After Everyone Mistook Me for a Big Shot

Who could have imagined that one day a System would drop out of nowhere and tell you the world was just a novel?

Song Jingzhao found himself in exactly that situation.

The bad news: it was a story that tortured its protagonist. The good news: he wasn't the protagonist.

But the System's mission was to save the protagonist.

As a bit player who never even appeared in the original story, Song Jingzhao felt sorry for the protagonist's miserable lot, then very sensibly refused.

The System didn't accept refusals, though, and forcibly shoved an item at him.

Song Jingzhao: I'm not going out of my way to do any missions.

Then, while bravely stepping in to help someone, he accidentally stumbled into the original story.

Seeing the protagonist so full of life, Song Jingzhao couldn't bear to stand by and watch him meet his inevitable end.

So Song Jingzhao decided to pretend to be a rich second-generation heir and protect him. But why was his background in everyone's eyes gradually becoming something unspeakable?

Before meeting Song Jingzhao, Jiang Xu'an thought this was probably all life had in store for him.

Those leering looks made him sick. He hated being scrutinized like a plaything, but silently putting up with it was all he could do.

His mother's medical bills weighed on his shoulders. He couldn't afford to be willful.

It was fine. As long as he filled every spare moment, it wouldn't hurt so much.

But could fate really look down on him with compassion?

Song Jingzhao. The name was like a light piercing the darkness, bright as the sun.

Could he be a little greedier, then, and hold that sunlight in his hands?

Jiang Xu'an was a famous icy beauty in the entertainment industry, but everyone in the business knew that this untouchable flower had long since been plucked.

Everyone knew that someone powerful was backing Jiang Xu'an, whose career had always gone smoothly. But whenever anyone asked, they would clam up and simply point upward.

A seemingly ordinary top who can pull strings and call the shots in front of outsiders × a pitiful, lovesick bottom who is the protagonist of an angst novel

Here's a peek at the next novel I'm planning to start. If you're interested, dear readers, please add it to your favorites. There's a direct link in the pinned comment below.

"The Sky Screen Spreads Rumors That I Keep a Harem at Court"

Blurb:

Meng Ying was just an ordinary wage slave. After transmigrating, this total fraud worked hard to maintain his child prodigy persona and achieved the feat of placing first in all five imperial examinations. But because he was handsome, the dog emperor simply waved a hand and appointed him third-place winner.

Just as he accepted his lot and diligently continued his life as a wage slave in ancient times, the sky screen appeared.

Meng Ying accepted this, too. So what if he'd transmigrated into a novel about a sky screen? He quickly switched into gossip-watching mode.

But why was the sky screen listing him?

What did it mean by “The Great Qianyuan Top and His Harem”?

Was this right?

Why did everyone believe it? He really was innocent!

What has the world come to? Why does a wage slave who transmigrated have to be slandered by a sky screen, too?

Theme: Never surrender to fate