Lu Zhiheng recently discovered that his husband, who had narrowly escaped death, had changed.
His husband, Meng Yuanzhou, once cherished him above all else. Now, while Lu Zhiheng lay gravely ill in bed, Meng was openly and secretly seizing his family fortune. He not only spent night after night carousing in brothels, but even planned to bring a courtesan into their home.
Everyone said Meng Yuanzhou had always been an ambitious wolf, and now his true colors had finally shown.
Only Lu Zhiheng kept testing him, certain that something had taken over Meng Yuanzhou's body.
Unable to bear seeing his beloved become unrecognizable, one night he sharpened a blade and broke into Meng's bedroom.
The instant the blade pierced “Meng Yuanzhou,” a strange voice exploded in Lu Zhiheng's mind:
“Warning! NPC Lu Zhiheng has gone out of control. Protagonist Meng Yuanzhou confirmed dead. World collapsing and resetting!”
It turned out that the world he lived in was a book.
“Meng Yuanzhou” was the book's undisputed protagonist, while Lu Zhiheng was merely a stepping stone on his overpowered husband's road to success: a cannon-fodder husband who spent his entire fortune supporting his husband's ambitions, only to be used up, cast aside, and driven to despair and suicide.
Lu Zhiheng glanced lightly at his hands, stained with his husband's blood. Me, despair and suicide? How interesting.
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When Meng Yuanzhou was young, he set his heart on Lu Zhiheng at first sight. After more than a decade of dogged pursuit, he finally won his beloved's hand.
But soon after their wedding, he encountered bandits on the road and was gravely wounded, on the brink of death. An outsider's soul took over his body.
That impostor not only used his body to do all manner of outrageous things, but even cursed that his wife would take his own life and die on a rainy night after being cast off by “him.”
Furious beyond words, Meng Yuanzhou fought back countless times, trying to reclaim his body and stop Lu Zhiheng from meeting a tragic end.
But that day came all the same.
Meng Yuanzhou watched helplessly as “he” brought a courtesan before Lu Zhiheng, then arrogantly declared that he was divorcing him.
Nothing wounds more than a heart that has given up. His little Heng'er merely replied with a quiet, “Fine.”
Meng Yuanzhou gritted his teeth. “Fine, my ass!”
He had fought tooth and nail to marry his wife. Even the Emperor himself couldn't tear them apart!
Meng Yuanzhou risked having his soul shattered to seize control of his body. But when he opened his eyes, he saw his beautiful, delicate wife, who couldn't manage a thing on his own, holding a knife to his throat, his gaze icy.
What a moving reunion after all this time.
A smile so bright it was almost deranged spread across Meng Yuanzhou's lips. “Wow, darling, are you going to kill your husband?”
He took Lu Zhiheng's hand and, leaving no room for refusal, guided the blade to pierce his own flesh. “Don't tire yourself out. I'll help you.”
A rakish, brazen, flirtatious, devoted husband who loves showing off for his wife and agrees with everything he says, the overpowered hero type, seme X a cool, self-possessed beauty who knows he's gorgeous, an extreme emotional-purity obsessive, and a deranged widower uke
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A story about a deranged couple joining forces to fight an outside Host. The seme and uke are absolutely in love!
The Host is the Host, and the seme is the seme. The seme has nothing to do with the Host's outrageous actions, so please keep them separate in your mind! Later on, the seme will leave the body, and he and the Host will be separate individuals.
No cheating, no cheating, no cheating!!!
An alternate modern setting, with lots of original worldbuilding. Don't overthink the details.
Synopsis written on 2025.05.19
Theme: Live as your true self
