Synopsis: Three struggling authors wanted to combine their worlds and write a single novel, but ultimately abandoned the project.
Unwilling to disappear, the System mutated and developed an independent personality. It abandoned the two original potential protagonists, who were both unbearably arrogant and powerful, and chose a third slacker as its sole protagonist.
The mischievous System didn't tell the protagonist who he was, and even tricked him into thinking someone else was the real protagonist.
With help from an insider System, it coordinated from within and without to keep the two arrogant hotshots and the hapless scapegoat running in circles.
Yuan Zhong had been a slacker to begin with. After the System chose him as its protagonist, he became an officially certified scapegoat, forced to seek a way to survive amid the bitter rivalry of the two big shots.
I muddled through and kept my head down. How did I somehow become a big shot while keeping my head down?
Wait, I'm a big shot now, so why am I still such a hapless scapegoat?
I'm so resentful. I hope the protagonist can toughen up.