The Male Lead’s Ability Lost Control Over the Cannon Fodder

[Special Ability = X-Ray Vision + Mind Reading. Bonus side stories drop at random.]

[Up next: "The Wasteland, but I Stockpile Supplies." If you like this sort of thing, don't miss it!]

Le Can, a rising jewelry designer who should have shone as brilliantly as his name.

But his scumbag boyfriend and the other woman stole his designs and finished pieces, then smeared him with false accusations. The once-lauded genius became a "thief" reviled by everyone overnight.

With only three fingers left on his right hand, Le Can personally made his scumbag boyfriend impotent, then exposed their vile faces at the green tea mistress's celebratory banquet.

The moment his crazed ex stabbed him in the kidney, Le Can hadn't even finished regretting all the jewelry in his safe when, in the blink of an eye, he transmigrated into a certain popular no-romance male-lead novel, as the "beauty" who had just been offered up to him.

Xi Yun, a famous urban male lead on a certain web-novel site's rankings, and the very model of a lifelong bachelor.

He owns Yanjing's largest auction house. Thanks to his unusual pair of pupils, which first granted him X-ray vision and later let him see through all things, he becomes a renowned collector in the later part of the story, gathering every kind of treasure and jade into his collection.

The person being offered as a beauty: "A marriage alliance? With your Le family's nearly bankrupt business, or..." Xi Yun raised his eyelids slightly. "...with Third Young Master Le's looks?"

Le Can: A fatal blow, sarcasm at full strength. If I weren't the other person involved, I'd jump up and applaud you.

Too bad he shouldn't have spoken so soon. The next second, Xi Yun's out-of-control ability made him eat his words at lightning speed. He paid a hundred million to sever family ties and got himself a rather expensive wife.

Very good. You've got my interest.

From then on, the proud and aloof male lead from the book kept getting his face slapped, and even did something for a cannon-fodder character...

Le Can had only skimmed the novel, so all he knew was that Xi Yun could see through things. He had no idea that, later on, his ability would develop to the point where he could see through everything, including people's inner thoughts.

Le Can: A blindfold made of white silk. A little showy, but so damn sexy.

Xi Yun: ...

Le Can: He goes out with his eyes closed and rides around in a wheelchair every day. Who knew his body would be so nice, so hard...

Xi Yun: .

Le Can: I'm so tired. I don't want to walk. I wonder if I can sit on my hubby's lap.

Xi Yun pulled him over, moved his lips, and covered his mouth: Shut up, you!

Le Can: Crash and burn? It only happens zero times or infinitely many times!

[Little Theater]:

There is an unwritten rule in the antiques world: anything Xi Yun has handled and admired is a treasure.

Recently, to everyone's astonishment, someone stopped handling treasures and started playing with his own wife's hands instead.

Le Can, with dead fish eyes: "Where's all that pride and aloofness of yours? Can you let go of me?!"

[Important: Le Can is not the first to fall in love.]

Anything in [ ] in the story represents thoughts Xi Yun can hear.

----Please add "The Wasteland, but I Stockpile Supplies" to your reading list----

Shi Yingshu likes peace and quiet and isn't good at socializing, so after graduating, he simply started making videos back in his hometown.

Mushrooms and bamboo shoots from the hills behind his house, fruits and vegetables from his courtyard, the cozy warmth of a wood-burning stove... Anything could become the subject of one of his videos.

His followers saw that Shi Yingshu was always on his own and urged him to get a pet. He would always smile and shake his head.

If real pets aren't an option, then try a game!

It's a casual little game players jokingly call "trash picking," though it's really a mix of outdoor hiking, sightseeing, and scavenging.

Fruit, mushrooms, wild vegetables, river delicacies, wild rabbits...

Serene forests, alpine meadows, majestic snow-capped mountains, riversides and coasts...

Maps that are like surprise boxes, piles of stockpiled goods, and mysterious merchants who appear at random...

Shi Yingshu loved the game, and even got a little addicted to it. Sometimes he even forgot to update his video account. Just as he'd bought a little courtyard in the game and was looking for a digital pet, Shi Yingshu transmigrated!

A wasteland full of savagery and mutations received a traveler lost in time and space.

Shi Yingshu was sold on the first day, nearly eaten alive on the second, and on the third... He accepted the truth and latched onto someone.

But because he had never been exposed to contamination or mutation, the wasteland delicacy he'd just put in his mouth nearly sent him straight back to the afterlife.

Fortunately, just before he starved to death, the game started up again...

Later, Shi Yingshu finally built himself another courtyard. But his plan to get a cat or a dog somehow turned into getting a wolf? A dragon?

*

War turned the world into a wasteland, and every living thing on Earth mutated due to an unknown contaminant.

Mutants are powerful, but live constantly under the shadow of losing control. Purifiers are scarce, useful but nowhere near enough.

Resources are desperately scarce, and food is precious. Everyone knows that eating food tainted with contamination is just like drinking poison to quench one's thirst, but they have no other choice.

Until uncontaminated food and seeds finally become available.

Thank goodness we don't have to die young anymore! Aw, this is delicious!

Shi Yingshu, the light of the wasteland: ...

Believe it or not, at first he just wanted a proper home-cooked meal.

Yue Lingjue, the triple-form winner of life:

He picked someone up on a whim. Who knew he'd be more than a "long-term meal ticket"? He was also a wife he'd never met before.

-----Big sale in my author profile!-----

[Completed novels]:

Food-and-card-drawing story: "Whose Card Album Is a Cookbook?"

Quick transmigration and beachcombing story: "Becoming a Cute Creature, Beachcombing Across Worlds"

Apocalypse business story: "Opening a Flower Shop to Make a Splash in the Apocalypse"

[Upcoming novels]:

Sucking his childhood friend's yang energy to stay alive and find a dad: "My Dad Suddenly Came to Life [Infinite]"

Stockpiling supplies in the wasteland with a "trash-picking" game: "The Wasteland, but I Stockpile Supplies"

"He's standing right in front of you, how can you still not see him?" "The Supernatural Has Arrived, but I'm Not Him"

A spy wife who walks right into a trap: "Forced to Frame the Villain [Sign-In]"

Fiery yellow lantern peppers make the CEO love spicy food: "My Wife's So Spicy, She Sets the Whole Place Ablaze [Book Transmigration]"

Online dating leads to meeting in another world: "The Age of Acting for All (Entertainment Industry)"

Thank you for your support, everyone. *bows*

[Reading Tips]:

1. One-on-one romance, both leads' first relationship, happy ending.

2. An alternate modern setting with lots and lots of original worldbuilding. Please don't overthink it.

3. More will be added when I think of it. Muah!

Theme: Objective reality is not fixed; it constantly develops and changes. We should view things from the perspective of development.