[Blurb]
The protagonists of tragic novels often have miserable backgrounds, difficult upbringings, and everyone turning against them.
They are the sort of people readers can't help but feel sorry for. They have an unyielding will, yet for one reason or another, they're powerless to change their fate and have no choice in the matter. Their stories bring tears to the eyes of everyone who hears them.
The criteria for choosing such characters are: beautiful, weak, and miserable.
After Chu Zhijin dies unexpectedly, the Beautiful, Weak, and Miserable System from the quick transmigration world takes an interest in him and looks him up and down.
A pretty face that makes the gods swoon: beautiful, top-tier.
Delicate wrists, unable to lift a finger: weak, qualifies.
Miserable? Leave that to me!
Chu Zhijin is immediately tossed into a tragic novel world!
But the System never expected this guy to lack the tragic protagonist's unyielding spirit altogether!
[If you were born in a ditch, just lie flat in the ditch!]
[If you fall down, take a nap right where you are!]
System: Help! Can someone make my protagonist rise up?
And when its protagonist finally does start rising up, wait!
...Why has the story's tone changed?!
[The real young master who was switched at birth in an old-school Mary Sue novel]
[Chu Zhijin is the real young master of the Gu family, switched at birth. He's found at fifteen, but his father doesn't care for him and his mother doesn't love him. He's bullied by the fake young master, a two-faced green tea, and forced into a marriage alliance with the Huo family. In the end, he's deceived, body and heart, and donates his corneas to make someone else's love story possible.]
Chu Zhijin: Whoa! I only lost my corneas, but he lost his love?!
Later, the pretty, adorable fool beams at everyone.
Madam Gu, who has never lifted a finger around the house, cooks for Zhijin for the first time in her life.
The chairman of Gu Corporation, a man so busy he can barely breathe, pauses a meeting to take the family of three on a trip abroad. (The fake young master isn't coming. ←_←)
Even the young master of the Huo family, who was supposed to make him donate his corneas in the book, goes madly in love with him after they marry.
Young Master Huo: Zhijin~
Chu Zhijin: That guy... he's blind.
Young Master Huo: If he's blind, let him die!
Chu Zhijin: ...
The fake young master, who's going blind and desperately needs corneas: ???
System: ?????
The System, frantic as the plot goes off course: This is melodrama! Tragedy! Give me back my trending tags!
Chu Zhijin scans the trending tags: Maybe it's marriage first, love later?
[The CEO's dead ideal girl and her substitute in a domineering CEO novel]
Chu Zhijin: Stomach problems? Depression? Skin hunger, or an allergy to men?
[President Li has suffered from claustrophobia since childhood...]
Chu Zhijin: Tsk, close, but no cigar!
[Chu Zhijin is a substitute for President Li's dead ideal girl. In seven years of marriage, he's never entered President Li's heart...]
Later, after Chu Zhijin leaves, President Li goes mad searching the entire world for him. When he finally finds him, his lips tremble as he kisses him. The man's handsome eyes soften, their corners red: Zhijin, from now on, you're the only one in my heart...
Chu Zhijin clicks his tongue, raises an eyebrow, and tears the last remaining photo of the ideal girl to pieces.
A proper ideal girl has to be dead, and it should be as if she never lived at all!
System: ...You!!
Chu Zhijin: Don't get excited. This time it's a... groveling-after-your-wife-at-the-crematorium story!
[A minor celebrity kept by a sugar daddy in an entertainment industry novel]
Chu Zhijin: Amnesia, car accident, leukemia?
[Chu Zhijin is a minor celebrity in the entertainment industry, kept by a sugar daddy. Scandal follows scandal, but he grits his teeth and survives, until one day he's diagnosed with leukemia...]
Chu Zhijin: ...I knew it!
Later, Chu Zhijin personally sends the sugar daddy who imprisoned him for eight years to jail, then gets together with the A-list movie emperor Duan, rising from obscurity to stardom.
He nestles in Movie Emperor Duan's arms, passionately making out with him.
The System has gradually gotten used to it: ...What is it this time?
Chu Zhijin closes his eyes contentedly: Obviously... revenge, kicking the trash to the curb, and switching love interests!
System: Fine, fine, so you can't write tragedy at all, right?!
[The childhood friend, bullied at school and raised in misery, in a campus novel]
[The court minister with a family vendetta who approaches the emperor in a historical novel]
[The pitiful Omega with an abnormal gland in an ABO world]
[The little zombie bullied and abused by the gods in the apocalypse]
* A beautiful, beloved protagonist who seems to lie flat but is actually winning over all kinds of Mary Sue CEO types, versus a collection of domineering, self-indulgent, dark, unhinged, extremely possessive love interests
* An unconventional take on domineering CEO novels: an unrealistic, indulgent, gloriously over-the-top mess. I'm a sucker for this stuff, and I love writing it!
[Blurb written on June 26, 2024. Screenshot saved.]
Theme: Be the protagonist of your own life