A Career-Driven Straight Guy, Yet Everyone's Favorite [Quick Transmigration]

[Recommended Upcoming Novel: A Background Character Survives by Selling BL in a Comic] [A Background Character in a Horror Comic Sells BL to Survive] The massive dating reality show "Hearts Aligned" is recruiting contestants from all over the world, from the sons of wealthy tycoons, research institute professors, and top-tier stars to assembly-line workers, delivery guys, and unemployed residents of the slums. Regardless of status, position, or family background, contestants will embark on a passionate, undying romance in front of billions of viewers. They will have their memories sealed and enter one virtual world after another, role-playing according to the basic settings. The hundred contestants can follow their hearts, with romance all about improvisation. The show's mission is to bring together destined lovers whose love lasts until death. Any couple who fails to stay together in a world doesn't count as a breathtaking romance that lasts forever! Jiang Biewan, from the slums, is lucky enough to win a spot. He excitedly rubs his hands together. His chance to get rich has arrived! In the group-shot recording of their declarations of love: "I don't have big ambitions. I'm happy to be eliminated in the first round." "If I can get a decent job from the exposure after I'm eliminated, that's enough." "Romance? Well..." Jiang Biewan smiles shyly, with a strong sense of his own limits. "No woman would ever fall for an unemployed guy like me, right?" [The Noble Academy's Shared Lackey] He is the most conspicuous and most notorious among the academy's top students. His excessively beautiful face draws the attention of the elites. They see him quickly submit to the school's rules and serve them shamelessly as a lackey, then lose interest and look away. Crook a finger, and he comes scampering over, all eagerness to please. Toss him some trinket, and he'll cradle it like a treasure, his radiant smile impossibly beautiful. What else could this be but love? The elites know full well that they're in love with him. They disdain his shallowness, yet when he gets involved with a mixed-blood noble, they can't help protecting him. The mixed-blood noble: "Make way, Startup Funds One, Two, and Three." The elites: ? Jiang Biewan guiltily looks away. [The Rich Second-Generation Heir Who Clings to an Anomaly] When the anomalous game arrives, Jiang Biewan becomes a pretty face, useless at everything except spending money. The people he rejected in the past have all become top-ranked powerhouses. They love and resent him in equal measure, declaring that if he wants to live, he'll have to beg them for help. Even waving money around, he can't find anyone willing to take him into a dungeon. Furious, Jiang Biewan enters one by himself that very day. The powerhouses are horrified. Before they can use an item to rescue him, Jiang Biewan comes out alive. He met an anomaly with a disorder that prevents it from recognizing itself. It doesn't eat humans. Instead, it eats other anomalies. Jiang Biewan convinces it that it's a vampire, a branch of the human race, then shamelessly gets its contact information so it can come provide on-demand backup whenever he enters a dungeon. He just takes his deception a little too far, because every night it pins him down and drinks a little blood from his neck. [The Cold Palace Prince] The royal family is in decline. Dressed in a shabby prince's robe, Jiang Biewan figures he might as well become emperor. Otherwise, he'd be letting himself down. With few supporters in the cold palace, he personally sets out to recruit talent: a noble family's son famed for his literary gifts, a lowborn soldier with exceptional fighting skills, and a young valley master who saves lives. He takes pains to win them over one by one. He talks about the future with the nobleman's son, speaks of trust to the soldier, and uses a self-sacrificing ploy with the young valley master. He says recruiting talent isn't the point, he just wants to be friends with them. Now that they're friends, surely they can't just stand by and watch him fight alone? Whoever he talks to is the person he trusts and cares for most. He gazes at them with those sincere eyes, and no one can bring themselves to doubt him. The strategy works beautifully. The only downside is that he has to soothe his personal bodyguard and strategist in the middle of the night. "Don't worry. You're