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Update time changed to 3 p.m.!
I'm Lu Sheng, a veteran five-star reader on Green River, and a newly retired employee of the transmigration-into-a-book bureau, now enjoying my retirement.
A badly unfinished book kept me suffering for ten extra years before I could retire. When I finally returned to the real world, I swore I would make those three authors write six chapters a day, every single day, for the benefit of posterity.
So I became the most unremarkable, yet omnipresent, passerby A, B, C, or D in each author's life.
I thought I could happily supervise them until they finished their novels, but unexpected incidents kept cropping up...
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The author of a wealthy-family novel got caught up in business rivalries. With his company in crisis, he pushed away his keyboard and prepared to return to the business world.
I'd just become the family's husband, brought in to bring good luck, and I hadn't read many pages before the author was on the verge of bankruptcy.
I slapped him back into place, stood up, and made a phone call. His rival company went under. I dusted off my clothes and left, hiding my contribution and my name.
The wealthy-family author looked at me with a complicated expression. "You said you were unremarkable?"
I took a sip of tea and kept reading.
That's right. I'm just an ordinary little reader.
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The suspense author's new technology project had him run off his feet. When a vial went missing, he lost all desire to write.
I'd just become a nameless assistant on his project, and before I could finish the opening, the author was about to lose his job.
I ruthlessly snatched up the vial. Later, he returned bearing the world's most prestigious scientific award, looking dazed. His voice trembled as he asked, "Didn't you say you were just an ordinary person?"
I ate a little biscuit and kept reading the updates.
That's right. I'm just an ordinary book lover.
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The esports author's team was on the brink of disaster. A teammate's mistake meant they were about to face a do-or-die match, so he stopped updating and spent day and night worrying.
I'd just been transferred in as his gloomy roommate. I only wanted to see the ending.
So I rushed to the arena in the middle of the night. The next day, the team topped the world championship rankings.
He took a deep breath and asked me, "Didn't you say you couldn't do anything?"
I gave him a radiant smile.
Surprised? To get authors to update, I had to be good at everything.
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Later, at the authors' convention, I heard them showing me off without batting an eye.
"That business genius of mine can make money from any investment."
"My darling is an esports big shot. He was just messing around, and he ended up world champion."
"Mine's someone you can probably read about in science magazines. Hahaha..."
"Huh? Wait, why does yours look just like mine?"
"What a coincidence, yours does too."
I pulled my mask tight and prepared to flee at the last moment again, but they caught me by the back of my collar.
I heard all three of them make a sound of competitive virility.
"Shengsheng, I can write ten thousand words tonight. Come to my place."
"I can write a hundred thousand!"
"Get lost. My book is better than yours!"
I watched them fight and couldn't help sighing.
Sigh, being passerby A is so hard.
[Highlight] Not a quick transmigration story! The protagonist returns to the real world, and all three authors live in the same world. He has multiple identities!
Online, the protagonist is a cute, gentle sweetheart. Offline, he's a cold-faced quip machine. Online, he's all cuddles with the authors. Offline, it's "Get lost!"
1. Not first person! Third person.
2. A brainless sweet treat. Everything serves the fun.
3. Both leads are each other's only partners! No real-life inspirations! Don't project this onto real people!
Content warning:
Please don't give me writing advice. To me, ordinary people can also face malice in their daily lives. They aren't invisible.
Comments with writing advice will be deleted.
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My Kitchen Cupboard Leads to Another World, by Attack of the Electronic Duck
Lin Shanshan is a high school graduate about to start university.
One day, she realizes there's something strange about the cupboard in her home.
When she opens it, she transmigrates.
After transmigrating, she finds herself living in an abandoned research institute, with an entirely new identity.
What's more, she can travel back and forth through the cupboard, switching between two worlds.
This is a completely unfamiliar world. The land is barren, livestock can't survive, and the world is on the verge of collapse. People can only survive on nutritional supplements.
Researcher Lin Shanshan, now living under a different identity: !!!
Although this world has fallen into ruin, she can bring things over from her own world and use them here.
The soil is polluted? Just go downstairs and dig some up from the neighborhood's landscaping!
Plants can't grow? Bok choy at the market by her home costs three yuan a jin!
