How to Misread a Cliche-Filled Novel

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Ji Chi was bound to a System.

The System wanted him to play the abused, miserable protagonist in all kinds of melodramatic novel worlds, suffering both physical and emotional torment.

Ji Chi glanced at the tasks the System assigned him, then promptly took all those physically and emotionally torturous scenarios and applied them to the male lead instead.

World One:

Ji Chi was a pitiful stand-in kept by a CEO because he looked so much like the CEO's first love. He was supposed to endure a string of melodramatic plot points: being misunderstood by the male lead, scorned by him, and broken up with by him... before finally reaching a happy ending with the male lead, who would suddenly realize the error of his ways.

When they reached the scene where the male lead got drunk, went into the wrong room, and slept with the original host, Ji Chi looked at the male lead, who was leaning over him, dead drunk. He suddenly sprang into action, pinned the other man beneath him, and slept with him instead, right before the System's horrified eyes.

Afterward, Ji Chi lounged against the headboard, smoking a post-coital cigarette. Grinning at the frantic System, he said, "Didn't you tell me to give the male lead an unforgettable first time? I did a great job."

Still smiling, Ji Chi flipped through the script. "Let's see what other scenes we have."

"Kept lover contract," "a tortured romance," "a showdown with the first love," "..."

Ooh, spicy!

Ji Chi grinned even more broadly.

Sunny, energetic male college student x cold, abstinent CEO with terrible luck

World Two:

Ji Chi was an innocent young nobleman who knew nothing of the world. In the original script, the male lead, who belonged to the opposing faction, concealed his identity and infiltrated Ji Chi's circle. Ji Chi was deceived in both body and heart, and ultimately lost his family and home.

Ji Chi chuckled and betrayed his side right from the start, pledging himself directly to the male lead's master.

Watching the male lead remain clueless and occasionally look at him with guilt and remorse, Ji Chi would even feign concern and ask, "What's wrong?"

A little scene:

Ji Chi: "I saw this position in a book today. Want to try it?"

The male lead took the little illustrated smut book from Ji Chi, his cheeks turning red as he stammered, "N-no, maybe not."

Ji Chi studied him, then asked as if it were nothing, "About last night..."

The male lead, who had gone out to pass on information the night before, looked at him guiltily. "Don't say it. You can do whatever you want to me."

World Three:

In this interstellar story, Ji Chi's new identity was an utterly ordinary Beta. He was framed and sent to the male lead's bed.

Facing the Imperial major general, who was deep in a drug-induced heat, he used his usual trick: seduction.

After a night of frenzied passion, Ji Chi made a quick getaway. The Alpha known as the strongest in the empire scowled as he recalled everything that had happened the night before.

As he searched everywhere for the culprit behind that night, he also noticed that something strange seemed to be happening to his body.

Staring down at his slightly rounded belly, he silently wondered if he'd been eating too much lately.

World Four:

In the infinite game, the lowest-level E-rank instances were usually places where players could take a break and have some fun.

Every NPC there was fair-skinned and beautiful, and had extremely low combat ability.

The male lead was a newcomer hailed by all players as a human killing machine. No one knew why he had come to such a low-level instance, until he walked out of a beautiful NPC's room and his teammates gave him a knowing smile.

The male lead still had a little toy someone had just put inside him. He gritted his teeth, doing his best not to show any sign of what he was feeling.

Later, he went in and out of that beautiful NPC's room so many times that everyone began to feel sorry for the poor NPC.

The male lead glowered at the idiots crowding around Ji Chi and fussing over him, unable to explain the irritation he felt.

Did they even understand that he was the one having the rotten luck here?

In the game lobby, everyone was horrified to discover that the ordinary E-rank instances they knew had all been marked with striking red insignias.

Those marks were reserved for instances ranked SS and above.

Besides those, Ji Chi's scripts included: the pitiful victim of school bullying in a campus novel, the unlucky ex used by the male lead to overcome his romantic tribulation in a xianxia novel...

After completing one plotline after another, Ji Chi felt there was still more fun to be had. He eagerly asked the System, "Are there any other tasks? The more exciting, the better."

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