[Scheming, theatrical, irresistible top × carefree, adaptable, stingy bottom]
Zhu Yi is the great villain in a power-fantasy palace-intrigue novel, a stunningly handsome man who loves setting people up. He's a sinister, treacherous big boss who speaks honeyed words while hiding a dagger in his heart.
Holding the storybook that had appeared by his bedside one day, Zhu Yi read the readers' descriptions of him in the Green River comments section and fell into deep thought.
Setting people up... Well, he'd disliked that dog of a prince for ages. He'd lured him into a trap by offering him benefits, then turned around and reported him to the emperor...
Speaking honeyed words while hiding a dagger... Well, he had pretended not to mind when that dog of a general took advantage of him, and said all the right things. But in private, he'd sent a young eunuch to seduce him, then cut off his manhood at a crucial moment...
Sinister and treacherous... Well, those incidents certainly fit.
What should you do when you see people saying bad things about you? Zhu Yi knew: absolutely nothing!
Until one night, he woke to find a System in his mind, claiming to be "The System for Creating a Sweet, Innocent Fool with a Beautiful Face and a Good Heart." It demanded that he willingly adopt the sweet, innocent fool persona, or it would forcibly lower his intelligence and make him act like one.
Zhu Yi: ? No problem. I'm great at being one thing on the surface and another underneath.
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Le Zheng Chu is the richest merchant in the capital. A hardcore admirer of beauty, he loves seeing every beautiful thing in the world.
One day, he leaned over a railing to join the crowd, waiting for the Southern Border heir, who had topped the beauty rankings for five consecutive years, to arrive in the capital and pay his respects to the emperor.
When he saw the handsome, dashing foreign man on horseback, he exclaimed, "Wow, a celestial beauty!"
Then, by a twist of fate, he flirted with the beautiful man and suddenly realized... This man was all smiles on the surface, but cursing up a storm inside! Truly terrifying!
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After going bankrupt, Le Zheng Chu became a penniless homeless man, starving on the streets. While guarding against revenge from his former business rivals, he prayed that the Southern Border heir he'd once flirted with had forgotten all about it.
But the owner of the elegant black satin shoes embroidered with gold thread, now stopped beside him, didn't move. Le Zheng Chu looked up, and when he saw Zhu Yi's outrageously beautiful face, he thought:
"Wow, my enemy!"
Zhu Yi looked down at the "Chosen One" from the storybook. At the System's urging, he bent down and extended a hand, considerately saying, "Boss Le, you've had a hard time. If you don't mind, why not stay at my humble abode?"
The humble abode he referred to was in a prime location in the capital and covered more than three hundred mu! It had been lovingly designed by a top-tier landscape gardener!
Le Zheng Chu shuddered and glanced at the armed guards standing behind him. He had no choice but to walk into this banquet at Hongmen...
Reader's Guide:
* Top-focused, irresistible top
* Equally matched leads. The bottom grows throughout the story, and the top and bottom genuinely want to kill each other.
* One-on-one, happy ending, both are each other's first and only.
Synopsis archived on August 10, 2023.
Theme: Set your heart on the light
