"This king quits [Puishu]"
Text/Looking for joy in flowers
Published exclusively in Jinjiang Literature City on October 10, 2023
Chapter 1
My consciousness was drowsy, I had a splitting headache, and my chest felt so tight that it felt like it would explode in the next second.
The feeling of excessive discomfort made Xiao Ji suddenly open his eyes and wake up from the darkness. He subconsciously opened his mouth to breathe, but he was caught off guard and choked on a large amount of water, coughing so hard that he almost died on the spot.
? ? ? what's the situation?
After Xiao Ji struggled to catch his breath, he struggled out of the water by instinct and looked around.
lake.
A very big lake.
There are many antique, luxurious and gorgeous... painted boats parked on the lake, should they be called painted boats, right? It's the kind of cruise ship that only existed in ancient times.
The largest one was made in the shape of a five-clawed flying dragon, with pavilions and pavilions built on it, and cornices and cornices. It looked very majestic, like a palace on the water.
Then there are people.
Many, many people.
Some of these people were standing on the boat, some were huddled on the shore of the lake, and some were splashing in the water. But that's not the point. The point is that they are all wearing ancient costumes.
Xiao Ji: "..."
Xiao Ji recalled everything he had experienced after his accidental death, and finally realized where this place was with a sudden change in his face.
——Yes, Xiao Ji is dead.
He was originally a senior high school student in the 21st century who had just completed the college entrance examination. He died saving others during a typhoon. He was a so-called "person of great merit". Therefore, his soul did not dissipate directly after death, but was pulled by a strange voice. When I came to a place called the "Merit Transfer Station", I got a chance to be resurrected from the dead.
The voice told him that there were three thousand small worlds between heaven and earth. Although he was completely dead in his own world, in other small worlds, he could revive his body and live again.
Xiao Ji thought he was dreaming at the time, so when the voice asked him to choose one of the small worlds that looked like light spots to enter, he clicked on one without much thought.
Unexpectedly, as soon as I finished my selection, I was sucked into darkness.
In that darkness, he was forced to read a book called "The Legend of Ling Yan, Pampered in the Golden Age". This book tells the story of how you love me and I love him between an ancient rich lady named Cui Lingyan and several ancient versions of rich and handsome men.
The story is very bloody and cliché, a typical early Mary Sue romance novel - all the plot settings revolve around the relationship between the heroine and the male protagonist, all the male partners love the heroine, and all the female partners are vicious , all members are mentally retarded and love-minded.
Xiao Ji couldn't stand it anymore after reading only a few chapters. But he couldn't control himself at that time, so he was forced to read it.
After reading it, he was told by the weird voice that he was about to enter the small world derived from this book and become the male supporting character Xiao Ji who was obsessed with the heroine in the book and silently protected her all his life. He would start a new life as him. .
WTF? !
Xiao Ji was shocked and wanted to refuse, but before he could express his stance, darkness struck again. When he opened his eyes again, he was already here.
Xiao Ji: "..."
Are you talking about forced buying and selling? !
Thinking again about the short life of Xiao Ji who seemed to be affectionate in the original work but was actually just like a joke, he couldn't help but curse.
Xiao Ji, courtesy name Jingming, was King Duan of the Great Zhou Dynasty. He was eighteen years old. The original setting of him was: he was of noble birth, handsome in appearance, knowledgeable and talented, and had a gentle temperament. He was the dream of all the women in the capital.
This character is enough to be the male protagonist, but in the original work, he is just one of the tool male supporting characters who promote the emotional development of the male and female protagonists.
He would do anything for the heroine who looks innocent but is actually an Aquaman. Even if the heroine only treats him as a spare tire from the beginning to the end, and even cuckolds him after getting married to him and lets him raise her and the hero's child, he will not change his obsession.
In the process, he violated his principles again and again, and did not hesitate to turn against his relatives and friends. He was even rejected by the emperor and almost died. But even so, he still silently guards the heroine and gives her everything he has.
Finally he died.
He died under the arrow of the male protagonist who had always secretly hated him and regarded him as his enemy.
The female protagonist just held his body and cried, and was coaxed by the male protagonist on the grounds that she just "accidentally made a mistake".
What's even more disgusting is that the two people named their children after him afterwards, saying they wanted to commemorate him.
...No, I can’t think about it anymore, I can’t want Yue anymore.
Xiao Ji forcibly stopped his memories and looked at the girl in pink who was splashing in the water not far ahead and calling for help.
That is the original heroine Cui Lingyan.
As for why she was in the water...
Because today is the Dragon Boat Festival in the 19th year of Chengtian.
In the 19th year of Chengtian's reign, on the fifth day of May, the emperor ordered a dragon boat race to be held on Zhuque Lake in the south of the capital to have fun with the people and celebrate the Dragon Boat Festival.
This was a rare and good day. Unexpectedly, before the dragon boat race officially started, an accident occurred: the third girl of the Cui family of the Duke of Qing Dynasty accidentally fell into the water.
