The Bystander's Love-Triangle Trait Goes into Overdrive!!!

Estimated release date: August 11 at midnight!

[Updates tentatively at 9 a.m. Open for paragraph comments. A comedy full of one-upmanship between men, dramatic love triangles, dark humor, and snark. Even if nobody gets my humor, I still want to be absurd.]

Global disasters strike: plague and famine leave the world on the brink of collapse.

Shi Le is reborn before the apocalypse and discovers that he's merely a background character in an ensemble novel.

The background character is an ordinary college student with no supernatural abilities, always talking nonsense and treating money like his life. His only redeeming quality is that he's better at fighting than most people.

But the protagonists are all around him:

His slacker office-worker brother is actually a max-level powerhouse who's hiding his true strength, and the strongest ability user in China.

His childhood first love is the beloved master archetype that flower-city fiction and Jinjiang novels love to defile: a prophet who's lived for over a thousand years and a master swordsman of extraordinary power.

His gaming buddy follows the mastermind route. He's a Miaojiang Gu master who can control even creatures from hell, and the big boss of the villainous ability-user organization, Divine Eye.

His aloof childhood friend has BKing energy turned up to the max: the legendary leader of the calamities, more powerful than even an SSS-rank being!

And his high school classmate only seems "too delicate to take care of himself." He's actually the ultimate green-tea actor, an evil god who reached the top of the rankings in an Infinite Flow world!

So they're all big shots!

The most unbelievable part is that the author killed Shi Le off because he was so close to the protagonists that he snapped!

But that's okay. In this life, he'll stick to his role as a background character and keep his distance from the protagonists!

And yet...

His high school classmate's eyes gleam with a deep, twisted love. Unseen tentacles surge in the darkness, seeming ready to swallow Shi Le whole.

"Your skin, your waist, your warmth, your voice... I can't get enough of them. Can I hide you away and make you have my babies?"

His former first love had sworn not long ago, "I'm not interested in the weak," but now he's confessing his love:

"Can't you love me one more time?"

His childhood friend blocks Shi Le's path. His tone is cold and even, yet sends a chill down Shi Le's spine. He presses Shi Le's wrist to his lips, as if to leave a deep mark that belongs to him alone.

"Why are you avoiding me? Are you going to abandon me again?"

His gaming buddy pins Shi Le against the cold sink. A bell lures a poisonous snake around Shi Le's pale legs, while the man's smile twists with jealousy.

"Why is that man allowed to, but I'm not? Do you look at him like that at night, too?"

His office-worker brother glares at all the men eyeing Shi Le hungrily and pulls him behind his back.

"I'm all the protection my little brother needs. Those men out there don't get to covet him."

Shi Le: How did I end up in a dramatic love triangle just for being a background character? I've learned my lesson. Please spare me!

Can someone lock up this group of mentally unstable big shots?

Then one day, Shi Le discovers that he's transformed into a golden Eastern dragon, soaring through the clouds. A single roar makes the calamities tremble in fear.

#Haha, turns out I'm a big shot too#

1. All the main characters are virgins. The protagonist is beloved by everyone, powerful, and the center of the story.

2. The love interest is Xie Buwu, an Infinite Flow powerhouse. Both leads are big shots: a black-bellied, scheming, green-tea, mentally unstable gong who appears innocent, and a handsome shou who talks nonsense, lies, and is a god of war in physics.

3. The older brother and protagonist aren't related by blood and aren't registered in the same household.

4. This story blends Chinese and Western elements, with a little Chinese supernatural lore and Western mythology. The talk of having babies is just for show.

Theme: A person can be destroyed, but never defeated.