I Landed in the Villain's Crew and Set Out to Prove Myself

After transmigrating into a political intrigue novel, Song Bai becomes an inconspicuous adviser to a team of cannon-fodder villains. The work is hard, and the odds of survival are worse.

Their lord is arrogant and flashy, their colleagues are all oddballs, and in the end, the whole team gets wiped out and sent home in disgrace.

Song Bai doesn't want to die. Facing this band of useless cannon-fodder teammates, he can only keep his secret identity under wraps and lead everyone to work hard and improve themselves.

It's time to let these feudal landlords experience the harsh lessons of life under capitalism!

As for the lord, whom he can't beat into shape, Song Bai is good at managing upward and turning the tables on his boss with reverse PUA: "Your Highness, do you think you've worked hard enough? Have you improved yourself? Have you made a strategy? What's your career plan for the future? Can you become emperor by choosing to lie flat?!"

If the lord won't strive for success, how are his subordinates supposed to get promoted, make a fortune, become lords and ministers, restore their family genealogies, and make their names live on forever?

Lu Zhou is troubled. His new retainer is a delicate beauty, like a lantern that would topple in a breeze, frail and delicate yet somehow always attracting admirers.

A lord isn't used to sharing his bed with anyone, and he's still single and lonely. How can a subordinate have someone in each arm?

He absolutely won't allow it. If he's going to be alone, they can be alone together!

Later, the history books recorded: The Emperor cherished his Chancellor, inviting him every night to share a bed and discuss affairs of state. The Chancellor refused, saying, "How could anyone else sleep soundly in Your Majesty's bed?"

The Emperor replied, "Then so be it. The bed in the Chancellor's residence can accommodate me." And so the Emperor spent every night at the Chancellor's residence...

Question: What does Song Bai often suffer from?

Answer: TOP syndrome, and it's incurable.

Workaholic adviser x perpetually single lord

Reader's Guide:

1. Only stories where both leads are sexually inexperienced, with a one-on-one romance.

2. We're not fighting over the throne. We're just managing top-tier projects!

Next novel's blurb, because newlyweds falling in love after marriage is exactly my thing:

#Calm, Celibate, and Cold × Old-Fashioned Patriarchal Stickler#

Shen Linghui was born frail. Her doctor warned her not to overexert herself, so she takes everything in stride. Her most common response is, "Anything is fine. Whatever works. I don't mind."

Zhou Xingzhi is the eldest son of a duke's household, heir to a family with a century of history. He values rules above all else, is proper and composed, and always keeps himself in check. His most common response is, "No. Absolutely not. Rules must be followed."

The two families arrange a marriage, joining their houses in friendship.

Shen Linghui: "Sure. Anything works for me."

Zhou Xingzhi: "Our parents have decided. Naturally, we must obey."

After the wedding, they don't consummate their marriage because his wife is frail, and Zhou Xingzhi has no particular interest either. His wife, ever considerate, says, "Then I'll find you a concubine."

Zhou Xingzhi answers solemnly, "The family rules say that a man of the Zhou family may take a concubine only after turning forty without having an heir."

His wife remains considerate. "Oh, then we can consummate the marriage at thirty-nine. There's no rush."

Shen Linghui doesn't like being pushed around. Her husband is stiff and boring, and often lectures her. She listens, promptly forgets, and carries on as usual the next day.

After a while, one day she suddenly asks, "Why aren't you saying anything today, Husband?"

Her stiff husband kneels on one knee to pull a pair of cotton socks onto her feet. Then he draws the back of her neck down and raises his head to whisper against her cheek. "When I do speak, do you listen?"

Shen Linghui rests her foot on his knee and whispers, "Say something I want to hear."

Zhou Xingzhi says, "Rules must be followed. Tonight, we should perform the rites of Zhou Gong."

Theme: Strive for success and move forward with courage