One day, walking home, Jiao Bai passed a little bookshop, veered in on impulse, and the owner — beaming with fatherly affection — recommended him a fresh batch of stock, all of it BL manga.

He headed home in high spirits, only to be sent flying by a car at the junction right outside his door. When he opened his eyes, he was inside a bad-ending, scum-gong/shameless-shou BL manga.

Heh. Heh. Heh.

Hands folded across his stomach, face serene, Jiao Bai lay on a big white bed — he'd transmigrated into one of the candidates to be that scum gong's... little stepmother.

Oh, and by the way: the manga's protagonist, the shameless shou, is the "white moonlight" of the very character Jiao Bai has landed in.

Right now, the person scrubbing away in the bathroom is an old friend of the scum gong's father, and next door is the little spitfire belonging to the scum gong's father and the old friend.

Don't ask. If you ask, the answer is: true-love warning.

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Little stray pup VS old lecher

—— The road to your heart is the road to the crematorium.

Heads-up (mine-clearing):

HE (happy ending) | 1V1 (monogamous) | primarily the shou's POV

Shou is 19 | Gong is 33 | fourteen-year age gap | the gong doesn't feature much early on | the real romance kicks in from the middle chapters onward

The author's logic is dead | a brainless read | old-school melodrama vibes | wholly fictional/AU setting | the characters' values don't represent the author's | flaming the author will give you baldness

The shou has universal-heartthrob tendencies | I'm cooking my own meal and flying free with it | if it's not to your taste, do feel free to click the X | may the world know peace