When a Black Lotus Wanders into an Explicit Novel

(This novel is complete. My next book is The Cold-Faced Cutie Baby Deserves to Be Spoiled, a childhood-friends story about raising a child. Please add it to your wish list!) On the brink of death, Tang Xixun discovered that he was the unlucky cannon-fodder character in a harem novel. In the book, the enemy prince hostage, Guan Shuhong, seemed aloof and desireless, but in reality he had a huge harem and a ruthless streak. He was the real mastermind behind Tang Xixun’s ruined future and the fall of his country. He opened his eyes and was reborn. He also gained a [Restricted Content Purification System]. The System told him that if he could earn the protagonist’s trust and purge every piece of restricted content from the novel, leaving the womanizer with no harem to collect, he could steal the protagonist’s fortune, win wealth and status, and avenge himself! Following his memories of the book, Tang Xixun found Guan Shuhong, gravely wounded and unconscious because of the assassin he had sent. He tried and failed to kill him. So when the man woke, Tang Xixun put on a tender, caring expression, full of concern and worry. “You’re finally awake, my friend. Does your wound still hurt?” Guan Shuhong saw a breathtakingly beautiful face, with a pitiful-looking wound deliberately smudged across it. “You... saved me?” Tang Xixun smiled faintly and raised his innocent eyes. “I did.” * Guan Shuhong had been troubled by a few things lately. He had realized that something was off about Tang Xixun. This elegant gentleman, praised by everyone for his “flawless character and jade-like beauty,” had always been very reserved. But ever since Guan Shuhong was injured, Tang Xixun had been exceptionally warm and attentive toward him. He even forbade him from going near women. Could it be...? Had this man fallen in love with him? But Guan Shuhong had always been pure-hearted and desireless. He wasn’t interested in men, and besides... as a hostage prince, he would eventually have to return to his own country. Wouldn’t starting something with a court official like Tang Xixun just be a hassle? Guan Shuhong hated hassles more than anything. Sigh... It was a shame, though. Tang Xixun was so pitiful, so sincere and innocent, and so deeply in love with him. Guan Shuhong couldn’t promise him a future. He owed Tang Xixun. He ought to make it up to him. * So, to make it up to Tang Xixun, Guan Shuhong pulled out all the stops. He bought him the things he liked, helped him deal with enemies he hated, stayed by his bedside all night when he was sick, and fretted over him whenever he was upset. Sincerity was precious. These gestures could only be too little! As they walked down the street, Guan Shuhong spotted a foreign beauty singing and playing music in a tavern, and tried to rekindle Tang Xixun’s interest in women. “I hear the foreign beauties who recently arrived in the capital are gorgeous. Should we go take a look?” Of course, no one could really compare to Tang Xixun’s beauty. [Restricted content plot detected! Stop the womanizer from approaching an innocent woman and erase the conditions for generating this plot!] Seeing the womanizer give in to his lust yet again, Tang Xixun had no choice. He squeezed his eyes shut and pretended to faint. Guan Shuhong increasingly realized just how much he cared for Tang Xixun. The other man was so heartbroken and lovesick over him. How could he still bring himself to reject him? Tang Xixun increasingly realized just how disappointed he was in Guan Shuhong. How could the legendary womanizer, supposedly consumed by lust and surrounded by a huge harem, seem to have fallen for a man? At last, one day, Guan Shuhong confessed his feelings to Tang Xixun. He felt utterly happy. He had wanted to say it for so long. He had already fallen for Tang Xixun long ago. He could actually stop caring about the hassle and the difference in gender, and simply wanted to be with him. And then... Tang Xixun ran away. When Guan Shuhong learned the truth, tears streamed down his face. To everyone else: aloof and desireless, keeps people at arm’s length, barely alive. With the love interest: loses the moment he’s flirted with, a devoted romantic and hopelessly lovesick emperor top & a seemingly innocent, deeply scheming, seductive black-lotus court official bottom. P.S. The top isn’t a womanizer, but a devoted romantic. The System gave the bottom a fanfic version of the story. Also known as: When Historical Figures Get Brainwashed by Fanfiction The Black Lotus’s Thousand-Layer Scheme Cover art is not custom-made: A Laugh Toward Rebirth, artist K. Theme: With a sword of Chu and a hook of Wu before me, I have never bowed my head in all my life.