The Passing Extra Won Over the Original Story’s Big Villain

1,

After working overtime all night, Zhou Tan dropped dead. When he opened his eyes again, he had been bound to a System that forced him to keep a sugar baby.

The System said he had transmigrated into a book, but that was fine. He was just a bit player on the fringes of the plot, an unnamed passerby who never even appeared in the original story. The original plot didn't matter to them.

Their goal was to get some energy outside the plot and extend his life.

Zhou Tan: How do we do that?

System: Easy. First, keep a poor high school boy.

Zhou Tan: ?

The damn System left him with a shameless task and disappeared. Zhou Tan looked at the life countdown on the System panel and sighed.

He was just an ordinary, law-abiding citizen. How was he supposed to play the domineering CEO?

While he was fretting over it, the poor high school boy showed up at his door of his own accord.

2,

It was pouring, and the streets were deserted. Zhou Tan was about to close up early when a hand stopped the rolling shutter halfway down.

The boy's school uniform clung to his soaked body. He looked like a stray dog caught in a downpour, with nowhere to go. He asked Zhou Tan if he could stay in the shop for a while.

Zhou Tan glanced at the raindrops clinging to the boy's lashes and the bloodshot veins in his eyes, then nodded.

He turned on the shop's little electric heater and fetched the boy a blanket, then dozed behind the register.

When he opened his eyes again, the boy was asleep beside the heater, wrapped in the blanket.

After taking the boy in a few times, Zhou Tan stared at the glaring countdown on his life and thought it over for a long while before taking out a sponsorship agreement.

3,

At last, the System, which had been offline for ages, found time to return. When it saw the poor high school boy Zhou Tan was "keeping," it gasped and shrieked nonstop.

The noise made Zhou Tan's head ache. After hearing what the System had to say, he looked silently at the boy sitting beside him, peeling fruit.

Zhou Tan: You're saying he's that deranged villain from the original story, the one who imprisoned the protagonist shou and forced him into a relationship because his love went unrequited?

System: That's! Right!

Zhou Tan: ...

The System earnestly tried to talk him out of it. "Host, it's not easy to get enough energy to extend your life. It's not worth risking yourself for this task. In the original story, the protagonist shou would have died at his hands if he hadn't had the protagonist's halo..."

Zhou Tan raised a hand, and a fluffy head immediately burrowed into his palm. The boy rubbed against his hand, gazing up at him with sparkling eyes. "Ge, I just washed my hair. How is it? Does it feel nice?"

The System's words of warning abruptly stopped.

...?

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Yan Sui was reborn, but fate had given him no chance to change anything. He had returned at a point when every disaster was beyond saving, at the darkest time of his life.

He had already uncovered the truth in his previous life. After being reborn, he had no interest in going around in circles with those people again. He planned to take all his enemies down to hell with him, simply and brutally.

It was pouring on the day he was reborn. Standing in the rain, Yan Sui came up with several lunatic revenge plans in just a few minutes.

His younger body was weak and frail. When he came to his senses, he coughed and found a shop by the roadside to shelter from the rain.

He never expected that after stepping into that little shop, with its warm lights, he would never put those mad plans into action.

He had grown greedy for someone.

And with that came the desire to stay alive.

Reading Guide

* A reborn gong who's a real rabid dog but pretends to be a puppy in front of his shou, and a transmigrated shou with no experience keeping a sugar baby, who follows a youth education handbook and ends up raising the kid only to be thoroughly devoured by him.

Yan Sui & Zhou Tan

* The gong is reborn, and the shou transmigrates into a book. The gong has no interest in the original book's protagonist shou and never forces him into a relationship. The original story's description was inaccurate and did not match the truth. They are each other's first love and mutually devoted, and they love each other deeply.

* As usual, one-on-one, happy ending, the gong and shou are endgame.

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