How a Deadweight ID Became the Strongest in History

In the interstellar era, strange beasts run rampant, and everyone is swept up in a frenzy of ID draws. Draw a top-tier ID, defeat strange beasts, and earn points to climb the Star Rankings and claim wealth and power.

To gain faith, the Ill-Fated Beauty System summoned famous beauties from Chinese history and brought them into this world to compete in ranked battles.

[Sister Diaochan, once you fill up my faith meter, I'll send you back and grant you one wish!]

The System tried to win its Host's affection by acting cute.

But...

"...Uh, you're looking for Diaochan?"

A man named Bao Shuo pointed at himself, his face full of confusion.

"Do I look like her?"

*

With a livestream for the whole internet coming up, the System generously offered all the IDs in its possession for its Host to choose from.

Bao Shuo nodded and looked over the list of IDs the System had provided.

Five famous IDs glowed red, and every single one belonged to a woman.

Bao Shuo: ...

Bao Shuo pointed at himself again, bewildered.

"Do you think these women's IDs suit me?"

He casually pointed to one of them.

"You want me to be a male Daji?"

*

Bao Shuo set off with Daji's ID, and on the way, spotted a big shot on the Star Rankings whose ID was "Di Xin." After struggling his way up, he grinned.

"Pack your things. I've found myself a sugar daddy."

The nation-toppling beauty finally made it back to her husband, only for history to repeat itself: Di Xin died.

Losing one sugar daddy was no big deal. Bao Shuo calmly took off Daji's ID and brought out a new one.

"Silang, it's me."

With a fake sob, Bao Shuo ran up to the Star Rankings expert Li Longji and wept mournfully while wearing Yuhuan's ID.

He successfully latched onto her husband's coattails again, only for history to repeat itself: Silang died too.

At the funeral, Bao Shuo was eating a roasted lamb leg when he looked up and spotted another sugar daddy.

He wiped the grease from his hands and immediately changed into a new ID.

"My lord, do you remember me, your concubine, from our parting at the Wu River?"

The Hegemon King's eyes wavered. At his friend's funeral, he had found his beloved again.

Bao Shuo successfully latched onto another sugar daddy, only for history to repeat itself yet again: the Hegemon King died too.

Down on his luck, with no time to mourn his three dead husbands, Bao Shuo had already set his sights on the top experts in the Star Rankings' top ten.

"Bao Si, Mo Xi, Zhao Feiyan, surely one of them can help me live out my days in peace?"

He diligently studied every trick for getting ahead, until one day he realized that clinging to powerful people might really not work.

[Host, you're number one on the Star Rankings now. There's no one left to cling to.]

Bao Shuo looked up in bewilderment. "Huh?"

Content warnings:

1. The male lead has his own ID.

2. The male lead's IDs are all women who met tragic ends.

3. The male lead just wants to keep his head down and survive. There is no romance, but plenty of one-sided crushes.

Blurb written on 2024.8.17

Theme: If you're a man, keep your head down and survive to the end