As a Straight Guy, I'm the Background Character Secretly Loved by the Protagonist's Love Interest

Wen Deng had been straight for 17 years.

His dream was to find a wife who was thrifty and good at managing a household.

But on the day he threw a birthday party for his childhood friend Bai Songyu, Bai Songyu confessed to him.

Wen Deng was shocked, because his childhood friend was cold-faced and cold-hearted, sharp-tongued and capricious.

But he really was straight.

The night Wen Deng started questioning just how straight he was, he had an outrageous dream. An unknown creature told him that this world was an NP danmei novel, and Bai Songyu was the protagonist who gets pursued.

According to the predicted plot, Bai Songyu would end up with none of the pursuing protagonists. The book was about to be delisted, and only Bai Songyu's understanding friend, straight-guy background character Wen Deng, could save the world!

Wen Deng: What the heck.

Who would have thought that the next day, the System's voice would sound in Wen Deng's head?

[Hello, Wen Deng. System 114514 will continue to serve you. May you complete your mission soon.]

Under the prodding of a System with a strong Baidu Tieba vibe,

while caught between completing his mission and indulging his good buddy,

Wen Deng gradually realized that maybe they had known how things would unfold all along.

Cold, capricious catgirl seme x gay but utterly oblivious straight-guy uke

The cover was drawn by the author, and the writing on it is also the author's. The author might get bored and change the cover for fun, or even draw fan art of the novel. It's a great deal, everyone! qwq

1. The System really does have a strong Baidu Tieba vibe.

(Sorry, there are limits to the era we grew up in. In 2022, a lot of my friends and people around me thought the Tieba-is-toxic thing was a meme. We often read through posts on event-recording forums to find books, or recommended things to each other, and didn't know much else. When joking around with friends, I thought writing a System like this would be fun. At the time, from our perspective, we didn't expect many things to turn into the problems they later became (please, no time-traveling police). The comments where this novel was first published were also all about the memes, so it was clear that most people at the time just treated it as a joke. Your impression of that period may differ from mine, but please believe that I didn't mean any harm. At least from what I saw online and among the people around me, people had a fairly mild or mocking attitude toward this meme. Nobody thought it stood for anything, and nobody imagined it would gradually turn into something so extreme later. When I revised the story and moved it to Jinjiang, I mostly just reused a few short jokes that were widely circulated at the time. Please understand. The story has many limitations, and I'm truly sorry. I won't write related jokes again. I'm keeping this story here as a memento.)

2. A slice-of-life, sweet story.

3. Readers will definitely question how straight the male lead is.

4. The male lead is something of a heartthrob.

5. I've written before, but my skills are limited. The story has no logic.

6. The whole story is free.

The author really is thin-skinned qwq. If you want to scold me, please be just a little gentle. If my glass heart breaks, I'll wail under your comment.

Please show a new author some love, okay? qwq

Theme: Be true to your heart and understand yourself