The Foolish Cannon Fodder Top Takes the Real Young Master [System]

[Next up: Professional Doormat, Beloved by Everyone. Blurb at the end.]

The full story costs just over one yuan. Thanks for your support!

Blurb:

In every little world, there's a group of people stuck with the part of the idiot cannon fodder. They might lack intelligence, have terrible social skills, or be shortsighted. In all sorts of tragic ways, they become material for the fated protagonist's early face-slapping moments and insignificant stepping stones on the road to success.

155 is a brand-new System. Though it has zero work experience, it's determined to complete its internship task of helping an idiot cannon fodder turn his life around and become a glorious, fully qualified System.

Second Young Master Gu only wants to live a carefree life, but he's suddenly told that he's the fake young master, while the real young master is a bumpkin from some unknown village.

Faced with his future as a cannon-fodder character who keeps digging his own grave, has parents who don't love him, and is mocked by his so-called friends, Second Young Master Gu decides to follow the System's guidance and head to the countryside before the real young master comes home...

When word gets out that Second Young Master Gu is the fake young master, everyone in their circle waits to laugh at him.

Everyone knows they used to flatter and indulge Second Young Master Gu only because of his family background and generous spending. Apart from his face, he's nothing but a useless rich brat.

Everyone envies him, and they've resented him for a long time.

But...

The gong: Wait, aren't the shou and I friends? Why is he telling people I'm his boyfriend?

System: (scratches its head) (looks at the ground) But... I think the task counts as complete.

Idiot cannon-fodder fake young master gong x aloof real young master shou who falls for him on his own

Notes: 1. I'm bad at blurbs. This is a sweet little story.

2. Originally planned as a series of standalone stories, now rewritten as one short story.

Ongoing novel blurb:

1. Both parents are dead, his younger brother is sick, and they've inherited tens of millions in debt. He's utterly broken.

Qi Li has fallen from being the young master of a wealthy family to the very bottom of society.

With nowhere else to turn,

he becomes an unknown professional doormat.

Clear rates, a master of time management.

As long as the money's right, he can fake a genuine love so convincingly that you'll cry with emotion.

2. Gu Ye, captain of the school basketball team, comes from a wealthy family. He's handsome and charming, and he has more admirers than fish crossing a river.

Most people give up after being rejected for two or three months. But Qi Li, his number-one doormat, is a man, and he's kept at it for two years without a shred of dignity.

He shows up in front of Gu Ye at the same time every day.

He's the number-one laughingstock at Jing University!

Everyone says Qi Li loves him to the bone and could never leave him.

Even Gu Ye thinks so.

But one day,

Qi Li suddenly stops fawning over him.

Not only that, he turns around and becomes a doormat for Gu Ye's nemesis,

slapping him in the face in front of everyone.

3. Gu Ye realizes too late that his feelings are real. He asks Qi Li why and tries to get back together, but the devoted, single-minded Qi Li pulls out a price list instead:

Scan to pay before we date. Rush jobs go in the queue!

A sinister, possessive CEO, a disabled top-tier star, a cool and aloof doctor, a refined scoundrel of a professor...

His former clients suddenly start fighting among themselves.

4. Qi Li's First Rule of Being a Doormat:

As a professional doormat, I only make money. I don't get emotionally involved.

When the deal ends, the feelings go back to zero!

Once I've made enough, I can say goodbye to the job and enjoy life.

What? You all came after me because you want to compete for the title of my boyfriend?

Can a doormat be chased until their former lovers beg for another chance?

Fake-sweetheart gong who only wants to work hard and make money x all kinds of clients

Notes: 1. I'm bad at blurbs. I really can't capture the story's feel.

2. The gong's outward and inner selves don't match. At work, he's a sweet younger doormat who obeys every request, but he's actually a young master with a bad temper who loves complaining to himself.

3. Both are each other's first.

Theme: Fate always has the best gifts in store.