After Qiao Ran died, he was bound to a Backup Male Lead System. To gain his freedom as quickly as possible, he diligently played the devoted lapdog while also taking a side job as a villain's unforgettable first love.
As everyone knows, a first love is supposed to be unforgettable, and then leave. The assignment was short, so he was sure he wouldn't mess it up.
But just as he'd finally completed 99+ S-rank worlds and was happily imagining his retirement as a god, his boss suddenly summoned him back to the worlds he'd visited before.
Before he could get angry, his superior swiftly shoved a progress report at him.
According to the report, nearly every world he'd visited was suffering from energy disorder and teetering on the brink of collapse.
The protagonists were no longer protagonists, and the supporting characters were no longer supporting characters. And the root of all this evil...
What the hell? Why were all the villains he'd won over in those little worlds the same person?
Qiao Ran, who felt just a tiny bit guilty, fell into a strange silence.
*World One
Before the mission: Canary stand-in seme x tsundere CEO uke
After the mission: After returning to the mission world, I stole the CEO's first love
Qiao Ran had an extremely possessive CEO boyfriend who wouldn't let him spend much time with friends or escape his control. But every so often, his boyfriend would help him out, making him feel loved. The over-the-top emotions were just proof that his boyfriend cared about him.
Then one day, his boyfriend's first love returned from abroad. Qiao Ran finally understood that he was merely a stand-in, and that his boyfriend had long since kept him like a canary with clipped wings.
If its owner wants to abandon it, all it can do is beg and plead.
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World Two
Before the mission: Impoverished top student seme x playboy celebrity uke
After the mission: If I say I don't care, then I really don't. Who says you're the only one who can treat me like a backup?
Qiao Ran and Tang Sheng grew up together, though their personalities were complete opposites. One was quiet and reserved, the other cheerful and outgoing. As the gap in their looks widened, the cheerful one naturally became everyone's favorite, and that included Qiao Ran.
But unlike everyone else, Qiao Ran was forever given the title of Tang Sheng's best friend. In Tang Sheng's words, he was a childhood friend unlike any other. The distance between them was always kept just close enough, yet just out of reach, at Tang Sheng's whim. Even after their relationship became something more, Tang Sheng still didn't care that it had happened.
Qiao Ran was like a loyal dog. He claimed not to care, but he would always stay behind Tang Sheng and never leave.
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Before the mission: Spoiled rich kid seme x fussy, high-maintenance uke
After the mission: I'll be spoiled and do what I want. At least I'm more independent than those people who think they're the most miserable person in the world and that everyone should cater to them :)
Note: A black-hearted lotus villain seme who seems fragile but is actually a lunatic x a hot-tempered, formidable uke who's genuinely righteous through and through in the real world
Theme: Sigh
