What are the essential ingredients of a melodramatic romance?
1. A bottom who won't speak up.
2. A top who would be better off without a mouth.
3. Truths and misunderstandings they can never bring themselves to talk about.
The top in these stories is cruel to the bottom, and even his words of concern have to come out sounding harsh.
The bottom, meanwhile, often has a mouth but says nothing, left to endure the taunts in misery.
Eventually, the bottom can't take the top's temper anymore and runs away, leaving the scumbag top behind to drown his regrets in drink.
Then comes the chase, the desperate escapes, taking a bullet for each other and risking their lives. After a few melodramatic twists, the misunderstanding is cleared up and the lovers end up together.
Readers have one question: What good is having a mouth if you don't use it?! If you'd just talked sooner, none of this would have happened.
The readers' resentment reached the Central Bureau, and 011 readily accepted the assignment.
His mission is to make every scumbag top speak up.
[World One: Coldhearted CEO top x Substitute canary]
You are the scumbag top in a melodramatic substitute romance. Your unrequited love went abroad, and you miss him terribly. So, the moment you lay eyes on the protagonist bottom, who resembles your unrequited love, you force him to be yours.
You want his body, not his heart. You give him money, help him finish his studies, and stand up for him when others bully him, but you don't love him.
Your heart belongs only to your unrequited love.
After your unrequited love returns home, you treat the protagonist with cold indifference. When the protagonist and your unrequited love are both in danger, you choose to save your unrequited love, ignoring the protagonist's peril.
The protagonist is utterly crushed and finally runs away. Only after losing him do you come to your senses and realize that the protagonist bottom was the one you loved all along.
After hearing the script, the CEO looks at the chain around his wrist, then at the protagonist beside him, who is supposedly his substitute and is smiling eerily.
CEO: Is there something wrong with this script?
#So who exactly is forcing whom to be theirs?
World Two: Fallen minister top x Emperor (former hostage) bottom
You are a powerful minister, ruthless in your methods but loyal to your sovereign and country.
The protagonist bottom once lived as a hostage in the cold palace, hungry and poorly clothed, with everyone taking the opportunity to kick him while he was down. But when he was falsely accused of stealing and sentenced to kneel in the snow, you saved him. From that moment on, you became the only thing tying him to this land.
When he grows up, he takes revenge and seizes the throne, dragging you into the imperial palace along with him. You resent the fact that good people never get what they deserve, and hate him for destroying your home and country.
So on the first night after he takes you back to the capital, you slap him.
After that slap, your relationship turns cold. Later, he imprisons you and forces himself on you. You hate him, so you secretly contact your former allies to bring him down.
Only after he dies do you realize you love him.
After hearing the script, the minister stares expressionlessly at the protagonist on top of him. As the System's shrill alarm blares, he slaps the protagonist across the face without hesitation, then says, "Actually, I love you."
The hard-working protagonist stiffens and looks up, white fluid still at the corner of his mouth. He offers his other cheek: "Say that again."
Minister: ...So this is what he's into.
World Three: Foolish bottom x Top who cheats him out of money, not affection
World Four: Demon Lord top x Loyal subordinate who secretly gets pregnant
World Five: Spoiled local male insect x General with very well-developed pecs
[This is a fictional setting and has nothing to do with reality. Please do not draw parallels to real life.]
1. Episodic story, with a different protagonist in each installment. The order may differ from the one above.
2. Not your typical scumbag top and masochistic bottom.
3. A brainless, fluffy little sweet treat. Posting this as an advance notice.
Theme: Love makes people brave.