One day, Shi Qing went out to buy groceries and found two books.
The first was an old-fashioned scum-gong-and-doormat-receiver novel.
Sixty percent of the story was sex scenes, and forty percent was angst for angst's sake. The whole thing had no logic and no nuanced romance, just a protagonist gong whose lower half acted on its own and a protagonist shou who stupidly forgave him.
It was the kind of novel where no matter how awful the protagonist gong was or how trashy the plot, the protagonist shou had to lose brain cells and chant that true love conquers all.
And, as luck would have it, the idiot in the story who risked his life while chanting that true love conquers all was named... Shi Qing.
Shi Qing: ...
Setting that novel aside, Shi Qing opened the second book with mixed feelings and discovered that the two novels' plots could be connected into a series.
In the first book,
the scum gong and the doormat shou forced their way to a perfect ending. A minor character had played a huge part in making it happen: the child adopted by the Shi family, Shi Qing's big brother, the villain Fang Miao.
In the first book, the villain Fang Miao was a mindless rage machine who existed mainly to push the gong and shou's romance forward.
But the plot of the first book didn't carry over into the second. This book told the story of a reader who had read the scum-and-doormat novel and accidentally transmigrated into the villain Fang Miao.
The reader, now the protagonist of the second book, used his remarkable charisma to become not only universally adored, but also the cause of a fight between the original protagonist gong and Shi Qing, the protagonist shou.
Meanwhile, he thrived in this book with its two great weapons: the plot and a devoted simp.
Incidentally, that simp was Shi Qing.
"..."
Same old story in a new wrapper.
Watching himself grovel in both books, Shi Qing was so disgusted by his own pathetic behavior that he fell apart.
Blurb 2
Shi Qing is a doormat shou in a modern cultivation novel where everyone cultivates, while Fang Miao is a shou who transmigrated into a book and knows the original story by heart.
In the original story, Shi Qing and the protagonist gong were madly in love. Fang Miao was just a casualty in their love story.
Shi Qing and Fang Miao: one is a wealthy heir who was switched at birth, and the other is the Shi family's scheming adopted son.
One day, after the Shi family's adopted son and cannon-fodder shou accidentally hit his head, the all-around talented Fang Miao, a shou who transmigrated into a book, took the place of the villainous cannon fodder. He not only thrived in this story, but became everyone's beloved moonlight, so charming that even the original protagonist gong and Shi Qing, the protagonist shou, fought over him...
After unexpectedly getting hold of the plot book, Shi Qing looked at his own simp-like behavior and thought about how crazily he'd acted for love. Then he realized something.
Before Fang Miao transmigrated into the story, Shi Qing was the doormat shou in a scum-and-doormat novel, the protagonist shou who went three hundred rounds with the protagonist gong, who was exceptionally well-endowed and had stamina to spare, and then ran off with a house?
After Fang Miao transmigrated into the story, Shi Qing became the simp Fang Miao, the universally adored transmigrated shou, used to fend off admirers. An ultimate simp who came with property and threw himself at Fang Miao.
The simp Shi Qing spent his whole life fighting wits and courage with the protagonist gong for the sake of Fang Miao, the transmigrated shou...
Having read this far, Shi Qing thought for a long while. He looked at his mansion and sports cars, glanced at the strange thing beneath his feet, opened a drawer to check the flying sword he wasn't allowed to use today, and took out the certificate for a special species his father had given him. Completely baffled, he wondered why he had to be a doormat shou or a simp.
Aggrieved, Shi Qing took out his diary and wrote, full of indignation:
"No way, no way. How can this long tongue of mine still not be enough to please him?"
"As the original story's doormat shou, I can still get the protagonist gong's property. As the transmigrated shou's simp, all I can do is throw myself at him."
"I'm not giving away my house. Nobody gets to touch my property. Dating is out of the question. I've already married my house."
"Come to think of it, being a rich family's simp isn't worth it!"
"But... why is the transmigrated shou looking at me more and more strangely?"
Whenever Fang Miao saw Shi Qing getting all touchy-feely with the protagonist gong, he thought of the intimate scenes between Shi Qing and the protagonist gong in the original story, and his gaze grew even more ferocious.
Shi Qing, who accidentally saw this: "?"
Theme: Strive relentlessly