When Yu Xing wakes up, he learns that he's the villainous supporting character in a modern urban novel on Dianjia.
His stepbrother is the male lead: a refined, elegant, and considerate chosen one. Yu Xing, on the other hand, is merely the male lead's father's illegitimate son, a vicious, frivolous, and stupid little cannon-fodder character.
"But the readers all like you," says a voice in his mind, claiming to be the System. "So we can grant you one wish. Think of it as a reward for being a popular character."
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The System says Yu Xing can wish to become the novel's male lead, replacing his stepbrother.
Because he's always jealous of the way his family favors and cherishes his stepbrother, jealous that his stepbrother has a complete family, and jealous of the bright future everyone else sees in him.
The System says Yu Xing can also wish for the person he secretly loves to fall madly in love with him.
Because he and that person are always arguing and getting on each other's nerves, and the "young master" born into a prestigious family could never have anything to do with an illegitimate son like him.
The System says Yu Xing can also wish for his current fiance to become someone more to his liking.
Because Yu Xing doesn't actually want to marry someone he hates, but his father has "given" him to that person anyway for the sake of the family business.
The System offers him many specific, detailed suggestions, but none of them are what Yu Xing truly wants.
He snaps the twig in his hand and says, "I want them to suffer just like me."
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After he makes his wish, the System disappears, and Yu Xing assumes it was all just a daydream.
The next day, people still treat him coldly because he's an illegitimate son, and nothing in his life has changed.
Until his stepbrother comes to pick him up after school and tells him that their father has had an accident and is in the emergency room.
His brother says, "You hate Dad, don't you? If he dies, could you stop hating me and be with me instead?"
Until the person he likes uses every dark, twisted method at his disposal to drive away Yu Xing's friends.
The other man says, "I like you, Yu Xing. Don't have any friends besides me, okay?"
Until his fiance becomes gentle, affectionate, and clingy.
The other man smiles at the door, eyes curving as he asks, "Why are you avoiding me? Shouldn't we be together every moment, baby?"
Content warnings:
Various flavors of gloomy, obsessive top x highly sensitive, vicious bottom. The top doesn't fall for the bottom because of the wish.
The stepbrother and the bottom are not related by blood and are not registered in the same household. The top is sexually pure.
An overwhelming amount of forced love, along with unrequited love. Twisted, melodramatic, cathartic angst. The top is a terrible person from beginning to end.
The blurb says the bottom is vicious. If you can't accept a vicious character, don't read. Opening this story means automatically signing the agreement not to insult Yu Xing.
Theme: Family harmony
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