I Transmigrated Into a Book and Became a Clingy Sweetheart

After dying suddenly, Xie Jing transmigrates into an ongoing school-life novel, becoming an inconsequential background school bully.

The System tells him that to follow the story's plot smoothly, he has to be a proper background character. Every day, he must pretend to be a school bully and avoid breaking character.

Xie Jing, who can't smoke or fight and has absolutely nothing in common with a school bully: Thanks, but find someone else.

System: If you fail the mission, your IQ will drop to zero, Host. Please think carefully.

Xie Jing: "..."

So, to protect his extraordinary intelligence (or so he thinks), he is forced to put on a stern face and act like a school bully every day.

After accidentally provoking the protagonist, Lin Yi, Xie Jing unlocks the main mission: make Lin Yi his underling.

Lin Yi is cool and handsome, always top of the class, and so cold and hard to talk to. How could he possibly agree to become Xie Jing's underling?

So Xie Jing can only play the big brother one-sidedly, hoping Lin Yi will pick it up through exposure.

As torrential rain pours down, he blocks Lin Yi at the classroom door. "I'll walk you home with my umbrella. Don't refuse."

When he sees someone give Lin Yi some cookies, he puts the cookies he spent all afternoon making with his own hands on Lin Yi's desk and orders gruffly, "I command you to eat this box of cookies."

One night when the power goes out, he hugs a pillow and knocks on Lin Yi's door. "I know you're afraid of the dark. I'm here to sleep with you."

"Explain this problem to me. Don't make me beg."

"You haven't hugged me today."

"Pay attention to me, please."

Lin Yi realizes that the school bully Xie Jing, rumored to take on ten people with one punch and keep everyone at arm's length, seems different around him.

He always trails after Lin Yi, all clingy and needy. He keeps acting spoiled and even pretends to be weak so Lin Yi will help him every day.

Lin Yi finds it amusing. He pretends to help while waiting to see when Xie Jing will drop the act.

But instead of catching Xie Jing out, he ends up falling for him himself.

Half a semester passes. The two grow closer, and their interactions become increasingly flirtatious.

Lin Yi says he'll grant Xie Jing one request and tells him to think it over and write it down.

Thinking back on everything they've shared, Lin Yi assumes they understand each other without having to say it. He hints that Xie Jing can ask for their relationship to change.

Xie Jing nods shyly, indicating that he understands.

At last, they're about to make their feelings known. Lin Yi loses his usual calm and composure. Nervous and expectant, he opens the note.

After reading it, his vision goes black, and his handsome face crumples.

The note has eight words on it: Can you call me Big Brother?

Bonus Scene:

System: Daily question. Did the Host successfully raise an underling today?

Xie Jing (quietly): He does everything I say. Does that count?

System (furious): But he calls you his boyfriend!

Lin Yi (coldly): Got a problem with that?

System (crying): You sickening couple, picking on me!

Also known as: The Guide to Winning Over an Underling

1. Happy ending

2. Sweet everyday fluff

3. Slow burn, maximum romantic tension

4. The System doesn't get much page time

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Lu Ran seems cold and intimidating to everyone else. Only Jiang Mu knows he's actually childish and petty, a complete brat.

They grew up together, sharing the same class from elementary school through high school. Apart from their parents, they saw each other more than anyone else, and they were sick of each other.

Jiang Mu thought college would finally give him a few peaceful years. But on the first day of school, he opened his dorm room door and saw Lu Ran's punchable face.

Lu Ran: "What a coincidence."

Jiang Mu: "..."

Who was it who said he would rather die than go to the same college?

One day, Jiang Mu happens to see a guy confessing to Lu Ran. Lu Ran rejects him very coldly and even seems a little startled.

So Lu Ran is homophobic.

Jiang Mu's eyes dart around, and he immediately comes up with a wicked plan to gross Lu Ran out.

So one peaceful afternoon, he corners Lu Ran against a wall and smiles warmly at him.

"Lu Ran, you follow me around every day. Do you have a crush on me?"

Jiang Mu curls his lips, waiting for Lu Ran to look disgusted.

Five seconds pass.

Lu Ran looks Jiang Mu in the eye and nods. "Yeah."

Jiang Mu: ?! What did you say?

Jiang Mu finally learns what it means to pick up a rock and drop it on your own foot. From then on, Lu Ran seems like a different person, fussing over Jiang Mu and indulging his every whim.

He turns pages for him while he studies, wipes his mouth for him at meals, scrubs his back when he bathes. He may as well be climbing into bed with him himself.

It's weird.

Weird, but not entirely weird. There's something off about the weirdness, and something enjoyable about what's off, and then something indescribable about the enjoyment...

Jiang Mu wraps himself tightly in his little blanket: Don't come any closer!!! I'm straight!

Until one day, their roommate catches the two of them kissing.

The roommate's face twists as he looks at Jiang Mu. "You... straight?"

Jiang Mu pushes Lu Ran out of his arms, wipes his lips, and calmly says, "I used to be straight."

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