After Transmigrating into a Book, I Became Desk Mates with My Archenemy

Pairing: cold, aloof, and rational top x lazy, silly, beautiful bottom

Qu Shichun ran into his high school desk mate, once his sworn rival. He got so worked up trading barbs that he toppled headfirst into the Yangtze River.

When he woke up, he discovered he had become a cannon-fodder character with the same name in a power-struggle novel about a dynasty's rise!

The original cannon fodder was a spoiled playboy blinded by love. To help his crush seize power, he got his entire family wiped out by Marquis Wenjing, the protagonist's most powerful cheat.

To stay alive, Qu Shichun diligently maintains his playboy persona, ignores the affectionate prince, and plays the part of an innocent, naive sweetheart.

Then one day, just when he thinks he's avoided every plotline, his older brother introduces him to the handsome and distinguished Marquis Wenjing standing beside him.

Qu Shichun lets out a piercing shriek:

Oh my gosh, that's my desk mate!

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Good news: His desk mate transmigrated into a book as Marquis Wenjing, the man who kills his whole family in the original!

Bad news: His desk mate has amnesia!

Qu Shichun spends every day on edge in this power-struggle novel, wary of his desk mate's identity while still trying to get close and jog his memory.

Before long, the powerful families of the capital notice that the bright and noble Marquis Wenjing has acquired a little playboy at his side. He dotes on him no less than the playboy's own brother does:

Qu Shichun comes last in his academy exams and is punished with copying texts.

Qu Shichun visits a brothel with his bad-influence friends and gets his palm smacked.

When Qu Shichun is pursued by the villainous prince, the prince gets a month of beatings with a club.

As time goes on, even Qu Shichun can't help wondering why life feels exactly the same as it did before he transmigrated into a book.

He even wants to ask Xie Zhang outright: Do you remember me or not?

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Then one day, he kisses Xie Zhang, and at last the other man's usually unchanging ice-cold expression flickers.

Qu Shichun asks excitedly, "Desk mate, you remember me now?"

Xie Zhang nods. "I remember."

Qu Shichun cheers. "Yes! Then tell me who I am! Who am I?"

Xie Zhang replies with conviction, "My wife."

Qu Shichun: "Huh?"

Reader's guide:

1. The top and bottom transmigrate into a book together. The top regains his modern memories later on.

2. At the beginning, the top has one-sided feelings for the bottom.

3. One-on-one, both are virgins, no angst, happy ending.

Theme: Keep going, crossing mountains and rivers without pause. Though the mountains are high and the rivers long, they reflect the heart's first resolve.