[Genshin Impact] The Warmth of Bedrock

Morax, the mighty Rex Lapis, one of The Seven who had ruled the mortal world for more than six thousand years, was revered by all of Liyue as the Lord of Geo. Yet this wise, mighty, and respected figure retired under the alias Zhongli and snagged himself a young boyfriend who looked much younger than him! He was on a sweet date with the boyfriend he'd only recently snagged when fate took an unexpected turn. After suddenly transmigrating, he discovered that his boyfriend had not only turned against him, but was also looking at him from time to time with a look full of appetite. Zhongli: "..." Zhongli was at a loss for words when faced with his boyfriend, who had been turned into a vampire. No matter how carefully he guarded against it, on a dark and stormy night his boyfriend couldn't hold back any longer. He climbed into bed in the middle of the night and bit Zhongli's neck, only to successfully--break his own short little fang. Kong: "!!!" Zhongli, jolting awake in the middle of the night: "..." What's it like to have such a powerful shield that your boyfriend breaks a tooth on it? Old Master Zhong says: That's the shield's fault. What does that have to do with me, Zhongli? Reading Guide: 1. Zhongli and Kong travel to a Western fantasy world. The old man is just a tiny bit proactive, so run if you can't handle that! 2. Kong's personality and clothing have some author-created elements, especially since even his species has changed. See the end of Chapter One for some of the details. 3. The POV is all over the place, which is why I marked it as unclear. (That means alternating third-person POVs focused on Kong and Zhongli.) 4. The world is fictional, and very loosely built. I've only borrowed some common terms like the Camarilla, the Sabbat, and first and second generations. Their actual meanings are completely different. 5. There are some author-created details about vampires. I'll point them out in the author's note for the relevant chapters. 6. Zhongli x Kong, of course, with Zhongli as the top and Kong as the bottom. There may not be much romance or suggestive content in the story, though. The focus is on their careers, and things will fall into place once Kong remembers everything. 7. The logic is messy, especially later on. If you can't keep reading, make sure to click away in time. Trust me, the later chapters won't surprise you in a good way! -- Coming Soon: My Men and Me Obviously, I'm a female emperor, ruling in a patriarchal society. Unfortunately, I'm not a pure one. Of course, that just means I transmigrated here. It is not a hint about my gender! Anyway, back to the point. After I transmigrated into the original host's body on the night of her coronation, my excellent memory let me figure out my situation in just fifteen minutes. The events in this world had appeared as a miscellaneous book in my original world. Of course, back in my original world, I was incredibly busy. I only had a tiny bit of time before bed to skim through this book I'd confiscated from a subordinate. But it was one of the bestselling books of its time, after all. I don't know if the author created a world by writing a book, or if it's like the stories in those books... Ahem, back to the point again. Although I'm the female emperor now, I know for a fact that I was supposed to die on the night of my coronation, and that my imperial sister would have been the real winner in the end. She inherited my throne, my harem, everything I had. But it's fine. Whatever. I was never particularly diligent anyway. That said, I sometimes feel that being emperor is a real pain. The military? In the hands of Noble Consort Song and my imperial sister. Who do the civil officials listen to? The chancellor, of course. Who handles the memorials? My imperial sister and the chancellor. I was put on the throne because of the late emperor's final decree, then stripped of all power the moment I took it. And on top of having no authority, I still have to attend court every morning! Come on, if you're going to strip me of power, could you at least do it properly? My imperial sister was the legitimate crown princess. I'm just the second of the imperial princesses who managed to survive to the end because I was lazy. I have no ambitions. I don't want to attend court! Forget it. This is exhausting. I should go find Consort Wen to read me a story, or visit Consort Liu to listen to the qin... By the way, what happened to the one who got sent to grow cabbages for ruining my little sweetheart? Hmm... Since I might get caught by the chancellor or Noble Consort Song if I visit Consort Wen or Consort Liu, I might as well go check on the cabbages today. I'm a genius! I thought my life would go on being this uneventful forever, until one day I looked at my imperial sister diligently handling my memorials and realized something to my horror. Where was my imperial sister's harem? Where were her ambitions? Had I been making her handle all these memorials because I wanted to slack off? My biggest goal was to make her rebel! I wanted to be left alone. At least, that's what I thought, right up until my beloved captain of the imperial guards asked who this "Jingjing" was. * One-on-one. The male lead is right there in the synopsis. 1. Fundamentally, it's a competition between men for the heroine. (Probably, if I can manage to write it.) 2. The original heroine isn't villainized. She's reborn, and the female lead will hand the throne over to her imperial sister, the original heroine, willingly. 3. There's a reason the female lead transmigrated into a book. She didn't take over someone else's body! Theme: Peace needs to be upheld by all races together.