There Will Always Be Protagonists With Delusions of Starting a Harem

After swallowing the grapes stuck in his throat, Ye Zhizhou quickly opened the system information. He let out a relieved sigh after seeing that the plot didn’t change, got up and then ran towards the study.

“Tingwei!” Ye Zhizhou pushed the study door open and discovered that Kang Run was also there. His eyes flashed before he gave a smile and asked, “Kang Run, why did you suddenly come back? Were you not just arrested and taken away by the Ministry of Justice to be a thug?” Initially, after Shen Tingwei finished with him, Kang Run was directly thrown into prison. Two months later, Kang Run asked to be enlisted in his army. Shen Tingwei gave him a chance and now, Kang Run is a soldier funded by the government, under the supervision of Shen Tingwei.

“Madam.” Kang Run politely saluted him and responded respectfully, “The task has been completed. At the moment, this servant came to see the general to discuss the matter of my transfer to the general’s troops.”

“You want to join Tingwei's troops?” Ye Zhizhou was surprised and then smiled. He passed the bunch of grapes he was holding to Kang Run and said, “Then, congratulations. These grapes are produced by the Shen family, they’re very sweet. Try some.”

Kang Run hesitated for a moment and then reached to take it.

When Ye Zhizhou saw him take the grapes, he turned his head to look at Shen Tingwei, who came up to him and said with a happy face, “The play in the garden is very lively. Grandmother has been clamoring for you to keep her company. Since you’re done with your business, you should go quickly.”

Shin Tingwei frowned, took his hand and kneaded it. He asked softly, “Are you not coming?”

“I’m going to pick some more grapes.” Ye Zhizhou took his hand back and then clapped them together. “The grapes at home are really good. You can go call a few guards to help me pick them. Their hands and feet are more nimble than the maids.”

“Whatever you want.” Shen Tingwei nodded and glanced at Kang Run on the side. “If you have no other matters, we can go watch the play together. The recent plays by the Chunxiu Garden troupe are very good. You can rest assured that the men’s seats are separated from the women’s seats. It’s also a large garden.”

Kang Run’s obediently agreed, showing no trace of the once difficult trained assassin.

The three men separated at the entrance. Ye Zhizhou watched them walk far away before looking at the guards that came over in succession. He waved his hand, “Let’s go. We’re going to the small flower garden to pick some grapes.”

“But…” The lead guard's expression twisted a bit and he whispered, “But there are no grapes in the small flower garden.”

“There is one,” he grinned and laughed. His spiritual power floated around him cheerfully. “There’s a grape that’s been growing secretly for half a year, it’s about time to pick it.”

On the other side, in the big garden, Shen Tingwei sat down with Kang Run. After the servant finished pouring some tea, he glanced at the grapes that Kang Run put down on the table and let out a rare laugh. “The grapes that Mingming said were sweet must be very good. Give it a taste. Speaking of that, I haven’t tasted the grapes this time,” when he finished saying this, he plucked one and ate it first.

Kang Run took the opportunity to also take a grape and place it in his mouth after seeing Shen Tingwei do it. The grape was the type that was large and purple with sweet flesh, lots of juice and was really delicious. After he swallowed one, he realized that the flavor was good and couldn’t help picking another one repeatedly. In less than half an hour, all the grapes were eaten by him. He was a bit surprised at his gluttony. Halfway through the play, he got up and asked for permission to relieve himself. Shen Tingwei nodded, half distracted, seemingly too focused on watching the play.

Behind the stage, a dainty looking theatre handyman lifted his head, glancing from the corner of his eye at the direction that Kang Run went to and quietly followed.

Ye Zhizhou’s spiritual power net perceived Kang Run’s approach. He took the basket from the guard’s hand and said with a laugh, “Okay, you guys can keep yourself busy. I’ll take the grape to the stage area myself.”

The guards complied and turned around to go their respective ways.

Ye Zhizhou carried the basket, walking alone in the direction of the big garden, looking very relaxed.

100 meters, 50 meters, 20 meters, ten meters… He stumbled suddenly and then vexedly lowered his basket and stooped down to tidy up a long piece of clothing. Another tiny and somewhat familiar presence abruptly intruded his spiritual net. Satisfied, he put down his clothes, picked up the basket and continued to walk forward.

Ten meters were quickly traversed and the silence was broken by the sound of a concealed weapon flying through the air. Ye Zhizhou looked sideways without dodging or escaping. “You’ve been working for the government for half a year Kang Run, why do you still have such heavy killing intent surrounding your body?”

The concealed weapon was blocked by the guards that suddenly rushed out and a scream was heard in the distance, followed by the sound of the approaching guards’ dense footsteps. Kang Run, who was hiding behind the flower shrubs was shocked and turned to run, but was stopped by Shen Tingwei who had snuck behind him. Suddenly, his limbs became weak and his heart sank. He raised his head to look up at Shen Tingwei and said, “Did you poison me?”

