I Really Don’t Want to Act

01

A Man is an assassin.

Sometimes, for a mission, he has no choice but to disguise his identity.

Like dressing up as a woman.

But A Man never expected the biggest problem he'd face during this mission would be becoming a woman abducted against her will.

They merely crossed paths outside a temple, but the Prince of Chu, whose carriage was parked nearby, took a fancy to A Man and forcibly brought him back to his manor.

Everyone knows the Prince of Chu is cruel.

...If he finds out A Man is actually a man, how many heads does A Man have to spare?

02

The first time A Man found Si Jun, he treasured him and raised him with care.

But good times never last. A Man was an assassin, bound by duty and unable to choose his own path. After Si Jun lost his memory from an injury, A Man took him somewhere safe and quietly left.

But he never expected to meet Si Jun again.

Even less did he expect Si Jun to be the Prince of Chu.

Si Jun, Si Jun. The imperial surname is Shaosi, so his true name must be Shaosi Jun.

Only then did A Man realize that perhaps the Shaosi Jun he'd known at first wasn't what he had imagined at all.

That person had only been wearing a false disguise.

Like a mad dog in human skin, gnawing on human flesh!

Fortunately, fortunately, Shaosi Jun had lost his memory.

03

A Man waited and waited, until at last the chance to escape came.

He packed his things and moved stealthily through the darkness. When the moonlight finally fell clearly over him, he smelled the strong stench of blood.

The person who came to meet him was someone who had no business being there.

"...When did you find out?"

Shaosi Jun stepped out of the shadows and cupped A Man's face in his blood-soaked hands. A cruel, bloodthirsty smile bloomed across his face, beautiful as a poppy from the underworld.

"A Man, A Man, are you asking when I discovered your identity?

"Or are you asking... when I got my memory back?"

[Reader's note]

The leads are both inexperienced. The style is old-school, with bloody abduction and coercion.

The seme is insane, deeply disturbed, and utterly without limits. If the plot isn't to your taste, please stop reading.

New upcoming story: After Failing to Escape the Original Plot. Please add it to your reading list~

01

The day Yang Yan learned he was the uke protagonist of a melodramatic novel, he had already set foot on the story's starting point: Hantan Academy.

Hantan Academy was the school scholars throughout history had longed to attend. Its students were all rich or powerful, and Yang Yan was the only one there because his legitimate elder brother had gone off the deep end.

Now Yang Yan knew why this opportunity had landed in his lap.

Fortunately, the story had only just begun.

He had plenty of time to avoid the plot.

After all, even one glance at the original story was enough to make him faint... The other protagonist, the seme, was a complete monster who did nothing but evil.

Nalan Jin, the seme protagonist. The youngest brother of the current emperor, sent by the emperor to Hantan Academy to learn some restraint. Instead, everyone there became his plaything.

As the uke protagonist, Yang Yan would be his favorite toy.

Yang Yan: I can't afford to offend him, so I'll stay out of his way.

02

Nalan Jin had known since childhood that this world was nothing but a book, and he was its protagonist.

After all, so many people had tried to kill him over the years that even his emperor brother couldn't take it anymore and sent him to Hantan Academy.

Those who claimed to have transmigrated into books were disgusting and cowardly. They were easy to destroy and offered little amusement. Nalan Jin had grown tired of killing them, until one day, one of them couldn't take any more of his torment and revealed a huge secret.

There were two protagonists in this book.

Besides Nalan Jin, there was another protagonist who was supposed to be entangled with him until death.

Heh, interesting.

Nalan Jin flashed a vicious, cruel smile.

So there's another little treasure?

But how had someone so interesting not shown up even once in all the years since the story began?

03

Yang Yan had planned for every possibility, but never imagined that, on top of the terrifying fact that the world was a novel, there were also transmigrators into books.

When Nalan Jin found him, Yang Yan could think of only a few words: I'm! So! Dead!

Nalan Jin specifically chose him as his study companion.

The seme protagonist described in the book was terrifying, but in front of Yang Yan, this man was ill-tempered without being quite so monstrous.

At times, he could even seem a little cute.

But it turned out that a moment's carelessness could be fatal.

When Yang Yan watched the transmigrators die one by one right before his eyes, his face turned deathly pale.

Nalan Jin tilted his head in confusion, cupped his face, and smiled. "Sweetheart, shouldn't you be standing with me?"

After all, you and I are the only ones of our kind in this world.

04

It was winter when Yang Yan faked his death and ran away.

Freezing cold.

He lay quietly in his coffin, listening to the other man rage and threaten, yet he felt a strange kind of joy.

At last, he was about to be free.

He waited to be buried, waited for a chance to escape by any means necessary, and waited until he finally settled down and started a new life.

That experience still gave him nightmares night after night. He would wake drenched in sweat.

With a friend's help, he hid in a small town, bought a house, and acquired a few acres of farmland.

As he recovered and rebuilt his life, he slowly left that fear behind.

Then one day, while doing some weeding in the fields for a change, Yang Yan had a dizzy spell. A pair of hands reached out to steady him.

Suddenly, a fear he hadn't felt in a long time seized Yang Yan, and his heart began to pound wildly.

No.

The dark spots in front of Yang Yan's eyes slowly, slowly cleared.

This can't be!

He gradually made out the person's face, and at the same time, heard his voice.

"Yang Yan."

Just two words.

Yang Yan felt as if every drop of blood in his body had frozen.

All his nightmares, Nalan Jin, stood right before him. The demon slowly smiled. A frenzied, excited expression spread across his pale face as he whispered like a ghost.

"I found you."

His treasure.

Note: The title and blurb may change. Melodramatic forced romance, abduction and coercion, very old-school!

Theme: Face hardship bravely and save yourself from danger.