As a new recruit at the Great Worlds Administration, Su Xiangrong is assigned to the newly established Cannon Fodder Male Supporting Character Department on his very first day.
His System reassures him that the department is pretty easy, and perfect for a beginner like him.
The System even pulls some strings to transfer him to an easier category: cannon fodder male supporting characters who fall obsessively in love with villain bosses!
The System says: Villains are all cold-hearted. They have no hearts and no love, and only use people. There's no way anything can go wrong!
He just needs to follow the plot, finish his scenes as the cannon fodder male supporting character, then leave the story and collect his reward.
Su Xiangrong happily agrees, only to find out after entering the story that he's been tricked!
Weren't the villains supposed to look down on him? Why does every world end with them turning evil and locking him up?
[Interstellar Mecha World]
Gorgeous mecha-master shou x villainous 3S marshal gong
In the story, Su Xiangrong is the original heroine's senior fellow disciple and a famous 3S-ranked mecha master in the interstellar world, but he isn't part of the protagonist's group.
That's because he's a hopeless romantic. He falls in love with the villain boss at first sight, then coerces and manipulates him into a relationship, forcing him to date him in exchange for building the villain boss a legendary custom mecha.
It's the very 3S mecha that nearly kills both the male and female leads at the end of the story.
In the end, after squeezing every last bit of value out of Su Xiangrong, the villain, who has patiently endured it all, heartlessly abandons him on a garbage planet to fend for himself.
Su Xiangrong follows the plot step by step. His scenes are almost over, and the villain has even become a marshal, but the villain's planned attack on him never comes.
Instead, the villain keeps taking advantage of him and, whenever they disagree, seems ready to repay him with his body.
Su Xiangrong panics and decides to go to the garbage planet himself to recreate the original plot. But just as he finishes packing and steps outside, he runs into the villain, who has hurried home.
The villain, now a marshal, closes the door with a smile and gradually backs him up against the sofa. "Baby, where are you going?"
[Ancient Court World]
Beautiful male-dressed-as-female cousin shou x unscrupulous common-born chancellor gong
In the story, Su Xiangrong is the perfect shield carefully chosen by the villain boss, as well as his nominal distant cousin.
With both parents dead and a spotless family background, Su Xiangrong is a fine public face for the villain. He also helps conceal the villain's real identity and wins him praise from all the people in the capital.
After all, the story of an orphaned young man who works hard to become the top scholar and raises his cousin all by himself is incredibly moving.
Su Xiangrong settles into his role as a young lady cousin and resolves to follow the original plot no matter what. Whether the villain assigns him to approach and ingratiate himself with the original male lead shou, or to marry a minor official, he can complete the task perfectly!
But why is it that, after the villain arranges for him to fall into the water and be rescued by a minor official, the official never shows up, and the villain jumps in and carries him out himself?
And why does he glare at Su Xiangrong, baring his teeth in anger, with none of the composure of a proper gentleman? "You wanted to elope with that man? Dream on."
[Western Fantasy Vampire World]
Beautiful, highly skilled doctor shou in a substitute marriage x crippled vampire prince gong
In the story, Su Xiangrong is a cannon fodder character who is completely infatuated with the vampire prince. He forcibly takes the heroine's place in the marriage, thinking it's a great opportunity. But when the villain discovers he's an impostor, he crushes his throat with one hand and kills him.
It's a quick death in this mission, so Su Xiangrong wants to get it over with fast. But the villain doesn't play by the rules and doesn't kill him.
Su Xiangrong has to come up with a plan himself and make a deal with the villain. If he can heal his legs, Su Xiangrong can leave the vampire's territory, which should count as completing the mission.
The vampire prince agrees. Su Xiangrong devotes several months to healing the vampire prince's knees, then eagerly asks to leave.
But the vampire prince turns him down every time. At his wit's end, Su Xiangrong plans to escape. That night, the tall vampire prince pins him to the bed, kissing him wantonly and imprisoning him in the castle.
"Why do you want to leave me? Wouldn't you rather stay here and be my wife?"
[Cultivation World]
Kind and resilient little-sunshine shou x calm, aloof beauty gong
In the story, the original heroine transmigrates from the modern world into a mortal family. She falls in love at first sight with the eldest son of another mortal family, the male lead. Together they advance in cultivation, enter the cultivation world, and eventually ascend together, becoming a romantic legend.
The villain is the heir to another mortal family. He also falls in love with the heroine at first sight during an outdoor spring banquet, but his love is unrequited. He eventually turns evil because of love, and after going through countless trials, gains immense power and nearly destroys the world.
Su Xiangrong's part is simple. He's the villain's childhood betrothed. After falling in love with the heroine, the villain wants to break off the engagement, and Su Xiangrong agrees. But at an archery and horseback riding competition for the young heirs of prominent families, Su Xiangrong and the villain have an accident and fall together to the bottom of a cliff.
Su Xiangrong dies on the spot, but the villain survives and, through a twist of fate, enters the cultivation world, beginning his tragic life.
In theory, Su Xiangrong's mission is simple, but unfortunately, he doesn't manage to die.
So he has no choice but to support each other with the villain as they make their way out of the ravine and enter the cultivation world. In the end, different sects take the two of them in.
Su Xiangrong thinks his part is complete, and that he won't have much to do with the villain anymore. But the villain clings to him like a piece of gum, insists on going everywhere with him, and keeps demanding that Su Xiangrong honor their engagement.
After the villain catches him getting too close to a fellow disciple again, Su Xiangrong wakes up the next day chained to the wedding bed the villain has prepared for him.
"Why can't you learn to behave, baby? I'll teach you how to listen."
[1] Both are each other's first love and both are virgins.
[2] Refreshing wish fulfillment, silly and sweet wish fulfillment.
[3] The author loves this sort of thing. The gong has no morals and loves only the shou. If he can't have him, he turns evil, then locks him up and forces himself on him. This is self-indulgent writing, so don't read it if it's not your thing.
Theme: Helping others is a virtue.