As a genre of melodramatic, over-the-top romance where multiple people compete for one person's affections, love-triangle fiction is always hard to put down.
But stories like these usually need NPCs to help manage their complicated plots and keep everything from falling apart. That's how Jiang Chen became the transmigration department's golden supporting character.
In a dormitory love-triangle story, he was the inconspicuous roommate who watched two tops fight over one bottom and stepped in to smooth things over before they started brawling in the dorm.
In a wealthy-family story about the real and fake young masters, he was a banquet guest who watched the farce between the newcomer and the childhood friend, marveling at how rich people knew how to have fun.
In an entertainment-industry story, he was a boy-band contestant who cried out, "He loves him so much, and he loves him so much too!" as the substitute and the white moonlight faced off.
In short, getting paid to snack on melodramatic gossip every day, with a different scandal each time, was so! very! wonderful!
But the good days of gossiping didn't last long.
One day, his three roommates, whose relationships had somehow grown even stranger, dragged Jiang Chen, the inconspicuous one, over to the bed and asked what he thought of the three of them.
Jiang Chen: You're asking me a question this awkward?
In the wealthy-family story about the real and fake young masters, the two had somehow made up, beaten up the domineering CEO who'd changed the engagement, and asked Jiang Chen which of them he felt more sorry for in this household and this whole farce.
Jiang Chen: But shouldn't you be looking for your childhood friend when you want sympathy?
In the entertainment-industry story, the substitute and the white moonlight joined forces, kicked out the former movie emperor, and cornered him backstage at a variety show audition.
"Since you say everyone has a soul that's unique to them, which of us do you think is more unique?"
Wait, wait...
Jiang Chen felt a little dizzy. He took a moment to check the world's love-triangle crisis threshold.
It hadn't risen. It had actually fallen, so the plot should still be stable, right?
But as he kept getting cornered more and more often, an ominous feeling crept into his heart.
He rushed into the System's backend to take a look.
The names of the love-triangle story's main characters had all been replaced with his own. The original two-against-one love triangle had turned into a terrifying number.
Ah.
Ah?
Ah!
What the hell was this broken System doing? That, um, that kind of P isn't allowed!
Who gets paid to gossip only for the gossip to end up being about them? Please, go fight over your own love triangles. Why are you all coming after me!?
Theme: Sincerity for sincerity
