The Honest Man Caught in a Love Triangle

Coming soon: Honest Man, but Irresistible to Everyone and My Dead Ex-Husband Is Back. Please add them to your reading list!

[Irresistible Lead / Suitor Showdown / Over-the-Top Drama / Taming Men / Ascending the Throne / All Male Love Interests Are Pure]

Xie Mingzhu is an honest, straightforward carpenter who isn't good with words. She makes a living from the craft passed down in her family.

One day, she transmigrates into a mature-rated abuse novel as an indulgent, dissolute princess with countless male lovers in her household, including the original male lead.

If she maxes out the male lead's corruption value, she'll return to the real world.

But Xie Mingzhu is honest and inarticulate, and has no idea how to corrupt the male lead.

The men in her household vie for her favor, acting obedient and playing for sympathy. Unable to tell whether they're sincere, she accepts them all.

In the end, the male lead is exiled for poisoning the princess's consort, and his corruption value hits the max.

Just as Xie Mingzhu is preparing to go home, a new System appears and says the previous one made a mistake: her actual mission is to win over the male lead.

Remembering the male lead's eyes, steeped in hatred as he left the capital, and the story's plot in which he would one day become emperor, Xie Mingzhu

immediately decides to run.

She's done. At worst, she'll return to her old trade and live a humble life here. That's still better than being abused in body and soul by the male lead.

She fakes her death, changes her name, and opens a carpentry shop in the capital, spending her days carving wood.

She also marries a stunningly beautiful young man, and the two live a blissful, carefree life.

Until the male lead becomes emperor, and her young husband turns out to be the new emperor's trusted aide.

Everyone knows the new emperor hates the former dynasty's princess to the bone.

Only Xie Mingzhu knows that the new emperor sneaks into his minister's residence late at night and rests his head on her lap. "Mingzhu, I can be the stepping stone that puts you on the throne. Can he?"

Later, Xie Mingzhu steps on him as he sits on the throne, her gaze sharp. "I'll take what I want for myself. I don't need you to give it to me."

[Reading Guide]

1. The female lead is irresistible to everyone, and all those with one-sided feelings for her, regardless of gender, are pure.

2. Includes an intense suitor showdown and outrageous melodrama. Some love interests involve coercive possession and love twisted by hatred.

3. A brainless wish-fulfillment story, so don't overthink it. The female lead intends to become emperor, and she'll gladly accept anyone she likes.

[Coming Soon]

Yu Ning is an honest, straightforward cook, but she gets fired by her manager for not knowing how to suck up to people.

On her way home, she unexpectedly wins a beta-testing spot for the full-dive game 108 Ways to Stir-Fry.

She thinks it's a cooking tutorial, but as soon as she enters the game, she discovers it's actually a mature-rated game.

Yu Ning: Please put the stir-frying back in the kitchen, thanks.

Just as she's about to quit the game, she finds there is no exit button, and a System appears.

[Congratulations, Host. You are now bound to the Food Encyclopedia System. To put "stir-frying" back in the kitchen, the Space-Time Administration has specially assigned this System to help you clear out the kitchen scraps in the male leads' heads in mature-rated stories.]

Yu Ning: I'm a cook, not part of some cleanup squad.

[Host just needs to transmigrate to different worlds and collect the male leads' 108 ways of stir-frying. Then you can return to the real world with a hundred million!]

Yu Ning: I'm just teaching people to stir-fry, right? I'm a cook. How hard can it be?

[Please draw your identity and do your best to unlock the Food Encyclopedia!]

First Dish: Stir-Fried Green Mushrooms

You are a rich widow who, unable to bear the loneliness, keeps a young lover. Your brother-in-law and stepson catch you in bed with him.

Yu Ning: I really did just hire him to stir-fry!

Her brother-in-law stares at the bowl of stir-fried green mushrooms on the bed, lost in thought. "He's young and not as skilled at stir-frying as I am. Why didn't you choose me?"

Her stepson: "I'm young, and my technique isn't as good as Uncle's, but I can toss the wok with more strength."

Yu Ning: ...

Second Dish: Pan-Fried Soup Dumplings

Third Dish: Cheese Cream Cap

[Reading Guide]

1. Episodic one-on-one romances, with a suitor showdown and melodrama.

Theme: Be sure to cherish the people who love you.