How to Properly Play the Rebound's Role (Quick Transmigration)

My upcoming novel, “How Should an Ordinary Person Play a Role? (Quick Transmigration),” is open for follows~ Blurb: #How to Play a Competent Backup?# At the Backup Department’s annual gala, Xie Ci, a veteran who had earned a perfect score for his performance as the top backup of the year, smiled and answered, “It’s simple. When they pull away, you move closer; when they come closer, you pull away. Check on them, stay devoted, hide your feelings, and never give up. Make your character a contradictory mix of pathetic and unexpected, then add some melodrama. That’s pretty much it.” The newbies listened, only half understanding. Xie Ci patiently explained, “It’s okay if you don’t get it. Just remember, the appeal of our backup characters is the angst. The flirtatious playboy humbles himself for them. The aloof, cold-tongued loner fusses over them. The ambitious schemer gives up his plans for them. The one who can’t tell love from anything else comes down to earth for them.” “Once the other person takes the bait, you move on to the final stage and strike back. Follow that process, and your character will be sufficiently well-rounded, earning you a high evaluation score.” He spoke so gently, yet somehow gave everyone goosebumps. Arc One: Xie Ci had a childhood friend, and the two had been inseparable their whole lives. Everyone thought they would naturally end up together, but then his childhood friend suddenly fell for someone else, who happened to be a mutual friend. Xie Ci forced a smile and offered his sincere congratulations. When his childhood friend and their mutual friend argued, Xie Ci, the eternal backup, was still there to comfort him. In the end, his childhood friend and the mutual friend broke up, and both of them came to confess to him. [Content warning: A villain will harass the bottom midway through the story, with melodramatic angst involving the bottom being forced into a relationship with him. This takes up a lot of the story. The bottom is immersed in his role, with scenes of him feeling humble and inferior. It’s old-school, angst-heavy melodrama, with no pregnancy. The bottom does not sleep with the villain, and the villain is not the true top. There is no NTR. There is also an amnesia plot. If you dislike these things, please don’t read.] Arc Two: Xie Ci is a married man. But someone transmigrated into his husband, and the soul that arrived had the plot of a harem-seeking novel’s ultimate top in its hands. Xie Ci pretended to be sensitive and deeply in love with his “husband.” He quietly and patiently endured the attention his husband attracted, acting as though he would silently put up with it even if his husband cheated. The ultimate top gradually fell for Xie Ci’s gentle, domestic nature, and rejected all his admirers for him. Once the backup score was maxed out, Xie Ci exposed the transmigrated soul and bluntly told him he hated him, ordering him to give his husband back. Arc Three: Xie Ci is a notorious playboy in the capital. He is fickle, flirtatious, and has a long record of misdeeds, yet he has one person in his heart: his moonlight. His moonlight is the refined and elegant son of the prime minister, the capital’s most celebrated young gentleman. How could such a high-minded gentleman ever care for a spoiled playboy? So the playboy shamelessly kept trying to get close to him, restraining his unruly nature. He cooked meals for him over one offhand remark, and was willing to throw away his dignity for a single look. Even when he knew he was being deceived and used, he only smiled and said it was fine. When slapped on one cheek, he offered the other. Until one day, his moonlight’s identity was revealed. He was not the prime minister’s biological son. The real moonlight in the playboy’s heart had always been the true young master. Arc Four: Xie Ci is a refined scoundrel of an assistant, with a slim waist and long legs. The assistant is in love with his boss, and their relationship is ambiguous and hard to describe. Unfortunately, the boss has many lovers and sees the assistant mostly as a subordinate. The assistant quietly harbors his love and remains utterly loyal, always helping his boss devise plans. The boss is an ambitious man who doesn’t trust his assistant and is always on guard against him. He refuses to believe the love he sees in the assistant’s eyes. The assistant deals with the boss’s lovers, but the boss thinks he’s cheating on him and trying to take his place. So, when the backup mission ends, the assistant really does take his place, becoming someone his former boss can only yearn for from afar. [Important, please read] [The protagonist immerses himself in each role, so there will be plenty of inner thoughts from the backups he plays in each world.] 1. The ending is one-on-one, as usual, with the top’s split selves. Not everyone involved with the bottom is one of the top’s split selves. Everyone loves the bottom. 2. Extremely melodramatic. I’d call it a grand slam of angst. Some worlds have a very old-school melodramatic feel, so proceed with caution. 3. Don’t ask who the top is. You’ll find out in time. The top is very virtuous. 