Reborn as a Scumbag, Forced to Win Back My Husband

This is a collection of standalone stories, each featuring a different protagonist in a different world.

Key elements: a scumbag with a love-addled brain and his partner are both reborn, and both are bound to Systems. The scumbag has ulterior motives, but the love-struck partner still insists on believing in perfect love.

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1. Raised under strict expectations, he played at being a brother with his family. After growing up, his family went bankrupt and he became someone’s kept lover and stand-in. In truth, he knew he was being used as a substitute for himself, treated his benefactor like a free housekeeper, and coldly watched as they fell in love with him before humiliating them.

2. A master predicted that he wouldn’t live past twenty-one. Hoping to exchange fates with someone, he had people torment a hapless man who had been unlucky since childhood, then appeared as his savior. He planned to trick the man into staying by his side until the right moment to switch their fates and steal his destiny.

3. Though he was dealt a dirt-poor hand, he was compassionate from childhood and believed everyone in the world had their reasons and was having a hard time. So this self-righteous scumbag forced his equally poor partner to help everyone else.

4. In an infinite-flow world, he received a death invitation and tearfully begged his boyfriend to sign his name and enter a deadly survival game in another realm, while he stayed safe and carefree in the real world. A selfish scumbag who valued his own life above all else.

(For the other story blurbs, read them as they come. Same old story with a different coat of paint.)