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[When a Thug Meets a Dapper Rogue]
Zhong Tingming: Do you know I like you?
Zhou Wenxi: I like you too.
1.
Zhou Wenxi is a tough, cocky, and impossibly cool... barbecue-skewer boss. Every day, he keeps the neighborhood peaceful and puts the local punks who collect protection money in their place. He's the undisputed boss of the poor district.
By accident, he transmigrates into a novel set in 1980s Hong Kong, an ABO story where the top chases his lover until he hits rock bottom. He's given the body of a delicate-looking omega...
"Damn it, why do I smell weird?" the barbecue boss Zhou Wenxi complains.
System: [That's called pheromones, dear.]
In the novel, he's a sweet, fragile little omega, the posthumous child of a former big shot in Hong Kong's underworld, and the young bride raised to marry the eldest son of the Yin family. Every day, he's bullied by the mean, tea-obsessed young master the Yin family adopted, who drives a wedge between him and the protagonist seme. The misunderstandings leave him miserable, and only much later does the protagonist seme realize his mistake and chase after him in a desperate bid to win him back.
The System's mission is to turn this chase-and-regret story into a new-attack story. So his task is to seduce Zhong Tingming, a rising Hong Kong power broker with connections to both the lawful and criminal worlds.
"What the hell kind of pathetic character is this?!" the barbecue boss explodes.
System: "Dear, if you don't want to accept the mission, you can activate the total bodily destruction program to exit."
There was nothing for it. He'd have to follow the script...
And so the scene changed: the evil, tea-obsessed cannon-fodder was tied up and thrown on the ground, a toy gun pressed to the back of his head. Zhou Wenxi had a cigarette between his lips. "You think I can't deal with you, punk?"
System: "Stay in character."
So when the protagonist seme hurried over, he saw the tea-loving cannon fodder sprawled on the floor, passed out in terror, with a little bit of an unburned cigarette dangling from his mouth.
Zhou Wenxi twisted his fingers coyly. "He was smoking and choked on the smoke until he passed out..."
After the protagonist seme left, Zhong Tingming gently drew him close and leaned toward his lips...
"Red Double Happiness?"
?
After learning the very essence of being a tea-loving schemer from the System, Zhou Wenxi not only won himself a whole gang of underlings, he also flirted with practically every man around him.
But Zhong Tingming was a rock-hard blockhead he just couldn't charm.
With the mission racing toward game over, Zhou Wenxi gritted his teeth and decided to give up pretending. He threw on a suit and slicked his hair back with pomade. "That's it, I can't keep this up. Leave it to me. I'll do things my way."
System: [Facepalm and sigh.]
Zhou Wenxi let his true nature out. He and Zhong Tingming set off together, became sworn brothers, made a name for themselves in Hong Kong, and fought their enemies side by side. They were one step away from a blood oath.
System: [I've unilaterally decided to end your mission ear, ]
Wait, why was Zhong Tingming looking at him with such growing intensity?
Theme: Work hard and strive for success
