Don't Mess with the Gloomy, Irresistible Charmer

[A niche-kink special / Read the first chapter author's note for warnings / A gloomy female ghost-type heroine with severe mental illness, don't read if that's not for you / Dark, disturbing, and explicit / Male-lead fans beware / Gloomy Mary Sue / Ordinary girl adored by everyone / Not a female-dominance or strong-female-lead story] You are a player in a full-dive harem game where you play a female emperor. From the start, you randomly get the hell difficulty level: puppet emperor. * In your first year as emperor, you buy the deluxe pack, use up all your stamina every day, attend court on time, and diligently raise the favorability of the story's consorts and ministers. In your second year as emperor, you decide the game is unbearably boring. You have to work in real life and work in the game, too, so you angrily give up and become a foolish ruler. You skip court and spend every day in the harem. Your consorts fight so fiercely that you lose your save file. * You immediately start a new save. But before you can even start the story... you can't leave the game. You're happy to be free of the censorship system, so you go even further: stealing your subject's husband, forcing innocent young men, bullying a widower whose wife just died, seducing an enemy emperor into becoming your lover on the side, getting the King of the Northern Desert pregnant, forcing your aloof older brother, violating your adoptive father, and occasionally spending a fortune on the top courtesan at a male brothel. You hold annual selections and collect all kinds of evil men from the Miao frontier, sanctimonious evil men, men like An Lingrong, and spoiled evil men to keep in your harem and make them fight each other... You coldly watch them slaughter one another for your favor. They fake pregnancies to compete for attention, frame and slander one another, and use every trick in the book: aphrodisiacs, poison, musk medicine. The methods are endless. If they won't die for you, how can they claim to love you? People die in the harem every day, and you carry on peacefully as the foolish ruler. * You open your eyes again. The white moonlight who died just last night is sitting by your bed, smiling gently at you. "Your Majesty, the medicine is getting cold. Drink it while it's still warm." You kill him out of fear. Covered in blood, he kisses you until he breathes his last. * The next day, he appears in front of you again. Only then do you learn that the favored consorts in your harem can revive endlessly by reloading their save files. They have remembered the deaths they suffered because of you in their previous saves from the very start. Despite their favorability ratings being negative one thousand, they've been silently watching and coveting you all along. * So. Your court and your harem are full of dark, ghostly men. And you're the only normal person??? You: O.O * #Love me and you die. Don't love me and you die even more. # #I thought I was the truly gloomy one, but they're the real ghostly men. # *The main story is written in third person. This is not a female-dominance setting, so a few of the male leads are typical patriarchal tyrants from a feudal society. If you like watching feudal patriarchs fight like dogs, read on. If not, this isn't for you! *BG romance. The world allows women to bear children, and the female lead has a pregnancy pill. The male members of her harem can bear children. *The widower, the subject's husband, the top courtesan, the enemy emperor, and the rest are all virgins. *It's a game, a game, a game. No group-bed scenes. It has a positive outlook and sound values! The male leads aren't actually resurrected; they're real game characters, and their "resurrections" work like reloading a save file, not a fantasy element. Next book: A Friend's Son, ABO. Please add it to your reading list! [All male leads are virgins / Rivalry for the heroine / Morally chaotic tastes / Female O, male A / Female O, male O] Yu Gui dates an eighteen-year-old Alpha boy. Unlike other Alphas, her boyfriend is clingy and likes to act cute, like a little dog that follows her around all day. But their family backgrounds are completely mismatched. Her boyfriend comes from a top-tier wealthy family, while Yu Gui is an ordinary office worker. But that's okay. Yu Gui never expected to have a future with him. * Just like in a melodramatic soap opera. Her young boyfriend's father contacts her, arrogantly telling her to name her price and leave his son. On the day they arrange to meet, her young boyfriend's father shows up late. Yu Gui looks up and sees a familiar, beautiful face. Isn't that her Omega first love, who couldn't accept a relationship with another Omega and abandoned her to marry an Alpha? So he already has a son this old. When her first love realizes who she is, the arrogance in his eyes turns to shock and embarrassment. He looks at her helplessly and even sheds a few tears. Yu Gui doesn't want to get mixed up with a scumbag. She ends things cleanly, takes the money, and leaves. * The next day, people keep knocking on her door one after another. Her first love, begging her to get back together. Her first love's son, begging her to get back together. And the one begging her to get back together... her first love's husband. The Alpha ex-boyfriend she had dumped years ago because he was too controlling. * Yu Gui thinks: Their whole family must be crazy. 1. A marriage between wealthy families, a couple only on the surface. Their son is adopted, and there's no physical relationship between them. 2. A morally chaotic kink story. The heroine walks her dogs. 2024.11.12 Theme: Sweet redemption