A Guide to Slacking Off on a Dating Show as a Gloomy, Sickly Type

*There’s angst! But it has a happy ending, so don’t complain! A world-weary, waiting-to-die (for real) disposable character vs a gentle, innocent (fake) villain After transmigrating into a book, Ming Anlan becomes an unlucky disposable character, complete with all the standard perks: cancer, getting flamed across the internet, being a stepping stone, being broke... He wants to give up, but the circumstances won’t let him. He’s forced to appear on a dating reality show starring the original book’s leads, where he becomes the most hated contestant. Side quest: clear his name. Main quest: win over the original male lead. Ming Anlan goes cross-eyed and chooses to give up completely. It’s not that he can’t win someone over, it’s just that giving up is better value for money. The original protagonist bottom is a heartbreaker with a whole pond full of big fish! A musical prodigy, a genius director, an actor brother, a younger model, an older CEO... Trying to compete with a beloved heartthrob for a man? Are you okay? He has no idea that the other contestants on the dating show can hear his thoughts. At the start of the show, when he sees the white-lotus, tea-sipping protagonist bottom, Ming Anlan keeps a calm expression on his face, while inside he thinks [Jumping from the fourth floor should be a cleaner way to die.] [This is so annoying. I cannot do this anymore.] Contestants: “?” On a date with the protagonist top, Ming Anlan keeps a straight face, while inside he thinks [How is going on a date with Yi Qian any different from being dead?] After the date, all the pain transfers successfully to the protagonist top. Yi Qian: “Going on a date with Ming Anlan is no different from being dead!” He could lie there and sleep all day. Going on a date with a corpse would be about the same! Ming Anlan: Exactly. That’s how you give up. Nothing unusual about it. When Chu He notices Ming Anlan, the other man is thinking about making the production team go down to the underworld to pay him compensation for breaking his contract. Chu He takes a closer look and realizes he’s also a contestant on the show. Lonely, cold, world-weary... but softhearted. That’s Chu He’s impression of Ming Anlan. He wants to die, but he’s also burning with the last rays of his life... just like Chu He was at twenty. At first, Chu He only pays Ming Anlan a little extra attention because he can hear his thoughts. But when the show ends, he leaves his heart behind with the other man. “Ming Anlan, do you know what another word for love is?” “Hm?” “It’s the rest of your life...” Here’s a coming-soon book: My Lover Regretted It After I Faked My Death Blurb: A cold, PTSD-afflicted bottom who fights back when challenged x a stupid-dog top with a superintelligent brain who can’t understand human beings It takes Jiang Zhuguang until the tenth time his lover’s fragment dies in front of him in a quick transmigration world to realize that the other person has had all their memories from the very beginning. Yet in every little world, they watch coolly as he exhausts himself trying to get close to them. Once he’s tasted that little bit of sweetness, they fake their death and leave him heartbroken. Perhaps he’s become immune to heartbreak after going through it so many times. Suddenly, he’s tired of all of this. He forcibly uninstalls the quick transmigration System and chooses to have his soul annihilated. His soul is scattered, he won’t enter the cycle of reincarnation, and he disappears without a trace. Faking your death is nothing. If you’re going to die, die for real. But unexpectedly, when he opens his eyes, he’s back where it all began. At the beginning, in the life that belongs to Jiang Zhuguang: a disposable character with a universally hated role, resolved to oppose the protagonist bottom. His family doesn’t love him, his friends use him, and he does everything in his power to go against the protagonist bottom. In the end, the protagonist top kills him, and he meets a tragic fate. Given another chance, Jiang Zhuguang just wants to give up and wait to die. Until he meets Qi Chengyi again. The lights are bright, and it feels like a lifetime has passed “...I finally found you.” “Zhuguang, I’ve taken care of all the trouble. Can you... look at me?” Qi Chengyi is the God of the myriad worlds. In one of the little worlds, he falls in love with a stubborn soul. He loves the other person’s tireless determination and unyielding struggle, and he loves the way the other person’s eyes shine with starlight as they hold back their love for him. He wants them to love him a little more. He wants them to be devoted to him, and him alone. After consulting the Main System, he devises a meticulous plan: he sends his lover into the most difficult little worlds, leaving him with nothing, then pulls him out of the abyss at his lowest point. At the height of their love, he fakes his death and leaves, becoming the unforgettable white moonlight in his lover’s heart... Everything goes smoothly. But his lover... chooses to annihilate himself. He doesn’t understand. He makes everything start over, but when they reunite, he sees... disgust in his lover’s eyes. “I don’t need you anymore.” “...Look, the red thread has broken too. We have no future.” “I... can’t love anyone anymore.” Qi Chengyi, after faking his death ten times: “Zhuguang, I regret it.” Theme: Those who help themselves will be helped by Heaven