After the Goofy Top Caught Love Fever

[Please add my next book, The Pure-Hearted Young Master Is On Fire, to your reading list~]

* Xie Yunxiao transmigrated into a book as a minor background character, a spoiled young scion. He was perfectly happy with that, spending his days teasing cats and dogs, eating, drinking, and enjoying himself.

Until one day, his father forced him to marry an ugly, sickly bride.

Fed up, he downed a few cups of wine. With a "little guidance" from his bad influence of a friend, he decided to ruin the marriage. He pulled a mask over his face, hefted a broadsword, and hijacked the sedan carrying his betrothed to the capital.

Who could have guessed that a handsome young gentleman would step out of the bridal sedan, with features like a painting, skin like snow, and the bearing of an orchid tree?

The gentleman gave a slight, wheezing cough, tears glimmering in his eyes. He was as beautiful as the white mist at dawn.

His heart caught fire, and his reason went up in smoke.

Xie Yunxiao stood there in a daze. His broadsword clattered to the ground.

Oh no, oh no. He'd met his crush.

* He Han Zhou's parents died young, and he was mistreated from childhood, leaving him with serious health problems.

After struggling to grow up, he thought he could change his circumstances by passing the imperial exams. But his personal maidservant drugged him and stuffed him into a bridal sedan bound for the Prince of Pingnan's manor, where he was to be married off as a male bride.

On his wedding night, despairing of everything, he resolved to die and clutched a sharp dagger in his hand.

But his sickly body couldn't hold out, and he fell asleep. The dagger slipped from his hand and fell to the floor.

Panicking, he tried to break free from his tangled dreams, but couldn't.

He thought a storm was about to break, but a moment later, a pair of warm, dry hands took his hand and gently placed the dagger back into it.

His heart jolted, and he woke to a pair of bright, open eyes.

The handsome man said,

"Um, you dropped this. I picked it up for you."

* A little scene

1. On their wedding night, other newlyweds were enjoying warm red curtains and a night of passion.

But Xie Yunxiao's gorgeous bride wanted to attack him with a knife.

"Why did you give the dagger back? Aren't you afraid I'll kill you?"

His bride was like a little cat with its claws out, and Xie Yunxiao found it adorable.

He cleared his throat and replied,

"Why would you kill me?" If you kill me, you'll be widowed...

But he didn't dare say the rest out loud.

He was definitely going to be a henpecked husband who obeyed his wife.

2. One day, He Han Zhou realized that the bandit who had stopped the bridal sedan was Xie Yunxiao.

He pressed him sharply,

"You like me?"

Xie Yunxiao rubbed his nose. "You found out..."

He Han Zhou's expression turned serious. He said nothing for a long time.

Xie Yunxiao asked nervously,

"Just because you found out doesn't mean you can forbid me from liking you..."

"..."

Reader's guide: One-on-one romance, both leads are inexperienced. A story about a silly puppy and a "venomous" cat.

The less serious blurb:

How do I marry a gorgeous beauty? I "kidnap" him!

How do I make the gorgeous beauty fall for me? I fawn over him!

How do I get the gorgeous beauty into bed? I play dumb!

How does a walk-on character from a book make it to center stage? I lie down and let it happen!

Also known as The Devoted Puppy: Keep Fawning and You'll Get Everything in the End, and The Background Character Devotes Himself to Protecting His Wife, Until Somehow He Becomes Invincible.

A goofy, blunt, lovable top x a cold, proud, sickly beauty bottom

Faced with his beautiful bride's cool indifference, Xie Yunxiao could only say,

"You can ignore me today, but I'll come find you again tomorrow!"

He did his best to live by the "Eight Honors and Eight Shames" and the "Three Obediences and Four Virtues" expected of a good modern man. His motto was to follow, obey, and blindly comply~

His bad influence of a friend scolded him for having no shame. He scoffed:

As long as my wife is happy, what's the point of having any shame?

Then he chuckled.

A man with no shame is freaking invincible!

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The Pure-Hearted Young Master Is On Fire: a short-tempered, clueless bottom x a sly, secretly passionate top

* Young Master Du Chun of the Du family has been feeling troubled lately.

A few days ago, his classmates mocked him for being a virgin who knew nothing about sex. His pride stung, so he immediately went out for drinks at a brothel.

But he'd never drunk before, and he had no tolerance at all. In his muddled state, he accidentally slept with an "innocent man."

With a strict father at home who might as well have been a vicious guard dog, Du Chun had a strict curfew. The next morning, he pulled up his pants, clutched his backside, and ran.

But he was a decent fellow at heart, and his conscience tormented him. His friends gave him a severe talking-to, and after days of inner turmoil and his friends' dubious yet somehow reassuring "counseling," Du Chun gritted his teeth and decided to take responsibility like a man.

* Prince Qin, Xiao Fang, was cold and indifferent in every way.

Rumor had it he was impotent, though he had never bothered to check. Then one day, at a brothel, he met a lively young courtesan.

After a sleepless night of passionate battle, he discovered a whole new world.

He was still riding high, but the young courtesan ran away. He searched every inch of the place but couldn't find a trace of him.

Then one day, he happened to attend a poetry gathering and spotted that familiar figure.

His eyes narrowed dangerously as he moved to catch him, but the young courtesan came over on his own and apologized meekly:

"I was wrong that day. It was my fault..."

He glanced at the young man's fair, rosy face and gave a noncommittal reply.

But before he could say anything else, the young man looked up at him with wide, earnest eyes and said,

"I'll take responsibility for you."

"..."

* Du Chun nervously looked at Xiao Fang, waiting for his response, but the other man didn't say a word for a long time.

After a while, he finally managed to say,

"You certainly have a strong sense of responsibility."

Du Chun thought he was mocking him for running away. He looked at him imploringly.

"Can you forgive me now?"

Xiao Fang narrowed his eyes. "We'll see how you do."

Du Chun nodded pitifully.

Theme: Don't fear the past; keep moving forward.