Guess Who's the Demon

The apartment caught fire, and Ming Xi thought he was as good as dead.

The good news: He survived.

The bad news: He transmigrated into a book.

Ming Xi transmigrates into a novel his deskmate has been reading lately, called Guess Who's the Monster?

The book is divided into several arcs. Readers have to guess which character is the monster in each arc before the next one unlocks.

There are only three attempts.

His deskmate has been stuck on the first arc for ages.

The first arc is set in an alternate Republican-era China. Ming Xi only remembers that Master Xing has several concubines, a second son born to his principal wife who is confined to a wheelchair, an ambitious eldest son, a bunch of troublesome children born to concubines, and a fifth son who everyone in the household knows is a bastard.

Ming Xi has terrible luck. He transmigrates as the bastard born from the eighth concubine's affair, and he's also an idiot. Even the lowliest servants in the Xing household can bully him at will.

The second young master of the Xing household is as refined as jade, and determined to overcome his disability.

But he's also a product of the feudal era.

To survive, Ming Xi pretends to be stupid and attaches himself to the second young master, the legitimate son.

At the same time, bodies without hearts begin appearing in the Xing household, strange things happen at night, several young masters and misses lie in wait, and everyone in the house schemes in secret.

Ming Xi feels like his brain's CPU is about to explode.

And he finds himself sharing his deskmate's problem.

Who is the monster?

The top and bottom aren't blood-related. The whole plot is at a grade-school level. Both have flaws. One-on-one, both are virgins, melodramatic, old-school. Feudal family, wheelchair-using top x sweet, naive male high schooler bottom.

Please read the character descriptions carefully and make sure you're okay with them before starting. Thanks for your support, cuties.

Upcoming novel: An ordinary person transmigrates into an ABO world and becomes a bodyguard. Please add it to your reading list.

Zhou Mu comes from the bottom of society and works as a bodyguard. His crisp, efficient fighting skills make him his boss's trusted aide. But the day before he starts the job, he transmigrates into a book.

He lands in a collection of melodramatic novels his boss's daughter loves to read. His role is the father of two sons.

Each son has a story of his own.

Every day, there's some melodramatic drama unfolding at home.

Zhou Mu looks up at the sky and feels exhausted.

He only wants to be a bodyguard who doesn't have to think, as long as he gets paid every day. So he changes his name and moves to a more prosperous city, applying to be a young master's bodyguard for a wealthy family.

The good news: He gets the job, and his employer's family is rich.

The bad news: His employer has a terrible temper and is spoiled.

Still, compared to the chaos at home, Zhou Mu can put up with it and dutifully works as a bodyguard.

Xi Yan is handsome, selfish, and malicious. He has the strongest pheromones in the Empire. His requirements for a partner are that they can fight, withstand his pheromones, and, most importantly, look the way he likes.

Everyone knows Xi Yan's standards, and thinks he's dreaming. It's peacetime. What omega spends all day fighting?

Xi Yan's villa gets a new bodyguard.

Xi Yan discovers that the bodyguard can fight and is completely unaffected by his pheromones. The only problem is that he isn't good-looking.

Doesn't the butler screen applicants for looks?

Later, Xi Yan realizes that this bodyguard has the audacity to seduce him. His private life is downright improper, releasing pheromones in broad daylight to tempt him.

And how did this omega get hired as a bodyguard?

Zhou Mu thinks being a bodyguard is pretty great: good pay, little work, and excellent benefits. The annoying part is that the young master keeps viciously telling him to control his pheromones and stop dreaming of a toad eating swan meat.

Zhou Mu figures he can't keep things tense with his employer forever.

So one day, when the young master is drugged, he helps him out with his hand. Zhou Mu's straight-guy way of thinking means he doesn't take the incident to heart.

After this friendly little favor, the young master treats him much better, and his job goes more smoothly.

But then the young master starts asking him a different question: when is your heat?

Fed up with the questions, Zhou Mu quits and gets another bodyguard job.

Who knew the young master would come looking for him?

Eyes red, he demands that Zhou Mu take responsibility.

Damn it, there were even lots of people watching. The next day, the papers were full of the story.

Shocking! The Star of the Empire has been dumped!

Characters: A dark-skinned, cool bodyguard bottom x a spoiled, narcissistic, sharp-tongued A top.

The bottom is a transmigrator from another world, an ordinary person with no heat cycle and no pheromones.

The two sons are stepsons. The bottom is 28, the top is 22. Handsome top, younger top.

(My wicked kink: no matter what, he can't mark him.)

Theme: Persevere through adversity.