The night in City A was deep, and most residents were already fast asleep.
However, Lin Changfeng, leaning back in his gaming chair in a cheap rented apartment, his face slightly flushed, was clearly not among them.
His eyes, red from staying up late, were fixed on the bright screen on his desk—it was playing some indescribable, blood-pumping scenes:
“M-Master… is Talia’s… service… to your satisfaction?”
A woman with pale green hair, completely unclothed, nestled in the arms of a blond man.
That suggestive posture and her mature voice were endlessly captivating.
The blond man didn’t speak, but the smug smile on his face completely betrayed his thoughts.
He tilted his head slightly, looking toward the other side of the room—where two women stood.
One was more mature, with a passionate, bright fiery-red hair color; the other, of a petite, girlish build, stood more stiffly, her hair a more youthful shade of blue.
At the moment, both were wearing tailored, daringly revealing maid outfits, with large expanses of snowy white skin on their chests that invited wild thoughts.
The pale green-haired woman immediately understood his meaning and pulled the two women before the man.
“Lord Voss… please be kind to Nora and Lila as well…”
“Lila,” the man, who had been silent until now, finally spoke, not bothering to hide the sneer on his face.
“And to think you’re a nun of the church. Does your magically talentless, trash knight of a brother know you have such a lewd side?”
The man’s flippant words made the blue-haired girl blush crimson.
“Oh my~ Lord Voss… let’s not mention that mood-killer for now. Please, enjoy Nora first~”
The red-haired older sister hurriedly smoothed things over, stepping forward.
“Hmph… everyone in the world knows of ‘Aelian Valsir’! What kind of Paladin can’t cast light magic?”
Voss said with sarcasm.
“No real skills, just relying on that face to become the dream lover of countless young girls!”
He spoke as if telling the world’s greatest joke.
“By putting on a show for the common people, flaunting his righteous knightly posture and character, he’s actually called ‘the Conscience of the Holy Capital Eseriel’!”
“But what the world doesn’t know—is that his mother and sisters kneel before me like dogs! Hahaha—”
“Lord Voss, with your powerful magical talent at such a young age, and being one of the Holy Light Church’s few Paladins… naturally, Aelian cannot compare…”
……
“…Is this… hell…”
The atmosphere in the room continued.
The four in the throes of passion didn’t notice the bedroom door opening a crack, where a young man with silver-white hair and a pale face was listening in despair.
It was hard to imagine that this pitiful figure crawling on the ground was the respected Knight Aelian we spoke of.
……
Click— The artistic appreciation of the CG was finally over.
Lin Changfeng closed his laptop with a sense of emptiness.
“Sigh, this game is pure cuckoldry,” Lin Changfeng said, rubbing his eyes as he slowly walked toward the bathroom.
“Played all day, and didn’t get a single ‘happy reunion’ ending leaning toward the cuck, Aelian.”
Yes, this game that left Lin Changfeng unable to forget was the recently released new NTR game—Drowned in the Cage of Desire ~ Family NTR Except for the Incompetent Holy Knight!!!.
True to its name, the creators showed no restraint in their malice toward the player-controlled protagonist—the upright, noble knight Aelian.
With his father long dead and the Valsir family in decline, no matter how hard he tried, Aelian seemed destined only to watch his sister’s boyfriend, Voss, steal his home, while his once-loving mother, his caring older sister, and his follower-like younger sister who looked up to him were all thoroughly cuckolded by that damned blond colleague.
From then on, he fell into despair, left the church, and became a drunkard.
The best ending Lin Changfeng managed to achieve after a whole day of playing was one where the magically talentless Aelian trained his stats to compensate, barely managing a mutual destruction ending with the blond guy.
“I do feel some sympathy for this cuck…”
Aelian was the standard hardworking protagonist of light novels.
Though he had no magical power and was young, his character was praised by young and old alike in the Holy Capital.
It was lamentable that such an upright, selfless man who cared for his country and people could be broken by his family’s betrayal.
“Wash up and sleep… still have work tomorrow…”
Lin Changfeng muttered, opening the bathroom door.
