I Keep Going Crazy [Interstellar]

For upcoming stories, check my author page: The God Only Wants a Vacation and My Sword Started Spreading Rumors Like Crazy After I Died.

Story description:

Xu Qingran was originally the villain in an apocalypse novel. After he died, the System pulled him into the world of another interstellar novel about a miserable protagonist. His father doesn't love him, his stepmother doesn't care for him, his innocent younger stepbrother steals his love interest, and a scumbag attacks him until he's barely alive. In the end, he gets a grand happy ending.

The System says: “So you have to complete missions to win people over, bide your time, improve yourself, and make a comeback by humiliating your enemies!”

Xu Qingran: Sure. When you hit someone, aim for the face.

And so he earns himself the title of master face-smasher.

The System says: “Act obedient to win back your father's love and reclaim the inheritance your mother left you!”

Xu Qingran: Sure. I'll be a good boy.

He kicks open the door and asks the horrible couple who have taken over his mother's estate, “Are you going to leave quietly, or do you want to be carried out?”

People say he's in love with his younger stepbrother's fiancé, and that he throws tantrums, cries, and threatens suicide to ruin their engagement party. He's spoiled and bad-tempered, the notorious eldest son of the Silver Dragon faction.

The System says: “You have a natural advantage in looks. Just learn a thing or two from a little green tea and clear your name. You'll definitely be more lovable than him!”

Instead, Xu Qingran accepts every accusation against him. Whatever two-faced green tea tries to mess with him, he takes them down, and even the arrogant Third Prince gives him a wide berth.

In the end, he makes every rumor about him come true and becomes the villain the whole empire knows not to mess with.

Xu Qingran: All living beings are equal.

He treats them all equally by refusing to show anyone respect.

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When the Shen family's youngest grandson was five, he gained a fiancée more than ten years his senior, named Xu Qingran.

That night, his strict young uncle, Shen Tingyu, a general of the Golden Wing faction, told him sternly, “Your fiancée is no good. Keep an eye on her.”

Later, Shen Tianyi thought his “fiancée” was fierce, but surprisingly easy to get along with.

His uncle told him again, “You're still young. I'll keep an eye on your fiancée for now.”

Some time later, he went to ask his uncle about his fiancée again.

In the study, his handsome uncle raised an eyebrow with a smile. “What fiancée?”

“You've got it wrong. The only thing I have is your aunt.”

Shen Tianyi: ?

#Where did his wife go?#

#How did his supposedly perfectly compatible soul match turn out to be wrong?#

#He's the third wheel in a love story, not even worthy of a name#

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Reading notes:

The romance stays one-on-one, with a happy ending.

Xu Qingran (bottom) x Shen Tingyu (top), no switching and no splitting them up.

The setting is a fantasy future, with lots of original worldbuilding!

The world and its background are fictional. The characters do not represent the author. Please don't read too much into it. Any resemblance is purely coincidental.

The writing and logic can both improve. Please be kind. Thank you.

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Here comes the cute divider

Next novel, The God Only Wants a Vacation:

This is an age when even the gods are competing for KPIs.

But Shu, a god in a mountain temple, sticks to his principles: if he can slack off, he will; once he's met his quota, it's time to rest. He refuses to join the rat race.

His goal: a vacation.

While sneaking off work when nobody was around, he accidentally gets trapped inside the body of a washed-up actor and becomes the human Xie Shu.

He can't take a vacation, and even has to keep doing his divine duties.

Because he is forced to carry a string of divine beads. Once a month, the string randomly goes missing. He has to grant one wish to whoever finds it, or face punishment by being struck by heavenly lightning.

And so, an unusual character appears in the entertainment industry.

During a variety show, while everyone else is doing ridiculous things to get screen time, he asks everyone he meets, “Have you found my beads?”

On a TV set, supporting actors are all using their connections behind the scenes to get more screen time.

Xie Shu: “Could you cut some of my scenes? I want to find my prayer beads and get some rest.”

Director: ?

Everyone else is fighting over roles in hot IP adaptations, while he refuses outright after the director chases him for three blocks, saying he wants a vacation.

His agent, realizing he has missed out on a fortune: Is something wrong with you?

Later, a rumor spreads through the industry: Find Xie Shu's family heirloom prayer beads and he'll agree to anything. So whenever his beads go missing yet again, news spreads at once and the search begins.

Xie Shu wakes up to discover the whole world is looking for his beads: ...

Doesn't everyone say people these days love workaholics? He's doing his best to slack off, so why does he keep getting more work?

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Shu lost his prayer beads once while coming down from the mountain.

A wealthy matron found them, grabbed him, and said, “It's you! You're the fated person the master said could break my son's destined calamity!”

“Please marry my son!”

Xie Shu, just about to ask what her wish was: ?

As Xie Shu tries to figure out how to refuse without disrespecting the person who made the wish, the matron says, “Thirty million! Just take my son!”

Xie Shu, who is living as a human and needs money for his vacation: “...Deal.”

The matron's son is Shang Heng, a CEO.

With his destined calamity drawing near, mishaps plague him and a terrible illness leaves him looking as if he could die at any moment. Xie Shu follows his divine duty to save the world and help people, takes the money, and saves the matron's son along the way to build up merit.

Shang Heng is always cold.

“We have to sleep in separate rooms.”

“Don't make our relationship public.”

“As soon as this is over, we'll get divorced.”

Xie Shu is relieved.

Later, Shang Heng overcomes his destined calamity and recovers from his illness.

Xie Shu waits for their fake marriage to end, but discovers that Shang Heng is secretly looking for his regularly lost prayer beads, and has even torn up their prenuptial agreement.

Xie Shu: “...?”

#What do you do when the short-lived CEO you saved refuses to get divorced?#

Theme: Life is something you make for yourself, one step at a time. Don't let the labels others put on you hold you back. Be brave and live the way you want.