Abuse of Magic is Prohibited

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Xia Ke is a rare, powerful magician in modern society. Because he was so poor that he could only eat instant noodles he decided to perform an ancient ritual magic.

This ritual magic allows the caster to legally and reasonably own a huge fortune that can never be spent.

Two days later, he was still waiting for the wealth to fall from the sky. Just when Xia Ke thought the magic didn’t work, his doorbell suddenly rang.

A tall and handsome man stood in front of the door of his simple two-bedroom apartment holding a brand new marriage certificate in his hand.

“Are you my husband?”

Xia Ke: “…”

Wait, the so-called legal acquisition of wealth means inexplicably entering into a marriage relationship with the richest man in the world? Is there a prenuptial agreement that is so strict that all property can be taken away upon divorce?

There is something very wrong with this ritual magic!

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Zhao Nao couldn’t understand why he suddenly had a husband when he woke up, and had even signed a completely unfair prenuptial agreement with him.

“When you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how unbelievable, is the truth.”

After spending two days investigating the memories of everyone around him about this unknown husband, Zhao Nao came to the conclusion——

I must have lost my memory!

He plucked up his courage and came to the door of Xia Ke’s residence.

The beautiful boy wearing a weird robe looked at him confusedly, then looked at the marriage certificate in his hand. The glass bottle in his hand fell to the ground with a bang.

Zhao Nao’s pupils shook.

He had such a big reaction when he saw the marriage certificate! He still loves me!

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禁止滥用魔法
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starcake
starcake rated it
September 21, 2024
Status: Completed
UPDATE: Original rating 4 stars up to chapter 15; downgraded to 2 stars as of chapter 45, the end of the main story, and stayed that way through the extras. Updated review beneath original.

4 stars: A modern-day comedy of increasing misunderstandings featuring a poverty-stricken mage-shou who regrets using a magic spell to make himself wealthy so he can afford to eat more than instant noodles, and the hot rich CEO caught by said spell who ends up believing he has amnesia and that's why he doesn't remember the shou or... more>> getting married to him. Mages are forbidden from revealing themselves to the general public and the shou is panicked and guilty because he didn't realize the spell would set him up in a sudden marriage with someone and he doesn't want to trouble the gong, while the gong is a very responsible and earnest guy who can't believe how scummy his former self must have been to keep his lover secret, marry him in secret, yet also leave him living in abject poverty in a dank basement room with only instant noodles to eat.

So the relationship between the two ends up with the shou scrambling to make up all kinds of stories for why they should separate, while the gong ends up coming to all kinds of horrified conclusions about how poorly he must have treated the shou in the past and tries to come up with all kinds of ways to improve their relationship and save their marriage. The shou also feels guilty for what his spell unwittingly did to the gong and so does his best to make it up to him in various ways like cooking for him and secretly magically buffing and protecting him, while the gong finds the shou increasingly charming while also finding himself increasingly worried about his apparent partial amnesia and what might be causing it. The conclusion he eventually comes to is, shall we say, another fresh comedy of errors.

Spoiler

The gong starts thinking he must have a split personality that comes out when he's unaware, and this other personality of his is a piece of tr*sh who seduced the vulnerable shou and treated him like dirt. What if this alternate personality of his is a criminal or serial killer?! And so now the responsible gong must figure out what's going on, what triggers his personality switch, and deal with himself! And reassure and take care of his poor dear spouse at the same time! *facepalm*

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There also are various hints dropped that vampires are real and the enemies of mages (or at least the shou?) and that there's someone magical out there who has a bullseye set on the gong for some reason, so it seems like there's actual plot going to come into play eventually.

It's a fun light read so far, enjoyable and funny. Looking forward to more!

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UPDATE up to Chapter 45/end of main story:

Downgraded from 4 stars to 2 stars: Okay, after a delightful start, the story got increasingly confusing as the plot became much more complicated than "cute funny relationship misunderstandings" and began to involve crazy vampires, super magic, assassins, other magicians and random non-humans, and more. I think the story was trying to go for slowly revealing backstory and hinting/foreshadowing rather than info-dumping, only it's done poorly because of the lack of world-building so things just come out of nowhere with little explanation—and worse, when there is info-dumping, it doesn't make much sense and/or isn't nearly enough to explain wtf is going on.

