Su Jing is gravely ill. On the brink of death, he is forced to bind himself to a System. As long as he enters various worlds and becomes a substitute who is abused in body and heart by scummy love interests, he can come back to life in the real world.
World One: The Real and Fake Young Masters
Su Jing becomes the substitute lover of a domineering CEO, whom he has dated for nine years. On the day the CEO's white moonlight returns from abroad, the CEO abandons him at their engagement banquet, leaving him to be mocked by everyone.
System: Host, your current mission is to cling to him and beg him to love you.
Su Jing: "Fine."
Late at night, he sneaks into the CEO's bed, his eyes red as he begs him not to break up with him.
He expects to be humiliated and thrown out, but afterward, the CEO gently coaxes him again and again.
Su Jing: ? This isn't how this is supposed to go.
World Two: The Crown Prince's Male Concubine
Su Jing becomes the evil male concubine at the crown prince's side. He must repeatedly plot against the protagonist who is the love interest, then be driven from the residence and die miserably.
So, following the plot, Su Jing fakes his death in the crown prince's arms and gets him to drive his white moonlight out of the residence.
But he waits and waits, and the crown prince never discovers the truth.
At last, Su Jing gets desperate. "I'll just tell you straight out. I faked my death that day!"
The crown prince doesn't even lift an eyelid. He draws Su Jing close by the waist and chuckles. "Of course I knew. That man was a spy from an enemy kingdom. Are you upset that I didn't reward you, Xiao Shen?"
Afterward, Su Jing clutches his aching waist, looking bewildered. I can't even speak.
*
One day, after the System finishes upgrading, its alarm rings loud enough to shake the heavens.
It says in a trembling voice, "Host, you've got the wrong script. You're their white moonlight."
Su Jing: "...?"
He looks despairingly at the bath towel around his body, then at the man's deep gaze from inside the room.
System, do you even hear yourself?
Isn't this just walking straight into a tiger's jaws?!
#After being a substitute for half my life, I found out I was the white moonlight all along.
Seduce the Scum's Older Brother
Jiang Yitian was the adopted son everyone cherished.
Then the Jiang family had a child of their own, and his status plummeted. He became someone everyone despised.
When he was depressed, he met Xie Ke, a heaven-blessed prodigy, and the two fell in love.
By chance, Jiang Yitian saw Xie Ke cheating on him. The expensive tie he'd bought after eating steamed buns for three years was now tied around his younger brother's fair wrist, leaving suggestive red marks.
Xie Ke offered no explanation. He simply pulled his frightened younger brother into his arms and said, word by word, "He's timid. Stop acting crazy and frightening him."
Only then did Jiang Yitian understand.
When he was bullied in the back alley and slapped and humiliated, Xie Ke and his friends had been watching from nearby, laughing as they took pictures with their phones and teased him. They did it to amuse the younger brother who had always looked down on him.
The person responsible for all the bullying he'd endured over the years was the one he loved.
So, when they drove him to it, Jiang Yitian closed his eyes and laughed, wild and heartbroken, before leaping from the rooftop.
He never saw Xie Ke sprinting over, utterly disheveled, or heard his anguished roar.
*
When Jiang Yitian opened his eyes again,
he had been reborn six years earlier. Only then did he learn that this world was a melodramatic romance about Xie Ke and his younger brother, and he was merely a short-lived cannon-fodder character.
Later, Xie Ke knelt in the rain, humbly begging to make up. Jiang Yitian made him watch as he kissed Xie Yunqian.
"That's your biological older brother. You should call me..."
Jiang Yitian narrowed his eyes slightly and ran a fingertip over his kiss-swollen lips. "Uncle."
Xie Ke's face went deathly pale. Only then did he realize that it really was possible to feel another person's pain as your own.
The other man had given him back every bit of suffering he'd endured.
Reading Guide
1. The love interest had a very hard life in his previous life. After being reborn, he turns dark. He's a ruthless, poisonous beauty who will do anything for revenge.
2. Everyone except the male lead is in love with him one-sidedly. The love interest goes from being hated by everyone to being adored by everyone.
Premise: Relying on yourself is better than relying on others.