Don't Think Your System Can Steal My Childhood Friend

[The main story is complete! I'll add the other bonus chapters when I have time, so here's a bonus chapter for now.]

[Check out my upcoming story, The Poor Little Omega Forced Into His Boss's Arms. It's a bit of a messy forced romance. If you're interested, take a look!]

Severely dependent on Jiang Tian x A temperamental tsundere who says the opposite of what he means

Jiang Tian and Chen Yunqiao have been inseparable childhood friends, relying on each other for seventeen years.

But lately, Jiang Tian has felt that something is very wrong with his childhood friend...

The first time, Chen Yunqiao inexplicably agreed to switch seats with a transfer student, making Jiang Tian so mad he started avoiding him whenever he saw him.

Yet a week later, Chen Yunqiao was waiting quietly for him downstairs from the dorm, holding a carton of milk. His attitude was completely different from the cold distance he'd shown the week before.

The second time, Jiang Tian thought he'd lost the memory card for his camera. When Jiang Tian asked him about it, Chen Yunqiao couldn't even be bothered to offer an explanation.

Jiang Tian thought he was planning to cut ties for good. He lay in bed sadly, thinking about deleting Chen Yunqiao from his contacts, but the very next second, Chen Yunqiao showed up at his door with a bag of gifts and an apologetic look.

Watching him lower his head and beg for forgiveness, Jiang Tian was even more confused.

If he felt so sorry and guilty, why had he acted that way before?

This strange behavior kept happening, a third time, then a fourth... Chen Yunqiao would suddenly act distant, only to come back the next day with his head bowed, trying to make it up to him.

Finally, Jiang Tian couldn't take it anymore. "Is my childhood friend insane or what?!"

A villain dies unexpectedly in his own world and is assigned to a higher-level world. He can gain the energy to come back to life only by completing a mission to break up the protagonists.

However, he soon discovers that even with his feelings controlled by an item and his body no longer obeying him, Chen Yunqiao still can't let go of his feelings for Jiang Tian...

After many twists and turns, an opportunity finally arises for Jiang Tian to open the diary Chen Yunqiao has kept so carefully hidden:

"I don't want to sit apart from Jiang Tian... I can't stand watching him chat with someone else. Why? Why can't I refuse? Why, why, why..."

"I don't want him talking to other people. He can't talk to other people. He can't leave me. I don't want him to, I don't want him to, he can't..."

"Stop controlling me. I don't want to treat him like that at all."

"Please don't ignore me anymore..."

Jiang Tian, who had just been coldly rejected: ?

After learning that Chen Yunqiao's cold behavior hadn't been his choice, and that he was suffering too, Jiang Tian decides to win him over with understanding and trust.

They clear up their misunderstandings again and again and reveal their feelings to each other, and their relationship gradually settles into something stable.

Surely he won't write anything sad in there anymore...

Jiang Tian sneaks a look at the notebook again:

"He didn't blame me."

"Such a good boy."

"I like him. I like him so, so, so much."

"His fingers look so pretty when they're curled. The little beauty mark under his eye is pretty too. I want to bite it."

"Baby's bangs have gotten longer. When they sway, they cover half of his pretty face, and I can't see his eyes."

"He can't leave me, and I can't leave him."

"He can't."

"..."

Wait a second.

Jiang Tian raises his head in confusion.

At some point, a shadow has fallen over him from behind. A breath brushes the red mark on his neck, freshly bitten there last night, and a low, amused voice murmurs:

"How much did you see?"

PS: One-on-one, both are each other's one and only, and the villain has a System! He gets a fair amount of focus early on, but it's purely mission-related and he has no romantic feelings for the gong. The gong may be affected by the System at times, but recovers quickly. There's a little bit of angst and regret later on, but overall it's a lighthearted story.

Theme: Bullies never get a happy ending.