Struggling in the Battlefield of Love Every Day

[Complete. Read with confidence! My next story is another heartthrob novel of the same kind, Childhood Friends. See the blurb at the end. Please add it to your reading list. Thank you!]

Zhu Yanshi was clever and quick-witted. He had earned a fortune through his own efforts and was preparing to enjoy a comfortable retirement when he suddenly transmigrated into a book called I'm the Heartthrob.

He became the story's villainous supporting character, so poor even a street rat wouldn't bother stealing from his home.

Seeing the balance on his bank card, which showed a big fat zero,

Zhu Yanshi felt half-dead while still alive. "What now? After a lifetime of hard work, I'm still a beggar."

*

The original character in the book was obsessed with love, rigid, and vicious. He ruined his entire life for a man.

When Zhu Yanshi met the wealthy and powerful tops from the book again,

he calmly unzipped his backpack and slapped a proposal down on the table.

The proposal was titled: How to Make Him Fall in Love with Me.

He smiled with narrowed eyes.

"Step right up, don't miss out. Once you leave this town, you won't find another deal like this. Only 48,888."

Every day, he was busy getting the protagonist bottom together with the protagonist tops. He had no trace of romantic obsession, and spent every day thinking about how to make money off this group of tops.

His side business took off, and his wallet grew fatter too.

Day after day, Zhu Yanshi was busy making money off his friends. Then, as he kept raking it in, something suddenly felt off...

Why were they all crowding around him? Why was he at the center of this competition between men, this battle royale of love?!

Zhu Yanshi pointed at Yuan Qing beside him, looking utterly confused. "Aren't you supposed to like him?"

Yuan Qing narrowed his eyes and smiled. "Sorry, baby. I'm a top too."

Zhu Yanshi: ...

*

Zhu Yanshi had changed, and changed so much that everyone around him had a chain reaction, undergoing strange changes of their own.

Yuan Qing hid in the shadows every day, watching Zhu Yanshi's every move with deep, fathomless eyes. Sometimes he licked his lips, thinking he would one day devour his little childhood friend.

Song Zhiyu sat in the bathtub, his eyes reddened and his gaze fixed on the empty space before him. He was thinking of Zhu Yanshi's smile. He was angry that Zhu Yanshi had lied to him, but still couldn't help wondering:

Why did he lie to me and not anyone else?

He loves me! (Absolutely certain.)

Fu Qi'an's exceptionally severe skin hunger had eased. He had even begun to crave Zhu Yanshi's touch. When Zhu Yanshi slapped him across the face, all he felt was excitement.

Chen Shiyi rushed over and hugged Zhu Yanshi. He buried his reddened eyes in the other man's neck, his breath hot. He bit the pulsing hollow of Zhu Yanshi's throat, sounding disgruntled and pitiful. "You said I was a dog, so I bit you once... That means you're mine now."

(Content warnings:

1. The bottom will have sex with four tops, but not all at the same time.

2. A lighthearted transmigration-into-a-book story with a comedic tone.

3. Everyone is a virgin. The bottom is a cute, pretty, incredibly sweet little strawberry!

4. Love triangle drama and competition between men.

5. The school setting is university.)

My next story is another heartthrob novel of the same kind, Childhood Friends. Here's the blurb. Thanks for adding it to your reading list!

My name is Su Li. I'm an utterly ordinary, unremarkable straight man.

I have three childhood friends. We were inseparable growing up, but after they left Wanlin Alley, we gradually lost touch.

I left Wanlin Alley too when I went to university, but in a bustling, unfamiliar city, I ran into my three childhood friends again.

We still relied on each other.

But I realized our dependence had gone beyond friendship.

They were all sick, and seriously so.

*

My first childhood friend is a rich second-generation heir, rumored to be handsome, wealthy, fit, and socially adept.

But this highly eligible bachelor has countless admirers. He's the classic type who strolls through a field of flowers without a petal clinging to him.

When I realized that my relationship with him seemed too intimate and was upsetting his admirers, I suggested we keep our distance.

But my childhood friend started acting strangely. He kept messaging me like crazy and even waited downstairs in the rain to corner me...

One day, he got drunk and kissed me while holding me in his arms.

I thought he was blind and had mistaken me for one of his admirers.

*

My second childhood friend is the gentlest, most gentlemanly senior at the university. He's always looked after me, and since I was little, I've regarded him as my closest and most admired big brother.

But that still doesn't stop me from thinking there's something wrong with his head.

He's good in every way, but he has a few questionable kinks.

One day, I accidentally wandered into the room he always keeps locked and saw my photos covering every wall...

I need to stay away from him.

*

My third childhood friend is a genius boy with an angel's face. Even as a child, he stood out among a bunch of snot-nosed kids. He loves everything challenging, and he's carefree and romantic.

That day, he pulled me into his room. With innocent, clear blue eyes, his face and ears red, he took all sorts of objects out of a box and tearfully, awkwardly asked me how to use them...

As expected, beautiful men are the most terrifying. I should probably run.

*

My three childhood friends have been secretly plotting together lately, scheming about how to make me gay.

I packed my bags in the middle of the night and tried to escape.

At the last second before I boarded the plane, they caught up with me, bundled me into a car, and took me back to the villa.

In the dark, silent room, I heard one of them sneer, still furious.

"Looks like you don't like being treated too gently, big brother."

After that...

The childhood friends:

1. A tsundere, stubborn, unruly rich heir

2. A gentle on the surface, gloomy and ghostly university senior

3. A cute, teary-eyed younger genius who tops

Theme: Respect and love yourself