[A preview of "A Scum Novel's Cannon Fodder Top Redeems Himself" is available at the bottom]
----- Blurb -----
● The story is told from both the top's and bottom's perspectives. The top dotes on the bottom, their romance is sweet, and the two fall for each other wholeheartedly. The plot is bittersweet, so please take note [Highlighted].
A cool, straightforward top who talks big but can fight and be counted on when it matters VS a gloomy, obsessive little madman around others, but a sweet and obedient, flirtatious bottom in front of the top
1.
Tang Yi is twenty years old when he finally learns that his world is nothing but a novel, and one of those books with a certain letter highlighted, no less.
The novel Absolute Downfall knows all the tasteless, melodramatic tricks in the book. Its bottom, Huo Xibai, was raised as the apple of the Huo family's eye.
The year he graduates high school, he learns that he's the fake young master, switched at birth. Devastated, he goes to a nightclub to get drunk, where someone injects him with an unknown drug. From then on, he falls into a world of lust.
As a proper action-packed martial arts novel, the original story gives Huo Xibai no fewer than seven official love interests, according to the author.
Tang Yi, meanwhile, is neither one of the main tops nor a villainous supporting character. He appears only twice in the original story, as the bottom's unrequited first love...
His first appearance is at the banquet where the real young master's identity is revealed. The second is at his own funeral, where one of Huo Xibai's jealous tops brings him to Tang Yi's photo to show off their relationship.
Tang Yi: ...Do you people have any manners? :)
2.
Scheming and covetous. Those are the labels the original story gives Sheng Yu.
Although he is the Huo family's real son, his decision to seek them out makes them look down on him. The Huo family acknowledges him, but doesn't accept him.
They constantly give him the cold shoulder and deliberately humiliate him. Then, one rainy night, he resists one final insult in a decisive and brutal way.
Whenever Tang Yi sees Sheng Yu, the other man is in a terribly awkward and miserable situation. Tang Yi can't help stepping in, again and again. In the end, he simply brings the feisty little lion back to his own territory.
On a hugely popular livestream variety show, Sheng Yu was originally meant to serve as a foil to the leads. But with Tang Yi there, their unconscious favoritism and effortless rapport send the "Sheng-Tang" CP into the spotlight, setting the whole internet abuzz.
3.
After the plot starts going off the rails...
Huo Xibai stares pale-faced at the corner in the distance. The Tang Yi he remembers as always cool and reserved is now pinning someone against the wall and kissing him.
Catching sight of a figure across from them that seems ready to collapse, Sheng Yu's gaze darkens. He wraps his arms more tightly around Tang Yi's neck, lifts his phoenix eyes, and shoots Huo Xibai a cold, challenging look.
Stung by that needle-sharp gaze, Huo Xibai flees in a panic.
In his short life, Sheng Yu has received only a few meager kindnesses. For as long as he can remember, he has struggled in a damp, dark basement. The sunlight that seems within reach never shines on him. Until that day, when the sun comes to stand beside him of its own accord.
"I'll use every means at my disposal to make you stay."
The top and bottom belong only to each other, body and soul.
The leads are both my darlings, so please don't insult them!
Criticism and suggestions are welcome, but don't attack without reason.
[Preview: "A Guide to Redemption for Unlucky Cannon Fodder Tops in Tragic Romance Novels [Quick Transmigration]"]
In every tragic romance novel, whenever the main top abuses the main bottom in body and spirit, a wealthy and desirable cannon fodder top always appears.
They unconditionally help the main bottom, offer him a warm refuge when he is hurt, then leave forlornly once the main couple makes up. Some unlucky ones even suffer the main top's vicious revenge.
Rather than cannon fodder tops, perhaps there's a better name for these characters: unlucky tops.
The unlucky tops after awakening: Is there something wrong with them? (stares at phone like an old man on the subway)
● 1. Unlucky fall guy top in a "taking responsibility" story x cold, beautiful boss bottom pretending to be an Alpha (ABO world)
Staring at the "first love" who has suddenly appeared before him, visibly several months pregnant, the other man's eyes are pitiful and his whole body seems ready to fall apart. "You used to love me so much. Surely you'd be willing to accept me and my child."
Some unlucky top (tilting his head in confusion): Me? You mean me? Do I really look like an idiot to you?
Then he glances at the beautiful boss beside him, who gives a cold laugh and fixes him with a sharp stare.
Some unlucky top: Um... I think I'm the one who's about to fall apart.
That night, the beautiful boss, who always seems aloof and untouchable to everyone else, pins him against the wall and lowers his gaze. "Want a child?"
Then the beautiful boss takes his hand and presses it to his own reproductive cavity, his voice low and husky. "Go deeper... Betas can get pregnant too..."
● 2. Cold senior disciple top, who stops at nothing to get stronger x arrogant, flamboyant young sect master bottom with a serious case of lovesickness (cultivation world)
After his master breaks his heart, the junior disciple finally remembers how good his senior disciple was and wants to reconcile. "Senior Brother, I'm willing to form a bond with you."
Thinking of the person he has already deeply bonded with after an accident in a secret realm. At first he really did hate him, but not long ago, that person defied his sect and endured bloodstained lash marks across his crimson robes so he could openly become his cultivation partner.
Senior Brother (coldly): I'm not interested, thanks.
● 3. Young actor kept as a lover x short-tempered rich playboy sponsor (entertainment industry world)
A newcomer actor who doesn't want to remain a kept lover, dates several people at once, and ends up in a humiliating scandal: "Can you help me?"
