The Paranoid CEO Questions His Life Every Day

Jiao Li happened to read a melodramatic, angst-filled novel.

The business tycoon Xu Gaoang was deeply in love with the original protagonist, but the protagonist fell for his senior, the very man who used him in every possible way.

He even risked his life to go undercover for his senior, pretending to be in love with Xu Gaoang.

Xu Gaoang watched it all unfold until he could take no more. He decided to kill the senior right in front of the protagonist.

The protagonist begged Xu Gaoang to spare him. Xu Gaoang smashed a wine bottle on the floor. "Want me to let him go? Crawl over this broken glass first."

And the protagonist really did crawl across it. Enraged, Xu Gaoang went mad with the desire to kill the senior, only for the protagonist to stab him with a fatal blow.

When Jiao Li transmigrated into the book, he was on all fours, about to crawl over the broken glass.

Jiao Li had always been afraid of pain and death. The moment a shard of glass cut his palm, he burst into tears. "It hurts... T﹏T. Crawl over glass, my ass... Waaaah... Whoever wants to crawl can do it... It hurts so much... Waaaah..."

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Xu Gaoang was reborn with one purpose: revenge. Following the original plot, he planned to get rid of the senior and keep Jiao Li trapped by his side, making him suffer for the rest of his life.

But that night, Jiao Li didn't crawl over the broken glass as he had in the previous life. Instead, he cried about how much it hurt while cursing up a storm.

He seemed to have become a crybaby who was afraid of dying and not very bright, too.

Xu Gaoang shoved him against the wall and said coldly, "You think acting stupid will make me spare you?"

Covered in red welts from an allergic reaction to insect bites, Jiao Li cried, "Waaah... Am I going to die?"

The old Jiao Li: "Please, let me go!"

The Jiao Li of today, calling every half hour: "Um, when are you coming back?"

This guy is so handsome. What if some other man hits on him and steals him away?

The old Jiao Li: "I don't like showering with other people. I'm not used to it."

The Jiao Li of today, staring fixedly at Xu Gaoang's abs: "Showering together saves water, and I can scrub your back, too."

The old Jiao Li: "If you dare touch me, I'll bang my head against your bed and kill myself!"

The Jiao Li of today, blushing, both shy and excited: "Um... should I lie on my back or my stomach?"

Reader's Guide

1. The protagonist transmigrates into a book; the love interest is reborn. The love interest is reborn! Reborn! Reborn! He doesn't like the original protagonist! Doesn't like him! Doesn't like him!

2. I meant to write a silly comedy, but it might not be that silly. Apologies in advance to anyone who cringes hard enough to carve out the Louvre.

A crybaby with a fear of the dark, pain, and death, an abs-loving pervert who's scatterbrained and impulsive, the protagonist vs. a cold, violent-looking love interest, scarred inside and consumed by revenge, who's constantly caught off guard

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Upcoming: How an Introvert Can Win Over a Villain

Everyone knows that Wen Rui'an, the Wen family's adopted son, is nothing but a pawn for the family's interests. He's an odd loner and a stutterer, too.

After being betrothed to the villain, Fei Jiangyi, he was shut away in a villa and ignored. Before long, someone pushed him into a lake, where he drowned. His body wasn't found until it had swollen in the water.

After transmigrating into the story, Wen Rui'an has no choice but to raise the villain's favorability toward him and make himself noticed, or he'll be a goner.

Wen Rui'an has two problems: he's extremely socially anxious, and he's broke. But when you're pursuing a big shot like the villain, you've got to make a grand, romantic gesture.

So Wen Rui'an ordered a delivery runner and had him aim a megaphone at Fei Jiangyi's office building. The runner's passionate reading echoed throughout the whole company.

Then, for Fei Jiangyi's birthday, he hired a team of waist-drum performers to play Good Luck Is Coming at the party.

He became famous overnight, and everyone started calling him a social menace.

After enduring one mortifying public incident after another, Fei Jiangyi finally couldn't take it anymore and cornered Wen Rui'an in his car.

"What exactly are you trying to do?"

Wen Rui'an twisted his fingers together, his heart pounding. At last, he took out his phone and sent Fei Jiangyi a message.

"I just... want to be friends."

Fei Jiangyi: "..."

Wen Rui'an nervously tried to raise Fei Jiangyi's favorability while keeping himself from getting too close to him.

Then one day, he found a marriage agreement between himself and Fei Jiangyi in a box. It stated that they would be married for three months, after which Fei Jiangyi would give him a manor in Haicheng in the event of a divorce.

Wen Rui'an's eyes lit up. "I have a manor? All to myself?"

As the deadline drew near, Wen Rui'an decided to lie flat.

Wen Rui'an: "Hurry up and make time go faster! Send me off to my manor in the cruelest way possible!"

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At first, Fei Jiangyi thought Wen Rui'an was as odd as the rumors said, and that the Wen family had planted him as a spy.

But as they spent more time together, he realized that aside from being a little quiet and introverted, and over-the-top when expressing his feelings, Wen Rui'an was adorable and irresistible.

Yet the man who'd been making grand declarations of love to him just yesterday suddenly went quiet. His daily good-morning and good-night messages stopped. Packages and food deliveries no longer came under Wen Rui'an's name. After waiting two days, Fei Jiangyi couldn't stand it anymore and went home, only to find Wen Rui'an had left behind an agreement and a brief note. He was already gone.

At the airport, Wen Rui'an had barely gotten out of the car when he saw enormous posters on both sides of the terminal. They featured his face, with roses photoshopped into the foreground and several colorful words:

"Missing Person Notice: The Love of My Life!"

Then came a message.

Fei Jiangyi: Get back here now, or I'll turn your photos into a PowerPoint and have them playing around the city 24/7.

Extremely socially anxious protagonist whose actions make him a world-class extrovert vs. a villain who keeps embarrassing himself in public but gradually falls hard

Theme: Even when you're covered in scars, you still deserve something better