The Tortured Novel's Male Lead Tears Up the Script

Ji Ling is a rookie mission-taker who has just arrived and been bound to a Tragic Romance System.

System: [Your mission is to play the wretched bottom in a tragic romance. Let the scum top torment you in body and mind while you remain devoted to him, then die and make him suffer for the rest of his life!]

[World One: You save the male lead when he's in trouble, but his family forces you to leave. Years later, you reunite with him and discover that he has a substitute for you by his side, whom he allows to provoke you in every possible way... Later, the antagonist kidnaps both you and the substitute, forcing the male lead to choose between you. Without hesitation, he chooses the substitute. The antagonist pushes you off a cliff, but the male lead goes mad overnight...]

Ji Ling: Sure. I'll play along.

He carries the young male lead out of a snowstorm, cares for and protects him, and gets him to depend on him. Then, at the appointed point in the story, he "has no choice" but to abandon him.

When they meet again, Ji Ling runs into the substitute. The male lead should be holding the substitute and sneering at him, but instead he rushes over and hugs Ji Ling, eyes red with hurt and grievance. "Big Brother, do you not want me anymore?"

"I'll be good. Please don't leave me, Big Brother."

System: ?

System: Where's the substitute? Someone save the substitute! ...Wait, why is the substitute confessing to you too?

[World Two: You are a young Imperial Tutor who helps an unfavored prince claim the throne. After a series of misunderstandings, the man who has become emperor is torn between love and hate for you. He throws you in prison, subjects you to every kind of torture, and finally sends you on your way with a cup of poisoned wine. The emperor turns gray-haired in his youth as a result...]

Ji Ling: I'm ready. Where's the prison? Where's the poisoned wine?

"Imperial Tutor..."

Beneath the bright red wedding candles, the young emperor holds him close, their temples brushing. "Will you drink this wedding wine with me?"

Ji Ling: This wine is pretty sweet.

System: [...Next.]

[World Three: You are a holy son of the Temple of Light. An evil god tempts you into falling from grace, then casts you aside. Only when the evil god sees you destitute and freezing to death on the street does his heart suddenly ache...]

Ji Ling looks at the evil god clinging to him and refusing to let go: ...

System: [The evil god is supposed to tempt you, not the other way around!]

Ji Ling: He started it.

1. A beautiful, composed, and unflappable bottom x a devoted, obsessive puppy-like top who picks one person and never lets go

2. Younger top, sweet romance, happy ending

Theme: A sweet and happy life together