The Villainous Little One Is the Group Favorite in a Political Intrigue Novel

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The little evil dragon Xuan Yu transmigrates into a power-struggle novel as a cannon-fodder little prince.

His eldest brother is a paragon of both letters and arms, and a man of integrity. As heir to the throne, he spends every day obsessively dealing with lists of suspected rebels.

His second brother is sickly, beautiful, and gentle. Though he has no intention of rebelling, he is obsessed with framing the eldest prince.

His third brother is brave in battle and rough around the edges. With so many older brothers ahead of him, he chooses to secretly plot a rebellion.

His brothers are all circling the throne. Xuan Yu is an overlooked, unloved little prince who, in the original story, becomes a casualty of the power struggle.

Looking at his dewy, chubby little face in the bronze mirror, the little evil dragon gives himself a wicked grin. Since he's become cannon fodder, no one can blame him for being ruthless!

He pretends to accidentally tear up the list of rebels his eldest brother worked so hard to collect. Then he takes the trap his second brother carefully set and uses it to catch chickens. Finally, he trips over his own feet and falls right outside the door where his third brother and his subordinates are plotting their rebellion, drawing everyone's attention.

The little prince's eyes brim with tears, though inside he's overjoyed: This is going to cause a huge mess!

But he never expected his eldest brother to look past the ruined list and check on him with concern, or his second brother to gently take his reddened little hand and carefully blow on it. Even his usually hot-tempered third brother anxiously asks:

"Xiao Yu, are you hurt?"

Xuan Yu: ...

Xuan Yu: ???

Xuan Yu: Stay back! I'm really super evil!

*

Unable to stand his brothers' strange looks, the little evil dragon decides to find someone else to torment.

This time, his target is the prime minister.

In the original story, the promising young prime minister is someone all three brothers want to win over.

Xuan Yu thinks nothing of it.

He's a fearsome evil dragon!

He claims he is too scared to be apart from his brothers, successfully making the prime minister his tutor. Then he gleefully runs wild all over the prime minister's home.

After causing one calamity after another without getting so much as a reaction, the little evil dragon feels more frustrated than ever.

When the prime minister can't see him, he sneaks off to the study, hides by himself, and cries pitifully with both little hands raised:

"Waaah, I'm such a failure of an evil dragon."

The study door suddenly swings open. An oil lamp brightens the entire room, and golden light falls across Xuan Yu's face. He even forgets to wipe the tears covering his cheeks.

The visitor's palm holds a beautiful piece of gold.

The little evil dragon's eyes light up at once. How did the prime minister know he loves gold most of all?

*

At first, Xuan Yu: Hehehe, don't worry, big brothers. The prime minister likes me best!

Later, Xuan Yu: Waaah, y-you don't have to like me quite that much. Brothers, save me!

All his brothers immediately go on high alert: Who's trying to get their hands on our Xiao Yu?!

The Gacha Machine Is Full of My Arch-Enemy's Diaries

On the way home from the hospital, Tong Yan casually tosses the medical report, which says his wish can never come true, into the "trash can" outside his front door.

He has an illness, the incurable kind.

Then the "trash can" spits out a round capsule toy. Tong Yan twists it open and finds a torn scrap of paper inside. At the top, it says:

Tingting's Diary.

A familiar and irritating handwriting.

Tong Yan frowns as soon as he sees the handwriting and the name.

*

Tong Yan has an arch-enemy named Lin Muting. They've disliked each other since childhood. Later, Tong Yan's family fell on hard times, and he heard that Lin Muting had become the CEO of some pharmaceutical group. He doesn't know, and doesn't particularly want to know. All he wants is not to hear that his arch-enemy is doing better than he is.

One day, a capsule toy machine suddenly appears outside his home. Tong Yan discovers that whenever he puts in a wish, the machine produces a page from Lin Muting's diary. Lin Muting even gave his diary the childish name Tingting's Diary.

Tingting, my foot. How childish, Tong Yan thinks.

*

At first, he only wants to snoop on his arch-enemy's private life, so he keeps putting in wishes. But after reading a few pages, he starts to sense that something is off.

"Should I go back and find him now?"

"I wonder how he's doing these days."

"I love him so much. Every day I'm away, I think about him."

"I can't hold back from wanting to kiss him anymore. I dream about him every single night."

"I want..."

Wait, Lin Muting has someone he loves? And it's a man!

