Yu Tang, a little milk candy spirit, had barely joined the Backup Lovers Group when a mix-up landed her a deadly assignment:
Be the backup for three male leads in the same small world.
The task was simple: help the male lead when he first falls in love, support him when his love goes unrequited, comfort him when he's heartbroken, cling to him when he's desperately chasing his wife, then leave him when he and the female lead get their sweet happy ending.
Yu Tang: System, I can't do this.
System: Good girl, it's okay. We'll do our best to complete the task.
Yu Tang nodded with teary eyes, staking the dignity of all milk candies on her courage to give it a try.
So she became the childhood friend who suddenly appeared in a story and was always treated like a little sister by the male lead, the fiancee scheduled to marry the male lead in a rekindled-love story, and the little star who was a mere pawn because she looked exactly like the male lead's white moonlight in a story about a man desperately chasing his wife.
Following all the self-effacing tricks the System taught her, Yu Tang diligently managed to complete the tasks, more or less.
Having finished her job, Yu Tang should have traveled the world as a carefree little milk candy. Instead, the big shots came looking for her.
Big Shot A reined in his boyish immaturity: I never realized that I didn't see you as my little sister at all.
Yu Tang, sweet and obedient: But I only see you as my big brother.
Big Shot B lost his composed demeanor: She's my past, but you're my future.
Yu Tang, smiling brightly: Please don't say such unlucky things.
Big Shot C spoke in a sweet, soft, pleading voice: Big sister, you'll never be her substitute.
Yu Tang, eyes curved with a smile: Great, your acting has finally improved!
*
Much later, after Yu Tang had completed her tasks perfectly, the three men discovered the truth and blocked her at her front door.
The big shots, eyes red, gritted their teeth and asked: Yu Tang, do you even have a heart?
Yu Tang nodded, her eyes clear and captivating.
She never said she was a filled milk candy!
*
The System at first: My sweet, soft girl is going to get bullied by those awful men.
The System later: Good girl, this is a society governed by the rule of law. Leave them alive.
#One person's backup lover = a backup lover#
#Several people's backup lover = they're the ones who are my backups#
#A new kind of milk candy#
Reader advisories:
1. The female lead is sweet, soft, and alluringly innocent.
2. She's not a filled milk candy, so she has no heart. Don't blame her even if she breaks the big shots' hearts. It's a matter of biology.
3. Playing dumb while secretly being clever.
Theme: Learn to put yourself in someone else's shoes.