The Clichéd Harem Magnet Is Actually Me [Reborn]

[Also known as The Washed-Up CEO's Second Career. 90% anti-piracy protection, 36-hour delay. The novel is complete. Please leave a good review~ Next up: My Tragic White Moonlight Is Done Being a Doormat [Reborn]. Blurb below. Expected to launch in late June. Please add it to your collection!!]

Gu Hongjian was a domineering CEO. He even had the glorious surname Gu. In the danmei world, this surname symbolized an iron-blooded, purely top-tier 1! It symbolized status and power!

Until then, Gu Hongjian had diligently played the role of a domineering CEO.

That is, until one day, he dreamed that someone called Author said, "Sigh, domineering CEOs aren't popular anymore. Whenever I write one, people call him greasy. Maybe I should change your character setting."

Gu Hongjian: ...He was already twenty-eight. Could his character setting really be changed just like that?

But he was a domineering CEO. He stayed calm and asked the Author, "What are you planning to change it to?"

But the Author hadn't decided either, and just yelled, "Oh, whatever! Just do your best. Whether this novel takes off or flops is all up to you!" Then, with a snap of the fingers, Gu Hongjian was reborn.

Back five years in the past, Gu Hongjian woke up in his luxurious bed, big enough for five people. He looked at the protagonist bottom he'd just taken by force, whose eyes showed humiliation as he brought in breakfast. Then he thought about the soccer team's worth of rivals outside and fell silent.

...He wasn't a domineering CEO anymore. What was he supposed to do now?

Scene One:

Gu Hongjian said in a low voice, "Pass down the order. I'm developing a game."

His young assistant: Wow, the boss is going to make a real man's competitive game like CrossFire or SWAT!

Gu Hongjian: "I want a dating game aimed at women, with plenty of male characters to pursue."

His young assistant: "?"

Gu Hongjian: Heh. I have money powers. I can commission a whole spectrum of character types, then use big data on our users to pick the ones everyone likes. What could go wrong?

Scene Two:

Gu Hongjian: "Here's a hundred million. Take it and run away with him. Don't come back."

The original protagonist bottom, wearing an apron and wiping the windows: ?

The original cannon-fodder top, rushing to rescue the protagonist bottom: ?

Please note:

1. One-on-one pairing, happy ending. You heartless and unfeeling bastard, boohoo, I'm heartbroken (?). Bold, highly skilled top Xie Simiao x career-focused, sexually indifferent CEO bottom Gu Hongjian.

2. The original protagonist top becomes a bottom. Love-triangle warning, everyone-falls-for-the-protagonist warning, and some supporting tops may turn dark.

3. Weibo: Spiritually Youthful Luo Saisui

Written on 2021.7.26, screenshot saved.

Upcoming novel 1: My Tragic White Moonlight Is Done Being a Doormat [Reborn]

The year Su Zhen turned twenty-six, his life got a game-over. Then he floated beside his hospital bed, forced to watch his best friends from life put on one melodramatic scene after another.

Friend 1 held a pale, fragile beauty in his arms, pain showing in his eyes. "See? Xiao Zhen is gone."

Hearing this, the person who looked about fifty percent like Su Zhen let out a shrill wail. "I won't listen, I won't listen! You're only keeping me as your substitute because the real thing is dead!"

Friend 1 hurriedly said, "No, that's not it. At first, I really did think that way, but as we spent time together, I fell in love with you without even realizing it."

Su Zhen: ...Wait, you're gay? No, hold on. I treated you like a brother, and you wanted to sleep with me?! And you even found a substitute?!

Friend 2 said to the confidant at his side, his voice full of sorrow and affection, "It's true, he was my first love. But when I was lonely, lost, and miserable, you were always there for me. Let's end our friends-with-benefits arrangement and start over."

The confidant's eyes welled with tears as they threw themselves into his arms and nodded emphatically.

Su Zhen: Damn it.

Friend 3 was more direct. He pulled his girlfriend over and kissed her. When he finished, he said, "The past is behind us. From now on, I'll only love you."

Su Zhen: ...No, this time you even got the gender wrong. Did you find yourself a ghost substitute?

Looking down at himself on the hospital bed, still not quite cold, then at all the happy couples around him, men with men and women with women, Su Zhen couldn't help letting out a long sigh. You can't keep shearing the same sheep!

If his awful friends gave Su Zhen another chance, he'd stay far away from them!

Then he was reborn.

He even went back to his fresh-faced eighteen-year-old self, with only two months left until the college entrance exams.

Before Su Zhen could even feel happy, the awful news hit him and he clutched his head, wailing. God, are you messing with me??

It's been years since I last took an exam. Couldn't you have waited another two months!

Scene One:

Friend 1 suddenly pinned Su Zhen against a wall. "Xiao Zhen, I..."

