The Real Young Master Becomes a Beloved Group Favorite After He Lies Flat [Book Transmigration]

Dark, calculating, and scheming top x sunny, cheerful, carefree bottom

Yu Yan transmigrates into a wealthy-family intrigue novel as the foolish, stupid biological heir.

The original Yu Yan causes endless trouble, drives out the adopted heir to claim the family fortune for himself, then squanders it all and dies miserably on the street.

When Yu Yan arrives, the original is swallowing pills to kill himself, trying to force his parents to drive out the adopted heir.

Father Yu and Mother Yu: "The entire family fortune will go to you. We'll send him away with nothing."

Yu Yan springs upright from the bed. "No! Give him the company! Give him the funds! Give him the shares! Give him my allowance too! Give it all to him! All of it!!!"

As if! If he can lie flat and live off dividends, why would he ever get a job???

Father Yu: "Let's buy the boy a car to cheer him up. Does he like a Maybach or a Rolls-Royce?"

Mother Yu: "The boy's been through so much. Give him ten million a month in spending money."

Big brother: "Use the black card as much as you want."

Yu Yan performs three backflips down the stairs on the spot. He doesn't use the stairs or the elevator, because he is so excited that he takes the balcony.

His big brother, Yu Chen, has a friend named Shen Yuming, a virtuous, capable, thoughtful, gentle, and modest man whom everyone praises to the skies. He's the quintessential "other people's child."

Only Yu Yan knows it's all a front. The real Shen Yuming is capricious and ruthless, and the original Yu Yan indirectly died at his hands.

After transmigrating into the book, Yu Yan: Back! Back! Back! Keep away from me! Huh? Why can't I get away?

A little scene:

1. One day, Yu Yan is accidentally injured and lies by the roadside, covered in blood and wailing. Shen Yuming kindly offers to take him to the hospital.

Yu Yan hurriedly refuses, then crawls a trail of blood to the car and bids Shen Yuming a warm farewell.

Shen Yuming gets in and locks the doors in one smooth motion.

Yu Yan: Damn, I crawled into the wrong car!

2. As their feelings grow, Shen Yuming confesses gently: "It's okay. If you don't like me, you can say no. We can keep things just the way they were."

Yu Yan: "...Bro, I can see the rope behind your back."

Shen Yuming: "You noticed? Then I'll stop pretending."

Reader's guide:

1. 1v1, both inexperienced. The top is just a tiny bit unhinged, really, just a tiny bit.

2. The top had another name in the past. Both names appear in the main story, so don't read too much into it.

3. Discuss the plot reasonably. If you paid for a meal and it tastes bad, you can complain about the chef, but there's no need to announce that you're dropping the story.

4. Let the anti-piracy group block bad luck and misfortune for me and my lovely readers.

5. This story isn't for extreme anti-romance or anti-male-lead readers.

6. There is a secondary couple, but they get very little page time in both the main story and the extras.

7. The dating-show extra is an alternate timeline, set after the top falls for the bottom. It won't be very long and will be published as an extra, so it won't affect anyone's subscription rate. Buy with caution!!! Buy with caution!!! Buy with caution!!! (I realized halfway through writing it that it was too short to develop the plot, so if you bought this extra and are unhappy with it, leave a comment and I'll send you a red packet. I'm sorry!)

The author will never delete a non-extreme comment from a legitimate reader, but anti-piracy groups are not welcome!!!

[Blurb written May 23, 2024. Screenshot saved as proof.]

Upcoming story: When a Socially Anxious Guy's Soul Transmigrates into a Show-Off King. Please add it to your collection

Upcoming blurb:

Dark, unhinged top with barely a trace of humanity x kind, socially anxious bottom who pretends to be a show-off to survive

Cheng Wen dies saving someone and transmigrates into a wealthy-family intrigue novel as a cannon-fodder character. The original is an arrogant show-off who causes trouble at every turn, drives out his adopted older brother to claim the family fortune, and ultimately dies miserably on the street.

When Cheng Wen transmigrates, the original has already set up his deeply calculating adopted older brother, Cheng Fulin, to sleep with someone. This is the beginning of their already flimsy brotherly bond becoming even flimsier, and of the original's miserable death on the street!

Cheng Wen rushes to save him.

Cheng Fulin: "What are you doing here?"

Cheng Wen does his best to play the original's obnoxious show-off. "The Cheng family can't lose face because of you."

Help!

Will Cheng Fulin think there's something wrong with him?!

The Cheng family lost all its face eight hundred years ago because of him!

Just when Cheng Wen thinks he can survive by clinging to Cheng Fulin, he suddenly realizes that Cheng Fulin seems... not to want to live.

Cheng Fulin smokes and drinks heavily, without the slightest concern for his health. He even drinks himself into the hospital.

What can Cheng Wen do?!

All he can do is keep up the act and lecture him. "You drank yourself into the hospital. Is your rebellious phase still not over?"

AAAAAAAH!

Cheng Wen curls his toes in embarrassment. What right does he have to lecture the villainous boss?

Will Cheng Fulin get so angry that he kills him?!

Ever since he was old enough to remember, Cheng Fulin has bounced from one relative's house to another, enduring cold looks, until his uncle finally adopted him.

To repay his uncle, he is willing to work like an ox at the company and pave the way for his useless little brother, Cheng Wen.

Then one day, Cheng Wen, who has always done nothing but show off, is still putting on an act, but with his ears a little red as he urges Cheng Fulin to quit smoking and drinking.

Well, now. That's interesting.

[Blurb written October 31, 2024. Archived on Weibo and in the photo album.]

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