Reborn After Being Forced to Play the Villainous Cannon Fodder

(Returning to the 1990s. The story is set in that era, with a bit of a coming-of-age arc for the bottom. Some details aren't professionally researched, so please don't flame me.)

After the urban romance tragedy comes to an end, where did the vicious male supporting character who vanished without a trace go?

Wen Ting is a vicious male supporting character. He holds grudges, does many terrible things to the main bottom, and nearly kills him by mistake. Everyone hates him. Even his own older brother tells him to go die.

Everyone thinks he is dead, without even a scrap of bone left. But in truth, the most powerful follower of the main bottom has imprisoned him and tortured him in secret. One day, a man once ran out of a towering, ancient mansion in the mountains, disheveled and half-dressed. He was barefoot, and every kiss mark on his neck and wrists spoke of unrestrained passion. His whole body gave off a wanton air.

His hair was tousled in places and tangled with fallen leaves, as though he had crawled out of some cave. He looked utterly wretched as he frantically told passersby that he had been imprisoned, begging them to call the police.

At dawn, a car approached from a short distance away, and someone got out. The tall man held a sturdy leather leash in his hand and walked slowly toward them. His presence was so commanding that it seemed everything and everyone fell under his rule. At the end of the leash was an elegant, agile hunting dog with a sharp gaze.

The beautiful man went limp on the ground almost the instant he saw him.

The man holding the leash picked up the beautiful man and apologized to the passersby, saying he was ill.

As he turned away, his deep voice rang out.

"Artemis, let's go back."

The muscular hunting dog followed its master. The beautiful man in his arms seemed to have lost all ability to resist from the moment he saw the tall man.

After several years imprisoned by Xi Yinchuan, Wen Ting died. When he opened his eyes, he had returned to the age of seventeen, just as the main bottom was being brought in by his family.

"Second Young Master, how about having him be your study companion from now on? Didn't you say it was no fun being alone?"

Looking at the main bottom's innocent, pure face, Wen Ting remembered how he had been manipulated in his previous life into forming a clique to bully him. "Take him away. From now on, I only want to play with dogs."

Given another chance at life, he doesn't want to get involved in anything. He refuses to explain himself and becomes the biggest slacker in the capital.

This is an age of economic growth: the Asian Games, the housing boom. There are so many things he could do. Why get mixed up with these men in a messy gay relationship?

One day, the slacker runs into Xi Yinchuan, the man who imprisoned him in his previous life.

The slacker pretends to be calm.

Xi Yinchuan: "Artemis had just turned one month old when you took it away. You moved pretty fast."

The slacker: "...It's called Fugui now."

In his previous life, Xi Yinchuan tortured Wen Ting until he was on the verge of death. As Xi Yinchuan held his chin and asked whether he regretted what he had done, Wen Ting acted without thinking and kissed him. After that, things took a strange turn.

Given another chance at life, the slacker's instincts tell him to stay away from this lunatic, but whenever the lunatic unbuckles his belt, the slacker's legs go weak.

Damn it!

Vicious man x world-weary man / ill-mannered x lunatic, a match made in a rotten pot.

Theme: Independence and resilience