As a newly recruited task-taker for the Administration Bureau, Xie Sinan had a burning ambition to succeed. Determined to follow in his idol's footsteps, he chose the lucrative "Cannon Fodder Foil" role, which was urgently hiring.
The System assigned to guide him assured him confidently: I've guided eighty-eight Hosts, and in all my years on the job, I've never had a bad review. You can put a hundred hearts at ease and trust me!
Xie Sinan carefully studied the strategy guide the System provided, supposedly boasting a 100% success rate, and entered the mission world full of confidence.
But things didn't go as planned. After he followed the guide's instructions, the plot unfolded in a way completely different from what he'd expected, and his missions...
failed without exception.
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World One: The Wealthy Family's Substitute Who Uses His Looks to Get Ahead
The three rules for being a substitute: be obedient and well-behaved, know your place, and put your sugar daddy first in everything. Follow these three rules and you'll be a qualified substitute.
But the guide told him that to be a qualified cannon-fodder substitute, he had to do the exact opposite.
So, following the guide to the letter, Xie Sinan did the following:
He picked fights with his sugar daddy every day, did the opposite of whatever his sugar daddy said, acted clueless whenever asked a question, demanded money every few days, clung to his sugar daddy twenty-four hours a day, and flirted with several backup options besides him...
He thought his sugar daddy would dump him without hesitation and return to the real love of his life. So when the real love showed up, he took the initiative to break things off, waiting for the System to tally up his mission results.
Instead, the sugar daddy, who usually looked ready to kick him out, grabbed him by the collar, his voice so icy he seemed like a different person.
"Didn't you say you loved me so much you'd die without me? Why are you suddenly asking to break up? I get it. That old geezer Lu seduced you, didn't he? Damn it, I knew he was up to no good..."
Xie Sinan: ?
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World Two: The Hopelessly Devoted, Universally Disliked Simp
The three rules for being a simp: never give up, keep at it, and have a face thicker than a city wall. Follow these three rules and you'll be a successful simp.
But he was no ordinary simp.
He had to simp for not one person, but four. Each of his four targets had their own unique qualities, and the one thing they had in common was how much they loathed him.
Juggling four jobs at once, Xie Sinan followed the guide diligently, playing the master of time management and hoping his targets would soon discover his disloyalty and let him be written off as cannon fodder.
As the days passed, he noticed that his targets seemed to be acting strangely:
The school bully who'd looked down on him was softening toward him. The student council president who'd treated him like he was invisible kept seeking him out. The campus heartthrob, who'd only meant to play along, was getting sincere. Even the top student, who never showed anyone warmth and was revered by everyone else as their unattainable crush, had started paying attention to him...
When his identity was finally exposed, the targets learned that there were three other fish in Xie Sinan's pond. Their expressions darkened as they cornered him, trying to run away.
"Catching four fish at once must have been exhausting. Since we're all here today, why don't you tell us which one of us you'll choose?"
Xie Sinan: ?
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World Three: The Unappreciated, Useless Guide
World Four: The True Young Master, a Disabled Alpha Who Has Lost His Gland
World Five: The Incompetent Teammate Plagued by Misfortune
Reader's Guide:
1. The protagonist is a universally adored top who is fiercely career-minded but keeps getting caught up in romance. He's a beautiful, flirtatious type who doesn't realize how charming he is. If that's not your thing, please don't read.
2. The worlds aren't fixed, and may be adjusted or replaced.
3. Endgame 1v1, both are exclusive, and all the bottoms are the same person.
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