I Don’t Want to Become Everyone’s Darling Either [Book Transmigration]

A top with ten thousand schemes, high offensive power and the lowest of low defenses, a sophisticated green tea type x A not-so-bright bottom who loves courting disaster, a low-level green tea type

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Reincarnated as the cannon-fodder top again.

This is Qiao Ying's 29th time becoming a cannon-fodder top in a stock-picking novel. The books are different, but the plots are always about the same: provoke the protagonist bottom, run your mouth, get handsy, and get tossed into the sea to feed the fish by one of the other tops.

This time, he's become the frail, irresistible protagonist bottom's younger stepbrother. He loves and resents the protagonist bottom, and once his secret feelings are exposed, he's kicked out of the house. Shunned by all the tops, he meets a miserable end.

Unwilling to put up with this nonsense any longer, Qiao Ying decides to tear up the script: If I can't have a good time, then nobody gets to have one. :D

And so

When Top 1, the newcomer, meets the protagonist bottom and is about to shake his hand, Qiao Ying grips Top 1's hand tightly and forces a smile.

"Sorry, my brother doesn't like physical contact with strangers. You can shake my hand instead. I'll pass along your good intentions to him. ^+^"

When Childhood Friend Top 2 tries to treat the protagonist bottom's wound, Qiao Ying steps in and calls emergency services.

"My brother isn't in good health. A wound this serious should be treated by a professional. Don't tire yourself out!"

When CEO Top 3, drunk, corners the protagonist bottom against a wall, Qiao Ying suddenly squeezes between them with hangover medicine.

"Sir, my brother's allergic to alcohol. Take this medicine before you talk to him, okay? OvO"

When Puppy Top 4 tearfully confesses to the protagonist bottom, Qiao Ying kicks him away. He kicks too hard and coughs until his eyes turn red.

"You keep calling him 'brother' like you're so close. Do you even care about me? I'm the only younger brother my brother will ever acknowledge! QWQ"

Then comes the key scene where this cannon-fodder top is supposed to lock the protagonist bottom in a room and get handsy with him. Qiao Ying shuts the door, suddenly unzips his pants, and pulls out... a stack of practice tests. He declares righteously:

"Brother, the best thing I can imagine is the two of us improving together!"

Qiao Ying is pleased with how well his plan is going, looking forward to everyone becoming losers in love and growing old alone.

But for some reason, the tops seem to look at him differently now.

Top 1 carefully takes his hand, eyes full of affection. "I still remember how firmly you held my hand back then."

Top 2 personally cooks for him, preparing a different lunch every day. "Doing all this for you... doesn't tire me out."

Top 3 comes to pick him up in a luxury car. "I'm happy when I'm with you. I think we could give this a try."

Top 4 says shyly, "I may not have you in my sights, but I do have you in my heart."

Qiao Ying: ???

It isn't until he leaps into the sea that he realizes he hasn't made it to the next world.

The "frail" protagonist bottom from the original novel comes looking for him. "I'm the only one who has Xiao Ying as a younger brother, so Xiao Ying won't go looking for other older brothers either... right?"

Pinned down by the protagonist bottom and unable to move, Qiao Ying thinks: I thought you were supposed to be a sickly beauty. How are you stronger than me? T T

1. The top is pretending to be frail, but he's really a green tea type.

2. Irresistible bottom, both are virgins.

3. The top and bottom aren't related by blood and aren't registered in the same household.

Theme: Your fate is in your own hands