The Unlucky Widower Keeps Getting Time-Stopped

Lu Zhiyu is fiercely jealous and vain. After his reputation is ruined, he marries a man just to stay alive. His husband is a sickly invalid in a wheelchair, and all Lu Zhiyu has to do is wait for him to die so he can inherit a fortune. But after his husband dies, Lu Zhiyu discovers that the fool was drowning in debt. On the day of the funeral, the chapel is packed with creditors, all men in sharp suits with an air of distinction. Lu Zhiyu looks at these powerful men in utter despair. Luckily, the next day he gets a golden finger. [Ding! The Widower System is online!] [Every Friday, a man will enter the Host's bedroom.] [During this time, the Host will fall unconscious and be unable to move, but will remain aware of their surroundings.] [The next day, if the Host identifies the man who entered the bedroom, they can plunder 50% of his resources.] At first, Lu Zhiyu suspects his ex-boyfriend. On the surface, the man is a creditor who keeps shouting that he'll get revenge, but he also has designs on Lu Zhiyu. Later, Lu Zhiyu suspects his late husband's former boss. He seems cold and abstinent, but secretly collects Lu Zhiyu's clothes. Then, Lu Zhiyu suspects his late husband's classmate, who keeps using the excuse of looking after his friend's wife to stay at the house and refuses to leave. Eventually, Lu Zhiyu realizes that everyone around him is suspicious. It seems they've all been in his room. Who could it be? * Lots of men have secret crushes on Lu Zhiyu, but he's hot-tempered, petty, and straight. Luckily, these men have all gained the ability to stop time. Every Friday, one of them can use this ability on Lu Zhiyu. But if Lu Zhiyu catches them, they'll lose their time-stopping ability, so the men do their best to disguise themselves and hide their feelings. Who will get caught first? Reading Guide 1. A vicious, straight male lead with extreme jealousy. 2. All the love interests are virgins. Everyone has moral flaws, and they hurt one another. 3. This is a fictional setting with fantasy elements, purely for melodramatic fun. Please don't overthink it. ---Coming Soon: After a Straight Guy Becomes the Beloved Wife of a Dragon-Rising Protagonist--- Zhou Fan's startup failed, and he gave up and lazed around at home. He'd never even had a girlfriend, and it was making him miserable. He believed all those toxic motivational posts online. He had just set "If you want to become a general's wife, you have to marry him while he's still a low-ranking soldier" as his social media background when, the next second, he transmigrated into a book as a useless nobody. [Ding! Congratulations, Host, you've been bound to the Beloved Wife System!] [The Host has to suffer alongside his husband to get the big payoff!] After hearing that, Zhou Fan saw a young man with a high ponytail approaching. The young man was Xie Buchen, a textbook dragon-rising protagonist. He was being bullied now, but would rise to great heights in the future. This was the perfect powerhouse to cling to! Zhou Fan immediately rushed over, wanting to shout, "Bro!" But he was zapped and blurted out, "Husband!" What the hell? [Host, you're supposed to marry Xie Buchen. Watch what you say.] * Zhou Fan discovers that the Beloved Wife System is ridiculous. Even when Xie Buchen hates him, he still has to shamelessly stick close. Xie Buchen: "Get lost!" Zhou Fan wants to curse him out, but the System zaps him. All he can do is turn red-eyed and whimper, "Then I'll stay far away and won't bother you, Husband." [Host, you're a beloved wife. You can't be mean to your husband. Be gentle.] * Worst of all, later the Beloved Wife System makes him get pregnant. Xie Buchen holds him and murmurs, "Xiao Fan, you need to have a few more children for me so we can restore the Xie clan." Zhou Fan wants to tell him he's crazy, but gets zapped again. Blushing shyly, he says, "Th-then, Husband, come a few more times. I'll do my best to get pregnant." [Host, bearing children is a beloved wife's most important duty.] * Even when he's sick of how slowly Xie Buchen is leveling up and wants to find some other big shot to cling to, That bastard System punishes him with lovesickness. If he doesn't get a kiss from his husband every day, he'll grow weak and die. [Host, if you want to become the Sword Sovereign's wife, you have to marry him while he's still a junior disciple!] Later, Zhou Fan, with his belly swollen, cries out in anguish: Toxic motivational posts are so harmful! Xie Buchen was born into a prestigious cultivation clan, but his mother wanted him to take a useless nobody as his cultivation partner. It was bad enough that the useless one was a man. He was all skinny arms and legs, couldn't even swing a sword, and was always pestering him by calling him "Husband." So annoying! Later, when the Xie clan was wiped out, the useless one refused to leave and insisted on following him, looking pitiful. He thought he would despise this cultivation partner for the rest of his life. But when his partner wanted to leave, he panicked. He simply forced him to stay by his side and got him pregnant, so he couldn't go anywhere. ---Coming Soon: The Fan-Favorite Pope in an Infinite-Flow World--- Weilan was a pope in a Western fantasy world, but suddenly found himself inside a horror game, where he had to match wits with characters from various worlds. [Host, your golden finger is the Pope's Aura.] [Once their favorability reaches 90+, you can make them your followers.] [Followers can do anything for you, so be sure to maintain your relationships.] Preaching in this new world is a little difficult, but luckily Weilan is eloquent and handsome, easily driving men wild with infatuation. But maintaining relationships is way too hard! If he takes on too many followers, they'll get jealous of each other, which could destabilize the church. Even worse, followers need rewards before they'll do anything. Level One Reward: Listen to the pope's praise. Level Two Reward: Kneel and kiss the back of the pope's hand. Level Three Reward: Kiss the pope passionately. Level Four Reward: ... Weilan finds it troublesome, but to stay alive, he still has to do his best to be a good pope. [World One: The Divine Court Where Brothers Turn Against Each Other] [World Two: The Shared Mother Who Gives Birth to Warriors] Theme: Perseverance leads to victory.