When an Obsessive Male Supporting Character Meets a Homebody

The homebody artist Nan Zhizhi stayed up late reading novels for inspiration, then accidentally died of exhaustion.

She wasn't even cold yet when she transmigrated into a reverse-harem Mary Sue novel, becoming the heroine's neighbor and foil.

Both had parents who divorced, and both grew up with their fathers, who were unemployed gamblers.

They had the same educational background too: ordinary public schools through high school, then the same kind of average major at the same ordinary first-tier university.

But the luckier the heroine was, the more misfortune Nan Zhizhi suffered.

They both took part-time jobs at a hotel. The heroine was ostracized, then rescued by the hero in a classic damsel-in-distress moment. Nan Zhizhi was ostracized too, but ended up taking the blame and losing her job.

On a rainy night, the heroine picked up the second male lead and got home safely. Nan Zhizhi was mugged and lost the tuition money she needed for the next semester.

Their fathers both got caught up in a crime scene. The heroine's father, who wanted to sell his daughter, was killed on the spot.

Nan Zhizhi's father, however, took advantage of the chaos to steal a bag of stolen goods and became a wanted criminal.

There were countless more examples like this. It was as if she would never stop living just to make the heroine look good.

Nan Zhizhi had lived an uneventful life for twenty years and even saved enough to buy a small home. Now, after transmigrating, she was broke and caught up in one bizarre plotline after another. Nan Zhizhi: ...This is suffocating!

Thinking about the story's plot, Nan Zhizhi set her sights on Luo Bingfeng, the novel's obsessive second male lead.

What's a second male lead? He's the catalyst for the romance between the hero and heroine, and a stepping stone on the hero's path to building a business empire.

Luo Bingfeng's defining label is "obsessive second male lead."

In the story, after the heroine repeatedly used him as a safe haven whenever she temporarily broke up with the hero, Luo Bingfeng took a series of extreme measures to restrict her freedom.

In the end, the heroine still reunited with the hero, while Luo Bingfeng died a tragic death saving her. He became a memory she could never forget and a reason for the hero to feel threatened and jealous.

In short, he was doomed to suffer!

Why was Luo Bingfeng so devoted to the heroine?

Because he was the second male lead she picked up and took home on that rainy night! What a classic, time-tested melodramatic trope!

To avoid the novel's terrifying plot, Nan Zhizhi made up her mind!

She was going to steal the second male lead away!

Theme: Love is the only thing that matters, and loyalty is its foundation.