After the Male Protagonist Transmigrated into the Body of a Widowed Spouse

Gu Lin transmigrated into a male-oriented court intrigue novel titled Ruling the World, becoming a vicious cannon-fodder character in the book specifically, the young stepfather who abused the male lead.

Although the male lead was young, he was extremely intelligent. He saw through the original owner’s plan to steal all the family’s money and run away with a lover after his father’s death. Harboring both old and new grudges, he engineered a scheme to kill both the original owner and the lover.

To save his own life, Gu Lin takes the place of the original owner and turns over a new leaf to start afresh. He treats the male lead well, raises him into adulthood, and sends him off to study for the imperial examinations.

The male lead gradually softens his attitude and stops loathing him.

However, from some point onward, Gu Lin senses that the male lead’s gaze toward him is becoming increasingly strange.

During his youth, Zheng Hao is as elegant as an orchid and as graceful as a tree, gentle and courteous, regarded by others as a prodigy favored by the God of Literature.

Yet, whenever he opens his mouth, it is all about “Uncle Gu,” as if the other person were his entire world.

During his early adulthood, Zheng Hao possesses a celestial beauty and noble demeanor, solemn and strict in observing etiquette. He no longer wears his thoughts and feelings upon his lips, yet the look in his eyes when he gazes at Gu Lin grows increasingly obscure and unfathomable.

When his restraint vanishes and the young man confesses his feelings to Gu Lin, Gu Lin panics and tries to run away, only to find himself trapped in an inescapable net meticulously woven all around him by Zheng Hao.

Zheng Hao steps closer to back Gu Lin into a corner, whispering softly: “Though there is an eight-year age gap between us, it does not hinder the fact that we were naturally meant for each other!

Even if our nominal relationship is one that the world cannot tolerate.”