You're a walk-on character in a romance novel. Your main task is to have a crush on members of the main cast to show off their charm.
You finish pining after one person and move on to another, with no preference for gender.
When work gets busy, you get extra scenes, like sabotaging a romance, playing dumb to trip people up, or watching the male lead get kissed by force...
You: Huh? That last task doesn't sound right. Oh, it's a damsel-in-distress script...
So far, you've done an excellent job as: an assistant to an assistant to a magician, a fan of a high school martial artist, the childish neighbor of a maritime self-defense officer, a spectator at a rich person's birthday party, and a traveler who was rejected after confessing to a foreigner...
Your next assignment is to have a crush on the president of the science club.
Halfway through the mission, a flash of green light passes by. In the blink of an eye, more than three thousand years go by, and when you open your eyes, you're given a retirement assignment.
You: Awesome, I get to skip decades of work!
But with such a huge jump in time and no coworkers to help, you sometimes have to play the villain, and even the heroine.
The assignment is to obstruct everything the science club president does, then successfully force a kiss on him.
You: Poor guy. Is he on a damsel-in-distress script too? ...Wait?
As you struggle with this assignment you've never seen before, you turn your head and find your former crushes staring silently at you.
You: Uh-oh. I'm doomed.
Content warnings:
1. Eight male love interests; modern-day crushes in the first half, forced love in the Stone Age in the second half
2. The heroine is sarcastic, an acting pro on the job, and genuinely pours her heart into her crushes
3. The point of view and pronouns are all over the place, and everyone gets their own bitter, unrequited-love story
Theme: A secret crush is silent admiration and imitation
