[Reader advisory: This story is anti-Qiong Yao, rejects familiar tropes, and has no romantic pairing. Every romantic scene is an “unwilling” performance forced by the System.
The protagonist has a clear goal: survive and save the country. Can romance compare to killing Japanese invaders?]
Du Fei, a young man born in the 1990s who grew up “poisoned” by Qiong Yao dramas, has an accident and becomes Du Fei, the hapless man with a cloud hanging over his head, doomed to love without being loved, in Romance in the Rain.
Even worse, a damn “Qiong Yao Plot Maintenance System” binds itself to him. He has to follow the original plot and be Ru Ping’s devoted lackey? Watch the hero and heroine suffer through a tragic romance?
Du Fei screams inwardly: I refuse to be a melodramatic background prop.
But the System’s electric-shock warning hangs over his head.
So Du Fei can only grit his teeth and “do the job,” spouting the most awkwardly “passionate” lines in history while recklessly pushing the System’s rules to their limits.
In the 1930s, the most important thing isn’t love. It’s the war that’s about to come.
A devoted lackey? Not a chance! He plays along with the plot on the surface, while secretly stockpiling supplies, building connections, and learning new skills.
Using his job as a reporter as cover, he finds openings between Master Qin’s underworld and Deputy Adjutant Li’s loyalty.
At last, the artillery fire of the Marco Polo Bridge Incident shatters the System’s shackles.
Du Fei tears off the miserable mask of “Du Fei” and becomes “Pangolin,” a blade striking behind enemy lines.
He blows up arms depots, rescues comrades, passes on intelligence, and kills Japanese invaders.
