Summary Shen Yu dies in the modern world after arguing with an idiot online and wakes up as... an abandoned male concubine in a palace where everyone hates him. The original Shen Yu was gentle, obedient, fragile- bullied by servants, ignored by the emperor, despised by other concubines, and used as a political decoration by his Prime Minister father. Unfortunately for the palace- this Shen Yu bites back. Fine. If I'm going to be hated anyway, I'll be hated loudly. -... The turning point comes during the Bouquet Selection Banquet, an event where concubines dress like peacocks and smile until their faces cramp. Shen Yu is dragged there because his Prime Minister father begged the emperor to "at least give the child a chance." The emperor, Xiao Junhan, attends with zero interest. He's already decided Shen Yu will be exactly as rumored: soft-spoken, trembling, and boring. Then Shen Yu opens his mouth. ... When another concubine mocks him- "Such cheap robes... is the Prime Minister's son so poor?" Shen Yu smiles sweetly and replies: "Ah, at least my father has a name. Who are you again?" The hall freezes. A cup drops. Someone audibly gasps. .. Another concubine sneers, "Don't think attending one banquet means you're favored." Shen Yu nods seriously. "You're right. Favor is earned... not begged for like leftover rice." By now, servants are sweating. The guards are rethinking their career choices. And the emperor- is staring like he's just discovered a new species. .. Xiao Junhan had expected a fragile rabbit. Instead, he found a fox wrapped in silk with a knife for a tongue. This concubine doesn't lower his eyes. Doesn't tremble. Doesn't flatter. He talks back. To everyone. Including the emperor. ... When the emperor finally speaks- "So, Shen Yu... aren't you afraid?" Shen Yu bows lazily and says: "Afraid of what? Losing what I never had?" Silence. Then- Xiao Junhan laughs. For the first time in years.

Yunho had always been a sickly kid, and at the ripe, young age of 19, he died of a terminal illness. But just when it was all over, morning comes again?! And now he's the villainous younger brother from the novel he'd been reading! His reincarnation could be seen as a curse by most because of the younger brother's destiny of banishment and misfortune, but Yunho is determined to turn it into a blessing in order to finally live a healthy life. "I just want to live peacefully!"

Ever since he could remember, Choi Do-woon thought of himself as nothing more than a human doll. Intelligent, yet emotionless, Do-woon wandered through a cruel world that never embraced him. But on the day his younger siblings were born, he finally learned what it meant to feel... happy. But when an incurable illness ended his life, he awoke in the newborn body of Lysander Blakesty - one of the three leading villains of the novel he last read, Ways of the Mystic, who is doomed to die by the Prince's sword. With knowledge of the novel's events, and the memories of his past life, Do-woon is set to change Lysander's fate, and perhaps discover what it means to be human along the way. But who could've thought that the choices he would make would spark a romance between him... and the Prince?! *This is my own original work. No other work was plagiarized, and if so it is coincidental. *Credit to the original owner of the covert art.