A Seductive Beauty, But She Chose the Wrong Target

[Blurb 2, January 4, 2026. Updates at midnight on the dot. The romance has reached the point where they have confessed their feelings to each other, so feel free to read!]

Shen Weixu transmigrates into a book and unexpectedly gets bound to a System, which tells him he must conquer the protagonist in the story to stay alive.

However, before the System can tell him who the protagonist is, it breaks down halfway through and starts repairing itself.

Relying on fragments of the plot provided by the System, Shen Weixu finds the protagonist, a pitiful, helpless boy who is constantly bullied.

He puts his greatest talent for winning people over to use, giving the protagonist warmth and teaching him to read, write, ride, and shoot. Before long, he has easily earned the boy's trust.

Seven years later, on the day the protagonist blushes and finally works up the courage to confess to him,

the System finishes repairing itself and tells him he conquered the wrong person.

He mistook Pei Zhiyao, the biggest villain in the entire book, for the protagonist. Pei Zhiyao was still harmless and had yet to throw the court into chaos.

Shen Weixu: ...There are so many choice curses I want to say, but I don't know if I should.

A civilized, upstanding citizen, Shen Weixu resigns himself to his fate. He ruthlessly rejects the confession, packs up, and runs away that very day to find the real protagonist and get close to him.

After that, the villain follows the original story's path, passes the imperial examinations, and successfully turns evil.

It's just that the way he turns evil seems a little off...?

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In a little dark room beneath a bright and peaceful sky,

newly appointed Chancellor Pei Zhiyao gently strokes the blindfold over Shen Weixu's eyes, his voice mild and harmless.

"Those eyes of yours look best when they're only looking at me, Brother."

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A life-preserving, masterfully flirtatious beauty who values his life above all else, the uke x a devoted, obsessive seme who's innocent at first and becomes a sly, tea-drinking schemer later

[Reading Guide]

1. As is customary, this is a one-on-one romance, with the seme younger than the uke. Their psychological age gap is 12 years, and their physical age gap is 5 years. There are ten chapters of childhood and growing-up scenes, and the main story begins in chapter eleven.

2. There is only a bold, unmistakable mutual attraction between the seme and uke. No love triangle. The uke and the original protagonist are good brothers, literally, yes.

3. The uke will do whatever it takes to survive. Both leads have flaws, and the protagonist isn't all-knowing or all-powerful. Please don't read if that's not to your taste.

4. The dark-room scenes aren't dark-room scenes in the traditional sense. It's just my personal preference; I can't write truly non-consensual content. At heart, these are two pure-hearted boys in a bittersweet romance. Political maneuvering comes into play in the middle and later parts, but it's very light and set in a fictional world, so please don't scrutinize it too closely. Anything that doesn't fit historical facts is my own invention.

-- Next historical danmei novel --

Title: So What If I'm a Spoiled Brat!

Tagline: I have a wife. Do you?

Blurb:

Wen Ruqing is famous in the capital as both its foremost beauty and its most gifted scholar. Gentle as jade, he is dazzlingly talented.

Unfortunately, he was born frail and has no chance of entering officialdom. His family has fallen into hardship and can barely make ends meet, so he is forced to marry He Yan, the capital's most notorious spoiled brat, as his male wife.

On their wedding day, Wen Ruqing is left alone outside the prince's residence, with no one coming to welcome him.

Inside, He Yan is making a grand declaration to his father.

"Even if I, He Yan, have to die! Even if I have to jump into the dry well at the prince's residence! I will never marry some male wife!"

The next moment, He Yan turns around and sees Wen Ruqing in a vivid wedding robe, delicate and frail, yet beautiful as a painting.

He Yan changes his tune on the spot. "Who let Young Master Wen walk in by himself? Hurry and escort Young Master Wen back to his sedan! I still need to go out and welcome my bride in person!"

He Yan's father: "?"

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In the Great Jing dynasty, male wives have the status of servants. Countless people are waiting to laugh at Wen Ruqing, and he has already prepared himself to be neglected and bullied.

But after they are actually married, Wen Ruqing realizes that things aren't quite what he expected.

The playboy who spends all day hanging around brothels is actually an innocent young man who only knows how to listen to music and has no idea about romance.

The spoiled brat who spends all day in idleness is actually someone who gave up on himself after losing his mother young and having a father who was away at war for years.

He actively protects Wen Ruqing's reputation and takes meticulous care of his health.

He also genuinely wants to study. It's just that no one has ever kept him in line or taught him, and no one expects him to achieve anything.

Having spent years raising his younger siblings, Wen Ruqing finally understands: this silly boy is starved for love.

Wen Ruqing's love is the cure He Yan needs.

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A gentle, sickly beauty uke x an innocent, silly spoiled-brat seme

Theme: True affection is precious. Treasure the sincere kindness and pure feelings of the people around you.