What! I’m Not a Substitute After All?

[I'm wrapping things up, so I may not be able to update daily. I'll try to make each chapter longer. Enjoy!]

My next novel is The Human World Wish Management Bureau. The blurb is at the very bottom, so stop by and add it to your collection!

Blurb:

Fang Jieshi transmigrated into a novel about a universally adored protagonist in a danmei romance, as a minor character.

He may have been a minor character, but he had a seriously ill mother in bed, a father who had disappeared, and a boss who was the third male lead, a lovesick fool about to drive his company into bankruptcy.

Fang Jieshi: I feel like I'm about to fall apart...

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Facing unemployment and staggering medical bills, Fang Jieshi rolled up his sleeves and started a side hustle, becoming a moderately well-known food blogger. He also accidentally discovered that his lovesick boss seemed to think he was a substitute for the protagonist's love interest.

Was that really a thing?

Was it finally his turn to play the substitute?

Fang Jieshi wept with joy: I can finally stop working so hard...

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But after dutifully playing the substitute for a while, he realized that, although his boss was a CEO, he wasn't domineering in the least. He didn't give him a black card to spend as he pleased, or even a monthly allowance of a hundred thousand yuan.

Hmph!

Aside from being handsome, he was good for nothing.

Fang Jieshi decided he was done putting up with it. He left with one last remark: "You're too stingy. Let's break up."

Then he headed straight into the entertainment industry without looking back.

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While filming a variety show, Fang Jieshi met Xie Yi, the protagonist's love interest and an award-winning actor. Just when Fang Jieshi thought he'd be forced to play the contrast, Actor Xie came up to him and said:

"Even the guy I couldn't win over has finally fallen for you. Let me see what kind of person could make Shen Beilu fall in love at first sight."

Fang Jieshi: What?! I'm not a substitute after all?

My next novel is The Human World Wish Management Bureau. Stop by and add it to your collection!

Yan Ye took a trip to the underworld after an accident. The good news was that he managed to land a civil service job there.

The bad news: he wasn't dead yet...

And so Yan Ye became the only living person in the underworld with an official position.

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In recent years, life in the human world had become increasingly stressful. Young people nowadays chose to burn incense instead of going to work or school, causing a surge in the number of wishes received by the underworld. This led to all kinds of corner-cutting in the fulfillment of wishes.

Yan Ye was assigned to review whether wishes were reasonable and supervise how well they were fulfilled.

For example: someone wishes for twenty thousand yuan, then gets into a car accident and receives exactly twenty thousand yuan in compensation.

Trying to game the system is unacceptable! Catch them and deduct their merit!

Another example: a grandson wishes to become rich, so his grandfather, who's been dead for thirty years, finds four old friends in the underworld and prepares to use the Five Ghosts to bring the grandson wealth.

Criminal behavior is absolutely forbidden! Take them away and throw them into the Eighteenth Level of Hell!

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Later, Yan Ye established the Human World Wish Management Bureau. Just as his work was going swimmingly, a handsome old man who claimed to be an immortal handed him a business card. "Would you be interested in working in the celestial realm?"

Yan Ye: ...Even the celestial realm poaches staff from the underworld?

Handsome old man: "When it comes to making wishes, the celestial realm is the hardest hit..."

Later, after a bout of talks that began with courtesy and ended with force, the celestial realm sent people to the underworld.

The celestial realm outsourced to the underworld the job of investigating people who tried to game the wish-fulfillment process by praying to immortals.

Later still, a curvaceous nine-tailed fox appeared at his office door. "You know, plenty of people make wishes to auspicious creatures like nine-tailed foxes, koi, and qilin..."

Yan Ye: Great. Now I'm a vassal to three different masters...

Theme: Strive for yourself and make your way toward a new life!