After Bai Yan died, he was bound to a quick transmigration System and had to play the humble second male lead in all kinds of worlds.
The System told him: The second male lead is patient and devoted, protecting the person he loves. After watching them end up with the male lead, he either leaves sadly or makes trouble until he gets himself killed.
Bai Yan understood.
Basically, you're a lovesick doormat who ends up with nothing.
Bai Yan did his best to play the humble second male lead, but he never expected the plot to start going in such a strange direction.
He'd only done what he was supposed to do, so why had he become everyone's unattainable ideal and lifelong obsession?
World One:
[You're cool and chaste on the surface, but you can't stop crying in bed. You have a purely physical relationship with the coldhearted protagonist top you've secretly loved for years, thinking he'll never fall for anyone. But then he falls for the monster boy you raised.]
But when it came to Bai Yan, the plot turned into...
The coldhearted protagonist top kissed away his tears and said passionately, "So this is what it feels like to fall in love with you."
The monster boy caressed his cheek, his gaze obsessive. "I want to lock you away in a world where only I can see you."
World Two:
[You're an aloof, cutting master, as ethereal as an immortal and respected by all in the cultivation world. But you have a secret you must never reveal: you came from the Hehuan Sect, and you've committed the unforgivable crime of secretly loving your own disciple.
But your disciple loves his pure and unsullied senior brother. You're heartbroken and suffer cultivation deviation, only for the Demon Lord, whom you once defeated, to take advantage of you.]
But Bai Yan's plot fell apart like this...
The Demon Lord imprisoned him in his lair and begged him with red-rimmed eyes, "Don't choose him. Choose me."
His disciple clung to him in tears, refusing to let him go. "If you become a demon, I'll join you. If you want to die, I'll die with you."
World Three:
[You're cold and heartless, a holy son of the Sun Palace. Then, after finally breaking your vows, you fall for your own believer, only to watch him turn and embrace the devil who's always wanted to kill you.]
Later...
The believer looked at him with an obsessed gaze. "I want to take you away from God."
The devil crept into his dreams night after night. "You hate me? Then I'll punish you by keeping you in bed every night."
World Four:
[You're sickly and obsessive, adopted by a military family as a child and a loyal official the likes of which only comes along once in a century. You've always been infatuated with your elder brother, but the emperor secretly took you as his male lover, hiding you away in the palace where no one could see you. Then, on the eve of the empress's investiture ceremony, you see the emperor personally dress your elder brother in a wedding robe.]
Later, the plot predictably turned into...
The emperor brushed back his hair and kissed his forehead deeply. "How about you stop being my male lover and become my empress instead?"
His elder brother looked at him, his gaze deep. "Xiao Yan, I don't want to be your brother anymore."
Obsessive, twisted, fragmented tops x cool, chaste, universally adored bottom
Theme: Striving for a better society