My Wife Is the Beloved Heroine, and I’m Just the Cannon-Fodder Side Character!

[Dual male leads, primarily from Lead 1’s perspective, one-on-one, pure sweetness with no angst, somewhat naive, an alternate universe with no regard for common sense, an enormous golden finger. A once-cold, later-flirtatious entrepreneur top x an irritable, sharp-tongued, older beauty who’s gone bankrupt.]

Yuan Lang, a rich second-generation heir who inexplicably went crazy and squandered his family fortune, couldn’t get the man he loved. He swallowed half a bottle of sleeping pills and died in a hotel bathtub.

When he opened his eyes again, he was in the apocalypse. He was lucky enough to awaken a water-based ability. What’s more, after being attacked by a mental ability user, he learned that all the inexplicable things that had happened before he transmigrated were actually the result of mind control.

He wasn’t willing to accept it! While battling zombies in the apocalypse, he actively searched for a way home. But to his surprise, his teammates attacked him from behind. Infected with the zombie virus, he became one of them and awakened a mental ability.

Yuan Lang should have lost his self-awareness, but somehow he retained his memories as a human. By devouring crystal cores, he became the Zombie King!

However, the zombie virus gradually robbed him of his emotions. Yuan Lang endured nearly thirty years of loneliness. When he saw several powerful ability users from different bases fighting over a man until their schemes were exposed, Yuan Lang thought of an incident involving someone he’d known in his previous life and found the whole thing tiresome. So, while dealing with the zombies and other mutated creatures, he simply blew himself up, taking the man and his followers with him.

Unexpectedly, the explosion sent him back to before he had transmigrated. He discovered that he was a minor cannon-fodder character in a story about a beloved, universally adored protagonist. Under the influence of the protagonist who was the story’s bottom, he had helped one of the top protagonists level up and become infatuated with the bottom, only to die in the end.

Unfortunately, by the time he returned, the story had already reached its finale. The moment was precisely when he opened the cap of the sleeping-pill bottle…