A Third-Rate Side Character Is Everyone's Darling [Quick Transmigration]

[The next novel is "After a Corporate Drone Raises His First Love's Child." The blurb is below. Please add it to your favorites!]

There are always a few third-rate side characters in stories who are malicious, arrogant, and conceited, full of prejudice against everyone but themselves. Nobody loves them, and they have no good qualities. They are third-rate side characters.

As a newcomer to the Quick Transmigration Bureau, Shen Ting can only take on these thankless roles. But when he enters each world, things somehow turn out differently.

[All love interests are virgins]

World One: The snobbish inferior Alpha at school (Complete)

The original character was arrogant, but despite being an Alpha, he was born with defective glands and could not produce any pheromones.

Relying on his family's status, he was extremely harsh and oppressive toward S-rank Alphas. After his family lost its standing, the Alphas he had bullied toyed with him until he died.

After Shen Ting arrives in this world, he does his best to follow the original character's personality and play out the story, waiting to die so he can move on to the next world.

But when he maliciously and listlessly tells those S-rank Alphas to smell his glands, one of them looks at him with a suddenly profound gaze.

His scorching breath falls against Shen Ting's glands. The air fills with the intensely aggressive pheromones Alphas unconsciously release when aroused, and a broad, warm hand clamps around Shen Ting's slender wrist.

Making an inferior, defective Alpha smell your glands should be humiliating, yet this man seems to relish it.

World Two: A nobody streamer deliberately says suggestive things about a big-name streamer to attract viewers (Complete)

The original character was an obscure streamer whose broadcasts never got any traffic. By chance, something he said led netizens to assume he had an improper relationship with a popular streamer.

After Shen Ting arrives, he plays along, deliberately making suggestive remarks during his livestream. His channel gets plenty of traffic.

But when those popular streamers come into his room and see him, their expressions turn inscrutable.

When viewers ask about it, the big-name streamer remains cool, though his tone betrays no displeasure.

"Is that so, little boyfriend?"

But where the livestream camera cannot see, the streamer sends him a message.

- If you say something I want to hear, I might let this go, Shen Ting.

World Three: A foolish, meticulous researcher with no achievements is taken hostage by the monsters he studies (Complete)

(Content warning: Shen Ting's blood is irresistible to the monsters. The monster love interests don't understand human rules at first, so they may come across as jerks.)

The original character only got into the research institute through connections. He looked down on the monsters being studied there and would beat or berate them during experiments. Then he discovered that his blood had a fatal allure for them, and used it as bait to produce a series of impressive results. But when the institute's system failed, the monsters, who had long held a grudge, toyed with him until he died.

After Shen Ting arrives, he diligently follows the original character's personality. Though he hates the monsters, he pays them particular attention. Just like in the original story, he uses his blood to force them to cooperate with the research.

After waking up several nights in a row with a sour taste at the root of his tongue, Shen Ting looks in the mirror and sees his neck. That's when he realizes the monsters seem even more interested in the fluids his body secretes as a side effect of the experiments.

World Four: The two-faced lackey at the side of a domineering rich heir (Ongoing)

The original character was merely a lackey who attached himself to rich, domineering heirs. His upbringing had made lying a habit. He would tell one heir, "You're the one I'm most loyal to," then say the same thing to another. In the end, the heirs killed him to warn their underlings.

When Shen Ting arrives in this world, he sticks to the original persona. To his eldest adoptive brother, he says, "Big Brother, you're the brother I love most," while inwardly holding him in utter contempt.

But Big Brother acts completely out of character, his voice ominous. "Am I really the brother you love most?"

The ruler in his hand comes down on Shen Ting's palm, but when Shen Ting starts to cry, he puts it in Shen Ting's hand instead.

"I'm sorry, darling. You can hit me, Big Brother."

Blurb for "After a Corporate Drone Raises His First Love's Child"

Ye Heng is over thirty and an utterly ordinary corporate drone. To his boss, he's just a pale, taciturn subordinate who wears black-rimmed glasses all year round, always anxious and never knowing when he'll be fired.

To his young neighbor, Ye Heng is just a dazed old man who likes lecturing people and going on about how distant relatives can't compare to neighbors.

And to Ye Heng's high school best friend, whom he has pursued for years and holds in the highest regard, he's simply "an ordinary, gentle, shy man."

Still, for old times' sake, his friend is willing to let Ye Heng into his social circle, and that's all.

Then one day, Ye Heng disappears without a trace. Nobody can find him.

When he finally reappears, his pale, slender fingers are holding the hand of a short boy who cowers behind him.

The boy is eight years old.

Only later do they learn that the child belongs to Ye Heng's first love from his youth.

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Only then does his boss realize that Ye Heng can smile like that for the child of someone he loves, his lips flushed red. He even dares to push his boss away just to protect a child who has no relation to him at all.

It takes his young neighbor a while to realize that this stuffy old man is willing to embrace so many new things for the boy, even agree to his unreasonable demands and put on white thigh-high socks and a miniskirt. Does he really love that first love so much?

And the man who thought he was the best friend of the one being pursued only realizes later that Ye Heng had a youthful secret known only to himself. Like a clown, he assumed the one being pursued had loved him for years, treating Ye Heng like a familiar puppy and enjoying it with a clear conscience.

Wasn't he the real puppy all along?

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At last, after Ye Heng gets drunk, he finally sends the boy back. But when he reaches his room, the shadows of three tall men instantly envelop him.

"Do you really love that person so much?"

"Why are you so upset just because a child left?"

"You're not thinking of looking for that first love again, are you?"

With tears blurring his eyes, Ye Heng looks at the three men before him.

"Look at me, will you?"

"I'll be your dog, I'll become someone I'm not, I'll go crazy for you."

Theme: Every soul is free.