The morning light spilled through the glass window into the study, dispelling the night’s chill.
The slightly warm sunlight illuminated the young man sitting in the main seat.
A proper suit, an upright posture, deep black eyes, and especially striking was the golden hair that shimmered brilliantly in the sunlight, creating an aura of divinity that made the young man’s presence even more dazzling and mysterious.
However, what clashed with this atmosphere was the overwhelming sense of melancholy that emanated from the boy.
Even his handsome face couldn’t conceal the exhaustion evident in his eyes.
The young man couldn’t help but rub his temples, trying to soothe his terrible mood, all because of a light screen visible only to him that floated before his eyes.
[Welcome, Player, to Floral Fantasy Poem!]
[This game is a free and open RPG where you can raise affinity with various beautiful girls, build bonds, form an adventure party, and embark on a romantic journey through another world!]
Looking at the screen before him, Loren realized one fact: he had transmigrated.
‘Hundred-ton king, Dayun heavy truck, truly living up to its name. I never thought a 996 office worker like me would have a day where I’d transmigrate.’
Thinking this, he couldn’t help but sigh. For an ordinary person, transmigration should be an excellent thing, escaping the heavy office desk and the anxiety of unemployment, relaxing and experiencing the beautiful life of another world. But Loren couldn’t feel happy.
All because the name [Floral Fantasy Poem] stirred up distant memories from his past life in Loren’s mind, making his vision go dark.
[Floral Fantasy Poem], the famous “feng ao tian” yuri game.
It featured a multitude of charming, beautiful girls: a black-haired, long-haired, mature dragon lady, a golden-haired loli mom, a domineering red-haired young lady…
All the standard archetypes were present.
In this game, you could play as the yuri-flower heroine, the silver-haired knight Yuli Floren, meet all sorts of beautiful girls, form an adventure party together, go through difficult explorations to defeat the Demon King, and finally live a happy, reunited life.
And what about himself?
He was the essential plot villain, the hate-attracting clown, the cockroach that disgusted players, the cannon fodder lackey of the villain organization who was always the first to show up and get slapped.
This world where the heroines got together was hell for a “yellow-haired” villain like him.
Although Loren had many seemingly impressive titles and infamous nicknames—the last Duke of the Skomart family, a quasi-Four Heavenly King under the Demon King, the shameful descendant of the Dragon-Slaying Hero, a traitorous noble, a lecherous playboy, and so on.
He also had the setting of being the fiancé of the main heroine, Yuli Floren.
But his label in the plot was: unrequited love, born trash, jealous and fallen, lustful, a race supremacist, an evil being intent on destroying the yuri worldview.
In reality, aside from being handsome, having a bit of money, and a bit of power, Loren was just a powerless, yellow-haired villainous cannon fodder.
But his contributions to this game were immense.
He specialized in bullying men and dominating women, mainly dominating women.
His professional role was the yellow-haired cannon fodder villain, specifically responsible for being the first to jump out, take a fancy to the heroine, harass the heroine, oppress the heroine, kidnap the heroine, attempt to commit indecent acts, and then get slapped by the protagonist.
This was to promote the growth of affection between the protagonists and the plot development, allowing the “feng ao tian” harem to develop logically.
But because his strength was too pathetic, yet his appearance frequency in the plot was so high, it annoyed the players, who angrily complained:
“Why does this early-game yellow-haired cannon fodder show up so many times! Can’t you write slap-in-the-face plots without this yellow-haired guy?”
“Damn, this yellow-haired guy shows up more often than the protagonist’s harem. He’s in every chapter’s opening, like an unkillable cockroach. Is this the darkness of the gaming world!”
But Loren knew they only saw how often the original body appeared, not how badly the original body got beaten up, losing arms and legs, appearing more miserable each time.
In the end, his own fate was also tragic: betrayed and abandoned by all, alone, he burned himself to death in his own mansion.
“Fine.”
Loren took a deep breath, trying hard to calm himself down.
Cannon fodder is cannon fodder, yellow-haired is yellow-haired.
But now everything was different.
Loren looked at the system before him.
He had an advantage others didn’t.
It wasn’t necessarily impossible to escape the fate of death.
“System, let me see your potential!”
[Floral Fantasy Poem Game System Activated]
[Your Character: Yuli Floren]
[Experience Level: Level 1]
[Quest Log Function: Activated]
[Shop Function: Activated!]
