The Frail System Decides to Be a Slacker

[Not contracted! Free story! Updates when I have inspiration!]

Jiang Lingwu is transported into a male-oriented power fantasy novel and becomes a System, serial number 5-1.

In the original story, 5-1 is a System abandoned by its Host.

It's simply too weak, and it comes with an incurable sickly debuff, making its CPU overheat at the drop of a hat.

In this male-oriented world where golden fingers are everywhere and the weak are treated like dogs, Jiang Lingwu, a fifth-tier System, is destined to be nothing more than a stepping stone for the male lead on his way up.

And a disposable one, at that.

When the male lead enters a new map, the original author casually kills off 5-1 to make room for a new cheat, earning a wave of readers' tears in the process.

Jiang Lingwu accepts reality and decides to lie flat, treating work like a virtual pet-raising game.

When the plot reaches the point where it's supposed to leave the story, it'll grab its exit ticket, retire, and travel the world in style.

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At first:

The handsome male lead's eyes are indifferent. "I don't need you to help me. Just stay quiet and don't hold me back."

His friend from a powerful family scoffs and advises him, "You call that a System? Get another one. I'll pay."

The big boss villain sneers, "This is the best you can come up with? Even I feel sorry for you."

One day, the male lead faces a life-or-death crisis. It's also the part where 5-1 is supposed to get its exit ticket.

Jiang Lingwu, who's been slacking off all this time, finally sees its chance to retire. Its eyes light up, and it springs to its feet like a lazy fish.

The frail System takes human form as a beautiful young man and spreads his arms to shield the male lead.

His features are pure yet alluring, his brows and eyes touched with sickness and weariness,

and every now and then he coughs weakly.

He says, "If you want to hurt my Host, you'll have to kill me first."

Then he waits for his exit ticket, ready to fake his death and leave.

The male lead's friend is despairing.

The villain, who had been watching coldly as he plotted in secret, frowns in alarm and steps forward to stop him.

The overpowered male lead, who should have been struggling helplessly, suddenly stands with ease and dispatches the disaster as if chopping vegetables.

Then he pulls his System into his arms, his gaze dark. He kisses Jiang Lingwu tenderly, his manner pleading to the point of humility.

"I'll cure you, and I'll protect you."

"Don't leave me."

#I wanted to lie flat, but now everyone is obsessed with me. What do I do?#

#Can a System get caught in a love triangle too?#

#The Host is preparing restraints to keep the System from escaping or moving. Is something wrong with him? Am I safe?#

[Free story, not contracted]

Coming soon: How to Keep You, My Irresistible Older Brother

Xie Yu is transported into a historical harem novel set in an alternate world, born into a noble family.

The good news: he has a modest and benevolent legitimate eldest brother, who passes all three imperial examinations on his own and rises to success. As long as his brother is around, the Xie family won't fall, and he can be a good-for-nothing layabout.

The bad news: his older brother is the protagonist of this irresistible-men novel.

At the end, his brother will retire from the world with one of the emperor, the chancellor, the general, or the duke-in-waiting. The other would-be love interests, furious at failing to win him, will turn against him.

The Xie family is doomed!

After living in this world for a while, Xie Yu discovers another piece of good news.

He doesn't need to worry about the Xie family falling apart and leaving him homeless.

That's because his brother treats him so well that all the would-be suitors, each crazier than the last, get jealous and want him dead. Ha ha ha!

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To seem less threatening, Xie Yu pretends a high fever has left him brain-damaged.

No studying, no imperial exams, no tedious etiquette lessons. He only has to act a little every day to eat, drink, and have fun. What's not to love?

To keep up the act and stay alive...

When the general-in-training climbs over the wall to find his brother:

Xie Yu: "Nice moves. No wonder you're my future brother-in-law!"

Then he quietly takes the ladder away, alerting the guards.

When the chancellor-in-training shows off his tea skills to his brother:

Xie Yu: "That tea smells wonderful. No wonder you're my future brother-in-law!"

Then he quietly complains to his brother that the tea tastes even more bitter than his life.

When the duke-in-training bribes him to find out what his brother likes at a restaurant:

Xie Yu: "So thoughtful. No wonder you're my future brother-in-law!"

Then he makes up a bunch of nonsense and tells his brother someone tried to take him to a brothel.

Xie Yu thinks he's a genius.

Before he's saved enough money to run away, nobody is taking his brother, his lifelong meal ticket, away from him!!!

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Xie Yu: his name means "excess," and that's what he is.

A blemish on the perfect legitimate heir of the Xie family, a useless excess, and a scar representing how Xie father wronged his wife.

If a severe fever hadn't turned this excess member of the Xie family into an idiot, even more people would have wanted him dead.

But at some point, the eyes fixed on him begin to shift.

In the first year of Zhaoming, the new emperor ascends the throne.

It turns out that the family of Prince Chu, once condemned and executed to the last, still has a surviving heir. Chu Bo had not died. He had taken the name Xie Qianwei and hidden himself as the legitimate son of the Xie family.

A coup places the new emperor on the throne, and his first decree is to search for Xie Yu, who vanished amid the chaos.

More than one favored son of heaven joins the search. Power stirs, and even the condition the former crown prince sets for surrendering the imperial seal is this: he wants to see Xie Yu.

When they finally find him, the Xie family's famous idiot is in his right mind, his eyes bright as the sun and moon...

And about to get married, refusing to return to the capital.

An oblivious heartthrob, with an unusual way of thinking and a beautiful state of mind: a slightly dazed, lazy beauty who is the pursued one.

Theme: If you treat others with sincerity, even without expecting anything in return, brilliant stars will still fall upon you.