The Blood Clan's Ice-Cold Beauty Is Doted on by a Bking General

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An outwardly cheerful, sunny, needy, fussy little beauty x a stern, ruthless old patriarch who becomes humble for love

[Alternate Republic-era setting]

Shen Jun is a minor actor, a professional at playing the dead first love and the beautiful cannon-fodder male supporting character at film studios.

It's bad enough that he spends all day playing cannon fodder and corpses on set.

After dying in an accident on set, he somehow transmigrates into the cannon-fodder male supporting character he played!

Orphaned, bullied, suffering from a serious illness and barely clinging to life, he's destined to die after serving as a stepping stone for someone else.

But lying flat and waiting to die is out of the question.

To change his fate, he rushes straight to the strongest warlord protagonist in the story and claims they're family!

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Huo Xiao is a powerful warlord who controls the north. He wields immense power and enjoys a fearsome reputation, a bona fide cold-blooded man.

Rumor has it he's been divorced for years, keeps away from women, and has few family ties.

To purge the power structure beneath him, he spreads a false announcement:

He is searching for his long-lost child.

As it happens, Shen Jun comes into his sights.

Huo Xiao gives him fine clothes and food, and hands over most of his estate just to make him happy.

But after all that pampering, Shen Jun abandons everything Huo Xiao gave him and runs away.

Later, with Shen Jun pinned beneath layers of bedding, Huo Xiao watches his frail body tremble as he cries until his cheekbones turn red.

"Baby, what are you thinking about?"

Shen Jun's eyes brim with tears. "I hate fake scripts! Production company, give me back the money I earned with my blood and sweat!"

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Everyone knows the child Commander Huo brought home is a fake.

Once in charge of most of the Huo family's estate and living in splendor, he is exposed, flees, gets caught, and is secretly executed.

Until one day, a car pulls up at the bank.

After being out of the public eye for a long time, Shen Jun reappears and takes over all of the Huo family's businesses.

[Bonus scene:]

The car stops in the courtyard of the bank, and the servants wait quietly.

They hear a man softly coaxing someone awake, followed by a cute little grunt.

Huo Xiao bends down and kisses Shen Jun on the cheek. Shen Jun gives him a loud slap, and all the servants break into a cold sweat.

But the man is not angry in the slightest.

"Baby, you smell so good."

Shen Jun raises his hand to slap him again. "Shameless jerk!"

The man calmly catches his wrist. "Does your butt not hurt anymore?"

Shen Jun shudders on reflex, then kicks him. "Get lost, you old man!"

Reader's guide:

1. The setting is an alternate Republic-era China. Neither the characters nor the plot is based on real people or events. It is entirely fictional.

2. Happy ending, with a groveling-chase arc

3. The top and bottom are not related by blood in any way. Both are virgins; the top has been married before but is still a virgin.

4. Older top, with an 18-year age gap

Here is the blurb for this novel:

A righteous, super-confident, top-tier stray-dog general x an extraordinarily beautiful, strong yet tragic, picky and pampered flirtatious vampire

Song Yun is the sole untouchable beauty of the research institute in the apocalypse. With his pride in his own talent and his contempt for everyone around him, he treats all people with equal coldness.

In reality, he is a vampire who can smell the foul stench in human blood.

To save his mentor, Song Yun puts himself in danger. His powers run dry, and he has nowhere left to turn.

In the end, he sinks his teeth into the neck of the base's top leader.

This man's blood is insanely sweet!

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Huo Yuan is the highest-ranking leader in the military. Upright and iron-fisted, he can't tolerate even a speck of dust in his eye and makes a point of putting every troublemaker in their place.

He has no room in his heart for romance, only a love of work. In private, people call him a nuclear-powered stray dog.

But behind closed doors, Song Yun's romantic escapades repeatedly send him into fits of rage, confusion, and pain, leaving him to stew in his own bitterness.

When he bites me in my dreams, he's so...

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When Song Yun bites Huo Yuan's neck in front of everyone, the crowd is horrified. As the saying goes, you shouldn't touch a tiger's backside. Even if you're everyone's favorite, you can't, or at least shouldn't...

But Huo Yuan lowers his head and says, "You promised me a reward. You have to give it to me."

Both are virgins, and neither has ever loved any carbon-based life-form before meeting the other. Happy ending.

Check the tags to see if it's your thing:

* The bottom is universally adored, and side characters don't get paired off just to even things out.

* The only double-sided arrow is between the top and bottom. No switching or breaking them up.

* The top dotes on the bottom.

Theme: Be bold in claiming what you want, cherish it while you have it, and accept its loss with grace.