Young actor: Do I look like I'm in a position to help you?
When a certain hot-tempered young master hears the news, he says darkly, "I'm still wearing all that weird stuff you put on me. Go ahead and try saying yes to him."
● 4. Dashing swordsman hero NPC from a game x gentle, domestic bottom with disabled legs (esports world)
A streamer trying to cover up his relationship after it gets exposed: "Could you pretend to be my boyfriend?"
Thinking of the gentle wife at home, baking little cookies.
Some swordsman: I've got a wife. Don't @ me.
● 5. Rebellious stepson top in a stepmother story x his lifelong nemesis (modern world)
● 6. Poor top student forced to drop out x disfigured, sinister bottom (modern rags-to-riches)
● 7. Spoiled, profligate rich second-generation top x mute bottom who cannot speak early in the story (school world)
● 8. More to come...
1. Episodic story, one-on-one romance, top-led Quick Transmigration.
2. The top and bottom belong only to each other, body and soul.
[Second preview: "The Hated Substitute Bottom Is Reborn"]
A flirtatious, obsessive bottom who plays dumb while plotting after being reborn VS an innocent, devoted big dog of a top with off-the-charts fighting ability
In his previous life, Xie Suisheng was a man of elegance and brilliance, with extraordinary talent for the sword. At sixteen, his peerless looks and bearing at the Qizhou Plum Blossom Banquet left a deep impression on everyone his age. Yet this heavenly prodigy, the envy of countless people, ultimately fell into demonic cultivation in full view of everyone.
In his previous life, Xie Suisheng treated everyone with sincerity and was willing to humble himself to please his master and senior disciples. He never imagined that the truth behind his fellow disciples' inexplicable rejection of him was that he was just a substitute, a sacrifice meant for the immortal sects' beloved first love. Even the people he had treated sincerely were secretly preparing for the day he would be sacrificed.
After his family was wiped out and he was falsely accused of demonic cultivation, Xie Suisheng was imprisoned in a dark water dungeon. His immortal bones were scraped out, his sword heart destroyed, and his immortal marrow severed. The peerless talent nurtured over twenty years was offered up in its entirety. Xie Suisheng swore that everyone would pay in blood.
He wakes from his dream and returns to the year he was to choose a master. Faced with his former master and fellow disciples, clad in white and as cool and otherworldly as banished immortals on the high platform, everyone is stunned to discover that the much-anticipated young lord of Muyang City is a sickly invalid with a frail body. Everyone quietly watches, eager to see which sect he will choose.
Ignoring the mocking looks around him, Xie Suisheng gazes at the man on the platform, flamboyant and carefree, as unruly as a flame. "I choose him."
Shang Yingfeng, forced by his master to come watch the sect selection: Huh?!
2.
Shang Yingfeng is the sect's only disciple. An elder found him in the wilderness and brought him back. He thought their shabby little sect would never have a second disciple. Who could have imagined that at the Plum Blossom Banquet, that pretty boy would choose their sect without a second thought?
Shang Yingfeng ponders for a moment: Hmm... I think Junior Brother might not be all there.
3.
On the day his revenge is finally within reach, Xie Suisheng stands amid a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood, blood slowly dripping from the blade in his hand. He has become a demon from hell, and everyone looks at him in terror. Then he raises a hand to wipe the blood spattered across his cheek, lifts his phoenix eyes, and says hoarsely, "Shang Yingfeng, I'm hurt."
Everyone watches as the once number-one swordsman of the Nine Provinces awkwardly pulls Xie Suisheng into his arms and asks softly, "Where does it hurt?"
P.S. The bottom is in poor health at first, but don't doubt him: he's strong.
[Third preview: "After I Transmigrated Into a Book, I Turned the Mad Villain Into My Boyfriend"]
Hot-blooded, goofy, good-tempered, powerful soldier-type bottom VS sunny, puppy-like on the surface, but obsessive and ruthless commander top
Theme: Even in darkness, a ray of light will always find its way in.
I also felt deeply when I saw my wife's story [please] [please] [please]. The gap after graduating from school is really huge. I never imagined that I would be like this now [change]
Dear, can you leave a note asking for leave next time you don't update? Let us at least know why you haven't updated it. This article has really been a long time coming, but it's not finished yet. Can you guarantee that it won't be a bad ending?
When will the next update be? [Crying]
You're actually back [crying] [crying] [crying] I've been waiting for you for a long time
The author is finally back, [laughing and crying][laughing and crying][laughing and crying], I have been waiting for a long time
Have you run out of inspiration?
Give it to me. The plot after the car accident is really dragging. When I glance at the update list, it has become an annual update [Split]
What to do with the original timeline? Brother Yi, are you okay?
Damn, that's great, you're back [Come on]
Author, you are finally back
I also felt deeply when I saw my wife's story [please] [please] [please]. The gap after graduating from school is really huge. I never imagined that I would be like this now [change]
Dear, can you leave a note asking for leave next time you don't update? Let us at least know why you haven't updated it. This article has really been a long time coming, but it's not finished yet. Can you guarantee that it won't be a bad ending?
When will the next update be? [Crying]
You're actually back [crying] [crying] [crying] I've been waiting for you for a long time
The author is finally back, [laughing and crying][laughing and crying][laughing and crying], I have been waiting for a long time
Have you run out of inspiration?
Give it to me. The plot after the car accident is really dragging. When I glance at the update list, it has become an annual update [Split]
What to do with the original timeline? Brother Yi, are you okay?