The Devoted Second Male Lead Never Breaks Character [Quick Transmigration]

Coming soon in my column: "After Becoming Cannon Fodder, I Took the Angsty Novel's Main Characters Back with Me"

A silly, not-too-bright beauty bottom x a beauty top whose multiple selves in each world won't reveal their names

Every romance world has a devoted second male lead who selflessly gives everything to the heroine. Even after being rejected countless times, he remains hopelessly in love, working diligently to the very end, only to pave the way for the male lead.

At the transmigration bureau.

Shen Xiao: Bah, what a garbage script. I'm not going. I want to be the male lead.

System: This is how much you'd earn as the male lead, and this is how much you'd earn as the second male lead. Of course, if you want to earn more, you can choose to be the heroine.

Shen Xiao: This amount is definitely a better deal than being the male lead. I'll pass on being the heroine, though. I'm afraid I can't pull it off.

And so...

World One: He transmigrates into the role of the heroine's desk mate in a school story.

System: Your goal is to comfort and support the heroine, help her overcome her difficulties, get into a famous university, and reach the pinnacle of life.

But he happens to save the heroine's twin brother, who is depressed and about to jump off a building, and proceeds to care for him attentively.

System: What are you doing, saving some irrelevant cannon fodder?

Shen Xiao: I'm protecting the heroine's fragile heart. Besides... he's just too handsome... I couldn't possibly turn a blind eye.

World Two: He transmigrates into the role of the heroine's childhood friend in a business story.

System: Your goal is to strongly support the heroine's career, help her start a company, defeat her rivals, and reach the pinnacle of life.

But he happens to pick up a wealthy young master who has gone bankrupt and gotten drunk outside the heroine's house, and proceeds to care for him attentively.

System: What are you doing, picking up trash off the street again? Oh, wait, that's the male lead.

Shen Xiao: For the heroine's happiness, a beauty... I'm... going for it...

Ah, my back hurts.

World Three: He transmigrates into the role of the heroine's master in a xianxia story.

System: Your goal is to train the heroine to become the greatest person in the Three Realms. Please stop picking up random people outside.

Shen Xiao: (Holding a koi) I just adopted a pet to keep the heroine company.

Three hundred years later...

Heroine: My master was carried off by a fish. What should I do?

The following minor worlds... to be decided (the order above might change).

System (through gritted teeth): You've completely broken character.

Shen Xiao (with a slight smile): How have I? I devote myself wholeheartedly to the heroine and will die for her. I'm hopelessly in love every day.

System: Why isn't your hopeless love directed at the heroine?

Shen Xiao: The out-of-character clause never specified who it had to be directed at.

A naturally flirtatious, scum-like bottom x a beauty top with multiple selves

(The heroine is not vilified.)

A little promotion for my upcoming story, "After Becoming Cannon Fodder, I Took the Angsty Novel's Main Characters Back with Me"

Blurb:

Tao Le transmigrates into an old-school xianxia angst novel. The top and bottom in the story suffer both physical and emotional torment, overcome countless obstacles, clear up layer upon layer of misunderstandings, and finally reach a happy ending.

Of course, none of that has anything to do with Tao Le. After diligently completing his task as the first cannon-fodder top, "bully the aloof, noble main-character bottom, then get cut down by the ruthless, scheming main-character top," he successfully returns to his original world.

Good news: Only five minutes have passed in the real world, everything is as it was, and he has completed his task with an extra reward.

Bad news: The reward is terrifying.

Tao Le opens his eyes to find himself lying in his soft bed, with a stunning man in white lying beside him.

The main-character bottom from the angst novel has come back with him.

The stunning man in white drops his aloof demeanor and grips Tao Le's chin.

Xie Tingshuang: Didn't you say you've been in love with me for a long time, junior brother?

Tao Le: Senior brother... (I never said that.)

Xie Tingshuang: Didn't you sneak into my abode every night, hoping to cultivate together?

Tao Le: That was all a misunderstanding.

Xie Tingshuang: Last time, that bastard interrupted us. I've actually never stopped thinking about you, junior brother. There's no time like the present...

Tao Le: Aaaaaah! Stay away from me!

Xie Tingshuang, the illustrious and noble immortal of the sect, has been dueling with his sworn enemy, the Demon Lord, for centuries. His days are always boring, and his only source of enjoyment is waiting at night for his new junior brother, Tao Le, to sneak into his abode and quietly lie beside him.

The junior brother says every day that he's in love with him, but whenever he gets close, he leaves a little space between them and refuses to touch him. He even insists, "How's the task going? When can I go home?"

Afraid no one will know, he even goes around telling everyone about his own "misdeeds."

Xie Tingshuang deliberately doesn't call him out, secretly wondering when he and Tao Le can become cultivation partners and "go home" together.

One day, while fighting the Demon Lord, his junior brother dies saving him. He holds his junior brother's body, overcome with grief, and vanishes into the roiling tribulation lightning.

Theme: Strive tirelessly and work hard through hardship