Ye Zhizhou laid his basket down and went over. When he heard the words, he laughed, “You’ve wrongly accused Tingwei, I’m the one who poisoned you. How were the grapes? Delicious?”

“You guys have been playing me?” Kang Run, who at this moment didn’t understand, completely tore apart his disguise over the past 6 months and roared, “You guys already knew… already knew… Despicable!”

“Already knew what? That you have brain damage? Knowing that you were almost killed by Zou Lan but still chose to help him?” The smile on Ye Zhizhou’s face faded away, and he looked down on Kang Run. “Rivers and mountains are easier to change than a person’s nature. You’ve changed too much, any person with brains will doubt it. Yesterday, the news of Tingwei going to the border came out. Today, you couldn’t wait to catch me and replace me. Were you hoping that Tingwei wouldn’t be able to recognize his wife after going to the border for a few years?”

It was at this time that the guard pulled out the seized handyman from the theatre group. Ye Zhizhou turned to look at him, his gaze sweeping over the two flags on his head and he sneered, “Zou Lan, your face right now isn’t bad. Did you put some of the appearance changing medicine on it? Are you really not scared of death? If your plan today went through, were you going to put on some more medicine to change your appearance to mine?”

The theater handyman looked at him pitifully and acted completely innocent. “Madam, I don’t know what you’re talking about. I-I just got lost when I came out to use the bathroom… Madam, I’m being wronged, you can’t…”

Ye Zhizhou was too lazy to listen to him shed crocodile tears over this dispute. He stepped forward and fed him a pill. “I’ve cured the poison on your face. No need to thank me.” When he was done saying this, he took a step back and looked at him coldly. He couldn’t harm the protagonist directly, because of the rules, but the pill he just fed him was indeed an antidote. The antidote and his Meiyan pill differ in the fact that the antidote only cures the poison, but doesn’t heal the face. The poison on the protagonist’s face is so deep, after getting rid of it, the protagonist’s face is probably already ruined.

The handyman winced at Ye Zhizhou’s piercing gaze. Soon after, a large amount of black blood started oozing out from his face. His skin quickly dissolved and disappeared, turning his face into a piece of bumpy looking red meat. He didn’t seem to feel any pain, it was only after seeing everyone was looking at him with shock and disgust that he started to feel his face.

“Ah! My face! My face! Zou Ming, you bitch! What did you feed me?!” Zou Lan finally dropped his act and screamed as he covered his face with his hands. “Kang Run, kill him for me! Kill him! Otherwise, I’ll publicize your master’s information! Kill Zou Ming for me quickly!”

Kang Run, who couldn’t move, looked at him with resentment and turned his head away without speaking.

The probability of Fei Jinchu and the protagonist falling in love have dropped to 0%. The third soul flag has been pulled out. Congratulations to the host, may the host persist in his efforts.]

The protagonist’s face was just ruined and Fei Jinchu’s flag was pulled out… So Fei Jinchu was actually a face-con?

Shaking the random thought away, he turned to look at Kang Run and took out a portrait. “Does he mean the portrait of your master’s new appearance after it was changed by medicine? Have you been helping Zou Lan all this time because of this? You were afraid that if he publicized this information, it would destroy your master’s retirement life?” After guessing that Old Madam Zou was the person who contacted Kang Run, he gradually understood that in the original plot, the person Kang Run was helping from beginning to end was Zou Lan. Getting close to the real Zou Ming and retaliating against the Zou family by throwing Zou Lan into the brothel was a facade. His real purpose the entire time was to help Zou Lan replace Zou Ming.

With this premise, there’s a reasonable explanation of how Zou Lan was so easily broken out of the sealed general’s mansion to replace Zou Ming in the original plot. In the end ‘Zou Lan’ was taken from the general’s mansion by Kang Run, but who knew who the actual person really was? A hat, some quick explanations, and the protagonist succeeded in replacing Zou Ming to stay beside the other male leads.

What a deep love… But clearly, there’s no love between them now. Why would Kang Run still want to help the protagonist? After thinking about it, there’s only one explanation—Zou Lan has something in his hands that Kang Run cares about, or he has blackmail. When he thought about this, he went to investigate it a bit and found out about Kang Run’s master who returned to the countryside with a new appearance after abandoning his life as an assassin.

Assassins also have weaknesses.

Kang Run looked at him in shock, not understanding how he got a hold of this portrait.

“You were useful as a bait,” Ye Zhizhou took out a fire piston and burned the portrait. Afterwards, he turned to smile at Kang Run. “This is your reward. The portrait has been destroyed, Zou Lan has no opportunity to speak about your master’s existence now. You can safely go to prison.”