Even her pet dog is treated like a rare animal. The once-desolate research institute instantly becomes a sensation, raking in money every day.
Well, that's a straight-up fortune!
So Lin Shanshan works hard to open her own research institute, growing vegetables from her world and selling them cheaply. She helps feed many displaced civilians.
But she never expected that her gentle, kind, reserved assistant was actually the leader of the old government's exiled faction.
Now that his rebellion has succeeded and he has regained his position, he rushes back to the institute.
The once-gentle man arrives with a large group of people, takes her hand, and earnestly invites her to help rebuild the empire.
Lin Shanshan, still agonizing over her upcoming final exams, is stunned.
W-Wait, isn't this moving a little too fast!?
This went from farming to a level-up story. This isn't how the plot is supposed to go!
A post-apocalyptic wasteland in another world, a shut-in's farming diary (?). The heroine's cupboard is a magical Anywhere Door.
The heroine isn't a particularly typical power fantasy protagonist. This is a growth story about a timid shut-in who loves video games.
Theme: Keep striving to improve!
So only Luo Zhou didn't get anything. What a pitiful real fiancé.
Madam, as long as you don't give up, I can wait [red heart] [let me be healthy]
Are there really no other extras? QAQ
Continuing with my last comment, I even think that whether or not to break off the engagement is not the important point. It can even be a color point. Your fiancé has never touched you here, right? Jpg like this, it's so exciting. But just like that, I felt like I couldn't continue writing the next day, so I ended it in a hurry.
Why not slice it? [Hold your chin] Sprinkle flowers
No? No? Didn't he marry Luo Zhou? ? ? ? ? ? No, this ending? Not for what reason? Not sisters? Are you doing this? You said 1 which Professor Lin you were, but you didn't even write an introduction. I thought your ending was some kind of no cp style. What are you doing? No, it's really one that I never thought would be this person in the end. What a big surprise. You split the ending into several chapters, and then you wrote the article like a brainless Mary Sue. I won't even blame you. What's your ending? Emma, does the protagonist have a crush on Lin? Don't you have a good impression? ? Ah? What are you doing? I gave the money, even though this book didn't cost much, but this ending? It really gave the most unexpected ending. I don't even know how to spray you
Damn, where's the promised extra episode?
I've finished reading it. I like the story of Mr. Lu and the three men.
Reality always kicks me in unexpected places. Every time I think the little deer wants to take revenge, he will tell me: Just think about it, someone will help him [split]
There is another thing that I don't understand. Isn't it the cold-faced and taunting style offline? Why is it that the whole process is so cute that I start to doubt my own eyes?
So only Luo Zhou didn't get anything. What a pitiful real fiancé.
Madam, as long as you don't give up, I can wait [red heart] [let me be healthy]
Are there really no other extras? QAQ
Continuing with my last comment, I even think that whether or not to break off the engagement is not the important point. It can even be a color point. Your fiancé has never touched you here, right? Jpg like this, it's so exciting. But just like that, I felt like I couldn't continue writing the next day, so I ended it in a hurry.
Why not slice it? [Hold your chin] Sprinkle flowers
No? No? Didn't he marry Luo Zhou? ? ? ? ? ? No, this ending? Not for what reason? Not sisters? Are you doing this? You said 1 which Professor Lin you were, but you didn't even write an introduction. I thought your ending was some kind of no cp style. What are you doing? No, it's really one that I never thought would be this person in the end. What a big surprise. You split the ending into several chapters, and then you wrote the article like a brainless Mary Sue. I won't even blame you. What's your ending? Emma, does the protagonist have a crush on Lin? Don't you have a good impression? ? Ah? What are you doing? I gave the money, even though this book didn't cost much, but this ending? It really gave the most unexpected ending. I don't even know how to spray you
Damn, where's the promised extra episode?
I've finished reading it. I like the story of Mr. Lu and the three men.
Reality always kicks me in unexpected places. Every time I think the little deer wants to take revenge, he will tell me: Just think about it, someone will help him [split]
There is another thing that I don't understand. Isn't it the cold-faced and taunting style offline? Why is it that the whole process is so cute that I start to doubt my own eyes?