As a cannon-fodder character in a novel about an irresistible heartthrob, Yu Xuci always seemed unbearably stupid next to the protagonist.
The people around him were always calm, yet laced with disdain.
Including the readers outside the book.
No matter how many times Yu Xuci tried, earning nearly perfect grades in hopes that others would finally notice him, it was always useless. He even became the target of ridicule.
He carried his memories with him as he went through one life after another.
The umpteenth time he was set up by characters who adored the heartthrob protagonist, only to die while serving as a foil to him...
A darkened Yu Xuci unexpectedly bound himself to the Fate-Changing System 9110 and gained the chance to change his destiny.
After opening his eyes again as a cannon-fodder character,
he found himself back in the familiar setting of his first life. Yu Xuci chose to get to the root of the problem and deal with the source of his misery...
[First Life: The Wretched Canary Substitute]
You are the young master of a family fallen on hard times.
In the original story, your family fell into ruin, and because your face resembles your childhood friend's unrequited love, your aloof childhood friend took you in as his kept canary.
Years of pampered living left your head empty.
As you spent day after day with him, you fell in love with your childhood friend.
He promised you forever and told you he would love only you, putting you on a pedestal.
Until four years later.
His unrequited love returned from abroad.
You watched the man who had once treated you so tenderly grow more and more distant, coming home later and later.
Until one day, at a gathering with friends,
you saw the young man beside your childhood friend, the one who looked just like you. Countless people around him looked up to him. Only you looked at the childhood friend at his side.
Your proud nature would not allow a flaw in your relationship.
So, once your anger had passed, you prepared to break up with your childhood friend.
But when you stood outside the bedroom,
you heard him tell his unrequited love all about how they had caused your family's business to go bankrupt.
They spoke with cold indifference.
As they talked, they looked down on your past misery and on the pathetic way you had once thanked your childhood friend for helping you, as if mocking an ant struggling to survive.
Overcome with rage, you suffered a heart attack and died behind that door.
-
After Yu Xuci was reborn into this life,
the plot had already driven him from young master to kept canary.
Only this time,
his sugar daddy was no longer his childhood friend, but the aloof, adored heartthrob who had once been everyone's darling.
The young man he remembered as cold and distant, pursued by countless people, now knelt to kiss the corner of his eye, softly confessing his love.
Yu Xuci looked at his childhood friend, who was glaring at him from outside the door. He tilted the young man's face up and asked quietly, "Is that so?"
[Second Life: The Hated Real Young Master in the Apocalypse]
As the real young master everyone hates, you are beautiful and awkward.
In the original story,
you were brought back at sixteen, and next to the fake young master, the irresistible heartthrob, you seemed clumsy and mediocre, impossible to like.
Even your powerful ex-boyfriend thought you were utterly awful.
He approached you and became your boyfriend only because of a casual bet with the heartthrob fake young master.
So, a year into your relationship, you broke up.
But six months after your breakup, the apocalypse began.
An accident brought you back together.
Beautiful but awkward, you struggled to survive in the apocalypse, growing as thin as a beanpole. Even your once somewhat attractive face had lost its luster.
Your ex-boyfriend, meanwhile, had awakened an ability.
When you met again, you were still worlds apart.
He still looked down on you as if you were some miserable wretch.
Even getting back together with you
was only a way to vent his anger on the heartthrob fake young master.
-
After Yu Xuci was reborn, his former "little brother" became his boyfriend.
Against the brutal backdrop of the apocalypse,
he remained untouched by worldly concerns, protected by the heartthrob fake young master.
Even the "ex-boyfriend" who had once been sick of him became a dog trailing behind him.
Even when Yu Xuci finally drove a knife into their chests with his own hands,
they could only ask him through bloodied tears if he had ever loved them, even for a moment.
"Of course not."
[Third Life: The Heartthrob Adoptive Brother's Secret Lover]
[Fourth Life: The Homophobic Adoptive Father with Paralyzed Legs]
[Fifth Life: The Sickly, Obsessive Movie Star's Assistant]
[Sixth Life: The Green-Tea, Seductive Homewrecker]
[Seventh Life: The Mild-Mannered Husband Falsely Accused of Cheating]
[Eighth Life: The Golden Phoenix Who Flew Out of a Small Village]
[Ninth Life: The Stupid, Empty-Headed "Cannon-Fodder"]
[Reading Guide]
Old-school flavor
Sliced gong / both leads are virgins / no logic / some worlds feature toxic relationships / full of old-school, melodramatic angst / self-indulgent writing / fictional setting
The characters' values do not represent the author's values.
Blurb posted on 2025/11/28
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Theme: Only by moving toward the light can you keep going with conviction.