Kang Run’s eyes fluctuated through many emotions but they finally settled on relief. He lowered his head and said hoarsely, “Thank you.” Going to prison or getting the death penalty is fine, as long as he saved his Master’s peaceful life.

[The probability of Kang Run and the protagonist falling in love has dropped to 0%. The fourth soul flag has been pulled out. Congratulations to the host. The task of this world has been accomplished. Does Host wish to enter the next world?]

He chose ‘no’ in his mind and looked towards Shen Tingwei who walked towards him. He relaxed and let out a deep breath, “Finally… We can be at ease when we go to the border to find father.”

Shen Tingwei hugged him and nodded.

“No!” Zou Lan held his ruined face and looked at them embracing each other. His gaze gradually became insane. “I am Zou Ming! Kang Run, kill him for me! I’m Zou Ming. I’m the general’s wife. It’s me! It’s me!”

Shen Tingwei looked at him coldly while hugging Ye Zhizhou to keep him from moving and murmured, “Even if I was blind I would recognize Mingming the second he appears. Zou Lan, is your goal in life to have a group of relatives and loved ones who don’t even recognize your true appearance? Will they love you, or will they love the illusions in their minds? Don’t worry, I won’t kill you. I have a cell prepared for you in the deepest part of the prison.”

Zou Lan was stunned by his words and then screamed even more frantically. A guard came forward with a dark face, knocked him out directly and then dragged him away.

Ye Zhizhou leaned against his lover’s arms and his spiritual power gradually became soothing and calm. This world is so tiring… Fortunately, he’s always been accompanied by his lover.

At last, after half a year, the murderer in the Huzhou massacre case was finally caught. Emperor Zhu Bi waved his hand and sentenced him to life imprisonment. He was subjected to torture every day until he died. Kang Run was also sentenced to prison after his assassin abilities were disposed of. Seeing that he made contributions to the court in the past six months, the death penalty was forgone but it was still necessary for him to go to prison for more than ten years.

Three years later, Fei Jinchu married the young miss from the family of a long-time friend; five years later, Yang Qi became the highest scoring scholar on the imperial exams and became the princess’ husband; seven years later, Old Madam Shen passed away; eight years later, the border was completely stabilized and Shen Youpeng returned to the Shen mansion for his retirement; ten years later, Zou Qing resigned and handed over the Zou family’s responsibilities to his eldest son and started a leisurely retirement life with Yuan Hui.

Decades later, Ye Zhizhou leaned into his lover’s embrace and gradually closed his eyes. “In the next life, wait for me…”

Shen Tingwei stroked his already white hair, tightened his embrace and nodded, “Okay.”

The mirror under the pillow suddenly shook and then shattered into fragments of light, disappearing into the air.

The sunshine felt like it passed through his eyelids and shone directly onto his eyeballs. Ye Zhizhou frowned bitterly and struggled to open his eyes. He felt dizzy and heavy, the world seemed to be spinning around. He tried to make use of his arms as he swallowed with his dry throat and struggled to utter, “Tongtian…”

There was a slight vibration in the pile of wine bottles next to him, and then a beam of light appeared next to his mouth with a pill inside of it.

“Thanks,” he swallowed the pill and gradually began to feel a lot better. He stood up and looked around the empty room he was located in. He poked around the wine bottle pile, looked at his flowery shirt and then covered his forehead to massage it. “A drunkard with a bad taste in clothing. I can almost see the words cannon fodder on him… Okay, give me the plot information.”

The wine bottle heap shook again, and then a light screen popped up. [Save me.]

“Eh? Save you?” He was startled and then move sideways to push aside the wine bottles, becoming silent. A little white cat was staring up at him with big eyes while biting a pink cat-shaped mirror on the carpet. The sharp canine teeth tore at the false ears of the small mirror very actively.

“Meow~” The kitten gave a milky cry and suddenly dropped the mirror to come over to rub against him.

Ye Zhizhou had no resistance to this kind of small creature. He raised his hand to rub its soft fur and smiled. “This is a good greeting gift, I like it.”

The small mirror shook vigorously. It seemed to be very dissatisfied with his neglect.

“Well, I like you too.” He picked up the small mirror with amusement and touched its wet ears. “Give me the information.”

The protagonist of this world was Fan Lang, a 21-year-old male. He was a rich second generation that loved beautiful women and drag racing. He has two friends that were also rich second generation named Zhang Lin and Cao Yu. One day, he took his two young friends to the countryside late at night to street race, and there he had a bad accident that made him become a vegetable.

After he became a vegetable, his soul involuntarily drifted and drifted until it unexpectedly went into Shen Mengxi’s body, the Shen family’s illegitimate daughter who was hospitalized with a high fever downstairs and set up a camp there. When Fan Lang woke up, he was horrified to find that he had become a woman!

