Oh No! My Role-Playing Mission Got Spoiled!

Shen Ju has to play the role of the universally hated real young master from an old-school trope.

System: You're despicable, vain, and wicked to the core. You've done every bad thing imaginable.

That's why your birth parents can't stand you, your biological big brother looks down on you, and you're the villainous foil to the fake young master's saintly character. In the end, everyone sees your true colors, and you meet a miserable fate...

System: "Sweetie, you can do it, right?"

For the reward he'd get after completing the mission, Shen Ju nodded vigorously. "I can! Leave it to me!"

But neither the System nor Shen Ju knew that a programming error had let the Guan family and one unlucky passerby into their encrypted chat channel.

System: "You think your birth parents owe you, so you often demand exorbitant sums from them."

Shen Ju nodded and went to demand money with great confidence.

He held out his hand and made a one with his finger.

The Guan parents: One million?

Shen Ju: "O... one thousand!"

The Guan parents: ...We've never heard such a niche term in our lives.

System: "You think your biological big brother should give you all the good things he has, so you keep asking him for them."

Shen Ju hummed in agreement, then turned around and asked for a watch his brother had just bought at auction.

The Guan family's eldest son was so imposing that ordinary people wouldn't dare act up in front of him.

Shen Ju stared at his solemn face and worked himself up for a long time. "...Ahem."

The eldest Guan brother: "..."

Am I really that scary?

System: "You're jealous of the fake young master and always want to sabotage his relationship with the protagonist gong!"

Shen Ju patted his chest. "Easy!"

He was always trailing the two of them like a shadow, or squeezing in as a third wheel whenever he got the chance, like a sneaky little cat with its paws tucked in, secretly watching them.

The fake young master: "…"

He slapped the protagonist gong. "Let's have a fight."

The protagonist gong: "What???"

System: "You have to pretend to be drunk and seduce this aloof beauty so he looks down on you!"

The aloof beauty himself: "…"

Shen Ju chugged a whole bottle of liquor, then dropped headfirst to the ground, bumping his head against the aloof beauty's chest. He stared at the buttons on his collar and slurred, trying to sound suggestive:

"You... you can call me by my nickname."

Pei Yan lowered his head, hooked a finger under Shen Ju's chin, and lifted his face.

"What's your nickname?"

Then Shen Ju puckered his lips at him

"Ch... Chirp-chirp."

Guan guan cry the ospreys, a fine match for a noble gentleman.

●●● Coming next: Hello, Your Novel Has Loaded a Bullet Screen ●●●

Ding-dong! Hello, your novel has loaded a bullet screen.

Click [Start Reading] to be assisted by the trial-run bullet screen, "Li Xiang No. 0."

This is a world formed by the fusion of multiple novels. The virtual bullet screen is being tested around the Pei family, a clan that appears in several of them.

Li Xiang raised his eight short, stubby black tentacles. "..."

The good news: I'm not human anymore! :)~

Even better news: I'm just a virtual bullet screen! :)~

Li Xiang was bound to Pei Jingnian, the current head of the Pei family.

But the trial run of the virtual bullet screen had a bug.

At first, Pei Jingnian, the younger uncle, was the first to notice something was wrong... A little black octopus was crawling all over him, wriggling away, but he couldn't feel a thing.

Pei Jingnian was dealing with a matter involving the eldest, Pei Yanqi.

As the devoted second male lead in an old-fashioned romance, Pei Yanqi insisted on taking the heartbroken heroine home, trying to stop the hero from imprisoning and hurting her.

The little black octopus climbed over Pei Jingnian's abs until all eight tentacles were tied in knots. "Wow, so devoted! But it seems the heroine is using the second male lead as a sucker to make the hero jealous."

Pei Yanqi: "???"

The second brother, Pei Xingluo, came home and declared that he was going to make his relationship public.

The little black octopus wrapped itself around Pei Jingnian's head, plucking out a lock of hair with each tentacle. "Yahoo, so this is the legendary sacrificial stand-in! He isn't even the real person's stand-in, yet he's about to ruin his career for a rotten old CEO. Who wouldn't cry out in despair?"

Pei Xingluo: "..."

The third brother, Pei Yuhuai, invited the real and fake young masters over, then spent the whole time putting down the real one.

The little black octopus nestled in the crook of Pei Jingnian's neck, its eight tentacles patting away. "Aha, keep putting him down! He doesn't even realize the fake young master is using him as a weapon. Once a tool, always a tool. So useful, so very useful, until the real young master tramples him into the dirt and he's not even worth a fart."

Pei Yuhuai: "!!!"

In the end, Pei Jingnian rubbed his temples. He didn't want to get involved in anything anymore.

He had his own problems to deal with.

The little black octopus raced all over Pei Jingnian like a parkour runner. "Ahhh, the villain's only one move away from turning evil! He schemes and struggles, only to get betrayed by his personal assistant in the end, "

Pei Jingnian: "…"

Finally, at one point, he couldn't stand the little rice-cake octopus that seemed glued to him any longer. He grabbed one tentacle and shook it. "Have you made yourself at home on me?"

Li Xiang covered his face with all eight tentacles, looking horrified. "...When did you notice me?!!"

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Theme: See people with your heart, and feel what is real