I Was Clearly the Fourth Male Lead, So How Did I Become Everyone's Darling?

[Pre-release: You can find Reborn? First, Pay Your Respects to the Random Extra in my author’s column~] Genius painter Wei Yun woke up one day to find he had transmigrated into a harem danmei novel as the fourth male lead. The protagonist, Xie Zhou, was born with a constitution that attracted the supernatural. The center of attention wherever he went, he drew countless admirers who coveted him, and was ultimately forced to undergo a transformation. When Wei Yun transmigrated, his own character, the cannon-fodder fourth male lead, had just invited Xie Zhou to an empty villa to paint his portrait and confess his feelings. Meanwhile, the evil spirit No. 1 who protected Xie Zhou, the inscrutable masked No. 2, and the wolfdog No. 3 who despised Wei Yun all knew about his plans to confess. Each watched him with a meaningful look. Wei Yun: ...As an ordinary human, this is an awfully thrilling start. The hand holding his brush paused for a moment. He lowered his eyes, then looked up and said to the protagonist, as if nothing were amiss, “Sit up straight. We’re here to paint properly, nothing else, thanks.” Xie Zhou, who had assumed Wei Yun had ulterior motives, stopped moving and narrowed his eyes. At some point, everyone began to notice Wei Yun gradually changing. The painter, once gloomy in appearance, took off his mask, revealing a refined and beautiful face. He was always absorbed in his painting, eyes lowered, seeming cold and focused. Not even evil spirits or supernatural beings could shake him in the slightest. At first, Xie Zhou was merely curious. Before he knew it, he couldn’t help turning his gaze toward Wei Yun more and more often. That curiosity slowly changed into something else, beyond his control. Until one day, Xie Zhou began to think he was sick. The heart that had grown amid malicious vines began beating again. Because of his painter. Fragmented, dissociative, obsessive seme X transmigrated-into-a-book, refined painter uke [Blurb first posted: March 10, 2021] [Pre-release] Reborn? First, Pay Your Respects to the Random Extra Wei Xiu lost his job. He woke up one day and ran into a System. System: Hey, want to follow the plot? We’re the Random Extra System. The story takes place after the novel’s ending. You just need to walk across the street as part of the crowd when the protagonist’s story concludes, and you’ll get a fifty-million-yuan bonus. A task this easy? Wei Xiu eagerly agreed. Who knew that after the story ended, just as he’d crossed at the traffic light and was getting ready to go home for dinner, the male lead who had died across the street would suddenly be reborn? Their eyes met, and the man immediately decided Wei Xiu was the mastermind behind everything. Then he clung to him like a ghost. Wei Xiu, who was only supposed to play the role of a random extra: ...? Damn. That System is a scam! It only said the story would be over when he appeared. It never said the protagonist could be reborn at the end! Pay up! & I Guide People Through a Strange World is a comic with a botched ending, written in the cosmic horror genre. The author described a series of stories set after anomalies returned and ancient horrors awakened, when all kinds of supernatural ability users took the stage and showed off their powers. But after a spectacular start, the story ended prematurely. The protagonist’s group died for no apparent reason in a supernatural incident during their showdown with the villains, as suddenly and unexpectedly as a meteor falling from the sky. Just as readers were cursing the botched ending and wishing the author’s whole family ill, the comic quietly updated with a new chapter. The popular male lead who had just died was reborn. Readers: ...? The reborn male lead opened his eyes and locked gazes with an utterly ordinary office worker waiting to cross the street at a traffic light. The next second, in the midst of everyone’s stunned silence, the male lead latched onto him. Readers: ...? What the hell does this mean? Wait, could it be... this ordinary-looking office worker is actually the mastermind behind everything, and only showed up after the male lead died? Not sure. Let’s see what happens. Wei Xiu: No, I’ve been framed! This is outrageous! & Convinced that popular character Jin Lin had a screw loose, Wei Xiu couldn’t accept losing out on the fifty-million-yuan bonus, so he filed complaints with the System every day. Fed up with his endless appeals, the System decided to give him another chance. This time, Wei Xiu decided to play a different person as he “passed by.” But the second male lead, who should have been written out of the story, was reborn too! And he latched onto Wei Xiu as well. The third time, the fourth time, the fifth time... The System watched helplessly as Wei Xiu played a random extra several times and managed to create a whole bunch of reborn people: ... At last, it was time for the final random-extra scene. Wei Xiu was tired. He gave up and sprawled on the lawn in a park. Ha, surely nobody’s getting reborn this time, right? The next second, he turned his head and saw a pair of unfamiliar eyes that seemed to be smiling. Wei Xiu: ...? As the comic’s one and only evil god, Xie Hui often lurked behind the scenes, manipulating everyone like playthings. Recently, however, He had noticed that the supernatural ability users who should have been following the clues He laid out had gone off script. After waking up with completely changed personalities, every one of those ability users inexplicably went after someone else: an utterly ordinary human office worker. Interesting. After it happened again and again, Xie Hui raised an eyebrow and turned His gaze toward the man with keen interest. The office worker watched by the whole world: ...! Readers who thought the story was over: ...? Wait. Who exactly is he?! P.S. I really am just a random extra! Unknown-traits, overworked office worker uke VS Guess whether I believe you, thrill-seeking evil god seme Theme: Saving and comforting each other, and staying true to yourself through adversity.