Tong Yan is shocked. He carefully gathers all of Lin Muting's diary pages together, trying to find one or two things he can use against his arch-enemy.

Tong Yan admits he's a bad person. He has so little time left anyway, so why not spend it making someone else's life miserable? Especially his arch-enemy's.

*

On the day Lin Muting returns to A City, he gets a phone call.

The caller boasts that they have dirt on him and demands that Lin Muting do as he says, or he'll be on the front page of the news the next day.

When Lin Muting recognizes the caller's voice, he smiles and meekly agrees to the demands.

It starts with buying him a little cake, cooking him a meal, and accompanying him to the hospital... Later, Tong Yan doesn't even need to ask. He realizes that everything Lin Muting does is already following his wishes.

*

When the final capsule toy drops into Tong Yan's hand, he turns around and finds Lin Muting standing right beside him.

The wish in Lin Muting's hand is the one Tong Yan just made.

"The last one," Lin Muting says with a smile. "Haven't you always wondered who the person in my diary is?"

Tong Yan realizes something is wrong and tries to run, but Lin Muting has already cornered him outside his front door.

"Tong Yan, I've liked you for so long. Can't you give me a chance?"

*

One day, Lin Muting unexpectedly finds a capsule toy machine in his home. He puts a page from his diary inside, never expecting the machine to spit out the terminal illness report of the person he loves most.

He decides to return there at once, find that person, cure him, and then confess.

The Face-Blind Errand Runner of Noble Academy's F4

In his previous life, Lin Xuemu died poor because he couldn't afford treatment for his illness. After his death, he was bound to a System and entered a novel called Noble Academy's F4.

The System tells him that completing his mission will earn him the chance to be reborn.

His mission is to play the cannon-fodder errand runner of the F4, who are born to stand above everyone else, delivering gifts to them from their many admirers.

At first, he thinks it's no big deal. He's just running errands and delivering gifts. The F4 members all have such distinctive features, how could he possibly mix them up?

But when he sees the extravagant luxury goods, he hesitates.

That bottle of custom-made perfume could fetch ten times the cost of his medical bills in his previous life if he put it up for online auction. After thinking it over, he decides to swap it out and deliver a fake bottle instead.

The F2 supposedly hates perfume most of all. He won't even look at this kind of gift.

As long as Lin Xuemu delivers it, his mission will be complete.

In this life, Lin Xuemu wants to live, but just staying alive isn't enough. He wants money, lots and lots of money, enough to live a comfortable life forever.

But he never expected that, because he couldn't afford treatment in his previous life, he would develop face blindness.

He delivers the gift meant for the F2, who never wears perfume, to the F1 instead. And the F1 casually sprays it on himself.

As the cheap fragrance wafts around the F1, he swears he'll find the person who made him look like a fool.

Lin Xuemu sells the little cake meant for the F3 and buys a random one at the roadside to deliver instead.

The F3 hates desserts most of all, so Lin Xuemu knows he won't even open it.

The F4, who has never tasted anything with such a strange flavor, furrows his brow.

The same sort of thing happens when the F2 takes out his newly purchased phone in front of a crowd, only to find it's barely half the size of his palm and won't even turn on.

The ring the F3 puts on at the last minute smells faintly of rust.

They find the guy called Lin Xuemu and discover him wearing a uniform no one at a noble school would ever wear, crouched in a corner while gnawing on a near-expired bagel.

The F4 can't make sense of it. Those gifts were worth enough to let him live in luxury. How did he end up so poor?

At the same time, they decide to teach him a lesson.

But when the boy lifts his neck, his pitifully pretty face turning this way and that like a helpless little animal, they decide on a different kind of punishment.

Lin Xuemu doesn't know why the F4 keep coming to him one after another, each saying they want to be with him.

But when they give him luxurious jewelry and designer goods, and he sees the number of digits in his bank balance keep growing, he thinks he wouldn't mind being with them either.

At first, Lin Xuemu only wants to get as much money as he can from them, then run away.

But one day, while kissing the F1, he calls out the F2's name. The man's expression changes instantly. His large hand grips Lin Xuemu's small, fair chin. His furious gaze meets Lin Xuemu's pitiful one, and the F1 angrily bites the poor boy's lips until they swell and turn red. Then he demands:

"Lin Xuemu, do you even know which one of us you're with?"

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