The Scumbag Cannon Fodder Only Wants to Die

Three months ago, Qiao Jiqing was in a car accident. To survive, he entered small worlds and played various supporting roles, helping the protagonists find love.

After returning from the small worlds, Qiao Jiqing forgot everything that had happened. He didn't care; he still had plenty of group projects to work on.

Just as Qiao Jiqing was busy with his group project, the System suddenly appeared. "There's a problem with your work."

Qiao Jiqing asked, "Is it serious? If it's not, just fudge it for the main system. It doesn't even pay you."

The System shrieked, "It's serious! Really serious! Extremely serious!!!"

Qiao Jiqing covered his ears. He didn't expect the System to pull him into a small world just like that.

What's worse than working? Forgetting everything about the job, including what the boss looks like, and still having to work.

But... Boss, why have you been wrapped around his little finger again?

Why did I say "again"?

World One: Showbiz

This is a classic story about a substitute taking the place of the original. He's the reason the protagonist top ends up in a crematorium, the protagonist top's dark moonlight. He keeps sabotaging the protagonist bottom for the sake of his career and love, until the protagonist top sees through his true nature.

But faced with him and his many misdeeds, the protagonist top simply lifts him into his arms with tender affection. "I love your sweetness, and I love your wickedness."

World Two: Sentinel and Guide

This is a classic childhood-friend-loses-to-newcomer story. He's the protagonist top's hypocritical neighbor and older brother. To control an SSS-rank Guide, he deliberately raises the protagonist top to be useless, but the protagonist bottom sees through him. The protagonist top chooses to leave him behind and team up with the protagonist bottom to fight monsters and level up.

But faced with him in his wretched state, the protagonist top forcibly alters his own mental pathways to connect with him. "Don't use painkillers, okay?"

World Three: Xianxia

This is a classic tragic romance between master and disciple. He's the protagonist top's junior disciple. Born with a deficiency, no matter how much he cultivates, he can only grow half an immortal bone. The protagonist top also has only half an immortal bone. He is tempted to kill and take the bone, exposing the protagonist top's demonic bloodline. In the end, the protagonist top and protagonist bottom reconcile.

But as he takes the bone, the protagonist top says, "If Junior Brother wants to kill me, why bother with a blade?"

World Four: Wuxia

Miaojiang youth x dashing swordsman

Reading guide:

1. Top-focused. Warm on the outside, cold on the inside, beast-tamer top x "We were never fated to meet; I made it happen myself" bottom.

2. The author is a typo champion, a relentless editor, a naming master who can't think of names but loves giving things names, a lover of terrible puns, a self-appointed expert in worldbuilding (meaning the Sentinel and Guide and xianxia settings may have original elements), an amateur writer, a loyal devotee of melodrama, and a passionate fan of second-chance romance.

3. More to come if I think of anything.

Theme: We search for the self in order to become a better version of ourselves.