Jiang Yan is a seasoned corporate drone, facing endless overtime, impossible KPIs, and a bleak future of working himself to the bone every day.
Until one day, he suddenly awakens a reward System.
The world he's in is a redemption novel. The protagonist bottom uses warmth and acceptance to save the self-loathing protagonist top, who has a tendency toward self-destruction.
The System wants Jiang Yan to play a gloomy, underhanded cannon-fodder villain who pursues the protagonist top by any extreme means, so the top will accept the protagonist bottom sooner and achieve a happy ending.
Jiang Yan: "I'm straight, and the protagonist top already has a tendency toward self-destruction. Wouldn't pursuing him so aggressively be kind of awful...?"
System: "Succeed, and you'll get fifty million."
Jiang Yan didn't hesitate. "What's this about being awful? I love playing matchmaker!"
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Jiang Yan starts showing up beside the protagonist top, Xie Xuan, every day. He sends him creepy texts, stalks him, picks up things he's thrown away, and forces him to endure the disgust of being near him.
Xie Xuan can't stand him, but can't find a way to fight back, so he has no choice but to endure the humiliation.
Jiang Yan works two jobs every day and is exhausted. One night, while lying on Xie Xuan's bed to complete his check-in task, "Xie Xuan's dark, greedy aura," he falls asleep on the spot.
When he wakes, he sees Xie Xuan's eyes red-rimmed as he reaches out and grips Jiang Yan's wrist tightly.
Jiang Yan: He's so disgusted with me he wants to get physical. Looks like I'm doing a great job on my mission, hehe.
The next second, Xie Xuan leans in and kisses him squarely on the lips.
Jiang Yan's eyes fly open. My fifty million!!!
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Xie Xuan has known since childhood that he's good-looking. He has countless admirers and has never paid them any mind.
Until Jiang Yan shows up, taking secret photos of him every day, stalking him, and picking up things he's thrown away.
Half a head shorter than him, yet still able to pin him against a wall with one hand, Jiang Yan says in what he thinks is a creepy voice, "You can only be mine. I want to eat you alive."
When Xie Xuan looks down, he can see Jiang Yan's pale skin beneath his white shirt.
And Jiang Yan's supposedly hidden desire, plain as day in his eyes, for the taro-mash and mochi cakes in the display case behind Xie Xuan.
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Fake-creepy, genuinely despairing corporate drone bottom (Jiang Yan) x self-deluded, world-weary top (Xie Xuan)
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Theme: Work hard to change your fate
