After graduating, Yu Tang received a job offer from the Space-Time Administration.
Job requirements: He had to travel to various worlds and play a vain cannon fodder character who tries to cling to the villainous BOSS, only to end up in trouble.
The job started with a seduction mission. Halfway through, the villainous BOSS would throw him out, and within ten days he was guaranteed to ruin his reputation and meet his end.
Short contracts, high pay, low requirements, newcomer-friendly. What a dream job!
But only after officially starting work did he realize that capitalists have no conscience. The job description and the actual work were worlds apart. They said the shifts would be short, but damn it, in every world he had to work such loooooooooong overtime.
And what happened to not having to sacrifice his body for the job?
World One
[Apocalypse: A pretty, pampered deadweight X a ruthless ability-user squad leader]
Before the apocalypse, Yu Tang was the vicious stepbrother who bullied the protagonist Shou in every way. After the apocalypse, the protagonist Shou gained not only a healing ability, but also a space, a spirit spring, cultivation manuals, and a whole set of golden fingers. Yu Tang, meanwhile, became a frail deadweight with no evolution and no abilities.
To stay alive, he shamelessly clung to the protagonist Shou, while still stubbornly trying to seduce the powerful ability users in the protagonist Shou's squad, hoping to stand up to him. He had no idea that everyone treated his frantic antics as a joke. The moment the protagonist Shou gave the word, Yu Tang would be disposed of.
Unwilling to live off the scraps the protagonist Shou left behind, Yu Tang finally resolved to climb into the squad leader's bed. He nearly got himself killed, and the protagonist Shou abandoned him as a result. Less than three days later, he died of an infection.
After Yu Tang arrived, he followed the script: he borrowed some water from the protagonist Shou, took a bath, climbed into the squad leader's bed, and waited to be thrown out.
Instead, he sacrificed himself for the job on his very first day. The protagonist Shou, who had originally hated him, and the squad's strongest members started acting strangely around him and treating him better and better. The useless little cannon fodder somehow became everyone's favorite.
What a joke. They won't even let him look at the zombies, so he can't find a chance to clock out.
World Two
[Imperial court: A sycophantic companion who betrays his master X a brutal crown prince]
Yu Tang was the study companion of the emperor's unfavored sixth son. With the emperor critically ill, the struggle for the throne was about to erupt. Yu Tang sold out the sixth son in order to curry favor with the third prince, only for his family to be confiscated and exiled in the blink of an eye. To avoid exile, he used his good looks to climb into the bed of the crown prince, who was rumored to like men, only to be given poisoned wine.
This time, Yu Tang learned his lesson and climbed into bed without taking a bath.
Then he sacrificed himself for the job in the bath.
Yu Tang: ???
Later, the struggle for the throne somehow turned into a contest to win that little study companion.
Yu Tang was forced to work overtime again.
[Interstellar ABO: A vain, foolish Omega X an Alpha general whose mental powers are collapsing]
[Escape game: A timid coward X an indescribable monster]
... (Due to limited space, N worlds have been omitted here.)
Villainous BOSS: My sweet wife offered herself willingly... Could something this good really happen?
Everyone else: Why does he only climb into that one person's bed? We'd be willing to give you what you want, too!
[The gong is split into multiple versions, 1v1, Yu Tang X Song Bojian. The shou plays cannon fodder, but is a total heartthrob.]
Theme: Don't take crooked paths