At first it was difficult for me to pinpoint why I slowly stopped enjoying the story. Eventually I realized it's because Xia Ke's personality changes from a hapless innocent scrambling shou doing his best to make everything up to the guy he accidentally enchanted, to an indifferent coolly OP magician who knows everything but says nothing except to make "grand reveals" that really aren't that grand and I can't tell if they're supposed to be funny or cute or actually serious—like the explanation for what happened to his master and the after effects of that. Literally reached the end of the main story and I'm not entirely sure what happened and why.

Spoiler

So his master was brewing "yang potions" for all of the vampires in the country or something, which potions make them resistant to sunlight (maybe?) and give them super strength or something, but I was honestly confused as to why he was doing this since vampires are supposedly so evil. The story does sort of explain in bits and pieces but it doesn't make sense—at one point I thought he was trying to reform the vampires, but later it sounds like the vampires forced him to do it against his will, and he walked right into their trap because... angel-pigeons are unreliable and despite saying they'd help the master, they never showed up. Also, there's apparently some kind of global Magic Council that oversees all magic and supernatural creatures including vampires who must abide by the council's ruling, but this vague council just sort of exists as a background explanation for why things are without actually explaining why things are, and despite being so powerful seems powerless to stop, affect, or change anything that's happening.

This is all revealed in bits and pieces breezily scattered here and there throughout the story so it makes it especially confusing trying to put together what happened and why. Perhaps if I had read the story in one sitting instead of chapter by chapter as it updated it would have been less confusing, but I'm not sure on that and it's pretty telling that now that the main story is complete, I have no interest in going back to reread everything to see if it makes more sense read all at once.

There's a confusing plot point involving adding rare super magical diabolos blood to the potion, because it makes the potion more powerful, but while the story made it sound like that was the master's secret potion ingredient, apparently Xia Ke is the first to use it in the yang potion, and it has some kind of poorly-explained secret negative effect on the vampires that leads up to the very underwhelming and barely-described ending involving an undescribed fight between pigeon-angels who show up suddenly on time against a legion of the most powerful vampires in the world (if you're confused, so was I) and then the vampires suddenly exploding into puddles of blood due to drinking the yang potion and yeah, idk, it was all pretty lame.

The only concrete thing I know is that Xia Ke's master blew himself up in a kamikaze move against a bunch of vampires. Because of some reason. I'm unclear as to why he couldn't escape or bluff or bribe his way out—especially the latter two, considering how utterly s*upid and incompetent the vampires are. It's hard to tell if they're s*upid because this is supposed to be a comedy or if they're s*upid because the plot wouldn't work otherwise.

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The problem this story develops the further it goes is that it tries to make huge plot points and big reveals, but writes everything super casually regardless of whether it's supposed to be an exciting moment, an impassioned one, or dramatic—so it undercuts any kind of emotional weight or connection to the characters. Yes, this is a comedy, but as it went on it started treating everything like a joke so it quickly became confusing and sometimes downright annoying, especially because the punchlines were generally unfunny.

The relationship between the CP (and their own character arcs, such as they were) eventually stopped developing and just became another joke, with Zhao Nao becoming the hapless fluttering one and with Xia Ke openly sympathetic to his plight but steadfastly believing Zhao Nao's feelings are the result of his spell. And then they recognize each other's feelings and like rote they become a generic couple and that's it with no further growth. The fluff and relationship comedy disappear as the story instead focuses on the weird confusing vampire plot that isn't very funny. The story repeatedly insists that the vampires are the powerful cruel arrogant underlords of society and then constantly portrays them as bumbling fools who can't do anything right—so they never feel like a threat and they're also not particularly entertaining.

If this were a manhua, it'd be one of those comedic ones that you read for a while because it starts off funny and cute, but eventually drop because you realize it's completely shallow and it starts getting way too complicated and kind of boring, and then you forget about because there's better stuff out there.

Comedy doesn't have to be shallow. But this story ends up being not very comedic, is vague and confusing on details, kills the chemistry between the CP, and is totally shallow without any attempt at depth or anything other than joke after poorly executed joke. The sad thing is it doesn't even qualify as slapstick or having any hijinks because it's almost a little too serious while also being way too casual—which doesn't make any sense! But somehow that's what this story is.

