After I Hurt the Beloved White Lotus, His Persona Crumbled

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# Easily Fooled Aloof White Lotus Top x Arrogant, Playboy Scum Bottom

Zhan Yunqing hit his peak the moment he debuted. He had countless rumored partners and never let go of his playboy image. Luckily, his looks were so exceptional that he stayed wildly popular for ten years.

Life as a top-tier star was painfully dull, until he discovered three things:

1. He was living in a harem BL novel, but he wasn't the protagonist. The protagonist was an aloof white lotus.

2. He was the novel's main villain.

3. This white lotus really was quite a catch.

So he seduced the white lotus and won him over with no effort at all.

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Bai Ruan had a secret: he could see Zhan Yunqing's affection levels toward everyone. So he knew that:

Zhan Yunqing's affection for everyone else was 0%, while his affection for Bai Ruan was 1%.

Everyone else said Zhan Yunqing was only attracted to him for his looks, but Bai Ruan was glad he at least had his face to win Zhan Yunqing's favor.

It wasn't until Zhan Yunqing suggested they break up that he realized how short-lived a moment of physical attraction could be.

"How can 1% not count as love? At least I was the only one you ever had feelings for, even if it was just because of my looks." Bai Ruan almost came to hate Zhan Yunqing, but only almost.

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When Zhan Yunqing asked to break up, he never imagined Bai Ruan would become such a hassle afterward.

"If we have to die, then we'll die together." Bai Ruan smiled gently and showed Zhan Yunqing the double coffin he'd ordered. He stroked the awful bite marks and love bites on Zhan Yunqing's body, his voice as light as a feather: "Zhan Yunqing, whether it's my face or my heart, I'll give you anything you want."

"I'll be your most beautiful, most devoted burial companion."

## Reader's Guide:

1. The playboy top becomes the bottom, and the original bottom becomes the top. The top is a virgin, the bottom isn't. Read at your own discretion if this bothers you.

2. The leads are made for each other, a perfect match, and firmly committed to a one-on-one relationship.

3. The top gets pretty unhinged later and engages in some extreme, but not illegal, behavior. Readers who are uncomfortable with that should proceed with caution.

Please add my upcoming novel featuring a rivalry-filled battle for the love interest to your collection! "The Beautiful Insect Queen Mistakes Her Husband Again"

Blurb:

Star calendar, Year 343, Month 31, Day 24

This is my third year since arriving on this insect planet. I'm an insect queen, and my mission is to ensure the continuation of my species. Before this, though, I was a perfectly ordinary straight man.

They won't let me leave the palace. I can only move around inside it, but I can summon male insects every day. This will continue until I bear offspring for my species, and only then will I gain my freedom.

Fortunately, I have a fiance. I've only seen him once, at our engagement ceremony. The problem is that, damn it, I have face blindness. I can't tell anyone apart.

My butler is tall and slender, and very patient with me. He has a pair of beautiful hands, and I think he might be my husband. I ask him to hug me, but he refuses, saying that taking care of me is simply his job and telling me not to read too much into it.

The prime minister comes to see me. He's broad-shouldered and long-legged, wearing a cloak, and quite handsome. I think he must be my husband. I take his hand and gaze deep into his eyes, but he tells me I'm ignorant and ungrateful, with no respect for the ways of the insect queen.

The knight captain gives his report. His golden armor gleams, and I feel like he must be my husband. I ask him to come closer and stroke his head. He knocks my hand away and leaves without a word.

Waaah, that hurt. I nurse my wounded little heart and prepare to force my way out and embrace freedom, when the general returns from the battlefield and appears before me with a face like thunder.

His black hair is exactly my type. I hug him and ask if he's my husband. He looks like he wants to kill me, then drags me into the bedroom.

Oh, so this one's my real husband.

But what I didn't expect was that even after I got pregnant, my butler, the prime minister, and the knight captain would still come looking for me, all wearing regretful expressions and asking me to call off the engagement.

I'm certainly not going to tell them that I won't call it off. I'll have the baby, then leave this twisted world far behind.

Star calendar, Year 344, Month 2, Day 14

Why have all the male insects in the palace dyed their hair black? Damn it, which one is my husband?

Star calendar, Year 345, Month 23, Day 17

I did it! This shitty world and all its shitty men, bye-bye!

Star calendar, Year 350, Month 6, Day 49

Ander, you bastard! You abused your authority, used the army to settle a personal grudge, and came to arrest me. We're divorced! Unforgivable!

Star calendar, Year 350, Month 17, Day 52

Ran away again.

Star calendar, Year 350, Month 20, Day 12

They found me.

I'm pregnant again.

Ander is holding me and telling me not to cry. I'm so scared.

Reader's Guide:

1. The blurb is written in first person; the main story is written in third person.

2. Insect queen setting, with a mountain of original worldbuilding.

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Theme: Respect one another and treat everyone as equals