4. Extreme top fans and bottom fans, please don’t read. 5. The characters’ values do not represent the author’s. The author is a good young person who follows the core socialist values, sob. The cover has been changed to a character design I commissioned myself, sob. Advance follows welcome “How Should an Ordinary Person Play a Role? (Quick Transmigration)” I’m a bottom-rung office drone. Downturned fish eyes, dark circles from staying up late, and a loose, drab gray hoodie are my everyday look. I often feel like a programmed NPC, and not even a high-level one. Aside from eating, sleeping, working, and lowbrow entertainment, it seems I can’t unlock any other behaviors. But somehow, boring, bland, ordinary me has suddenly started having a run of romantic luck. Including, but not limited to: A client who shamelessly flirts with me and slips me a room key. A curly-haired coworker whose gaze grows more and more evasive when we’re face-to-face. A boss who hints that I can climb the ladder as long as I’m willing to pay a certain “price.” And the male high schooler next door, who is all over me while pretending to be innocent… I’m genuinely terrified. For an ordinary introvert who’s afraid of socializing, this sudden flood of admirers, like an absurdly powerful buff, is enough to make me break down and scratch my butt. I sighed, looked at the 1, 2, 3, 4… luxury cars parked in the residential complex below, and worriedly cooked my ninth bowl of instant noodles in a few days. Instant noodles and novels. I love reading trashy, melodramatic quick-transmigration stories. In this fast-paced era, this sort of toilet literature is perfect for a nobody like me to unwind with. ① Rich omega seeking a child x honest beta you You’re an honest laborer from the countryside. Even though you’re a beta, you have a set of wheat-colored muscles and look strong and intimidating. Your employer is an omega whose husband died young. They’re still in their prime, and their vast estate needs an heir, so after careful consideration, they set their sights on you… But you’re just an honest person. You can’t understand your employer’s hints or the back-and-forth of high society. You’re foolish, useless, and honest. You never dare to think about climbing the social ladder. Even when your employer stands before you with their clothes half undone, you think they’ve just gotten them dirty and want you to take them to be washed and starched. All you can think about is your beta fiancée, waiting for you to go home and marry her. Until one day, you wake up and find your beautiful employer lying beside you… Your usually refined and gorgeous employer is now waiting for you to take responsibility, eyes glistening with tears… [The top is an omega and always remains an omega. The top gives birth using technological means. No role reversal.] ② Devoted, domestic him x two-timing you You often feel grateful to have such a considerate spouse. You and your husband have been together since high school. When you graduated college and started a business, your husband gave up his own career to devote himself to helping your small company, running around so much that he eventually damaged his health. Now your business has grown, and people outside increasingly call you a “big boss.” With that comes more and more temptation. At first, you managed to resist, but many of your successful friends were living it up. They mocked you as “henpecked” and “cowardly.” So, in a fit of anger, you tried wrapping an arm around the slender waist of a young man beside you for the first time… ③ Rich kid who approaches the poor on a bet x poor climber who knows the score, you You’ve always known he looks down on you and mocks your poverty and miserable circumstances behind your back. But it doesn’t matter. You only want to climb by using his influence, taking advantage of his guilt and unease to get money and a future. Of course, if he falls in love with you, even better. You’re perfectly willing to pretend to be sincere and play the devoted boyfriend. Then you can become a bloodsucker clinging to him. Once you’ve drained him dry and he’s no longer useful, you can trample him underfoot and get revenge for the way he once toyed with you and looked down on you. ④ Overprotective motherly master him x disciple with a string of failed romances, you If your master were your mother, you think you’d be a textbook mama’s boy. Your master raised you from childhood and gave you nearly everything she thought was good for you, granting your every request. So, naturally, you can hardly bear to be apart from her. Until you meet someone you like for the first time. That period is so sweet you almost forget everything, including your master. But after the honeymoon phase, you and the person you love start arguing constantly. You think of your master, who is like a mother to you, and rush into her arms, urgently pouring out your troubles and begging for her comfort and embrace. From then on, your romances begin quickly and end even faster. But at least your master is always there for you… ⑤ Clingy, haughty young lady type him x resentful, gloomy, money-hating little man, you ⑥ Villain who can’t have you and puts a love curse on you x accommodating-to-everyone you ⑦ Cold, abstinent stepfather him x carefree playboy you ⑧ Gender-swapped Tomie him x dull, studious you It’s just fiction. Who cares about values? Real life is already depressing enough. The more shocking it is, the more it helps me relax. Without a care, I clicked on the first chapter. The moment I opened it, everything went black before my eyes… In all my years alive, I never believed in transmigration or quick-transmigration systems. But no, they’re actually real! And now I, an ordinary person and a bottom-rung office drone, am about to become a hardworking beta with dark skin and huge breasts, a two-timing scumbag, a heartless fortune-seeking climber, a gloomy little man who hates the rich, a useless lackey, a playboy, a mama’s boy disciple… Fortunately, the System told me that if I complete the role-playing missions, I can uninstall the universally adored buff that was forcibly installed in the real world. Thinking of those gloomy days of being followed, spied on, and subjected to forced confessions of love, like a mouse exposed to the blazing sun, I chose to give in… Theme: Love life and turn toward the light.