Ye Zhizhou grabbed Tongtian's fake ears and pulled at them, completely silent, “Male to female? Are you kidding me? Can’t the protagonists of these worlds be normal? Is it that hard to be an ordinary person?"

The little mirror played dead as the information on the screen was still pouring out.

He gloomily restrained his roasting to continue reading on.

What does a man do when he becomes a woman? Of course, he first has to give his brothers some pleasure, ah! So Fan Lang found his two friends and explained the situation, wanting to give them some pleasure… no that’s not right. It’s to have them help him find ways to bring his soul back into his body!

Zhang Lin and Cao Yu were shocked by this unscientific matter, but the secrets spoken by this unruly woman in front of them were truly only known by their good friend Fan Lang. After some confusion, they believed the protagonist’s words and began to help him find some methods. However, it would be strange if these three rich second generation idiots could think of a method. After all kinds of tosses and turns, Fan Lang’s soul didn’t change back. Zhang Lin and Cao Yu were gradually attracted to their good friend in a woman’s body and unconsciously fell in love with him! Then, the two companions became this world’s male lead number one and two.

Ye Zhizhou: “…” The plot of this unruly world changes so fast.

The soul needs to be changed back but the days also need to be passed. During the period of time where he was dealing with the troubles with his friends, Fan Lang also began to play the Shen family’s illegitimate daughter. In the Shen family, his special “temperament” gradually attracted the attention of Shen Zixia, the third male lead, and Su Yu, the fourth male lead who was Shen Zixia’s cousin. Cen Yuebai, the fifth male lead and the male god of the school, was also attracted to his special “temperament”.

Ye Zhizhou silently roasted them. This good “special temperament” was actually the flavor of a rough man.

During the period of trying to switch his soul back, Fan Lang often went to the hospital to see his body. There, he met male lead number six, the doctor Yin Feiyu, and made a good impression on him.

So far, all six male leads were gathered but Fan Lang’s soul was still firmly in the body of Shen Mengxi.

As time went by, the male leads' affection for the protagonist continued to deepen. This caused Shen Zihao, the young master of the Shen family, who was secretly in love with the male god Cen Yuebai, to become more gloomy. Having to repress his sexual orientation, the gradual softening of his family’s attitude towards this illegitimate daughter, the sudden biased behavior of his eldest brother and the sense of crisis of having the person he liked being taken away… With all these kinds of negative emotions adding together, Shen Zihao, who already had an eccentric disposition, became even more twisted. Finally, after seeing Cen Yuebai embrace his illegitimate sister in front of him, he started to have murderous thoughts.

The protagonist, who didn’t know about this, gradually started to realize the feelings that the several male leads had towards him. In a bind, he decided to ask them all out and tell them the truth that he was actually a man.

Several handsome male gods gathered at the school gate of Shen Mengxi’s school on a beautiful sunny afternoon; they attracted countless gazes. Fan Lang, who was still in Shen Mingxi’s body, walked out in a white dress and looked as beautiful as a rainbow cloud on the horizon. It was like a slow-motion scene of a prince meeting the princess, but a wanderer suddenly rushed out of the corner and stabbed the protagonist a few times. The white dress became stained with blood, and the protagonist fell to the ground.

The male leads, who were previously sizing each other up, were shocked and quickly rushed forwards to surround the protagonist, but it was too late and the protagonist was going to die. As Fan Lang vomited blood, he told them the truth with affection. Then, he sighed that if he could live, he would accept all the male leads and give them a great deal of pleasure!

The male leads had no time to feel shocked before they had to feel the pain of losing their person of affection. Then, the pain turned into anger. They first tormented the main offender, the wanderer and the person behind the scenes, Shen Zihao, before stuffing him into prison.

Five years later, Fan Lang woke up in his own body and was surprised to find that all the male leads had accepted the truth that he was a man and were still waiting for him. He was very touched and got together with them.

Turning off the screen, Ye Zhizhou pet the cat and gazed up at the ceiling.

“Tongtian… The body I’m in right now is called Shen Zihao, right?”

[The answer is correct, the host is so intelligent. Friendly reminder: The cat in your arms is stolen.]

“Ah? Stolen from who?"

[Cen Yuebai.]

[The host is advised to dispose of it as soon as possible.]

He squinted at it as if saying that he had seen through everything. “You’re just jealous that it’s a real cat and that you’re a fake, aren’t you?”

The little mirror stopped shaking and started bouncing on the floor instead, a kind of awkward bounce as if it wanted to break itself.

The author has something to say:

Thank you Junshi, Love to Procrastinate, Potato Lord for the landmines! Love you so much = 3=

PS: New arc ~\\(≧▽≦)/~

PS: Color cat is unexpectedly a censored word….

New arc! This plot already sounds crazy… and that cat that was stolen