The Cheat System for the Dragon-Aotian Hero

Coming soon: Lost My Memory After Being Forced to Marry My Ex-Husband's Older Brother. Blurb at the very bottom.

Li Xiaoxiao, a corporate drone laid off as expendable dead weight,

became the cheat-code System for the male lead of a political intrigue novel, and kept grinding away as an employee.

The male lead, Dugu Wei, was the standard overpowered hero: exceptionally strong, strikingly handsome, and arrogant to a fault. He also had something no one else did, something powerful enough to shake the entire dynasty!

That something was Li Xiaoxiao, his System.

She was his external brain.

Dugu Wei: “What do I do if the Third Prince slanders me?”

Li Xiaoxiao: “Boss, I never studied this in college.”

She was his ultimate weapon.

Dugu Wei: “Quick, go wipe out the pirates!”

Li Xiaoxiao: “Boss, I have an ingrown toenail.”

She was his precision stopwatch.

Dugu Wei: “Do you like me or not...?”

Li Xiaoxiao: “Boss, I really need to clock out.”

As an office slacker, Li Xiaoxiao made full use of her talents by being completely useless, lying flat and letting people mock her.

But Dugu Wei insisted on keeping her around. Even after she died unexpectedly, he still couldn't let her go.

Dugu Wei took her corpse and seized military power, won the people's support, and eventually ascended the throne.

At the moment he was crowned, the last trace of Li Xiaoxiao's consciousness vanished, and she returned to the real world.

Eight years later, she returned to the book, this time as a stone.

Dugu Wei dug her out of the ground.

He had changed. He was still gentle and considerate toward her, but there was no longer a hint of laughter in his eyes, and he looked like a living skeleton.

Ministers, palace maids, and eunuchs all said he recognized no family, used ruthless methods, and was obsessed with witchcraft. He was a downright tyrant, and everyone hoped he would die soon.

But clearly, what he had wanted back then was to be a wise ruler who served his country and people. Li Xiaoxiao realized his ideals had vanished, but she didn't know what had caused it all.

Dugu Wei took her to court and shared his bed with her, often pouring out his feelings to her in the lonely hours of the night.

The ministers all said the emperor had gone mad.

“Whatever I desire, I will do and obtain. If any minister harbors resentment or dares to criticize me and my beloved consort, I will cut out his tongue as a warning to the rest.”

He protected her so fiercely that he raised her to the position of empress, where she was revered by all.

At last, they could be together openly and legitimately.

Dugu Wei resented her and hated her, yet he couldn't stop loving her.

For her, he would gladly pay any price, as long as he could keep her by his side, as long as she was still willing to speak to him... He only wanted a little in return. He simply couldn't bear to be consumed by longing and resentment any longer.

So he held her tight, desperate to keep her captive.

But she was only a gravestone.

Why keep spending his life beside the grave of his dead wife?

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*A corporate drone with an unmistakable air of death from beginning to end x a sunny, cheerful, overpowered hero who twists into a resentful, toxic ex-husband for love.

Both are each other's first and only partners. A very abstract, slightly dark, sweet romance. Happy ending.

The female lead has no physical body at first, becomes human in the middle, turns into a stone in the later part, and then becomes human again... At first, she's older than him: she's 24 and he's 21. Later, she's older than him again: she's 25 and he's 29.

Neither a female-led nor a male-led story. The plot is just seasoning for the romance. Neither lead is a good person, and they both have their flaws.

Zhen Yi and Yu Jiayu, the second son from the neighboring manor, grew up together. When they reached marriageable age, their feelings had developed naturally, and they got married.

After their wedding, Jiayu was gentle and attentive, always caring for and protecting her. They had been married for seven years and had children together, a son and a daughter.

The only odd thing was his possessiveness and need for control in certain situations. He seemed to want to devour her whole.

But surely she knew her husband's character. He was so kind that he wouldn't even step on an ant.

Since marrying her, he had helped many people. He had even brought home a disabled mute boy he found on the road, and they cared for him together as if he were their own.

Compared with his brother Yu Huaijin, who recognized no family and was vicious to the core, Jiayu was as different as heaven and earth!

Perhaps she was imagining it... Zhen Yi tried to convince herself.

Until she found a finger bone in Yu Jiayu's study.

She recognized it. When Yu Jiayu was young, he had injured his little finger for her, and his finger bone was shorter than other people's.

But just last night, he'd used that shortened little finger to slip between her teeth and tongue...

How could the injured part be exactly the same?

That night, while Yu Jiayu was bathing, she took a tattered book from beneath his pillow. Opening it, she found more than ten densely written pages in a handwriting she didn't recognize.

“She climbed through the window again to see him. Who knows what those two sneak off to do every day. For all we know, they're having an affair.

Disgusting...”

“He told Father he wanted to marry her, and Father actually agreed. He said he'd go to propose tomorrow.

That bastard Father actually allowed his bastard younger brother to marry the daughter of his enemy... The old beast. Has he forgotten how Mother died? A nest of snakes and rats.”

“Good, let her marry into the family. I'll kill her within a month.”

“She got drunk and mistook me for him. She held me for a long time.

She stank of wine all over me. Disgusting. I have to burn these clothes.”

“Do I really look so much like him? Other than both being men, what do we have in common? Next time she says that, I should kick her out.

But tonight... I knew she wasn't faithful to him. Their relationship isn't all that strong, after all. So the person she cheats with can be anyone, can it? It was me tonight, and it could be some other man tomorrow.”

“She said she got drunk again last night and accidentally mistook me for her husband.

...I'll just treat anything she says like a fart. Clothes don't fall off on their own. She knows perfectly well whether it was an accident or on purpose.”

“She and he moved out of the manor. Before leaving, she came to see me and begged me to forget what happened that night and not tell him. She said she was so sorry to him, and to me too.

...”

“She keeps saying she's sorry to him. Then I'll just kill him.”

“I thought he looked so much like me, but that mediocre trash could never compare to me.

Yet she likes ordinary men like him.

Imitating him is hard, and I don't look like him either. Luckily, she's an idiot. She didn't figure it out even after three years of marriage...”

Didn't figure out what?

Zhen Yi was furious. She turned to the next page, where a few elegant characters caught her eye.

“Yiyi, that little mute slave who's always by your side is your husband.”

*The female lead has previous sexual experience, the male lead does not. The female lead loves her ex-husband and has no romantic feelings for the male lead. The male lead speaks very harshly.

Theme: True growth isn't about shining alone. It's about learning to accept, understand, and bravely love through each other's companionship.