"A two-faced, self-serving, beautiful top x a seemingly innocent but secretly cunning, reborn bottom"
As a transmigrator who has "self-interest above all" encoded in his DNA, Lin Yuan has never lacked ambition or cunning.
Transmigrated by accident, with no foundation? Then he would climb the ladder of power and change his identity.
In three months, he went from the slums to the Alliance's highest halls of power.
Lin Yuan smiled elegantly. The only thing left between him and the top was one last stepping stone: finding himself a powerful patron.
He thought his chance would come later, but then he discovered that the beauty he'd picked out as a little diversion was the Lu family's eldest heir.
Lin Yuan set about creating a chance encounter, only to discover Lu Cheng's secret by accident.
"The perfect heir to the Lu family actually tried to murder an Alliance major general, his own younger brother?"
Lin Yuan's plan was flawless:
He was an adult, after all. Naturally, he wanted both power and a beauty.
He would claim the upper echelons of the tower and all the resources of a prominent family, while thoroughly enjoying the beauty's charms as well.
In the narrow control room, Lin Yuan smiled meaningfully. He brushed his fingertips over the other's angry, reddened eyes, gripped his waist, and pressed between his knees. Then he whispered in Lu Cheng's ear:
"Please me if you want me to keep your secret."
The Lu family's cold, perfect heir suddenly has a fiancé from humble beginnings!
With a deadly secret in hand, Lin Yuan leans on the Lu family as he climbs ever higher. He also indulges his personal tastes, freely enjoying all the privileges of being a fiancé:
In public, he plays the perfect partner. In private, he assigns Lu Cheng one humiliating task after another, watching him sink into his grasp and weep.
In a busy office, in the solemn hall of a prominent family, beneath the curtains at a glittering banquet,
The beauty bites his lip, his legs trembling, leaving a trail of mess wherever he goes.
Lin Yuan smiles tenderly, enjoying everything. But as he watches the man before him tremble with restrained emotion, he gradually realizes that he can no longer control his own heart.
When everything is finally settled, Lin Yuan feels what little conscience he has left and decides to let Lu Cheng go, and himself with him.
But the man kneeling before him raises his deep-set eyes, crushes his gold-rimmed glasses in one hand, straddles Lin Yuan, and pins him back into the command chair.
"You're only thinking of letting go now? Too late, Lin Yuan. You were the one who insisted on stepping into my trap and turning my body into this. Don't think you can run away alone!"
Note:
1. The blurb may be revised, but the core premise will stay the same. (First version: April 1, 2025; revised version: April 28, 2026.)
2. This shares a setting with the author's other two Sentinel-Guide novels.
Theme: It's never too late to become a better person.
