After a Proxy Marriage, I Made Believe with a Paranoid Tycoon for Real

Coming soon: Infinite-flow novel Warning! E-Players Are Forbidden from Playing with I-NPCs. Blurb below!

[Blurb]

In his previous life, Su Lieqing’s beloved married into the Lu family and died at the hands of the main villain, Lu Chengyan. Reborn, Su Lieqing was determined to kill the villain, but unexpectedly transmigrated to the moment when his beloved and the villain were about to marry.

In front of both sets of parents.

Su’s father asked, “Lieqing, is there anything you want to change about the wedding plans?”

Su Lieqing: “Yes! Change it so I’m the one marrying him.”

Su’s father: “?”

Lu Chengyan, the main villain whom Su Lieqing had just “killed” in the villa a moment ago, opened his eyes. He too had returned to seven years earlier. The first piece of “good” news he heard, no, the first horrible news, was that Su Lieqing wanted to marry him.

Lu Chengyan lowered his eyes, a sly glint half-hidden beneath his lashes. He gave a soft, amused snort. “What trick is he trying to pull this time?”

Then he lowered his head, the corners of his mouth trembling.

Bystander: “Look! He’s so heartbroken he’s crying from the corners of his mouth!”

[Lu Chengyan: sinister, scheming villain; secretly had a crush on his husband for years; childish, devoted puppy-boy, covering his face and grinning.jpg]

Su Lieqing, who had married his nemesis to protect his beloved, had just one thought: “Live, then! Who could possibly outlive you?”

He’d failed to kill him and ended up married to him. Whatever. He’d give up and let them torment each other!

They muddled along, taking off an arm every three days and a leg every five.

To outsiders, they were the perfect couple. In reality, their “getting into a fight over the slightest thing” became, in their assistant’s words, “They were halfway through dinner when they couldn’t help kissing, then rolled around on the floor, kissing passionately...”

To their parents, they were a loving couple. Here’s a joke: on the first day of their marriage, one went to the dentist and the other got a tetanus shot.

Su Lieqing had always thought he and this man were incompatible, clashing like fire and water.

Then one day, Lu Chengyan pinned him against the wall and kissed him right in front of his beloved.

The man’s kiss was forceful, passionate, scorching...

It almost melted the heart Su Lieqing had frozen for two lifetimes.

Su Lieqing was a little lost, but struggled to gather his wits and asked, “Do you know who I am?”

The person you’ve been at odds with for two lifetimes.

“You’re Su Lieqing.”

The low, sensual voice struck Su Lieqing’s eardrums, making his heart shudder along with them.

“The person I’ve longed for through both lifetimes.”

[Mini-scene]

At school, at first

Classmate: “A Yan, is that your husband?”

A Yan: “That’s my wife!”

Teacher: “A Yan, who said you could bring your husband to class?”

A Yan, flustered and stamping his feet: “That’s my wife! My wife!”

Everyone laughed: “He looks like your husband, if anything.”

Later, Lu Chengyan gave in

He called Su Lieqing “hubby” all day long.

He clung to him in front of his beloved: “I can’t live without my hubby~”

He shouted at the airport, loud and clear: “Hubby! You’ve been waiting so long!”

In front of a romantic rival, he put on a shy act and brazenly made things up: “Mr. Su can be incredibly energetic sometimes... A Yan just can’t keep up...”

Su Lieqing was so annoyed he wanted to slap him and shut that lying mouth of his!

Later still

The adorable little wife pinned Su Lieqing underneath him.

“Hubby~ A Yan wants you.”

Su Lieqing laughed. “Oh my god! How can you say something so shameless in such an adorable, coquettish voice?”

The puppy-boy smiled innocently, lowered his eyes, and kissed him.

A lovesick, dimwitted puppy-boy seme × a sharp-tongued, soft-hearted, aloof CEO uke

[Important details]

* Same-sex marriage is legal in this setting.

* Both leads are strong. The seme is younger; the uke is five years older.

* The seme likes the uke from beginning to end. The uke initially likes his beloved (nothing ever happened between them), and his feelings gradually change.

* The uke pursues the seme! There’s a groveling arc, plenty of melodrama and emotional push-and-pull, and an angsty groveling arc.

* 60% anti-piracy. No need to tell me if you drop the novel. Thank you for your support!