Su Zhen immediately clamped a hand over his mouth. Just as he was about to say something, Jiang Siheng, the class study committee member, came around the corner holding a stack of homework.

Jiang Siheng: ...

Su Zhen: ...

Scene Two:

Friend 2 went off-script in the middle of the school festival, singing a love song onstage with his guitar. Afterwards, he said with deep feeling, "This song is for my best friend, Su Zhen."

As the crowd hooted, Su Zhen flushed with anger and shouted at the stage, "Are you crazy?!"

Jiang Siheng, who was also onstage as the host: ...

Su Zhen, wondering why he always embarrassed himself in front of the same person: ...

Afterward, Su Zhen faced Jiang Siheng's accusing look, which seemed to say, "You really know how to cause trouble," and silently wept inside. "Um... I'm not gay. It's all them..."

Jiang Siheng looked away and said as if it were no big deal, "If you really want them to stop bothering you, go find a boyfriend and put an end to their hopes."

Su Zhen: ?

Jiang Siheng: "If you ask me, I could help you out and pretend to be your shield."

Su Zhen: ???

Please note:

1. Enemies-to-lovers, happy ending. Pure-hearted little (big) devil (young lady) top x elegant, swan-like school heartthrob bottom, graceful on the outside, a real man inside. A story about how even the most tsundere catlike top is defeated by a straight-up straight guy XD~

Upcoming novel 2: The Last Celestial Master [Spiritual Qi Revival]

[Do not go gentle into that good night.]

In the age of declining magic, spiritual energy ran dry and the myriad paths fell into decay. The once-glorious celestial master lineage, renowned for a thousand years, had fallen to telling fortunes under overpasses and being called frauds.

A sudden celestial collision brought calamity to Blue Star, turning the world upside down. At the same time, it gave rise to endless possibilities.

The primordial energy once again filled the human world, and the gods of old awakened.

One after another, people were influenced by the gods, awakened their potential, and became "qi refiners" from myth and legend, capable of moving mountains, filling seas, and commanding demons and ghosts.

Their abilities were bizarre and impossible to guard against. If they turned to evil, ordinary people would be powerless to resist.

The old order collapsed completely. Disasters ran rampant across the globe, turning countless places into wastelands. Those who died there gave birth to even more demons and ghosts, creating new forbidden zones.

Humanity needed stronger laws and more powerful enforcers to protect their fragile peace.

Celestial masters, the only ones capable of standing against the gods, demons, ghosts, and qi refiners, and the enforcers of the natural order, became the only people able to manipulate the five elements and yin and yang, and avert disasters.

And today's enforcer... has been laid off and started a new career, running a bubble tea shop in the bustling city center. He even managed to use his good looks to make the shop a viral photo spot.

After selling bubble tea all day, Ji Yuanzhen stood atop a mountain, looking down at the quiet city in the moonlight and sighing, "The age of the celestial masters has returned."

Survival rules for the new world:

1. Stay away from forbidden zones (appendix: currently known forbidden-zone records, numbered and filed).

2. From 11 p.m. to 5 a.m. the next morning, do not go outside, answer the phone, or watch TV. Keep your doors and windows shut.

3. Stay in good spirits and relieve stress promptly. This is every citizen's duty.

4. When alone, try not to talk to yourself. If you hear a reply, do not respond. Do not respond. Do not respond.

5. Do not approach any qi refiner who is not wearing a "White Dove" badge, even if they ask for help. Keep your distance and call xxxxx. A specialist will come to handle it.

Emergency self-rescue instructions:

1. A god is gestating within every person's spiritual core. There are three thousand divine manifestations, and they are immortal.

2. Rampaging qi refiners are controlled by gods. Gods embody the laws of nature and can construct worlds of divine manifestation and microcosms within a certain range.

3. If you are pulled into a microcosm, do not panic. Behind every rampaging qi refiner is a loss of control over their emotions and desires. This will become the core of the microcosm the god constructs. Stay rational and quickly find the cause of their loss of control so you can work out the laws of the microcosm.

4. The laws differ in every forbidden zone and every microcosm created by a rampaging qi refiner. As long as you don't break them, there's still a chance to survive.

5. The same goes for demons and ghosts.

6. If you encounter a world of divine manifestation, write your will.

May good fortune protect you all, and may your martial fortunes prosper.

Please note:

1. One-on-one pairing, happy ending. A pure-hearted male college student with SSS+ luck, who initially thinks the bottom is a fraud, x a flirtatious celestial master bottom who comes up with new antics every day.

2. This story includes cosmic horror elements, mixing materialist metaphysics with cosmic-horror weirdness, plus a tiny bit of horror and suspense. At heart, it's a male-lead power fantasy focused on the plot.

Theme: As long as your thinking doesn't go off track, there are always more solutions than problems