definitely the one I trust most. Those others are just people I'll get rid of once they're no longer useful." After N virtual worlds, countless viewers flock to the video of Jiang Biewan's declaration of love to roast him. [You said you'd be out in the first round, but you turned the dating show into your personal show!] [If no woman would fall for you, take a look at yourself: fair-skinned, gorgeous, broad-chested and slim-waisted. What woman would dare fall for you?] [Other people work out too much and attract the same sex. You attract the same sex whether you work out or not.] [How do you manage to make money as soon as you enter each world, yet get all the powerhouses so obsessed with you they can't live without you?] [Career-minded straight guy, but a heartthrob to everyone.] ◆ A gorgeous straight man focused on making money, with romance only involving the love interest. ◆ Contestants rotate: if one dies in a virtual world, a replacement takes their place. Contestants are also replaced at the end of a world if there are no signs of romance. There are background couples too. ◆ The plot exists to serve the pairings. The settings are all part of the love interests' and protagonists' role-play, so please don't take them too seriously. ◆ This is a fictional setting. Don't look for real life in a fictional world.jpg ◆ A proud, aloof love interest who thinks he's clear-headed but is actually the most hopeless romantic of all x a sincere straight-man protagonist who starts out straight and later bends into a pretzel, with a natural ability to win everyone over. -- Recommended Upcoming Novel 1: A Background Character Survives by Selling BL in a Comic Blurb: Shi Songyu gets a useless System and discovers that the world is a high-risk comic where he'll die if he doesn't gain popularity! At the beginning of the comic, the protagonist appears, and Shi Songyu is across the street, by the entrance to a convenience store. He's a hastily sketched background character, not even given a face! The good news is that there are no dangerous scenes at the beginning of the comic. The bad news is that his popularity is too low, and he has only one day of life left. Shi Songyu can't take it anymore. He charges straight up to the protagonist and, risking his wrath, grabs him by the collar and picks a fight. I'm the school bully. Scared, protagonist? Lin Que pauses, then smiles as he lays a hand over Shi Songyu's. "Good morning, Shi. Want to walk to school together?" Shi Songyu: "...Do we know each other?" Lin Que's eyes crinkle with his smile. "Can't you tell? I'm looking for an excuse to hit on you." Shi Songyu: ... When the comic updates, Shi Songyu finally becomes noticeable. Like he's in a romance drama, he looks terrifyingly beautiful to the protagonist. The comments explode: [Is this the scene that shows how charming the protagonist is? Sure, I guess that works, but shouldn't the person being hit on be the other way around?] [If it were a woman, fine, but isn't that a guy? No matter how pretty he is, he's still a guy!] [A shonen comic that won't sell BL might as well go home and grow sweet potatoes.] [The damn author barely updated a few pages before selling BL. Hope the sales crash and burn.] [How can you call it selling BL? The author is clearly just trying to improve!] Overnight, the comic shoots into the top three on the sales charts. Shi Songyu goes from a faceless background character to a popular character. Shi Songyu is stunned. Wait, it's that easy...? Isn't this easier than stealing the protagonist's scenes and dodging high-risk plots? Shi Songyu makes up his mind. He'll survive in the comic world by selling BL! * He flirts with whoever the readers ship. Lin Que, who wants nothing more than an ordinary life, is an ordinary college student by day and a ruthless anomaly-cleaner by night. The 1st, a cold and authoritarian member of the official Ability Bureau. K, a hedonistic criminal who decides who lives and dies on a whim, neither wholly good nor evil. He spares none of them. The comments joke that Shi Songyu is practically an incubus, attracting everyone's attention the moment he appears. Others call him one of the comic's biggest flaws. Shi Songyu couldn't care less. He flirts a little, and the comments go wild, the collected volumes sell millions of copies, and the second and third male leads line up to confess to him. Shi Songyu breaks into a cold sweat. How can a shonen comic have actual gay guys in it? He quickly