Don't You Dare Die!

Shen Wuze is a cannon-fodder white moonlight in a melodramatic danmei novel.

He is handsome, has a tragic background, and loves the protagonist gong with all his heart. He lays his whole heart before him, only for the protagonist gong to repeatedly beat him down, twist him around, and kick him back and forth like a ball.

Until he dies.

After his death, the protagonist gong finally begins a long period of regret and dull heartache, clutching his memorial photo and remembering him forever, while also sharing a love-hate relationship with the protagonist shou.

He wins the title of the novel's No. 1 most blood-pressure-raising character of the year, and the foremost person readers lament for while raging at his failure to stand up for himself.

A reader's hot take: I feel so conflicted. I feel sorry for him, but I also want to beat him to death.

Shen Wuze wakes up one day reborn.

Looking back on his past, he sums himself up: "Dumbass."

Looking ahead, he thinks: I'm going to kill this whole pack of dumbasses.

As his spirit of revenge burns fiercely, a System drops from the sky and crashes into his brain: Hello, Host. The Plot Restoration System is now bound to you. You need to maintain the original plot, okay?

Shen Wuze: "?"

"What the hell did you just say? Say it again."

"Once you complete the plot, you can create a new world of your own. Whether you want to be the world's richest person or a Nobel Prize winner, you can have anything you want!"

Shen Wuze: "..."

Is that how you're trying to tempt a cadre?

Shen Wuze: "Understood."

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To complete his missions, Shen Wuze starts diligently following the plot.

On the first day of the entrance exams, he sleeps through the test and leaves two long-answer questions blank so the protagonist gong can take first place in their grade.

When the results come out, the protagonist gong is second. The top student is from the class next door, and his name is Lin Xianchuan.

Shen Wuze: ...?

Shen Wuze: Bro, who are you?

At the basketball game, he is supposed to bring the protagonist gong water, only to be ignored by him and humiliated in front of the whole grade.

Holding a bottle of mineral water, Shen Wuze watches expressionlessly all afternoon as the top student from the class next door dunks on the protagonist gong with a dazzling array of moves from every angle.

At the physics competition, he is supposed to tutor the protagonist gong for three months so he can win the gold medal.

After slogging through three months of tutoring and developing dark circles, Shen Wuze discovers on the day of the competition that the protagonist gong has been replaced by the top student from the class next door. He also receives a message from the top student: If you're bad, practice more.

At the arts festival, the protagonist gong is supposed to perform onstage, with Shen Wuze bringing him flowers.

Clutching a bouquet, Shen Wuze watches helplessly as the top student from the class next door walks onstage with a guitar and turns the arts festival into his own solo concert. The protagonist gong gets so furious that he loses it, throws down the microphone, and storms off.

Shen Wuze, who has yet to complete a single mission since being reborn: "???"

No, seriously, what's wrong with this guy?

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Lin Xianchuan is someone who transmigrated into a book.

A System sent from the heavens tells him: You transmigrated into a book. Your mission is to save Shen Wuze, a love-brained shou who dies young. Nurture his withered heart, save his obsessive soul, and help him survive the devastating blows that come his way!

Lin Xianchuan: Let go of your urge to help people and respect their fate. What does it have to do with me if a love-brained guy lives or dies?

System: If he dies, you die too~

Lin Xianchuan: "..."

Lin Xianchuan: Where is that doomed love-brained guy now?

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Shen Wuze: Only a lunatic would turn down a fortune of hundreds of billions to go date this inexplicable Lin Xianchuan.

Lin Xianchuan: Besides being crazy, I can't think of any reason to refuse to go home to my place in the real world and fall for Shen Wuze.

Shen Wuze: Are you going to let me die or not?

Lin Xianchuan: Don't die. Watch me make things happen.

Sharp-tongued, world-weary, neurotic shou x acerbic, ill-tempered gong

One-on-one, happy ending, a couple who spar like they're on opposite sides, not pure wish fulfillment, brainless melodrama, eccentric supporting characters, flying prose and flying logic~

The original core-concept blurb was posted on September 22, 2024.

Theme: Cherish life