[Recharge Function: Activated!]
[Main Quest: Poem of Flowers (Activated)]
[Main Act One: The Flower’s First Journey]
[Node 1: Breaking the Engagement]
[Quest Requirement: As the Flower Heroine, Yuli Floren, who upholds the ideals of justice and protection, the first thing upon awakening your mission is to vow not to associate with evildoers.]
[Please break off the engagement with your fiancé, the “Evil Duke” Loren Skomart, within 3 days.]
[Quest Reward: Talent: Sword Prodigy, Flower Crystals ×300, EXP ×1000]
Immediately after, the character art for [Flower Heroine] Yuli Floren popped up.
This was the classic art Loren was most familiar with.
On a sea of flowers, with petals flying everywhere, a stunningly beautiful girl in silver armor stood heroically, her gaze resolute, gripping a sword with both hands in the center of the flower sea.
The breeze lifted the silver ponytail behind her—a scene of infinite beauty.
Seeing the task issued by the system, Loren frowned, feeling even more uneasy.
“Seriously, bro?”
“Make me break off the engagement with myself?”
“System, why don’t you check who I am?”
[Yuli Floren, system verification: No error.]
“I’m clearly the yellow-haired villain! How do I break off an engagement with myself!”
The system remained silent, merely reporting:
[Verification: No error.]
Seeing the system’s response, Loren was speechless.
He understood that the system he obtained was the original game system.
Although his identity was [Loren Skomart], the system defaulted to him playing the role of the Flower Heroine—Yuli Floren, and the plotline had to be followed exactly as it was.
But the problem was, his identity was the yellow-haired villain.
There was an error in his identity from the start. How was he supposed to break off an engagement with himself?
Just as Loren was still pondering countermeasures, an unexpected situation arose.
Knock! Knock! Knock!
Three knocks sounded, breaking the morning’s silence.
Then, a distinctive voice echoed through the mansion, adding a touch of liveliness to the place.
“Boss, gooood mooorning, meow!”
The owner of the voice was clearly full of energy and didn’t hide her restless vitality at all, her loud greeting seeping through the door crack.
“Boss, are you awake? It’s Miao Miao, meow!”
Hearing this voice, Loren immediately recalled this girl’s identity.
That’s right. This was one of the heroines, his future catgirl maid who would be stolen away by his fiancée—Annie Liko.
In the original plot, Annie followed a villain-redemption path.
Annie, a slave beastman, was sold to the Skomart family as a maid from a young age, serving him, the yellow-haired villain.
Due to his brainwashing and the affection from their childhood friendship, she foolishly followed him, aiding his tyranny and bullying the protagonist party.
Simultaneously, Annie was also a powerful combatant he, the yellow-haired villain, specifically sought out and cultivated.
She possessed the beastman race’s once-in-a-thousand-years top talent [Beast God’s Blessing], making her a warrior with both high strength and speed.
Under the Evil Duke Loren, Annie had caused significant trouble for the protagonist party and allowed him to escape death numerous times.
Later, during the final battle between Loren and the protagonist party, after receiving a personality-correcting punch from the “feng ao tian” heroine, she successfully came to her senses, recognized his evil nature, and joined the protagonist party.
Seeing that she was right outside the door, Loren decided to deal with Annie first.
He adjusted his collar, sat up straight, and then replied.
“Come in, Annie.”
The young man’s voice of consent sounded from inside the room.
The catgirl maid named Annie trembled as she reached for the doorknob, extreme joy blooming in her heart, a brilliant smile unconsciously blooming like a flower on her face.
Even so, Annie carefully pushed the door open.
She didn’t dare to pounce on the boss like before, hugging, licking, and touching, because the boss was a bit shy and couldn’t accept Miao Miao’s family’s etiquette.
Click.
The handle turned, and the wooden door slowly opened.
A pair of perked-up brown cat ears appeared in the field of vision first, followed by emerald green eyes, a black-and-white standard maid apron, knee-high white socks paired with black lace-up cloth shoes, and a fluffy tail happily swaying behind her.
The catgirl maid stood before the desk, as if they hadn’t seen each other for years, affectionately greeting him again and eagerly starting to boast about her accomplishments.
“Boss~ Goo… good morning, meow!”
“I brought you breakfast!”
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