The Harem Favorite Who Was Widowed and Then Taken by Force

[Read the content warnings first.]

This person has realized that the 0 plot is just the depressing truth of being a bottom.

June 16: I've been getting chased down and tagged in backend notifications nonstop, there are dozens of them already ૮₍ ˊᯅˋ₎ა. This book is going on hiatus for now; I'll start the one next door after a while. Thanks for understanding.

As everyone knows, the leader of the Ninth District keeps an exceedingly beautiful, delicate rose under lock and key, guarding him like gold. Everyone mocks him for indulging in beauty instead of working to improve himself.

...Only he knows how delicate and captivating this rose is.

In the third year after the apocalypse began, among countless corpses, Qin Yu spotted the young man cowering and trembling in a corner at a glance.

He was filthy, with only a few scraps of clothing left. Curled into a ball and hiding there, he looked utterly frightened... just like a beautiful, pitiful stray cat abandoned by its owner.

On a whim, Qin Yu took him back.

He was surprised to find himself having such a burst of kindness. He had just begun to warn the young man to follow the base's rules when the trembling man fainted with a slap, overwhelmed by fear.

When he woke up, he couldn't even remember his own name.

But he clung to Qin Yu at every opportunity, letting him do whatever he wanted. No matter what Qin Yu did, it was fine. When it hurt too much or went too far, he wouldn't resist or say a word. He would only bite his lip and quietly shed tears.

When Qin Yu went out, he stayed obediently within the circle Qin Yu had drawn for him. When Qin Yu came back, he would eagerly cling to him, cooing and flirting. While Qin Yu worked, he wouldn't go anywhere, obediently kneeling over the man's lap to keep his hands busy.

He was delicate, beautiful, pitiful, and weak, yet so meek and well-behaved it was unbelievable.

...And he only acknowledged Qin Yu.

Having lost all memory of his past, he belonged to Qin Yu alone, completely... a precious treasure.

It was almost everything a man could secretly and shamefully fantasize about.

Just as it was inevitable that Eve would be tempted by the serpent to pluck the fruit of desire, and that a line cast out would eventually circle back to its starting point, no one could resist such a tailor-made temptation.

No one.

So Qin Yu told Tan Jin that they were lovers who had been in love for years, and that he was Tan Jin's last source of support in the world.

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But one day, Qin Yu died.

After his death, the rose he had carefully raised was trapped and reduced to a pitiful little thing constantly preyed upon by others. The beautiful man, widowed, could only weep as he passed from one person's hands to another.

This was actually to be expected. There had already been warning signs when Tan Jin's breathtakingly beautiful face was exposed to everyone, while he had no way to protect himself.

When a delicate rose suddenly loses the dragon that guarded it, and hasn't yet had the chance to grow enough thorns to protect itself, how could it... not attract covetous eyes?

But no one could have guessed... that the first to make a move would be Qin Yu's sworn friend, the man who had shared life and death with him.

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A pack of simps & a pitiful, secretly calculating, everyone-loves-him type (take note)

1. Written for my own tastes. Temporarily one-on-one, with romance involving lots of people. A pitiful, delicate white-lotus beauty, afflicted with the darling-wife condition from time to time, forever being forced into unwanted relationships, a scheming long-haired beauty (..)

2. Cannon-fodder simps everywhere; flowers, birds, insects, and fish all love the bottom. There's a plot and a career storyline, but it's wall-to-wall melodrama, coercion, dark and twisted stuff, feminization, my take on the apocalypse, my take on the wasteland, and a crematorium arc.

3. I've already bolded and underlined this: [A LOT OF FOCUS ON THE BOTTOM, TO THE DEATH]. The flavor is very much that sort of thing. I'm writing this for myself, and the warnings are already here. If you click in and still get upset, that's not my responsibility.

4. Some characters with romantic storylines will be real bastards at first =W= (Though I think the romance is actually pretty sweet (*?????)?*.?

5. You can tell from the blurb that there'll be a lot of people getting involved, right? I feel like I don't need to warn you about that.

Theme: Climb ever higher