After a Socially Anxious Little Mushroom Meets a Hopeless Romantic

◆ Ongoing novel: Please add "The Socially Anxious High School Boy Plays a Scum Cannon Fodder After Quick Transmigration" to your reading list~ [Blurb]: Lin Chen is a little mushroom. To help him blend into human society as quickly as possible, the Great Transmigration God tossed him into a melodramatic novel to save a love-addled cannon-fodder shou who was abandoned after being seduced and discarded by a scummy gong. The Great Transmigration God really knows how to stack buffs: he sent a severely socially anxious virgin who can barely get a sentence out to convince a love-addled person to stop dating. But the cannon-fodder shou's fate was just too tragic, so Lin Chen decided to grit his teeth and carry out the mission. Lin Chen found the cannon-fodder shou and tried to reason with him gently. But before he could even speak, his face turned red. In the end, he stammered, "Your boy...friend really isn't, isn't good enough for you." The cannon-fodder shou thought the boy was quite handsome, so he suppressed his explosive temper. "Don't use worldly standards to insult my pure love." Lin Chen worked up his courage. "He only loves your... your money. He doesn't love you." The cannon-fodder shou smiled confidently. "I've got plenty of money, so I don't have to worry about him changing his mind." Lin Chen tried again. "He's been deceiv... deceiving you all along." The cannon-fodder shou asked in return, "Then why doesn't he deceive anyone else? Why only me?" His target wouldn't listen to reason, so Lin Chen decided to give up. "His birth chart clashes with yours. If you don't mind, then... then stay with him." The cannon-fodder shou's eyes widened in shock. He grabbed Lin Chen, about to tell him to stop talking nonsense, when he caught sight of the Eight Trigrams prayer beads around the boy's neck. His attitude changed completely. Without another word, he deleted every last one of the scum gong's contact details. The cannon-fodder shou's family had been merchants for generations and were extremely superstitious. They prayed before leaving the house, never went anywhere without an amulet, and wouldn't even hire employees whose zodiac signs clashed with theirs. Hearing that the person he liked had a birth chart that clashed with his was enough to scare the love-addled thoughts right out of him. Lin Chen never expected that using what he'd learned in his field of study would really break up this ill-fated relationship. He waited for the Great Transmigration God to send him home, but the one who showed up was the cannon-fodder shou. The cannon-fodder shou pinned the innocent boy against the wall, his foxlike eyes gleaming with a dangerous light. "If you won't date me, I'll lock you up." Lin Chen, who dreamed of never leaving the house for the rest of his life, immediately lit up. "Then lock me up." Later, the emotionally oblivious boy realized that the cannon-fodder shou had truly fallen for him. Stunned, he shakily confessed the secret he'd hidden all along. "You're saying you're not human, but a little mushroom?" The cannon-fodder shou licked his lower lip wickedly. "That's wonderful. Mushrooms are my favorite food!" Lin Chen: ...?! Is it too late to run? * Qiao Yubai was born with a silver spoon in his mouth, but his older brother was so outstanding that he grew up constantly being compared to and criticized. His grades were worse than his brother's because he lacked talent. His career was less successful because he didn't work hard enough. Even the person he loved didn't love him back because there was something wrong with him... Then one day, he met a young Taoist priest with delicate features who spoke slowly. The boy told him: His poor grades were the fault of the exam-oriented education system. His career hadn't taken off because the overall environment was bad. And the person he loved didn't love him because their birth charts clashed. In short, nothing was his fault. Ever since meeting the young Taoist priest, Qiao Yubai found that the enormous stone that had weighed on his heart and tormented him for more than twenty years had disappeared. In its place was a handsome boy who blushed and stammered every time he faced him... ◤Content notes◢ 1. Gong-centric story. Emotionally oblivious, socially anxious mushroom gong x love-addled, superstitious young master shou. 2. Neither lead is perfect, but they only have eyes for each other and dote on each other. 3. Includes fantasy elements. Set in an alternate world where same-sex marriage is legal. 4. Age gap: the shou is nine years older than the gong. 5. The Taoist magic and metaphysics in this story are made up by the author. Believe in science. 6. The author's writing and emotional maturity are at kindergarten level. At best, this is a story about grade-school kids falling in love. I humbly thank my readers for their understanding~ Next novel ◆ Please add "The Socially Anxious High School Boy Plays a Scum Cannon Fodder After Quick Transmigration" to your reading list, orz * After Xia Yi died, he was bound to a Quick Transmigration System. As long as he traveled to different worlds and played the scum cannon-fodder gong who drove the romance between the main gong and shou, he'd get a chance to be reborn. The innocent boy, with no romantic experience and a tendency to blush whenever he spoke to anyone, was bewildered. "You want me to toy with other people's feelings? You must've got the wrong, wrong person." Looking at the pure-hearted boy with bright eyes and white teeth, the System smiled confidently. [Don't worry, you'll be perfect for the job~] Naive Xia Yi believed it and did his best to become a heartless cheater with a tragic ending. But for some reason, the main plot of every little world he visited fell apart. Worse still, all the main shous went mad searching the world for him... [World One: The Poor Student Who Lives Off Others] Xia Yi played a scum cannon-fodder gong from a marriage-first, love-later novel. He was born poor and hoped to live off his looks. But his first attempt ended in disaster. The rich second-generation heir whose feelings he betrayed and from whom he swindled several million yuan was the novel's main shou. The consequences were predictable: he received the punishment he deserved, while the main gong and shou, brought together because of him, became a couple everyone envied. When Xia Yi arrived, he was in the middle of an important scene: wearing a sexy, tight-fitting outfit and seducing the main shou. The socially anxious boy blushed scarlet and covered his pale stomach, lightly defined with muscle. He felt like the sky was falling. But if he wanted to be reborn, he had no choice but to grit his teeth and complete the mission. After he finally managed to steal the money and run, what awaited him wasn't a face-slapping scene where the villain got what he deserved. Instead, the furious main shou bit down on his sensitive, vulnerable neck, gripping his trembling waist tightly. No matter how much he cried and begged, the man who had always been dignified and composed refused to relent: "Trembling so much. Are you trying to seduce me?" "Say you love me. Say you'll never leave me... Or I'll bite through your throat right now and keep you by my side forever, all right, sweetie?" Xia Yi, who had been preparing to fake his death and leave the story, was dumbfounded. Why was this going nothing like the System said it would? [World Two: The Person Raised by a Cat] The main shou was a tabby cat demon nicknamed "Sangbiao." He ran away from an arranged marriage and came to the human world. Xia Yi's mission was to mistreat the main shou while he was a cat, teach him how cruel humans could be, and make him return obediently to the cat demon realm to marry the main gong, who was also a cat. But Xia Yi accidentally went too far. The tabby cat, deeply aggrieved, angrily bundled him up and took him back to the demon realm. From then on, Xia Yi became a human raised by a cat. The main shou held a grudge and actually did everything to him that humans had ever done to cats. He called Xia Yi his son, made him sleep in a human nest, kept him at home playing games all day, and hugged him for an enthusiastic sniff whether he was happy or not... After a while, Xia Yi started to think he really had become a pet cat. No, a pet human. When the main gong finally showed up, Xia Yi thought he could leave the story. But the main shou actually started fighting with the main gong: "He's mine. You can't take him!" Xia Yi, the pet human: "???" [World Three: The Shady Streamer Who Catfishes People Online] [World Four: The School Bully Who Takes What He Wants] [World Five: The Stand-In Starlet Kept as a Lover] [World Six: ...Other worlds to be added] Theme: Stay confident and optimistic, and don't let yourself get bogged down in negativity!