Prison Cage is a male-oriented power-progression novel, telling the story of Cui Zhizhi, the male lead, as he breaks free from his muddy cage and climbs step by step to a peak everyone can only look up to, repeatedly face-slapping all kinds of supporting characters, and finally wins the beauty's heart.
The supporting character who gets face-slapped the hardest along the way is Yin Xu, a shameless, sinister schemer who will stop at nothing to possess the male lead.
Yin Xu once swallowed a Blazing Sun Fruit to trick Cui Zhizhi, who has an Extremely Cold Physique, into cuddling with him every night. Later, Cui Zhizhi used his mortal body to trap Yin Xu in the freezing wastelands of the Northern Border for ten whole years, where he could neither die nor live.
The Blazing Sun Fruit burned hot, while the Northern Border's snow was bone-chillingly cold. After ten years of this intermingled heat and cold, Yin Xu was finally released from his living hell.
Contrary to his usual behavior, Cui Zhizhi took good care of him, and Yin Xu's shattered heart began to show signs of rekindling against all odds.
But just as Yin Xu's will to live reached its peak, Cui Zhizhi smiled cruelly and effortlessly cut off his hands and feet, locking him in the cage he had built for him with his own hands.
Shut away from the light and doomed to a lifetime of misery, Yin Xu was utterly brutalized by Cui Zhizhi, body and soul.
Now, Yin Xu, having finished reading the novel Prison Cage, has transmigrated into the same-named lapdog he once mercilessly mocked.
Yin Xu: ...
Is there any hope for me?
What could be more terrifying than opening your eyes to find yourself embracing a cold-faced murderer?
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Yin Xu decides to save himself.
He will draw a clear line, behave himself, and never cross the line.
He will safeguard the male lead's chastity and become a man without desire. When the effects of the Blazing Sun Fruit finally wear off, he'll pack his bags and get out of the male lead's world as fast as he can.
Then he turns his attention to the beauty the male lead ends up with. If the male lead can feel that true affection and love exist in this world, then even if he really does try to kill Yin Xu in the end, he might not be quite so ruthless. The only person who can do that is the female lead.
But after all his hard work trying to bring them together, Yin Xu discovers that Prison Cage is actually a danmei novel in the guise of a male-oriented story.
The man Cui Zhizhi likes is actually a man! Where is Yin Xu supposed to find the unseen protagonist gong?
Yin Xu is fretting and racking his brains, to no avail. After trying to come to terms with it for a while, he starts scouting out the perfect gong for Cui Zhizhi.
This one isn't good enough, and neither is that one. Just as Yin Xu is happily picking through a pile of junk, someone suddenly grabs him by the nape.
Yin Xu swallows, gets ready to flee, and then feels a hand close around his wrist.
As Cui Zhizhi's expression grows colder and Yin Xu finds himself backed into a corner, the guilt in his eyes gradually turns to terror.
Turns out the one he's been looking for all along is the protagonist shou!
Cui Zhizhi smiles sweetly: Who else were you looking for?
Yin Xu: ...Help!
This novel is also known as Cui Zhizhi's Epic I Told You So Moment, How to Stop Everyone from Crossing the Line After Drawing One, How to Turn an Innocent Young Man into a Flirtatious Casanova, The White Lotus's Guide to Self-Cultivation, and How I Couldn't Find the Protagonist Shou and Ended Up Giving Myself Away
Clear-headed, worldly shou x cold outside, warm inside, innocent gong
1. Mutual attraction, extremely strong
2. Redemption story, 1v1, happy ending, short and sweet, both are virgins in body and soul
3. The characters change a tiny bit later on, for example, the worldly and innocent sides switch places. I won't say who spouts nonsense all day.
4. Written in advance. The start date is still undecided.
Theme: And so he got a happy ending with a murderer
