The Crime City's Heartthrob

From May 14, Chapter 17 will be locked behind a paywall. Thank you for your support. You are Li Xing, someone who transmigrated into a book and was bound to a Harem Magnet System. The System can give you nothing but beauty. Even your identity is a problem: you need a sponsor to live with you for three months and prove you’re harmless, or the police here will deport you. Feeling guilty, the System comes up with an idea. [Starry, why not get a boyfriend? Use your beauty to charm him, and he’ll definitely agree to sponsor you!] You agree. Following the principle that casting a wide net is the best way to catch a good fish, you start looking for candidates. The first is a doctor who helped you when you were sick. He’s not only gentle and refined, but also a great cook, and invites you over to try his cooking. The second is your neighbor, a widower with a pale complexion but a kind heart. He often helps you with cleaning the shared areas, which you’re not very good at, and you’re deeply grateful. The third is a volunteer with a charitable organization. He has a particularly warm smile, and whenever you see him, he’s surrounded by children. He seems to be very popular with them, and he always gives you handmade cookies the children have made. The last is a detective inspector. He’s often too busy with work to make your dates on time, but you choose him anyway. His outrageously sexy muscles are only part of the reason. More importantly, in this city with its poor public safety, detectives are part of the law and order system. He makes you feel safe. You introduce your boyfriends to everyone, planning to disband your harem. But strange things keep happening. You go to Number One’s home for dinner, and he keeps complimenting your perfect skull, which makes you uncomfortable. The meat on the table has an oddly wonderful aroma. When you ask where it came from, he only says it’s the most tender part of a young deer. Lately, you keep feeling as if you’re being followed. When Number Two learns of your worries, he offers to escort you to and from work. You turn him down, but after work you notice that every surveillance camera along the road is pointed at you. While volunteering, Number Three gives you more cookies and asks you to open them and try one right there. As usual, you don’t eat any. In a daze, you accidentally give one to a child, who takes a single bite and then falls asleep with a smile on their face right in front of you. The news reports wanted notices and criminal investigations every day. It seems there are endless criminals to catch, yet no one around you ever talks about them. You feel that something is wrong, and finally remember to ask the System, "What was the name of the book I transmigrated into?" [It’s called Crime City.] A cold sweat breaks out all over you as you finally understand what’s been so strange. Stalkers, human traffickers, serial killers... It seems the Harem Magnet System is specifically attracting them. Every one of the people you’ve met is a criminal! And you’re their next target! You don’t want to become a victim. You have to escape their clutches, then make sure these damned criminals are brought to justice! Fortunately, you’re not alone. Your hot boyfriend has your back. He can’t possibly be a criminal, right? *This is a fictional setting. Please don’t associate it with real life. *Written in third person. *The story contains a mountain of author-created details. Please don’t scrutinize them. *The criminals will be brought to justice. *More to come if I think of anything. ---------Coming Soon------ "Becoming a Harem Magnet in a Cliché Rich-Family Novel" Ruan Ke transmigrates into an old-fashioned, melodramatic rich-family novel and becomes a cannon-fodder female supporting character. System: [If you want to live, you have to steal the spotlight. The more scenes you steal, the more lifespan you gain.] Ruan Ke looks at the ten-digit fortune in her account, then at her own reflection: fair skin, a pretty face, and long legs. She makes up her mind in an instant. Steal it! She absolutely has to steal the spotlight! * Ruan Ke’s first appearance in the novel is at her engagement party. Her fiancé will run away in the middle of the party, drawing every guest’s attention and humiliating her. Ruan Ke beats him to it and runs away with the male lead’s girlfriend! [Calculating... You received 50% of the scenes in this act and successfully stole 45%. Lifespan +45 days.] From then on, she’s mastered the art of stealing the spotlight. At the second male lead’s banquet to reconnect with his birth family, before the male lead can give his penniless younger brother a hard time, she shouts in front of everyone, "I’ll agree to the marriage alliance, but I want the younger brother, not the older one!" At the rich heir’s mountain racetrack, she steals all the attention from the third male lead and takes first place. She doesn’t even spare the other female supporting characters. Before they can bully the heroine, she locks the bathroom door and makes them wash ten pieces of clothing with the help of some handsome guys’ abs. After all that, Ruan Ke successfully steals enough scenes to extend her life, and manages to offend every named character in the entire book. Just as she’s planning to hide overseas and enjoy the carefree life of a rich woman, she discovers that the whole group has followed her. Male Lead: "We haven’t even called off our engagement. Why didn’t you invite me on your trip?" Second Male Lead: "You said I was better than my brother, sister-in-law. Why are you hiding now?" Third Male Lead: "Racing is exciting and all, but right now I just want to suffer for love." Heroine: "I’ve discovered a new business opportunity! Keke, here’s the business plan! Let’s build this up together and make it bigger and better!" Female Supporting Characters: "Boss! You went abroad on vacation without telling us!" Ruan Ke is surprised to discover that they seem to have all fallen in love with her! Theme: Punish the wicked and uphold public safety