A Background Character Becomes the Most Popular Contestant on a Furry Dating Show

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As an elite office worker, Bai Guo had saved up enough money and was ready to fire his boss the next day when he accidentally transmigrated into a book, becoming a penniless, unregistered giant rabbit.

Bai Guo: "...Give me my money back."

Luckily, he could work toward the wonderful life he wanted in this new world: work one day, take five off, and slack off all year. To get started, Bai Guo was casually dragged by an unscrupulous director into the fluffy dating show from the book, where he was assigned the background role of an extra.

Bai Guo was a beautiful, adorable, fluffy giant rabbit, snowy white all over, with gray-blue eyes and ears. But as the saying goes, workers are like bricks, ready to be moved wherever they're needed. With the show's schedule in a panic, the big white rabbit was sent to the gong group without a clue what was going on, where he trembled among male lions, gray wolves, and other carnivores.

Since he was already there, he decided to make the best of it. Unlike the other guests, Bai Guo spent every day eating, phoning in his work, and sleeping. His leisurely routine looked less like a dating show and more like a retirement program.

A few minor mishaps happened, but as far as Bai Guo was concerned, this wonderful life would last until the dating show ended. He never expected that one day, all the fluffy animals would stop following the original story and start coming to cuddle him. Even the gong-group guests, who had originally seen him as a rival in love, began paying attention to him!

The male lion who'd initially ignored him started holding him in his arms and grooming his fur. The gray wolf who'd treated him as a rival tore meat into little strips and fed him. The shou group's popular kitten circled him every day, and fennec foxes, guinea pigs, and others all rushed into Bai Guo's arms to snuggle and nuzzle him.

Although he sensed something was wrong, Bai Guo stuck to his nature as a worker, kept his head down, and slacked off in peace, thinking every day about when he could clock out.

They're just fluffy animals. It's not like they can force him to work overtime, right?

Then, a little over a month later, Bai Guo woke up to find that all the fluffy animals around him had turned into people, and every one of them was demanding that he choose.

With his brain overloaded, Bai Guo said solemnly, "I should clock out now."

There was no chance of clocking out. The fluffy animals in human form kept clinging to him day and night, turning his miserable 996 work schedule into a nightmare 007.

Bai Guo: Help, help!

Reader's guide:

1. No picking teams. The CP is the male lion, the popular protagonist.

2. The red fox and fennec fox's feelings for the protagonist aren't romantic, just friendship and admiration.

3. The gong group and shou group are divided by body size. They don't represent actual roles.

4. Some animal behavior may have minor inaccuracies for the sake of the plot. Please treat them as creative liberties.

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Title: I'm Just a Background Character in a Dog-Blood Novel

Blurb:

Lu Yanyang transmigrated into an old-school, dog-blood novel about a universally adored protagonist. Everyone around him was a dazzling, heaven-blessed prodigy.

The first male lead, Jin Yunfan, was Qingyang No. 1 High School's rebellious school bully, a heartthrob constantly featured on the school's confession wall and the leading figure among the boys. The watch on his wrist could buy a house, his garage was packed with luxury cars, and the word "setback" didn't exist in his life.

The second male lead, Xie Xu, was a refined, obsessive-compulsive academic genius. Since transferring to No. 1 High School, no one had managed to knock him off the top of the rankings. He was aloof and arrogant, treating everyone equally with disdain, but his unparalleled talent kept landing him on a pedestal.

The third male lead, Shen Yang, was the illegitimate son of a wealthy family. He was reclusive and cold, yet had a face so handsome it was almost devastating. While still in school, he was already involved in the family business, running several companies and finding ways to turn every kind of business into a lucrative venture. He was in a completely different class from ordinary students.

The universally adored protagonist of the novel, Shu Ningning, was an exquisite little white flower with an innate air of purity. Wherever she went, she ran into the three male leads, kicking off the standard dog-blood plot of a weak heroine standing up to the powerful and striving for independence.

They had money, looks, and a story centered on them.

Lu Yanyang, transmigrated as a background character: Oh, what the hell does that have to do with me?

Romance was far too dangerous. He was determined to quietly become the perfect background character.

And so everyone noticed that the famous stars of the school now had an unremarkable classmate by their side. No matter what happened, he was always in the best spot to watch the drama, yet never showed the slightest interest in it. Everyone said he was a bookworm who did nothing but study.

Then, after an ordinary monthly exam, they discovered that the unshakable top student had fallen to second place, while the student in first place was none other than background character Lu Yanyang.

After that, they realized something seemed to have changed.

At the city's basketball competition, Lu Yanyang dominated the court, scoring even more than the famous school bully.

When his heavy black-rimmed glasses accidentally fell off, his astonishing beauty left everyone around him looking dull by comparison.

Watching all this unfold, the little white flower came to her senses: Study hard, everyone can study hard. What's romance got on building a career?

Thanks to Lu Yanyang's efforts, the heaven-blessed prodigies began competing for one person's attention for the first time, frantically pushing themselves to the limit and abandoning their old lazy ways.

The students at Qingyang No. 1 High School were extremely worried about this unusual dormitory.

Before, they worried that the heaven-blessed prodigies would bully the background character.

Now, they worried that the prodigies would beat one another up over the background character.

Theme: Learning never ends. Strive for the top