The Stand-In Really Doesn't Want to Be Everyone's Favorite

This is an intense, melodramatic love-triangle story. The first male lead is a cold, domineering CEO who can bring an empire crashing down in a day. The second is a gloomy, obsessive, twisted young man. The third is a lawless menace who does whatever he wants.

Ming Le: And what am I?

You're a substitute.

Ming Le: Don't I get a golden finger?

Does being pretty and loving to cry count?

Ming Le: You can count me as your what!

In the book Ming Le transmigrated into, the three male leads go mad with obsession for the protagonist and crash into walls for him. Each uses darker methods than the last. Unfortunately, the protagonist is proud and unyielding, so Ming Le becomes his substitute. Unwilling to accept his lot, he tries to take the protagonist's place, frames him, and ends up with his family destroyed and himself dying a miserable death on the street.

Ming Le: No way!!

The first male lead grips Ming Le's chin. "Don't think you can replace Chi Yue just because you have that face."

Ming Le, with his soft, delicate skin, can't help his eyes turning red. Under the first male lead's deep gaze, he seizes the moment, chops down the man's claw of a hand, then knocks him out with a follow-up blow. "If you don't have any fighting skills, what makes you think you deserve to be a male lead?"

The second male lead locks Ming Le in a dark room and threatens him coldly. "Don't think I'll forgive you just because you cry."

Ming Le pulls out a piece of wire and picks the lock on the spot. Good thing he has plenty of useful skills on hand, or he'd have fallen into the clutches of this little brat!

The third male lead closes in on him, step by step. "If you dare leave, take one step outside and your friends and family can kiss their jobs goodbye."

Ming Le takes out his phone, righteous and fearless. "I've recorded this. The police are right outside. Everything you say from now on will be admitted as evidence in court!"

The protagonist has a cool, aloof face and a slender build, and is very beautiful. But his fighting skills are extremely weak, so Ming Le can't bear to leave him alone and takes care of him at every turn.

The scum male-lead squad goes bankrupt, the protagonist is safe and sound, and Ming Le is ready to go find his own happiness!

But one day, he wakes up to find himself tied to a bed.

The protagonist blinks, his beautiful face wearing an innocent expression. "Didn't you say you liked me best, big brother? Why are you still going to look for someone else?"

Ming Le: "...Let go of the rope before you say that!"

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