The Sweet and Soft Darling Transmigrates Into a Cannon Fodder

Advance Notice 1: [The Sickly Beauty Accidentally Turns His Childhood Friend Gay]

Advance Notice 2: [After Faking His Death, He Starts Loving Me [Substitute]]

○ Naive and spoiled vs. smiling schemer

Lin Xingjiao was raised in a world of luxury, kept inside a sterile room until he turned eighteen. After that, he transmigrated into a book.

He became a vicious cannon-fodder character, and gained a marriage alliance partner.

His partner looked fierce, and was also the major villain in the book.

And he didn't like him, either.

But the villain was nothing like the book described. He was incredibly good to Lin Xingjiao.

He let him live at his house, gave him a microphone for singing, invited him to appear on a variety show together, and signed him to his company...

Lin Xingjiao decided the book was wrong. He had to repay the villain properly.

Lu Qi sneered at the idea of appearing on a variety show with his marriage alliance partner.

He was a schemer pretending to be stupid. Lu Qi would wait for him to let his mask slip.

But...

On the show, Lu Qi saw Lin Xingjiao trip on perfectly flat ground and ask him for help. He reached out and pulled him up, unable to help wondering.

If you pretend to be stupid too well, aren't you treating everyone else like idiots?

Then he watched Lin Xingjiao bite into steaming-hot food and tear up after burning his mouth.

Lu Qi: ...

I'm not sure. I'll keep watching.

Lu Qi patiently watched as Lin Xingjiao was manipulated into separating from him, yet happily agreed without complaint.

Didn't he like him?

When Lin Xingjiao moved to another location to film, he prepared to give Lu Qi his last packet of little cookies.

Then Lu Qi kept both him and the cookies.

Lin Xingjiao: Huh?

This wouldn't do. He was supposed to leave after repaying him.

◆Reader's Guide◆

1. A silly beauty. The shou is delicate and cries easily.

2. Each other's first love. No real-life inspirations.

3. Same-sex marriage is legal in this setting.

4. The premise has been revised.

5. I accidentally turned off the new Jinjiang feature while testing it in the comments.

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The Sickly Beauty Accidentally Turns His Childhood Friend Gay

Qiao Qi was born prematurely on a rainy, damp day and had been sickly since childhood.

His parents asked their neighbor's son, Xie Chuanting, who was a year older and in his first year of college, to take Qiao Qi to and from school.

Qiao Qi and Xie Chuanting were inseparable, growing up together.

By the time Qiao Qi graduated high school, Xie Chuanting was already the president of A University's basketball club and a campus celebrity. Rumor had it that he was a germaphobe, cold toward romance, and homophobic.

He turned down girls who confessed to him with nothing but a frosty expression, but he beat up a boy who confessed to him so badly that he ended up in the hospital with a broken bone.

Qiao Qi had planned to confess to Xie Chuanting, but tucked his fingers back into his sleeves.

On the day Qiao Qi got into A University, Xie Chuanting, the germaphobe, wiped the medicine stains from the corner of Qiao Qi's mouth with his thumb and said as if it were only natural, "I rented a place off campus this year. You're coming with me."

Then Xie Chuanting was rejected.

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On the first day of military training, Qiao Qi stood beneath the trees, watching the training, but still felt dizzy.

In a daze, he heard Xie Chuanting's voice.

But that couldn't be. Xie Chuanting was clearly angry with him.

The students nearby watched Xie Chuanting, whose name they had heard as soon as they arrived at A University. The campus heartthrob, who was supposed to keep everyone at arm's length, was holding the unconscious Qiao Qi in an intimate embrace.

His gaze was sinister as he spoke in a cold voice.

"Where did you just touch him?"

*

Ever since Qiao Qi insisted on living in the dorms, Xie Chuanting had known that Qiao Qi no longer depended on him the way he had as a child.

One day, Qiao Qi got drunk at a bar.

The moment he saw Xie Chuanting, he clung to him tipsily and said he liked him.

Xie Chuanting's temper flared. "Qiao Qi, look carefully. Do you know who I am?"

Qiao Qi's eyes were unfocused. "Big Brother, it's so hot..."

After their reckless night together, Qiao Qi drifted in and out of fever for half a month. During that time, Xie Chuanting thought of every possible way to make it up to him.

But the first thing Qiao Qi said after he came to his senses was, "It's okay, Brother Xie. It was just an accident. Don't worry about it."

Xie Chuanting lowered his brows, the proud son of heaven revealing his frustration and repressed, intense jealousy:

"Why should I?"

A melodramatic love-and-hate advance notice: He Only Loved Me After My Heart Died [Substitute]

Wen Dong was the illegitimate child of the Wen family and could only love Ji Huaiyan in secret.

By a twist of fate, Wen Dong became Ji Huaiyan's lover.

On the day he moved into Ji Huaiyan's private residence, Wen Dong saw a bedroom wall covered in photos of Ji Huaiyan and "him," spanning from childhood to the present. They silently proclaimed the depth of their love, a love no outsider could surpass.

He stared at them for a long time. The housekeeper remained smiling and unmoved, and Wen Dong, too, realized how worthless his love was. Without a word, he moved out of the master bedroom.

Later, photos of Wen Dong, homeless and in a wretched state, were taken. The news came out the next day, right beside another story: Ji Huaiyan stood before "his" grave, holding flowers and looking deeply in love.

On the day Wen Dong was eagerly anticipating the announcement of his relationship with Ji Huaiyan, Ji Huaiyan went out to sea to look for "him," leaving Wen Dong to face endless mockery.

During the anniversary trip they had planned for so long, Ji Huaiyan changed their route at the last minute and forced Wen Dong to look at the dark, black sea.

"Back then, he gave me the chance to live on a sea like this, and you can't even stand steady."

Wen Dong's face was deathly pale. His voice was barely audible. "I'm not him. I'm sorry..."

After the shock, Wen Dong developed a high fever that wouldn't go down. A helicopter took him away, and a few days later, Ji Huaiyan received news that Wen Dong had died of illness.

*

The heir to the Ji family seemed to have gone mad. Even though the white moonlight he loved had returned, he pushed him away and went to the cemetery in the middle of the night.

He kept muttering, "Wen Dong is afraid of the dark and water. He can't stay underground," as he dug through the soil, utterly devoid of decorum.

They say there was no one in the coffin when it was finally opened.

The belief that Wen Dong wasn't dead kept Ji Huaiyan going. He often stayed awake until dawn in Wen Dong's bedroom, which was filled with Wen Dong's paintings.

He became obsessed with visiting art exhibitions and buying paintings, insisting on meeting the artists behind them. Others thought Ji Huaiyan had changed his tastes, but the housekeeper knew the truth: Ji Huaiyan didn't want the artist. All he wanted was Wen Dong.

Among the winners of the highest honor at the World Illustration Awards, one was an obscure, slender, gentle young Chinese man.

The reports circulating in China showed only a blurry silhouette. The instant Ji Huaiyan saw it, he clenched his teeth, his eyes bloodshot.

Wen Dong.

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