An Ordinary Person Among the Big Shots

Currently updating: After Taking the Top Spot from the Strongest Player [Coming soon: The Useless Man Transmigrates into a Book as the Cannon-Fodder Husband, But Gets It Wrong; The Timid Office Worker Plays the Dragon-Slaying Hero in His Dreams] [This novel is complete] Yu Yan was the mascot of the Special Incident Response Department. Among a group of people with supernatural abilities, he was the only ordinary person without any powers. He was assigned to assist the department head, Jiang Cheng. Every day, his job was to deal with the anomalous creatures his superior had subdued and register their new identities. His superior was always busy, either subduing anomalous creatures or on his way to subdue more. Yu Yan had never seen him since starting the job. All he knew was that his superior was powerful and charismatic. Even the anomalous creatures he subdued were in love with him, sending revealing photos to his inbox every day. As a result, the amount of time Yu Yan spent handling his superior’s emails grew along with the number of creatures he subdued. Fortunately, the pay was good and he had weekends off. Every day when he got home, his broad-shouldered, narrow-waisted boyfriend had dinner waiting for him. He’d also gossip with Yu Yan about neighborhood in-law and marital dramas. Life was wonderful. Yu Yan thought his carefree days would go on forever, until a door suddenly appeared in his home. His boyfriend, who was a perfect ten out of ten, opened it and went inside. Curious, Yu Yan followed and saw him gripping an anomalous creature by the throat, his expression colder than anything Yu Yan had ever seen. “Don’t come looking for him again, or I’ll tear you all to pieces!” The creature wasn’t ready to give up. Its face twisted as it said, “He belongs to us...” Unable to hear what came next, Yu Yan’s curiosity got the better of him. He leaned through the doorway and asked, “What do I belong to you as?” Before the creature could answer, his boyfriend, who had just displayed terrifying strength, crushed it to death. His boyfriend was furious, and Yu Yan couldn’t understand why. All he knew was that from that day on, his boyfriend kept him by his side twenty-four hours a day. That was also when he learned his boyfriend was actually the head of the Special Incident Response Department, Jiang Cheng, his unseen boss’s boss. 2. Everyone in the Special Incident Response Department knew their boss had a lover, an ordinary person with no supernatural abilities, frail and delicate as if he might shatter. He needed to be guarded and protected. Their boss wished he could tie his lover to his belt and carry him around twenty-four hours a day. They were also worried that someone so weak might one day be seized by an anomalous creature and used as a hostage. Then, one day, a man covered in blood burst into their department, crying that his lover had beaten him and begging for help. But the young man they thought was so fragile he needed to be kept in a greenhouse calmly pointed at the man asking for help and said, “The blood on him isn’t his. He’s the one who beat his lover.” The man asking for help immediately flew into a rage, but before he could do anything, their boss crushed him to death. Coming soon 1: The Useless Man Transmigrates into a Book as the Cannon-Fodder Husband, But Gets It Wrong Blurb: Chen Ming was spineless. As a child, when other kids stole his candy, all he could do was cry. At school, when people accused him of plagiarism, he didn’t dare say a word. After he started working, his colleagues always came up with excuses to leave before the end of the day and asked him to finish their work. He could only silently agree, then work overtime alone until midnight. The next day, he’d show up with dark circles under his eyes and get nothing but, “You’re such a nice guy,” from his colleagues. Chen Ming had long since had enough. Every time, he wanted to fight back, but when the other person asked, “What’s wrong?” he could only stammer for ages, then shake his head and say, “Nothing.” After an accident, Chen Ming was hit by a passing truck and sent flying. In that moment, he smiled bitterly, thinking he’d finally managed to die like the spineless man he was. But he never expected to open his eyes again, let alone find himself bound to a System. The System told him he’d transmigrated into the world of a novel about a dragon-slaying hero, as the dragon-slaying hero’s... Chen Ming’s eyes lit up. “I finally get my moment!” “...cannon-fodder husband.” Chen Ming looked utterly bewildered. The System soon assigned him his first mission. [You and the dragon-slaying hero were high school classmates. He was the top student, while you were a poor student. You had a crush on him for years, and one day you finally worked up the courage to confess, but he rejected you. Now you’ve reunited. You’re a big shot in City A, while the dragon-slaying hero is just a small business owner running around trying to find investors.] [Mission: Step on his face! Humiliate him thoroughly! Then tell him, “So this is what you’ve come to!”] Chen Ming looked at the house in front of him, which had been reduced to bare walls by bankruptcy, and asked, “Am I a big