Version 2.0 copy, 2024.11.20
Zhao Pu's WeChat name has always been "AAA Professional Stand-In, Sweet and Obedient, Never Makes Trouble." When a quick transmigration System came knocking, he agreed on the spot. After all, he was more than familiar with being a stand-in!
At first: I'm a stand-in! My professional ethics won't let me defy any boss!
Later: (puts on cat ears and a tail) (changes into a maid outfit) Big brothers and sisters, I'm going into the adult business. Please support me~ Mwah~
Every man who falls for Zhao Pu sees through the hazy smoke the scarlet ember gently flicked from his fingertips. His captivating eyes hold both self-mockery and perfect clarity:
"The biggest taboo in our line of work is falling for a client. Please don't put me through that. What makes you think someone like me could ever be loved..."
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World 1 [The Poor, Handsome Stand-In in an Old-School F4 Campus Novel]
When he first enters an elite academy, Zhao Pu is a stand-in for the F4 young masters' childhood friend, who has gone abroad.
His resemblance to the friend shocks the F4. They place a bet on who can win Zhao Pu over first.
On his first day, Zhao Pu is told that his dorm assignment has been changed at the last minute and that he has to live with the F4.
That night, he enters the F4's luxurious courtyard, only to find there are no spare rooms. He has no choice but to share a bed with one of the young masters.
Choose who he spends his first night with:
A. The hot-tempered, roguishly handsome campus bully
B. The gentle, refined student council president
C. The aloof, antisocial young master
D. The mysterious and dangerous villain
World 2 [The Pure Junior Disciple Stand-In in an Angsty Cultivation Novel]
Trapped in an angsty cultivation novel, Zhao Pu is a stand-in for the sect's universally admired eldest senior brother.
The two are clearly brothers, yet their fates are worlds apart. At the sect, his master warns him not to get above himself and try to replace his eldest disciple. His senior brothers mock him for not knowing his place, being weak as can be, and still playing the self-sacrificing saint.
His older brother is so noble and treats him so well that Zhao Pu can't bear to make him go through the usual angsty romance plot. As for plots involving falling into demonic corruption for love, coercive possession, sucking blood, tearing out bones, and so on, he silently gives the role of protagonist to someone else.
In the end, his master falls to demonic corruption and is expelled from the sect. His senior brothers go mad or are maimed, one after another, and they all come to Zhao Pu, demanding an explanation from the one who started it all.
Zhao Pu is innocent, so he can only hide in his older brother's arms and cry. After that, he goes to cry in his grandmaster's arms too.
The cultivation world's brightest rising star stands in front of him and says, word by word, "My little brother is pure and adorable. He could never be the villain you claim he is!"
The cultivation world's strongest person, said to be capable of ascending but for some unknown reason never having done so, holds him and gazes down at him tenderly. "Zhao Zhao is just a child. What could he possibly do wrong?"
World 3 [The Frail White Moonlight Stand-In in a Rich Family's True-and-Fake Young Masters Novel]
All his life, Zhao Pu has been a dandelion growing wild: resilient, yet easily scattered. Luckily, he is tenacious and can take root wherever he pleases.
"I've been a professional stand-in for twenty years. I'm not kidding~"
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1. A chaotic mix of melodramatic tropes, an ensemble-cast quick transmigration story, and a strong-couple sweet romance (I swear it's sweet romance).
2. Don't feel sorry for any of the scumbags. They're all destined for bad endings.
3. Only the best is good enough for Zhao Pu.
Theme: Be brave and be yourself
