyone. The consorts become officials, and the harem is disbanded later (see point ② for how; the protagonist is a foolish ruler, so anything he does is normal, doge). ④ The focus is on his career. The romance only develops later. ⑤ Some minor characters die (the author hasn’t written this kind of scene before, so I’m giving you a heads-up). ⑥ Neither lead has children, and neither has slept with anyone else. ⑦ Don’t bring up other novels in the comments, and don’t bring up this book in other novels’ comment sections. 2020.12.19, screenshot saved for reference Cover character used with permission. Artist: Tao Xi -- Please add my upcoming modern danmei novel, The Plot Is Starting [Book Transmigration], to your collection! Chen Lu transmigrates into a novel and becomes the gorgeous, delicate bottom in a domineering CEO’s forced-love story. As he transmigrates, he has a vague premonition that he must follow the plot to keep the world stable. He arrives to find that the CEO has already locked him in a villa. The delicate flower spends all day mooning at the sky, crying and whining, then saying “no, stop” and nothing more. Chen Lu thinks it sounds simple. He’s a homebody, so staying in for three years should be no problem. A week later, Chen Lu sneaks into the protagonist top’s study to download games Let the world end! He wants games, fizzy drinks, and figurines of his waifus! For some inexplicable reason, domineering CEO Qin Guchuan learns that he is the top in a melodramatic novel, the type who forces himself on the bottom. But for the sake of keeping the world stable, knowing the plot won’t help. He has to play his part as written. Every day, he comes home to the bottom sobbing and whining. Qin Guchuan tells himself he only has to keep this up for three years. Not long after, however, Qin Guchuan suddenly receives a message from the villa’s staff: Chen Lu has disappeared. Qin Guchuan urgently pulls up every security feed in the villa, only to see Chen Lu using a computer in his study. Wasn’t Chen Lu supposed to sneak into the study and secretly contact the outside world for help a year from now? Qin Guchuan quickly syncs his study computer’s screen and sees footage from the hottest game, along with Chen Lu’s string of loud, unrestrained curses playing through the speakers. Qin Guchuan’s expression shatters. After the two come clean… Qin Guchuan: It’s here, it’s here. The plot’s starting. Chen Lu: … Chen Lu (reciting his lines): Don’t you understand? I’m only a butterfly in your life. Your birdcage is only a temporary stop for me. I will be free, forever searching for the most beautiful flower in my life. Qin Guchuan: Pfft, hahahahaha! (laughing uncontrollably) Chen Lu: Screw you!!!! Please add my upcoming novel, The Goal Is to Marry a Rich Alpha, to your collection! Bai Xingshu was a powerful figure in the apocalypse. Before he died, a System approached him and offered him a chance to be resurrected in a peaceful world, as long as he fulfilled the wish of the body’s original owner. He didn’t care whether he lived or died, but the prospect of a peaceful world tempted Bai Xingshu. After he was resurrected, Bai Xingshu finally received information about the body he was inhabiting and began to wonder whether agreeing to come back had been a mistake. This world really was peaceful, and more technologically advanced than his old one. It was the interstellar age, with six genders, in a legendary ABO world. The original owner came from a remote star system and was currently eighteen. He would eventually present as a beta. After entering the military academy on the capital planet, he would fall in love with a minor noble alpha, who would deceive him emotionally and physically. After using him, the other man would say that noble alphas only married omegas, and that he wasn’t good enough. So the original owner made a wish to the System: he wanted to marry an alpha noble even more powerful than that noble classmate and humiliate the scumbag thoroughly. Bai Xingshu’s pupils dilated in shock as he clutched his stomach. How was a world where men could get pregnant peaceful at all?! And why did he have to marry an alpha noble? He could pilot a mecha and defeat everyone in the stars. Why couldn’t he become a powerful noble himself?! System: Sorry, dear, no. Your wish is your wish, and that’s what you have to do~ Now that he was alive again, Bai Xingshu, who had come from the apocalypse, didn’t want to die either. He still had to complete the mission. So how could he marry a powerful alpha noble? After careful thought, Bai Xingshu came to the answer: if he became strong enough, powerful people would naturally fall for him. System: Hah. So, on the first day of school, during the combat exam, Bai Xingshu beat every student and took first place. Standing at the highest point of the awards podium, Bai Xingshu was panting after his intense exertion, his cheeks flushed. His damp hair clung to his face, and sweat trickled beneath his collar. His sweat-soaked clothes clung to his body, making it impossible for anyone to look away. After accepting his trophy and catching his breath, Bai Xingshu noticed the strange silence throughout the awards ceremony. He looked up and saw that everyone was avoiding his gaze. Bai Xingshu: … Bai Xingshu: System, did I try too hard and end up making things worse? System: …No, you did great. Bai Xingshu: ? - AO pairing Couple: Roommates Theme: Peace, safety, and happiness for every family