After the Tool Man Comes to His Senses

Gu Chu has a secret buried deep in his heart: the world he lives in is a book. In that book, he is a devoted supporting character who secretly loves the male lead but can never win his heart, drinks himself into a bitter stupor until he falls apart, and then accidentally helps the male and female leads get their happy ending.

Of course, that was all in his previous life.

After being reborn, Gu Chu musses up his usually immaculate hair, swaps his crisp, perfectly pressed suit for a cartoon hoodie, and shuffles over to Xie Xingze in fluffy little shark slippers. His voice is bright and sincere.

"Let's get to know each other again. I'm Gu Chu. Gu as in 'cherish the past,' Chu as in 'back to the beginning.'"

"I know you have a sweetheart as beautiful as a flower and the moon. I'll keep your secret and do everything I can to help you win her heart."

"So, can we call ourselves allies?"

First, win him over. Then, form an alliance. Finally, cling to the male lead and be a feelingless, lazy fish who wins by doing nothing. Gu Chu's little scheme is clicking away at full speed.

At first, everything goes according to plan. But gradually, Gu Chu begins to sense danger, especially when he works so hard to create chances for the male lead to win the beauty's heart. Why does the male lead look so sinister and gloomy, gritting his teeth as if he wants to eat someone alive?

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Xie Xingze has a secret buried deep in his heart: the world he transmigrated into is a book. He is the supreme ruler of this world, and also its most miserable prisoner.

From birth to death, and then from death to life, he has been reborn in this world countless times, all alone. Until one day, the supporting character who had only ever dared to gaze at him from the shadows with a longing look suddenly approached him, timidly and carefully.

Perhaps this was one of the few changes, one of the few toys, in his otherwise placid life, Xie Xingze thought.

Later, Xie Xingze gradually understood: this was also the only deity and salvation in his unchanging life.

But compared with having a toy or being saved, it seemed he had an even deeper, more powerful yearning for the supporting character himself...

Reader's note: It's a sweet romance between two men! A sweet one, really!

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My ongoing boys' love novel, Please Don't Pretend to Be Pitiful, is open for follows ^o^

When Xuan Ran was sixteen, he battled his wealthy biological father and stepmother, who couldn't stand him. Along the way, he got a little kid named Xia Muqiu caught up in it. Before long, his father and stepmother gave in, and Xia Muqiu latched onto Xuan Ran.

Xuan Ran had no interest in anything except chemistry, and even less patience for raising a kid.

Xia Muqiu, who barely came up to the sink, held a spatula in one hand and a bar of soap in the other. "I can cook for you, and I can wash your underwear, too."

Xuan Ran, who had been eating takeout for who knows how many meals in a row, said, "...You can skip the underwear washing. Go cook some rice first."

Once he became Xuan Ran's housekeeper, Xia Muqiu grew more and more obedient. Apart from becoming domineering and clingy when he hit puberty, and secretly drawing some very suggestive pictures with Xuan Ran as his model, he never gave Xuan Ran anything to worry about.

As for those suggestive pictures?

Since the kid was such a good cook, Xuan Ran decided to wait until he turned eighteen before dealing with them. But the night before he planned to confront him, Xuan Ran's wealthy biological mother, who was supposedly dead for years, showed up with two bombshells:

1. The world was a book. The protagonist was a noble and righteous heir to a wealthy family, while the villain was a sinister, world-destroying genius chemist.

2. His biological mother had transmigrated into a book. She had tried to follow the plot back then, but got the timeline wrong and brought the villain home, thinking he was the protagonist.

As a result, Xuan Ran, who should have suffered through a hard life, had all kinds of resources at his disposal, while Xia Muqiu, who should have become the protagonist, ended up in an orphanage and suffered twice as much.

Now it was time to set everything right.

After learning the truth, Xuan Ran was silent for a moment. "...That's actually great news, isn't it?"

He hurriedly pulled out his phone and booked a plane ticket. Xia Muqiu finally had somewhere to go. He'd pack him up and send him off to be the male lead! And at long last, Xuan Ran himself could head off to a faraway place and throw himself into the arms of chemistry!

After all that coaxing, teasing, and flirtation, Xia Muqiu had been happily planning to confess on his eighteenth birthday and devour Xuan Ran. "...What?"

#Which matters more, chemistry or me?

#How could my cold-blooded, cunning, and utterly charming childhood sweetheart wife abandon me and run away?!

#After the villain stole his storyline, why does the real male lead have to travel a thousand miles to win his wife back? Why is he so miserable?

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My upcoming fantasy boys' love novel, Picked Up by a Human Player [Infinite], is open for follows ^o^

Zhou Mo is a half-human, half-demon NPC in an Infinite game. He has a youthful face and small demon horns. Because his bloodline isn't pure enough, both monsters and players look down on him. But one day, when monsters attack him in the wilderness, a player unexpectedly saves him.

The player wears a mask and is covered in a menacing aura, yet clumsily helps clean Zhou Mo's wounds. "I'm not really into fighting. If you don't mind, how about we just lie around and coast through this instance together?"

A few weeks later, after they cleared the instance, the player kept looking back as he stood at the exit portal. "Little guy, I'll come find you in the next instance. Then we can lie around together again."

Players entered instances at random, and Zhou Mo didn't believe the player would come back. But on the day the instance refreshed, he still secretly waited by the portal. He didn't find the masked player, but he did see a strikingly handsome man in the crowd.

When the man saw Zhou Mo, he produced a bouquet from nowhere and reached out familiarly to touch the demon horns on Zhou Mo's head.

Just as Zhou Mo was about to fight him off, he heard the player's familiar voice. "Want to lie around?"

Zhou Mo said, "...Sure."

A few more weeks passed. They cleared another instance, and the player showed up again in the next one, just as promised. They lay around through countless instances together, until one time Zhou Mo failed to find the player at the portal.

The other players said that Zhao Hengzhou, the first player to reach the required number of clears, had left the game for good.

After hearing that, Zhou Mo quietly walked back to the grassy patch where they used to lie around together. Before he could bury his face in his knees, someone pinched his demon horns again.

"Don't cry, little guy." Zhao Hengzhou smiled and wiped the tears from his face, then drew the blade he rarely unsheathed. "I worked so hard to trade my clears for a chance to come back to the game. This time, we're not going to lie around. I'll kill every monster, then take you back to my world as my prize. How about it?"

Zhou Mo lifted his tearful eyes. Black mist that could swallow the sky and earth rose behind him. "...Okay."

He had always been the weapon of this world. It was only because someone once said he didn't like fighting that Zhou Mo had tucked away his wings and claws.

Now that the man wanted to take him to his world, what did it matter if they painted the mountains and seas with blood side by side?

Theme: Even when faced with hardship, we should strive to persevere and improve ourselves, realizing our value in life.