[An explicit novel gets a makeover, with a reverse harem and reader-voted love interests]
You vote, I vote, let's help your favorite top make his debut!
[Ding! Welcome to the Makeover Universe. I'm System 69, and I'm delighted to serve you.]
[This System is an explicit-novel makeover System. You must turn a plot full of high-speed sex scenes into a clean romance in the Green River style. Once the harmony rating reaches 100%, the Host will have a chance to be reborn.]
[Please check your mission.]
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Yu Leyang was a recent graduate and a wage slave: a hardcore pretty-boy enthusiast and CP shipper who practically lived in the Flower Market. One night, he died after staying up late reading, at the age of 22.
Bad news: He died young. o.O
Good news: A plot makeover could save him. ^^
The novel he had to overhaul was an explicit novel he had just started reading before bed. Its male lead wore the guise of a pure-love seme from Green River, while doing things that would make anyone blush.
Song Ran, a passionate younger puppy, a diamond-grade high school hottie. Others switch positions for love; he gets a pearl implanted for love.
Lu Huai, both a gloomy green-tea schemer and a calculating cold fish. His "24" shows before his fox tail does.
Feng Che, a cool, aloof flower of purity. He never lets go of his prayer beads during the day, and at night he never takes them out of his... mouth.
Qin Xiao, an older daddy with maxed-out possessiveness. Baby arms come standard.
"24"? Baby arms? A guy with an implanted pearl? What the heck?
Yu Leyang went online in a daze to look it up, then put down his phone with a complicated expression.
This is ridiculous, totally ridiculous. Change it! This plot needs a complete makeover!
Yu Leyang: I'm the novel's author, so I have to cut all the explicit scenes and rewrite it in the Green River style?
System 69: Sorry, no.
Yu Leyang: Got it! I'm one of the male leads, and I have to stand out and claim the protagonist uke for myself?
69: Sorry, that's not it either.
Yu Leyang: Then...
69: Sorry, please take another careful look at your mission.
Yu Leyang: !!!
69: That's right, you're the protagonist uke with the same name as the Host in the novel.
Yu Leyang: ...
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To be reborn, Yu Leyang had no choice but to obediently complete his missions and follow the plot. Except...
Yu Leyang: System, this can't be right.
69: What can't be right, dear?
Yu Leyang: You said that when the mission meter hit a certain value, you'd reveal the corresponding plot points from the original novel.
69: That's right, dear.
Yu Leyang: But the plot has already gone completely off the rails, damn it!
69: Heehee. ^^
It wouldn't tell the Host that if he fell for any of the male leads, reaching 100% harmony would be impossible.
#Bonus Scene#
After learning the plot had gone completely off course, Yu Leyang broke down and gave up: Why does it have to be one-on-one? Why can't I have them all?
69: Host has used a prohibited word. System has given up.
Yu Leyang: ??? Maybe we shouldn't save him after all!
Theme: When you can't make up your mind.