After the Restricted-Content System Was Discovered by Its Nemesis

(The main story is complete. All bonus chapters will be available as reader perks, so feel free to request what you'd like.)

Regent Princess Shen Yunge died young. When she opened her eyes again, she had become the male protagonist of a melodramatic, adults-only cultivation novel.

Staring at the mosaic covering the screen, Shen Yunge's eyes widened. This can't be right, can it???

System: Complete all the adults-only missions with the other male protagonist, Qi Xiu, and your reward will be to rule the cultivation world. Otherwise, you'll explode and die, Host.

To stay alive, Shen Yunge disguised herself as a man and got close to Qi Xiu.

The missions always triggered at the most unexpected moments, and the System insisted on reading out every single word of the plot to her.

At a bustling auction, she had to listen to how to use a windowsill... In the dead of night, she had to listen to how to use a sword hilt... In full view of everyone, she had to listen to how to use invisibility...

Shen Yunge's face grew redder and redder, while the man's dark eyes before her grew ever more intense. She had no idea that he could hear every word the System said, loud and clear.

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Shen Yunge ran away, leaving a mission half-finished and a plate of drugged pastries behind. She fled without looking back.

Someone tell her, why was the handkerchief she'd used to tease her nemesis years ago, the one she'd tucked into his arms, in Qi Xiu's possession now? Aaaaaah!

Her nemesis was beautiful, with a slim waist, and she'd been lusting after him for ages... But she only wanted to toy with him, not have him toy with her mercilessly!!!

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Qi Xiu, the number one Sword Venerable of the Path of Ruthlessness, felt that something had been off about him lately. A voice in his mind kept speaking in fits and starts, always about his good friend Shen Yunge.

Pin her against the windowsill... Press the sword hilt against her... In front of everyone...

He had always been detached from worldly desires, but these words conjured up all kinds of steamy scenes in his mind. His Dao heart wavered, and his cultivation rose and fell as a result.

Whenever Shen Yunge came to see him, he would say coldly, "Fellow Daoist, please show some restraint," even as his wavering Dao heart caused his cultivation to keep declining.

He couldn't see the expectation hidden in his own eyes. Even with his Dao heart shattered, he kept pretending to cultivate the Path of Ruthlessness, until one day Shen Yunge left him...

[Bonus Scene]

In a dark room, a scorching body quietly pressed against Shen Yunge's back. The man's voice was low and husky. "I ate all the pastries you made. Please don't run away again, all right?"

Shen Yunge stayed silent, letting his hands roam over her body.

He kissed her earlobe. "If you don't answer, I'll punish you the way the System suggested..."

Shen Yunge kept a blank expression, while screaming in her heart: Could you at least remove my silencing spell and immobilizing spell first?!

A beauty-loving princess disguised as a man, duped by her nemesis, x a brooding, ghostly man pretending to follow the Path of Ruthlessness even though his Dao heart is shattered

[Content Warnings and Reading Guide]

1. The male lead initially thinks the female lead is his sworn brother. He only falls for her after seeing her dressed as a woman in the human realm. After returning to the cultivation world, he is very conflicted and constantly changes his mind. There are scenes where he dresses as a woman for love, so read with caution if that's a trigger for you!

2. This is a BG romance. The reason the female lead disguises herself as a man is explained later, but that would be a spoiler, so I won't go into it here. To be clear, the female lead wants to return to dressing as a woman and present herself as one. There is no plot where the male and female leads pretend to be men in a danmei romance. [But the author enjoys all kinds of fiction, and has danmei works in the works on their profile.]

3. The script the female lead is following is a fanfic about a male-disguised version of the female lead and the male lead, so the adults-only scenes in the original script are written from the perspective of two men. The System also has another identity. It isn't really a system.

4. One-on-one romance, both leads have no previous sexual experience. The female lead is a beauty lover and, at first, is only after the male lead's body.

Please add my upcoming novel to your favorites: Me! Ghost King! Make an Offering!

A Li is the last ghost in the world. Her ghostly powers are weak, and no one can see her. The worst thing she's ever done in her ghostly life was scare off three fake Taoist priests who had come to swindle money from a wealthy man's house.

One day, a fourth Taoist priest arrived at the wealthy man's house. He was fragrant and handsome.

A Li was captivated and followed the priest everywhere.

One day, they ran into each other around a corner, and the priest jumped in fright and cried out.

He could see her!

A Li was overjoyed and pretended to be fierce. "I, Ghost King, demand an offering."

For the sake of the fragrant Taoist priest, no, for the sake of his offerings, A Li followed him out of town. The ghost and human traveled together, fighting for justice (and pulling cons), and worked together like a dream team.

One day, while they were happily counting money, a powerful ghost suddenly appeared. As they fled, they both shouted at once.

A Li: "Aren't you a Taoist priest? Hurry up and exorcise him!!!"

Yuan Zhen: "Aren't you the Ghost King? Hurry up and destroy him!!!"

They looked at each other, then ran in opposite directions in perfect unison. That was the end of the human-ghost team.

More and more powerful ghosts returned to the world. As all the ghosts bowed in submission, A Li finally realized: So I really am the Ghost King!

The human world descended into chaos. A Li went to subdue the rebellious evil ghosts, only to spot a familiar figure beneath an exorcism formation. So he wasn't a fake Taoist priest after all!

They both wore the guilty expressions of people whose disguises had been exposed.

One day, later on...

A Li stubbornly insisted, "I always told you I was the Ghost King."

Yuan Zhen looked away. "I always told you I was a Taoist priest who catches ghosts."

A Li glared at him. "So are you going to catch me?"

Yuan Zhen blushed. "Your Majesty, the Ghost King, can take me away..."

A Li's eyes lit up. She carried him off that very night, leaving behind only a note.

The next day, a young Taoist from White Cloud Temple cried, "The sky is falling! A female ghost has stolen our incense! The abbot was stolen too, trying to protect it!"

Theme: Don't pay for other people's mistakes.