I Got the Emperor as My Partner in a Blind Box

Coming soon: The Side Character Role Pays Better Nuo Nuo is a little merman of mixed heritage. After getting dumped in an online relationship, he decides to let the government assign him a partner, treating it like opening a blind box. Good news: The blind box gives him a high-quality match with a 100% compatibility rating. Bad news: His match is the Emperor, and they're required to live together for three months. The Emperor is the Empire's most famous eligible bachelor: serious, reserved, rich and powerful, but nobody dares marry him. He's been using the matchmaking center for over ten years without finding a suitable match. Nuo Nuo is the first, and the first match with a 100% compatibility rating for the Emperor. Nuo Nuo: QAQ Fishy is scared.jpg After moving into the Emperor's residence, Nuo Nuo stays in his room every day, planning to quietly get through the three months. His greatest pleasure each day is teasing the little cat living near the Emperor's residence. The cat lets him pet and hug it, has perfect cat manners, and even sleeps in his arms. Life is pretty decent. It's just that the Emperor's gaze grows more and more intense, and he treats Nuo Nuo better and better. So well that it's terrifying. Nuo Nuo is on pins and needles. Why aren't the three months over yet? Only later does Nuo Nuo learn that the little cat he's been hugging, kissing, and massaging the paws of every day is the Emperor's spirit form. Thinking of everything he's done lately, the little merman's vision goes black. * News that the Emperor and a merman have a 100% compatibility rating causes an uproar across the Empire. Just as people are privately wondering how long the merman will last by the Emperor's side, the Imperial Medical Department announces that a merman's voice can treat damage to human mental powers. The gossiping bystanders who were still watching the drama: ??? Damage to mental powers has remained an unsolved problem in medicine. The stronger someone's mental powers are, the more severe the symptoms after they are damaged. For now, the only option is to suppress them with medication. And now the Medical Department is saying that a merman's voice can treat damage to mental powers? The entire interstellar community is in an uproar! * Before the three-month term is up, plenty of people start discreetly asking what kind of human the little merman likes. The Emperor finally loses patience and posts a picture of a large deep-sea pearl with the caption: [We're already engaged. No interruptions, please!] Nuo Nuo: QAQ You're mean! That was a gift I gave the kitty! Below is another coming-soon title: The Side Character Role Pays Better Chi Sui transmigrates into a book and is bound to a Roleplaying System. As long as he plays his scripted roles well, he can earn rewards from the System. Most of the time, he plays an inconspicuous high schooler, part of the background crowd there to build atmosphere during the main cast's big moments. Sometimes, he picks up other roles as side jobs. For example, on a dangerous night, he stands atop a skyscraper in a black cloak, his hair blown by the night wind. A mutant monster he's just executed lies at his feet. Then he leaps from the roof and brushes past the male lead, a student council president who has returned from an infinite world. For example, amid the bustling, chaotic internet, he is an ardent fan of the second male lead, a famous star. He fights haters three hundred rounds a day, orders countless expensive pieces of merchandise, puts up promotional ads on giant screens in busy areas, and even sneaks into the star's concert. For example, using a guest account on a mathematics forum, he effortlessly helps the third male lead, an academic genius, solve a problem he's been puzzling over for a month, then coolly rejects his friend request. But after playing so many roles, he eventually slips up. The student council president calmly says he found Chi Sui's exam paper at yesterday's crime scene. The haughty celebrity, the second male lead, awkwardly asks if Chi Sui secretly admires someone. The kind-hearted academic genius says gently, "I think Chi Sui is smarter than he lets on." Help me. Is it too late to quit these side jobs and go back to being an ordinary background character? A diligent background-character bottom who disguises himself as a passerby while working side jobs x a steady, upright, fatherly student council president top Theme: Work hard and rely on yourself to find love and light