uses the protagonist as an excuse. Then that night, the comic reveals that the protagonist who wants to be ordinary, the cold and authoritarian 1st, and the hedonistic criminal who is neither good nor evil are all the same person! Both of them are Lin Que's secret identities! Shi Songyu immediately tries to run. As soon as he opens the door, Lin Que is standing there, smiling as he reaches out to him. "I've been waiting ages for you to confess, and you never showed up, so I came to you instead." Shi Songyu: ... -- Recommended Upcoming Novel 2: A Background Character in a Horror Comic Sells BL to Survive Blurb: Shi Fuxue is pulled into a horror game. Luckily, he binds himself to a System in the beginner dungeon and discovers that the world is a horror comic, where he is the most common kind of character: a background extra. Good news: a golden finger has fallen from the sky. Bad news: he's about to die. The useless System can't even tell him who the protagonist is, much less anything else, and all it lets him do is read the comic! With no other choice, Shi Fuxue sets his sights on the most handsome man in the beginner dungeon, who looks completely at ease and can instantly kill anomalies without lifting a finger. If he isn't the protagonist, who is? There's no time to cling to him. While the man isn't paying attention, Shi Fuxue rushes over and kisses him by force. Whether he dies from the start depends on this panel! Even a cannon-fodder character who sexually harasses the protagonist gets to live two pages longer than a background extra! The man pauses. Under Shi Fuxue's stunned gaze, he grabs him by his slender waist and licks the bite mark on his lower lip, looking thoughtful. "You kissed me. Do you know me? Did I have a boyfriend before I lost my memory?" Shi Fuxue: !! Damn, this is an amnesiac powerhouse protagonist. The man smiles. "If we don't know each other, are you sexually harassing me?" Remembering how he instantly killed the anomaly, Shi Fuxue grits his teeth. "Yes, I'm your boyfriend!" At the brink of death, even a straight man can bend in an instant. The comic updates, and the comments fill with question marks. Its readership hits an all-time high. [Wait, what? Am I seeing things? Two guys kissed? My eyes!] [A random background character just appeared? Hold on, he's that handsome? Was he lurking at the edge of the panel before?] [Heh, the rumored boyfriend is obviously about to die horribly. I'll follow the comic. With a face like that, he'll look gorgeous when he dies.] [The author is copying all the wrong things. Selling BL in a no-romance ensemble horror comic? Don't you want sales? I'll say this now: if subscriptions break a hundred, I'll eat my words!] [...Oh my god, subscriptions are over ten thousand. Who's even paying for this chapter?!] The comments are full of insults, but that doesn't stop Shi Fuxue from going from a background extra who was supposed to die from the start to the protagonist's rumored boyfriend, with popularity soaring. Shi Fuxue is stunned. Fortune favors the bold! If selling BL lets him survive the horror game, what reason does he have not to do it? An ensemble cast? There are other protagonists too? Shi Fuxue's gaze slowly grows determined. * Shi Fuxue flirts with anyone who looks like they could be the protagonist. The top horror-game player, a lovable heartthrob airhead, a max-level powerhouse who plays the fool to catch his enemies, a deranged trickster who scams gods, and an amnesiac evil god who thinks he's an ordinary person. He's flirted with every last one of them. Readers in the comments scold him for turning a no-romance comic into a BL comic, while grinning as they watch him dodge one chaotic love triangle after another. Whenever the protagonists nearly catch him, the comic's subscriptions spike. Watching the comments complain and wonder why the protagonists didn't run into each other after all, Shi Fuxue couldn't care less. There are countless horror-game dungeons, and the protagonists never cross paths. How likely are they to run into each other? So he sells BL even more shamelessly. Who knew that when a new dungeon begins and Shi Fuxue opens his eyes, all the people he's been flirting with will be gathered in one place? They look each other over for a moment, then all turn to him with thoughtful expressions. Shi Fuxue's vision goes black. Nine lives! Theme: No matter who they are, what side they're on, or where and when they meet, they will fall in love.