Faking My Death, but Winning Over the Protagonist's Brother

Shen Qiushi is an outstanding employee at the Quick Transmigration Bureau. His job is to travel to different worlds, play the protagonists' moonlight-in-their-hearts, then make an elegant exit at a crucial moment by faking his death.

Before retiring, he still has one last fake-death mission to complete.

To finish the mission as quickly as possible, Shen Qiushi decides to make the first move and get the protagonist to fall for him sooner.

To that end, he draws up several plans to win the protagonist's heart:

1. Show him care and concern in everyday life.

(Struck through) [The protagonist isn't cold or warm. His brother ate all the cookies I baked!]

2. Invite him on a hike and admire the beautiful starry sky from the mountaintop.

(Struck through) [The protagonist never showed up. It was freezing up there, but I ran into his brother.]

3. Set off a spectacular fireworks display on the protagonist's birthday.

(Struck through) [Haha, fireworks are banned in the city. I got arrested, and his brother bailed me out QAQ]

Looking at his list of plans, every one of them a failure, Shen Qiushi is close to tears. Never before has he had such a demanding client!

Thinking he might not be able to retire this time, he writes the protagonist a farewell letter, full of resentment.

"Hello. I'm planning to die."

Mu Jianchen has often dreamed the same dream for many years.

In the dream, a young man seems to be carrying out some mysterious mission. He has different identities and different names, but always the same beautiful face.

Until one day, Mu Jianchen discovers that the young man has appeared beside his younger brother.

The young man calls his brother the protagonist.

Mu Jianchen cannot understand how a brat could possibly count as a protagonist.

But then he dreams that the young man has written a farewell letter.

Oh.

Mu Jianchen thinks:

He's planning to fake his death.

Now I can take his place.

[Also known as: Why Isn't My Wife's Conquest Target Me?]

[An uke who only wants to retire and enjoy a quiet life x a seme determined to take his place]

[This is not a traditional quick transmigration story. Before retiring, the uke is carrying out missions in a world where he's preparing for a peaceful retirement, and falls in love with the conquest target's older brother. Don't scrutinize the logic too closely. Love you all~]

Pre-release: Everyone, Please Stop Fighting. Please add it to your favorites~

Blurb:

As a major weapon in the apocalypse, Test Subject 001 is sent outside the base every day to slaughter mutated creatures.

Until one day, a swing of his blade sends him tumbling into an Infinite Flow world.

[Data upload complete. Effective immediately, Test Subject 001 will replace player Jiang Xu.]

[The sole mission of this trip: help the protagonist save the world. Success will earn you human status.]

Test Subject 001 has no interest in saving the world, but he wants to experience what it's like to be human.

Before that, though, he must pass one test:

He has to survive in a certain instance, wait for the protagonist to arrive, and find a way to get the protagonist to take him out.

Test Subject 001 waits for a week, blade in hand, sitting atop a mound of corpses. At last, someone he finds very familiar appears.

Pei Yanchuan has never seen an instance this easy, one that can be cleared from the start.

But when he turns around, he sees that all the monsters in the instance have been chopped into chunks of meat piled into a mountain. Atop the corpse pile sits a bored-looking young man, swinging his legs.

There are dried bloodstains on the young man's face. He looks at him innocently. "My name is Jiang Xu. Will you take me out of here?"

Pei Yanchuan, of course, has no intention of doing so. Who knows whether the boy in front of him is a ghost or a monster?

But before he can refuse, an electronic voice suddenly sounds in his mind.

[S-rank Talent: Shared has taken effect. There is currently no way to deactivate it.]

Jiang Xu grins as he twirls his blade between his fingers, then plunges it viciously into his own arm, slicing a deep gash down to the bone.

Pei Yanchuan suddenly feels a sharp pain in his own arm. At the same time, he hears the boy say, "My name is Jiang Xu. Now, will you take me out of here?"

Test Subject 001 possesses the S-rank talent [Shared]. Once activated, it cannot be undone. He shares life and sensations with whoever is bound to him. As long as one of them is alive, the other can come back from the dead.

Before becoming Jiang Xu, his only rule for living was: It's either you die or I live.

Now that his talent has been activated, he's even more reckless.

Pei Yanchuan can't stand how Jiang Xu is either risking his life or on his way to risk it every single day, so he strictly forbids him from playing the hero in any instance.

As a result, the other players, unaware of the truth, curse Jiang Xu for shamelessly clearing instances by clinging to a powerful ally.

That is, until they witness the supposedly useless freeloader get slapped into the ground by a boss, then crawl back out spitting blood and kill it.

Jiang Xu shakes the blood off his weapon and says with an obedient look, "I'm waiting for my respawn cooldown. What are you waiting for?"

The players all tremble in fear. "...Now that you've killed the boss, you can't kill us too, okay...?"

[A pitiful little test subject from the apocalypse x a powerhouse in an Infinite Flow world]

[The S-rank talent shares life and sensations. Maybe sometimes it can bring double the pleasure (?)]

[Blurb subject to change. The story may contain a lot of forum-style posts.]

Theme: As long as tomorrow holds hope, today is worth celebrating.