A Bad-Tempered Dragon Cub Reborn as a Cannon-Fodder Male Supporting Character

My upcoming book, "My Restaurant Cures Invasive Species," is on my profile. Please add it to your favorites! ------- Blurb ------- Chu Ming is a little dragon with the bad temper of his irascible parents. He breathes fire whenever things don't go his way, and has singed the tails of every hatchling on Dragon Mountain. The hatchlings cry as they complain to the elder: Elder, Chu Ming is a tyrant! We can't go on like this! The elder seals Chu Ming's dragon form and punishes him by making him copy a book of inspirational sayings a thousand times. He isn't allowed to turn into a dragon until he's done. Unfortunately, the elder accidentally picks up the wrong book. He forgets that the book only looks like a collection of inspirational sayings; its contents have already been replaced with a melodramatic, over-the-top novel. As soon as Chu Ming opens it, he's sucked inside and becomes the cannon-fodder male supporting character who defies his family's objections, clings desperately to Jiang Yunhang, threatens to kill himself, and insists on marrying him. Chu Ming, now inside the book: Who's Jiang Yunhang? Is he made of gold? No? Then I'm not interested. Get lost. Everyone is astonished to discover that the Chu family's foolish youngest son, Chu Ming, has changed. He no longer acts coy or swallows his grievances. He's irritable all day long, and the slightest provocation sets him off. Once he's riled up, he starts hitting people. Everyone who used to make fun of him gets beaten until they're crying for their parents. Everyone flees at the first sign of trouble: Please, just go back to how you were before. Pick on Jiang Yunhang and leave the rest of us alone. Not only does Chu Ming refuse to change back, he gets even worse. He transfers from the battlefield support division to the mecha combat division, and on his very first day there, he shatters a mecha with his bare hands, scaring everyone half to death. Just when everyone is in a panic, someone discovers that the lawless Chu Ming has actually been tamed by the Second Prince. The prince tells him not to cause trouble, and Chu Ming goes three days without hitting anyone. The prince tells him to be punctual, and Chu Ming obediently attends class on time. The prince tells him to improve his grades, and Chu Ming studies so hard he forgets to sleep and eat. Everyone: ??? Where nobody else can see them, Chu Ming rolls around on a glittering golden bed. The Second Prince: The bed is yours. Now attend class on time. Chu Ming: No problem. I also want a golden mecha. The Second Prince: You can have a mecha, but we have to win first place in the next team competition. Chu Ming: Don't worry. With me around, nobody can make us come in second. I also want that city of gold! The Second Prince: The City of Gold is my fief. If you want it, you'll have to marry me. Chu Ming: Sure. Let's get married tomorrow. The Second Prince: ... Hot-tempered dragon hatchling uke x scheming Second Prince seme Reader advisory: 1. One-on-one romance, happy ending, silly comedy. 2. No side couples. 3. Plot-focused, with little romance, which doesn't appear until later. 4. There are many cannon fodder characters early on. Read at your own discretion. 5. Dragons live a long time, and their ages are counted differently from humans. The dragon hatchling is an adult. ------- Upcoming Book ------- "My Restaurant Cures Invasive Species" Yu Yang transmigrates into the body of an unlucky man. The man is in his twenties, lazy and uneducated. After awakening low-level mental powers, he thinks he's better than everyone else. He spends all day avoiding work, complaining about his parents, and resenting his poor upbringing. He wishes he were the child of a rich family. An accident binds him to a wish-granting System that can fulfill any wish, for a price. The first thing he does after getting the System is wish to become the child of a rich family. The System grants his wish. A few days later, a rich man comes to his door and tells him that he's his biological son. The hospital switched him with another baby at birth. Overjoyed, he immediately throws himself into the arms of his new parents, abandons his poor parents, and happily goes home with the rich man. On the way, the System collects its price by causing a car accident. The man's head is severely injured, and he loses his mental powers. When the rich man learns that he has lost his mental powers and is no longer useful, he changes his attitude and casts him aside, ignoring him completely. Although the man has become the child of a rich family, the tycoon has many children, and the competition is fierce. After losing his mental powers, the man becomes the worst of them all. Not only does he fail to enjoy the lavish life he imagined, but the other children ostracize and frame him, making his life miserable. The