Criticisms about under-description and confusing plot aside, I feel like maybe this story is just not to my taste as clearly a lot of other readers out there think it's hilarious and cute and love it. I enjoyed the beginning chapters but started getting bored and confused and kept reading in the hopes it'd get better again, but no, I disliked it more by the end of the main story because the beginning had been so promising.

I'll finish reading the extras because I've come this far, but I don't have high hopes for them.

FINAL UPDATE FOR EXTRAS:

The first extra is a short little cutesy scene that doesn't really add anything and ends a little oddly in that I expected there to be more but nope that's it. It not really adding anything except being cute isn't a criticism as it's an extra, after all, but I made that note because I was hoping the extras might help bolster the crash-down of the main story and sadly... no.

The last extras are a little AU story where Xia Ke is basically the same poor OP magician who magically gets paired up with Zhao Nao, only this time Zhao Nao is hiding the fact that he's a vampire, and neither of them is aware of the other's identity. It's actually fairly cute and silly and doesn't overstay its welcome (it's only three chapters long) unlike the main story. It's much more in line with how the main story started out, as the two leads comedically dance around each other trying their damndest to hide their identities. Xia Ke thinks a masked vampire has started following him to kill him and is determined to protect both himself and his precious Zhao Nao, while Zhao Nao thinks a hooded magician is following him and is trying to kill him and must protect his darling Xia Ke.

Honestly, I'd say skip the main story and just read the last three extras. I'd give those a good standalone 3.5-4 stars. The main story started off cute and funny but the majority of the novel failed to live up to that lively beginning. <<less
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panthecakes
panthecakes
October 9, 2024
Status: c18
This is so good.

I usually read historical danmeis but this is actually so fun so far. The magic was so entertaining and the world build up is fun and modern

Protag is adorable and ML is so straight laced logical he is filling all the blanks Protag is causing bc of all the magic

Vampires, angels, and monsters are also real.
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natsuriayuko
natsuriayuko rated it
June 8, 2025
Status: Completed
A cute BL about a funny magician, his green flag ML prone to jumping to conclusions, and the magician's three adorable wand-wielding mice. The plot is solid, and the pacing is great. If you're looking for an easy read, then this novel fits the criteria.

This has one of the nicest endings among all the danmei I've read. It's satisfying, and the extra chapters are pure bliss
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especially the magician x vampire lord AU

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Draka
Draka rated it
May 7, 2025
Status: Completed
The author of this novel uses a very casual writing style, so the plot and characters aren't very impactful. The MC doesn't seem very materialistic, although he wanted to marry the ML for money, he was simply desperate, and now he's trying to divorce the ML (though not actively).

Because the MC doesn't communicate with the ML, the ML often quickly jumps to conclusions.

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Spoiler

The ML thought he had developed a split personality because he couldn't remember marrying the MC. After getting blackout drunk once, he saw the MC was hurt and assumed he himself was a gaslighting domestic ab*ser. He became convinced that every time he drank, his other self emerged (he thinks he has a double personality). It made me wonder whether he always drank until he blacked out.

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The comedy genre is definitely hinted at, but it isn't actually funny, and the romance feels sudden even though we already knew the ML liked the MC.

I'm sure the MC was too busy fighting vampires & cooking to develop feelings for the ML. There was no build-up to the MC's feelings so it feels sudden, the story focused mostly on the ML's, which is a bit of a shame. <<less
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BoriCats
BoriCats rated it
April 15, 2025
Status: c11
2.5 star.

It had good premise but weak in execution and terrible in making the characters act realistically. They sometimes turned dumb, wide lipped, careless, whimsical and several OOC tendencies.

It could have been good, there are moments that make it tolerable but I can't just stand that convenience and sloppy writing. It's less of a lazy writing but more on the incapability of the writer to create realistic scenes, emotions and reactions.

I want to love it, as it was a short book, but damn I can't stand the incroguity of some... more>> characters. Even if I have to use several braincell as this could fit the non-sense genre, it was still terrible for me. I have been reading passable stories this past few days and despite their problems, at least their execution and sense of realism was there, as it was the standard. And if this book could not achieve that, then it would be a jarring read for me.

It had a little potential, but the writer needs more than just writing improvement, maybe a psychology lesson on reality? They author need to understand more how humans' mind and emotions work. <<less
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