We’re Professionals at Being Substitutes

After Su Xu died, she became bound to a "Substitute System." It required her to play the stand-in for all kinds of big shots and complete their storylines, or else it would send her back to her original world to die. There was no way she was going to be a stand-in. Not in this lifetime... System: "For every mission you complete, you'll get 100 million." Su Xu, whose eyes lit up at the sight of money: "Doing missions isn't so bad after all. It's just playing a stand-in, right? Acting is my profession." Su Xu devoted herself to her missions every day, doing her best as a stand-in, until the big shots' white moonlights finally returned. Su Xu covered her face and said sadly, "Let's break up." Inside, she was singing "Good Luck Is Coming" at the top of her lungs, almost ready to beat a flower drum. Newly crowned movie star: "I hope you mean what you say and won't come after me once filming wraps." Top student and campus heartthrob: "You're transferring schools? Is that some new trick you've come up with?" Research mogul: "Once you leave, don't come back. I don't want to see you in the lab again." Domineering CEO: "I hope you manage to stay away for more than two days this time." Later, the media caught the movie star making ten visits to Su Xu's home, begging her to come back. A student saw the campus heartthrob searching for Su Xu, going from school to school. A neighbor saw the research mogul, drunk and clutching his household registration booklet, clinging to someone at their door and insisting they get married. An employee saw the CEO tearing pages off a calendar in his office every day. "It's been a hundred days. Why haven't you come back yet?" Everyone thought Su Xu loved them so much that she'd lost all self-respect, and that her supposed breakup was just a game of playing hard to get. They waited and waited, but Su Xu never came crawling back. Instead, they saw him flirting with someone else on a reality show. Being a stand-in was just being someone's simp, right? If I simp hard enough, I become a player. Su Xu joined the variety show for a free vacation, but no one told him all the male guests would be his ex-boyfriends. Why were all those big shots, who were supposed to be with their white moonlights, on this show? Su Xu swallowed. "System, you didn't say there'd be after-sales service once the missions were done!" Question for everyone: What do you do when a reality show turns into a battleground full of ex-boyfriends? Netizens: Get on a train and run tonight. Su Xu used to play someone else's white moonlight. Then one day, he suddenly realized he had become someone else's white moonlight. Theme: Everyone should think for themselves.