man is furious and unwilling to accept this. He wishes again, asking the System to give him high-level mental powers. The System grants his wish. One of the tycoon's children tricks him into going to an underground research facility, where he is locked up as a test subject. He undergoes surgery at the same time as another test subject, and part of their brains are exchanged. A few months later, he does indeed awaken high-level mental powers, but he suffers a rejection reaction that drives him into a mental breakdown. This time, the price the System collects is money. After the man is rescued from the research facility, he discovers that he has somehow incurred an enormous debt. Not only has all the money the tycoon gave him been taken away, but he also owes ten times that amount. Now he's suffering not only a mental breakdown but a psychological one too. The things that matter most to him are mental powers and money. Losing money feels worse than dying. In desperation, the man makes yet another wish, asking the System to cure his mental breakdown. Once he's cured and has stable, high-level mental powers, he'll be able to trample all the tycoon's other children underfoot. The System grants his wish. This time, the process is unusual. In the man's interstellar world, curing his mental breakdown is impossible, so the System sends him to the merfolk world. The merfolk world has many unusual fish. Eating them can heal mental powers. This time, the price the System collects is his lifespan. After losing his mental powers and money, the only thing of value he has left is his lifespan. The System takes ten years of his life. If the man obediently gets his mental powers healed and returns to the interstellar world, he'll still be able to live for many years with his high-level mental powers. But when he sees the beautiful merfolk, he gets ideas he shouldn't have and asks the System to help him control them. Each time he controls a merperson, their singing lures him into a daze. Lost in his own fantasies, he lets the System take more and more of his lifespan. In the end, the man naturally dies to the merfolk's song. Yu Yang transmigrates into his body at that moment, inheriting the man's identity and the mess he left behind. Yu Yang: ...What a disastrous start. In the interstellar world, the man was greedy, had a terrible reputation, and was saddled with enormous debts. In the merfolk world, he used underhanded methods to control merfolk, making them all hate him. Now he's about to be executed. The System asks Yu Yang: Do you want to save yourself? Should you make a wish? "No!" Yu Yang firmly refuses. "If I make a wish, I'll die even faster." He only has to look at what happened to that man to know. The System: Then how will you save yourself? The merfolk are going to execute you. Yu Yang has his own plan. Before he transmigrated, he was a pharmacist. Yu Yang discovers that the merfolk here suffer from a strange disease. Many of their tail scales have rotted and fallen off, and it looks serious. If he can find a way to cure them, the merfolk should let him go. Yu Yang asks the System what causes the disease and discovers that it's connected to invasive species. In recent years, some foreign fish species have appeared in these waters. They aren't very aggressive, but they reproduce extremely fast. Once their numbers grow, they form groups and release a toxin that makes the merfolk sick. Once he knows the cause, Yu Yang studies it for a while and quickly develops medicine to treat the merfolk. After the merfolk are cured, they really do put the past behind them and let him go. The fish invading the merfolk world are harmful to merfolk, but in the interstellar world these fish are extremely precious, can heal mental powers, and are worth a fortune. Using the System's transmigration ability, Yu Yang brings the fish overrunning the merfolk world back to the interstellar world and opens a restaurant, selling uniquely flavored seafood dishes that attract a huge crowd of customers. Yu Yang makes a fortune in the interstellar world while dealing with the invasive species in the merfolk world. His business flourishes. After being taken advantage of again and again, the System can't help trying to tempt him: Don't you want to make a wish? Yu Yang: No. The System: Don't you have any wishes at all? Yu Yang: I do. The System: Then why don't you make a wish? How can you resist? Yu Yang: What's so hard to resist? I can resist the merfolk's songs. Your wishes are just traps. The System asks in surprise: The merfolk's songs? You mean the mating song the Merfolk King sings to you every night? So you can hear it! I thought you were deaf. How can you resist that? Yu Yang: ... The System: The Merfolk King's song isn't a trap. Why don't you say yes? Yu Yang: It's impossible to explain this to a System like you... Theme: Learn to observe the people around you.