shot?” System: [I don’t care. If you don’t follow the plot, I’ll punish you!] The spineless Chen Ming didn’t dare go against the System, and he certainly didn’t dare actually step on the dragon-slaying hero’s face. So he secretly took a photo of the dragon-slaying hero, put it on the ground, and stepped hard on it. Then he pointed at the photo and said, “S-So this is what you’ve come to.” System: [...Mission complete. Reward: 10,000 yuan.] Chen Ming secretly rejoiced. When he looked up, he saw an unfamiliar man leaning against the wall, smoking and watching him. Chen Ming turned and walked away, outwardly calm. Inside, he’d already dug a whole skyscraper out of the ground with his toes: Aaaaaahhhhhh!!!! The System told him: That was the dragon-slaying hero’s brother, his one true love. Mission Two: [The dragon-slaying hero has a one true love. You look a little like him. One day, the dragon-slaying hero gets drunk and mistakes you for his one true love. He sleeps with you, and the two of you get married. But after the wedding, he ignores you, often stays away from home, and spends time with his one true love.] [Mission: Take your marriage certificate to the one true love’s home, throw it in his face, and say, “Look carefully. He and I are the married couple.”] Chen Ming quietly reminded it, “But I already divorced the dragon-slaying hero...” System: [I don’t care. Figure it out yourself!] Faced with the choice between being punished and giving up, Chen Ming finally worked up the nerve, grabbed his divorce certificate, and ran to the one true love’s home. He knocked on the door and, when it opened, tossed the divorce certificate inside and ran off, shouting as he went, “Look carefully. He and I are the married couple!” This time, Chen Ming waited a long time but didn’t receive a reward. Instead, he was punished. Too spineless to ask why, he kept quiet. The System spoke up anyway: [You threw it at the wrong person. That’s the one true love’s brother. Go complete the mission to throw the marriage certificate!] Chen Ming, left twitching by the punishment, cried helplessly. Just then, a pair of black leather shoes appeared before him. The man bent down, picked up Chen Ming, whose face was smeared with tears and snot, and said, “You’re crying so hard. Poor thing.” Later, Chen Ming lay in the one true love’s brother’s bed and kept crying. This time, the one true love’s brother didn’t feel sorry for him at all. Coming soon 2: The Timid Office Worker Plays the Dragon-Slaying Hero in His Dreams Blurb: Bai Yuan was timid. From childhood onward, he always came off worse. Even when people bullied him, he didn’t dare talk back, much less report them. One day, he dreamed he’d received a dragon-slaying hero identity card: play the role of a dragon-slaying hero with a business empire. The business empire was the company he worked for, and he was the boss who had only ever been mentioned by the vice president and his colleagues. This left timid Bai Yuan in a difficult position. He tried to close his eyes and pretend he couldn’t see the identity card, but in the dream he couldn’t close his eyes again, so he was bound to the card. The first mission: Call off the engagement. His fiancée turned out to be the handsome, charming vice president at his real-life company. His secret crush. His fiancée was very serious. He was sitting right across from Bai Yuan’s desk, glaring at him coldly. Bai Yuan slowly looked away, avoiding his gaze. The System told him to say that he wanted to call off the engagement. Bai Yuan opened his mouth and said, “I’ll marry you.” His fiancée left with a cold expression. Bai Yuan thought the System would punish him. He shut his eyes and waited for nearly half an hour, but nothing happened. Oh, this was his dream. In his dream, he was a dragon-slaying hero and could do whatever he wanted. So: The team leader who was always giving him a hard time: he made him revise the proposal. The colleagues who always asked him to do their work: he gave them more work than they could finish. The vice president’s stunning profile as he made coffee in the break room: he used time reversal to watch it again and again. I’m the dragon-slaying hero. This company belongs to me. I can do whatever I want. 2. Everyone heard the message [Ding! Dreamworld is now online!] on the same day, and the whole world turned into a game. Everyone received their own identity card and mission. Everyone diligently carried out their assigned missions, except at a company called the Cais Group, where everything descended into chaos. The employees there were anxious every day. Employee A: I’m a team leader at this company. My boss has gone mad and makes me revise proposals every day. Once, I revised a proposal a hundred times. Employee B: I’m in sales. The boss went crazy and handed my coworkers’ work to me. That day, I worked until the next morning. Employee C: I’m a janitor at this company. One day, I cleaned the bathroom a hundred times. Every time I finished, I went back to before it had been cleaned. Employee D: I’m a planner at this company. One day, I went to the bathroom twenty times. I’d just pulled up my pants, then the next second they were down again. Theme: Work hard and keep striving toward your goals