It was said that it was accidental, but in fact it was Cui Lingyan who did it on purpose because she had a falling out with Cui Ang, the male protagonist of the original work.
Cui Ang is Cui Lingyan's nominal concubine brother. The two are not related by blood, but they are brother and sister. Therefore, a large part of the original work is about the struggle between two people who like each other but cannot be together.
Cui Lingyan's fall into the water today was the result of the entanglement between the two people who were in the ambiguous period.
What happened is not complicated. To sum it up, Cui Ang was rumored to be having an affair with his female partner, and they appeared together today. Cui Lingyan was jealous because of this, and deliberately slipped and fell into the water to make Cui Ang nervous. Unexpectedly, Cui Ang was stopped by the female partner, but Xiao Ji, who had always been fond of Cui Lingyan, was the first to rescue her from the water.
The Great Zhou Dynasty had just been founded, and the current folk customs were not very conservative, but the sight of the two men, an unmarried woman, hugging each other wetly in front of everyone, was still somewhat detrimental to their reputation. The emperor happened to be present at that time. He knew that Xiao Ji liked Cui Lingyan, so he arranged a marriage for the two of them, turning this "accident" into a good talk.
This was originally a good thing, but Cui Lingyan didn't like Xiao Ji. She deeply regretted her impulsiveness, but the emperor had already spoken in public. She did not dare to refuse the marriage and hurt her family. She also misunderstood that the male protagonist was about to marry his female partner, so she agreed to the marriage with full of entanglement and pain. .
Xiao Ji, who didn't know that her heart belonged to her at that time, was very happy and went to great lengths to prepare a grand wedding for her.
But Cui Lingyan could never let go of Cui Ang. On their wedding night, she asked Xiao Ji to give her more time to adapt on the grounds that she had always regarded Xiao Ji as her brother. Xiao Ji agreed and went to sleep on the small couch outside in a very gentlemanly manner.
However, as soon as he lay down, he was hit by the incense. At the same time, Cui Ang, who finally realized that he could not live without Cui Lingyan, quietly appeared in their new house, completely piercing the window paper between him and Cui Lingyan.
The two expressed their love to each other, worshiped heaven and earth three times, and entered the bridal chamber by the way.
Xiao Ji was cheated like this. But he was kept in the dark until Cui Lingyan unexpectedly became pregnant, and Xiao Ji didn't know that not only had he been cheated on, but he was also going to be a father.
Xiao Ji couldn't believe it and was heartbroken at the same time, but after Cui Lingyan's cry and begging, he still chose to endure the incident to protect her, and even treated her child as his own.
He had no idea that the child's biological father, Cui Ang, had always hated him to the core because of his "hatred of seizing his wife." In his eyes, Cui Lingyan was innocent, kind and beautiful, but she had always been secretly complaining about his "nosy" back then... In short, the tragic life of the original owner could be said to have officially begun today.
Thinking of this, Xiao Ji looked back and sneered, turned around and swam in the opposite direction.
If he wears a book, he will wear a book. If he can live his life again, he has earned it, but what kind of bullshit male lead he is, whoever wants to be the second man, he won't do it anyway!
*
Xiao Ji originally wanted to go ashore and leave, but without him, there would be others to save Cui Lingyan. But just after swimming a few steps, an exclamation came from the stone arch bridge not far ahead: "Someone fell into the water again!"
There is also a woman shouting "girl" urgently.
Xiao Ji took a closer look and found that the person who fell into the water was a young girl, wearing a green dress, flopping up and down in the water, looking like she was drowning.
The dignitaries all had their own boats, and the people standing on the stone arch bridge were ordinary people. In addition, the original book did not mention that other plot-related characters fell into the water that day, so Xiao Ji didn't hesitate much after he came to his senses. He swam in the direction of the girl.
He was a good swimmer, so it was not difficult for him to save someone in such a calm lake. But he didn't know whether it was because the body was too weak, or because he had just passed through it and hadn't fully integrated with it yet. Anyway, halfway through the swim, his calves suddenly began to cramp and he felt dizzy.
"...?"
You're not going to die as soon as you come here, are you?
Xiao Ji was stunned and instinctively opened his eyes wide to stay awake, but the pain and darkness still swept over him like a tide, swallowing him whole.
"Your Majesty! Your Majesty, what's wrong with you?!"
Someone called him from behind. That should be the guard next to the original owner, who came to save him after realizing that something was wrong with him. But they weren't close to him, and they didn't know if they would have time to fish him out of the water before he drowned... "Don't sleep, hold on!"
Before he completely lost consciousness, someone suddenly grabbed his belt. Xiao Ji tried his best to open his lead-filled eyelids, and in the blur of splashing water he saw a small piece of his wrist, as white as jade and porcelain.
It's a woman...
Fuck, could it be Cui Lingyan? He doesn’t want it!
