The Big Suckers Alliance

Xue Yi transmigrates into a xianxia world cobbled together from several books. The System orders him to play two utterly hapless characters who have already escaped their original stories.

Role one: the foil to the lucky-protagonist type, the chosen unlucky one, who gets into trouble wherever he goes. His only purpose is to highlight how special the protagonist is.

Role two: the devoted second male lead in a redemption story. The protagonist saved him once, and he repays that kindness a hundred or a thousand times over. Even as he dies, he has to gaze at the protagonist with devotion and say, "I've paid you back for everything I owed you."

Under the System's tyranny, Xue Yi has no choice but to rush to the protagonist's side. And because he's so unlucky, all the other hapless souls gradually gather around him.

The eldest senior sister is the protagonist of an angsty novel, the second senior brother is the villain in a level-up story, the third senior brother is cannon fodder in a pampered-group story, and the junior sister is the fiancée in a broken-engagement story.

Xue Yi: "…"

Whenever these people get put through the wringer, unlucky Xue Yi gets dragged into it too. Fortunately, the System only restricts the direction of his own plot and doesn't care what happens to everyone else.

So under Xue Yi's leadership, they all quit playing their parts. They refuse to turn their frustrations inward and instead take them out on others. They walk the path of others, leaving those others with nowhere to go.

After getting a taste of this, the group sees the light. Wherever they go, they leave nothing standing. The Hapless Alliance: whoever they meet becomes a hapless soul.

The whole sect, from top to bottom, can be summed up in one sentence: After going crazy, everyone's gotten a lot more spirited.

Xue Yi is very pleased. His own plot is nearly at its end, so he gazes at the protagonist with devotion and says, "I've paid you back for everything I owed you."

The protagonist is the true guardian of the five hapless souls, the sect's chief disciple, the future strongest cultivator in the world of cultivation, and the universally acknowledged aloof and proud senior brother.

After hearing Xue Yi's words, he loses his composure: "You blew up the back hills of the Beast Taming Sect, demolished the Destiny Sect's Fate-Seeking Platform, and drained the Dragon Palace's immortal spring!!! And you say you've paid me back?! I paid for all of it! Are you trying to welsh on your debt? I'm telling you, don't even think about it!!!!"

Xue Yi: "…"

I wasn't the only one who tore the place apart! Why are you only blaming me?

Ahem, can I repay you another way?

* Ensemble cast, slow burn

* Long novel, over a million words

Theme: What you see is only the tip of the iceberg. Things are never that simple