Qu Yueying is a novel’s go-to moonlight-white supporting character. His job is to come between the top and bottom leads, adding drama to their earth-shattering romance and helping them reach a perfect happy ending.
But he played the role too well, turning the lovers against each other and completely derailing the story.
Under the resentment of countless worlds, Qu Yueying is forced to return and do his best to get the leads onto their destined paths before time runs out.
A good plan, except Qu Yueying has forgotten all his memories of the mission worlds.
World One: Cold on the outside, soft on the inside top x rabid-dog bottom / smiling fox bottom
Qu Yueying arrives twelve years after the mission ended. The high school campus setting has become an urban crime thriller.
The whole city is in the grip of a serial murder case. The former top lead is now the prime suspect, while the bottom lead is the head of the task force, locked in a fierce clash with him.
On the first night after Qu Yueying gets hired to clean the top lead’s villa, he suddenly dreams of New Year’s Eve fourteen years ago. The unruly school bully is curled up in the shadows of a stairwell. His pitch-black eyes brighten for a moment when Qu Yueying opens the door.
They are inseparable, but always walk one ahead of the other, never overly affectionate in public.
That is, until the top student who transferred in appears, forcing his way between them and taking Qu Yueying’s place as his “best friend.”
The trio’s battles of wits and bickering carry them through the two most important years of their lives, until Qu Yueying disappears from both their lives for good.
Today, fourteen years later, Qu Yueying looks at the gloomy, double-door top lead gripping his right hand, then at the cold, arrogant bottom lead holding his right hand, and finally feels his heart sink for good.
World Two: A heavenly shaman fallen into the dust top x the first swordsman’s junior-brother bottom / an aloof senior-brother bottom
On the snowbound mountain of Wangxu Sect stands a tower. Though now dilapidated and plagued by demons, it was once gilded and carved in jade, its spire reaching the heavens. After climbing 9,999 steps, one would find a white-robed shaman sitting at the top, as beautiful as a jade statue, governing the world’s meridians and commanding its endless spiritual energy.
When Qu Yueying returns, his once-spotless feet sink into the mud, and spiritual energy no longer circles him. He has become a mortal through and through. The once world-renowned sect has vanished, leaving only the swordsman who guards the mountain. He puts an arm around Qu Yueying’s waist and leads him away, softly calling him, “Senior Brother.”
Then the sects of the world join forces to hunt them down. The swordsman holds Qu Yueying in his arms and faces the blades and swords alone until he collapses from exhaustion.
The leader of the cultivators advances against the light. Qu Yueying recognizes him: the sect’s prodigy, and the senior brother he abandoned.
The cultivator, whose name is known throughout the world, takes Qu Yueying from the swordsman’s hands, just as he did before.
For the next hundred years, the swordsman and the cultivator fight to the death.
World Three: Loop
“As long as the loop continues, I can keep seeing you.”
The entertainment industry, star and fan
Qu Yueying, a once-famous movie star, dies on his twenty-fifth birthday.
After going through the loop ten times, the time traveler finally discovers that the one who killed Qu Yueying was Qu Yueying himself.
Qu Yueying notices that someone is a little strange. They have never met, yet this person knows what he likes and dislikes, reaches out to help when he falls, and quietly keeps him company along a road battered by wind and rain.
Reader’s Guide:
1. The bottom has multiple incarnations. Both leads are sexually inexperienced.
2. The main stories in the mini-worlds have tragic endings, the extras have happy endings, and the final ending is happy.
3. The characters’ values do not represent the author’s.
Theme: Those who love never perish