[Please be sure to read the content warnings at the very end.]
Jiang Mian is a delicate, sweet, and obedient little beauty. He's a bit slow-witted, but he always works hard at learning and treats everyone with sincere kindness.
But he doesn't understand why everyone hates him.
His childhood friend is always picking on him.
His older brother is always scolding him and calling him useless.
His fiance wants to break off their engagement.
They're clearly the people closest to him, yet they all call him a scheming green tea bitch.
Later, he learns that he's just a universally hated cannon-fodder character in a book.
He hasn't done anything wrong.
Yet he's despised and detested, and eventually dies a miserable death.
After feeling miserable all night, Jiang Mian resolves that even if he has to become a bad person, he'll teach the people who bully him a lesson.
Just as he's wondering what to do, he discovers that every night, he and those people are pulled into the same dream.
In the dream, those people are completely different.
The childhood friend who always bullies him chases him like a dog, licking and nuzzling his lips as he mumbles, "Baby, stop liking that ice cube and come like me instead, okay?"
His older brother, who always scolds him, pulls him onto his lap and holds him close, softly coaxing him, "Little brother, I was wrong. Don't be mad anymore, okay?"
His fiance, who always looks down on him, holds his foot and soils it bit by bit. "Mianmian, don't leave me."
When he learns that, apart from himself, everyone thinks these are merely dreams they have every night, and that in those dreams they're finally daring to do what they want to do but don't dare do in the daytime,
Jiang Mian makes a bold decision.
He won't just make those people be his dogs in their dreams. He'll make them obediently be his dogs in real life, too.
He'll use his beauty as bait and his tears as a weapon.
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Everyone knows Jiang Mian is foolish, delicate, and timid, with nothing but his beauty. No one takes a pretty ornament like him seriously.
But when the little useless thing's plump, rounded backside presses against their thighs, his snowy-white legs are marked red by white stockings, and his soft arms wind around them,
when they see the tension flushing every inch of the little beauty's pale skin pink, his eyes moist and his lashes trembling pitifully as he clumsily and awkwardly tries to seduce them,
the heart they've been desperately trying to suppress finally slips out of their control.
At that moment, they have no choice but to admit it.
They love Jiang Mian.
Later, the little beauty who was always fragrant and soft, sweet-tempered and obedient, and who sweetly called them big brother, left. More and more admirers crowded around him, and more and more people doted on him.
They frantically begged Jiang Mian to come back, paid fortunes to find out where he was, and sniffed the things he'd used like perverts. They cast aside their pride for him, turned against one another for him, and squandered their fortunes for him, all just hoping Jiang Mian would look back.
But Jiang Mian would sweetly call those other people big brother, while not even sparing them a glance.
He didn't even appear in their dreams again.
------ Content Warnings ------
1: One-on-one romance, happy ending, scumbag semes will have to win back their lover, probably with multiple personality fragments.
2: A universally adored uke and a group of people doting on him, but the uke thinks everyone hates him. The semes have always liked him, but they're just foul-mouthed (they don't cause him any real harm). They only dare show their true feelings in dreams, so they deserve to suffer through the pursuit-and-regret arc.
3: The semes are emotionally and physically devoted only to the uke. Their traits change from looking down on others and acting like bad dogs, to becoming possessive mad dogs, to becoming dogs who worship their wife.
4: The uke is genuinely kind and good at first. After learning the truth, he uses his not-very-bright brain to try hard to do bad things and bully the semes in revenge.
5: A silly, beautiful, delicate uke. The uke is incapable, not smart, and not for everyone, so proceed with caution if this isn't your thing. He only manages to do bad things because the semes cooperate and eagerly ask to be punished. Also, the author still really loves describing the uke's beauty [scratches head].
6: Feel free to insult the semes, but don't insult the uke. You can tell what kind of character the uke is from the title and blurb. I believe I've done my duty by giving these warnings. If this isn't your thing, you can still run away now. Please don't come in knowing it's not for you just to complain. Respect my preferences. If you really can't help insulting the semes or the author, don't insult the uke. Thank you Orz.
Based on a prompt from April 10, 2022. Screenshots available.
Theme: If you love someone, say it. Don't say one thing while feeling another.