Next novel: Warning! E-Players Are Forbidden from Playing with I-NPCs [Infinite]

[Blurb]

Yan Xu has godlike beauty, a stunning face, and cool, distant phoenix eyes that could make someone fall apart with a single glance.

Nobody knows that he actually suffers from severe social anxiety and is the ultimate introvert.

After dying by accident, he transmigrated into an Infinite world.

The good news: at last, his toe-curlingly embarrassing life was over!

The bad news: everyone in this world, from the System to the players to the bosses, is an extrovert!

System: “With your fair skin and stunning looks, you’re perfect for the beautiful mannequin NPCs in our instances.”

Yan Xu, mortified: “...I’m just socially anxious. I don’t talk much.”

System: “You don’t talk much! Perfect! NPCs only have to read their lines! Skr~”

Yan Xu: “...This System doesn’t seem to have all its screws in place.”

[The Mountain Ghost’s Bride]

Remote mountains, dense woods, thick fog.

The beautiful “mannequin” NPC Yan Xu diligently reads his lines to the players, his face so cold and beautiful it makes their souls swoon.

“To become the Mountain Ghost’s bride in a ghost wedding, one of you must be chosen...”

When Yan Xu is bound hand and foot, seated in a sedan chair, and carried into a lonely grave deep in the mountains, the pretty boy nearly breaks down crying. “System, you never told me the e-player participants would mess with the NPC!”

Facing the instance boss with its blue-green face, tusks, and gaping bloody mouth, Yan Xu is so frightened his face turns pale, but he stays composed and asks in a steady voice, “Hello. Are you going to eat me?”

Mountain Ghost: “...No. I want you to be my bride.”

Yan Xu: “Oh. Thank you.”

Mountain Ghost: “...”

Player A, screaming: “Aaaah! Yanyan is so pretty, and so calm! I want to date him!”

Player B, crying: “Sob, sob. What mannequin NPC? He’s obviously the beautiful darling of my heart!”

Hidden beneath its hideous, monstrous appearance, the instance boss coolly swept its gaze over the players. Looking at the beauty trembling before him, he lifted a hand and gently pinched his soft cheek, then licked his lips. “Yanyan is mine.”

[The Substitute Doll]

Elegant, exquisite curves; perfect features carved with a knife; pale skin as smooth as jade. One hundred and eight exquisite dolls.

System: “Find your Yanyan before time runs out~”

The players went wild. Was this an instance or a special bonus?

Yan Xu was lying among 108 identical dolls, diligently pretending to be a mannequin.

Inner thoughts: “Hey, System! If you can’t control them, just join them? I’m not part of your e-player role-play!”

Later, the doll maker gathered every instance prop with a dark expression, all 108 of them, not one missing.

He wiped away every lecherous look in the players’ eyes. That day, corpses littered the instance, and the cold, murderous air was thick with a cloying stench of blood that made everyone’s scalp crawl.

The Infinite announcement screen declared that an instance boss had gone mad.

That night, the doll maker pinned the beautiful NPC beneath him, stroking his skin inch by inch as he leaned down and whispered in his ear, “I told you. You’re mine.”

Yan Xu didn’t know that every inch of those 108 dolls was a perfect copy of his body, including certain intimate parts.

Yan Xu’s eyes glistened, their corners reddening. Breathless and dazed, he gazed at the god of this world. He felt a little helpless, yet couldn’t stop himself from sinking deeper.

When the man grew fierce, his bewitching pupils reflected in Yan Xu’s eyes.

Seriously, the extroverted boss seemed even more terrifying than the players!

Planned instances:

[Whispers at Dreamland High]

[The Lost Mermaid Tribe]

[The Seamstress of the Underworld]

[The Ghost Ship]

[The Creepy Funfair]

Years later

The village gossip System sat with its legs crossed, cracking melon seeds as it said, “You have no idea! That beautiful NPC had the whole server falling for him. The Infinite Administration Bureau’s number-one evil god, Yu, killed without blinking, a devil from hell, actually retired and went back to his hometown to get married!

Tell me, what kind of magic did he use to make so many people swoon?”

Yan Xu patted the big head burrowing into his arms and smiled awkwardly.

...Help! He was just an utterly ordinary, socially anxious introvert.

A beautiful, socially anxious, introverted, universally adored NPC uke × a ruthless, jealous, twisted, mad, split-instance-boss seme

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