What greeted him wasn’t the familiar bathroom scenery, but a burst of light—dazzled, Lin Changfeng fainted.
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He didn’t know how long he was unconscious.
Lin Changfeng woke in a strange space filled with a faint mist.
Looking ahead, he saw a woman standing not far away—she stood within the light and mist, her robes flowing like drifting clouds, surrounded by a soft golden holy radiance.
Her eyes and brows were gentle yet held a sky-like serenity, her cascading silver hair shimmered like moonlight, and petals and holy light bloomed together at her lightly pinched fingertips.
Her aura was as pure as a newborn land, making anyone who saw her feel humble, their hearts and souls soothed by this supreme holiness.
“You’ve come? Guest from another land, I have been waiting for you.”
Sensing the goodwill the girl emitted, Lin Changfeng hesitantly moved closer.
“You are…?”
“My name is Eseriel. I am the Goddess of Light of this world.”
Wait… wait?
Eseriel?
Wasn’t that the capital of the Papal State in the game he just played?!
The goddess seemed able to read his mind, nodding.
“Yes, I know what you are wondering about… The ending of that… um… unsightly game you stayed up late playing is the ‘fate’ our world is destined to experience.”
Seeing the faint smile at the corner of the goddess’s mouth, Lin Changfeng’s face instantly flushed crimson—so this goddess had a bit of a mischievous side!
“The warrior Nora, the knight Aelian, and the nun Lila are important combat forces for the Papal State. If the prophecy proceeds, the Papal State will decline, and the Demon King Zares will soon lead the Demon Race in a resurgence. At that time, the entire continent will fall into crisis.”
“Wait? According to the game’s setting, wasn’t the Demon King Zares suppressed by the Papal State long ago?”
“A seal is ultimately temporary. The power of prophecy damages divinity and is not detailed, only allowing glimpses of fragments. What happens in between, how the Demon King breaks his bonds—these are difficult to know.”
The goddess shook her head, her eyes with hexagonal star-shaped pupils fixed on Lin Changfeng.
“Please forgive my presumption. I have introduced you, a ‘variable,’ and I beg you to help Aelian Valsir…”
“Oh! I get it, I get it!”
Lin Changfeng’s voice unconsciously rose with excitement—this was a classic isekai transmigration trope from light novels!
“So, I’m to transmigrate as the game’s blond guy? ‘Stay away’ from Aelian’s mother and sisters, while becoming brothers-in-arms with Aelian, fighting the Demon Race together!?”
“No…”
“Huh!? Then you want me to transmigrate as the cuck himself, protecting my own mother and sisters?”
Lin Changfeng interrupted again.
“Aelian is devout in faith, pure, selfless, and cares for all living beings. He is not comparable to some pervert who stays up late secretly playing adult games.”
The goddess still tried her best to maintain her holy expression.
“Uh…”
Even with a thick skin, Lin Changfeng scratched his head in embarrassment.
Wait, I think I’ve seen this episode on a certain domestic novel website…
A stroke of genius rose in his mind. He lifted his head, ready to speak.
The goddess seemed to have cast a mind-reading spell or something similar.
A light swept over Lin Changfeng.
“Transmigrate as a nameless female side character in the game? Raise the male lead from childhood, giving him endless care and love? So he won’t be fixated on his family being cuckolded, ultimately defeating the Demon King?”
The Goddess of Light finally broke character.
It was hard to imagine her holy, flawless face rolling its eyes at Lin Changfeng.
“Give it a rest. What on earth is in your head?”
“I’m just having you reincarnate into another world, go back to the past, become Aelian’s friend, give him enough care when he’s most sad and distressed, guide him through his difficulties. Isn’t that the normal way to solve this!?”
“Eh!? So it’s just becoming friends!?”
“What were you expecting? Weren’t you sympathetic to Aelian’s plight? Otherwise, your wish power wouldn’t have responded to my summons…”
The goddess said seriously.
“What’s wrong with becoming the protagonist’s right-hand man!?”
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