That NPC Is So Charming

The main story is complete. Writing is not easy, so thank you, dear readers, for supporting the original. My next book will be "The Pretty Little Money-Grubber Is Forced to Become Everyone's Darling," a reverse-harem competition story. Please add it to your collection! (Bows.jpg)

Xu Xingcheng, an overworked office drone at the bottom of society, had failed the civil service exam three years in a row while working full-time. In the depths of his despair, he somehow transmigrated into a minor cannon-fodder NPC in a golden finger novel.

He also acquired a Civil Servant Professionalism Self-Assessment System.

System Xiao Ba explained that it would assess how dedicated its Host was to working in entry-level jobs and decide whether he was suited to become a civil servant. It promised that if he played five NPC roles in Mary Sue stories well and met the standards, he would be reborn and pass the civil service exam!

So Xu Xingcheng diligently played the CEO's personal butler, the school bully's best friend and sidekick, a nameless little ghost whose job was to scare people in a monster story, the personal assistant of a top-tier star who secretly ran a suggestive livestream behind his back, and a nutritionist for an omega with a damaged gland...

There wasn't a single scene without dialogue where he wasn't giving it his all.

But then strange things began to happen.

When he followed the script and delivered the butler's classic line, "It's been a long time since the young master laughed so happily," the seductive CEO gave him an inscrutable smile. "Butler Xu, you like watching me smile? Then I'll smile more often."

When he offered to help the school bully, his childhood friend, pursue the protagonist, the school bully angrily pinned him down in a stall in the boys' bathroom. His handsome, threatening face suddenly appeared right before Xu Xingcheng's eyes. "...So you thought I liked him?"

At the same time, the aloof and beautiful protagonist rushed over. From outside the stall, he called urgently, "Xing Ye, what are you doing? Let Xingcheng go!"

When Xu Xingcheng followed the plot and bought clothes for his top-tier star idol to wear to a gala, the star himself tossed over a black card. "Little Xingcheng, just buy whatever you want too."

Even more bizarrely, the male lead's bandmates began eyeing him like hungry wolves stalking their prey.

When he transmigrated into a sci-fi story and made nutritious meals for the alphas at a military academy, the male leads crowded around him, sniffing his neck. In low voices, they said, "Why do I feel like you smell even better?"

When he became a little rabbit spirit who needed to absorb yang energy to maintain his physical form, the handsome, brawny wolf spirits, the bewitching fox spirits, and the sunny, dashing human police officer all insisted, "Baby, come absorb mine. I've got plenty of yang energy/spiritual energy."

If it had only been the male leads, that might have been one thing. But even the arrogant, scheming villains, the aloof beloveds, and the male lead's brothers-in-arms began casting strange, flirtatious looks his way. They kept finding excuses to get close and stopping him from clocking out.

The worst part was that he had no way to fight back! He could only let these people manhandle and bully him as they pleased...

Once again, after the drunken protagonist seme had stripped him and bullied him until tears welled in his eyes, Xu Xingyan helplessly summoned his System.

System Xiao Ba replied coldly, "Professionalism monitoring is now active. Host, please cooperate with the male lead to advance the plot!"

A natural flirt and obliviously straight, universally adored protagonist shou × a cold, proud, possessive, secretly sulky seme split into multiple versions

World 1: The Cold CEO's Personal Butler

World 2: The Possessive School Bully's Childhood Friend and Sidekick

World 3: The Handsome Assistant to a Superstar

World 4: The Omega Nutritionist with a Damaged Gland

World 5: The Purehearted Little Rabbit Spirit at a Murder Mystery Game Cafe

A little plug for my upcoming novel, "The Pretty Little Money-Grubber Is Forced to Become Everyone's Darling." Here's the blurb:

When Qiao Zhining woke up, he came to his senses.

It turned out he was the arrogant, spoiled little money-grubber and cannon-fodder character in a melodramatic danmei novel.

He was always interfering between the protagonist gong and shou, hoping to use his looks to swindle money.

In the original story, he was the protagonist shou's roommate. He often fell behind on rent, making the protagonist shou cover for him. Not only did he never pay him back on time, he also teamed up with his delinquent childhood friend to bully the protagonist shou, both openly and behind his back.

Then, after spotting the luxury car of the gong who had come to see the protagonist shou, he changed targets. When seduction failed, he tried to use the protagonist shou's private photos to extort money from the gong.

In the original story, the gong tried to protect the protagonist shou by offering one million to buy the photos he'd taken. But Qiao Zhining's character was so greedy that he demanded ten million instead, infuriating the protagonist gong, who beat him so badly he was crippled and kicked him out of the rental apartment to fend for himself.

Qiao Zhining still shuddered at the memory of that scene. He wouldn't make the same mistake again.

This time, he decided to take the protagonist gong's one million and disappear.

But who knew the plot would go so wrong?

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When the protagonist shou, who stood over six feet tall, caught him taking photos, a cool smile curled his lips. He deliberately showed off the perfect lines of his upper-body muscles, then backed Qiao Zhining into a corner of the bathroom.

"You like taking pictures?"

"I'm not going anywhere. You can just look."

Qiao Zhining: ...

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When he emailed the photos to the domineering CEO, the story's main gong, the man came straight to his door.

"Are you trying to blackmail me with these photos?"

He nodded obediently. "Mm-hmm. Name your price."

The main gong said, "Ten million."

His eyes widened. "What...?"

That wasn't how it went in the original story! Why was the offer ten times higher?!

The main gong approached menacingly and trapped him between his arms. "But what I want... is your photos."

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The most ridiculous part was that after he came to his senses, everyone around him started acting strangely too.

His roguishly handsome, straight childhood friend and the wealthy owner of the bar where he worked both came sniffing around.

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This novel is also called The Pretty Little Money-Grubber Gets Hounded by Mad Dogs Again.

A pretty, scatterbrained little money-grubber shou × a gloomy, possessive CEO gong

Qiao Zhining × Huo Cheng

"I know you're a second-rate commodity, and yet I love you.", W. Somerset Maugham

There are other upcoming novels in my collection too. Feel free to browse and pick one! (Bows and scatters flowers)

Theme: Life requires saving yourself; love yourself before loving others. Life is a wilderness.