My Otaku Underclassman Keeps Asking for Updates

To deal with his relatives, Ling Ji asks his junior, Vic, to pretend to be his boyfriend for a while. In exchange, he agrees to grant Vic one request. Ling Ji figures that since Vic is looking for a cosplay partner for a convention, if he offers to grant him a request, Vic will immediately ask him to go to the convention together and cosplay. However, just as Ling Ji steels himself to accept wearing women's clothes, Vic gives him his answer. Vic: Let me think about it. Ling Ji: ? Think about what? Ling Ji is left pondering Vic's response. - Vic is an ordinary reader who has fallen into a novel. After adding the author by chance and discovering that he has become the author's junior, he starts planning ways to pester him for updates. But to everyone else, it seems like there's something more to it. Vic doesn't care. He just wants to find a chance to ask for an update. At last, one day, his chance arrives. Ling Ji: Can you pretend to be my boyfriend? To thank you, I'll grant any request you make. Vic: Let me think about it. But in the few seconds he spends thinking of how to pester Ling Ji for an update, Vic realizes that he wants to make a different request even more: to drop the pretending part of pretending to be a couple. - Does anyone remember the post, [My Handsome Roommate Has Fallen Into Hopeless Love. What Should I Do as His Roommate]? Post 1 Is the handsome roommate doing okay? Post 2378 I finished reading the whole thread. We've got rich-family angst and domineering love... Could this world actually be a melodramatic Green River novel? - A modern, sweet romance. - Check out the next story featuring the same main characters, Passing Through a Romance Novel and Playing Cards. Eighteen years after transmigrating into an omega, Ling Ji learns from Vic, another transmigrator, that he is actually living in an ABO melodramatic romance novel. The good news is that Ling Ji is just a passerby. The bad news is that every main character is connected to him. The first protagonist is an employee at Ling Ji's law firm. Someone sabotages him at work, leading him to make a terrible mistake. The second is a famous actor who hires Ling Ji's firm. After losing his lawsuit, he's hounded by negative news. The third is Ling Ji's junior, who accepted his investment. His company is targeted and goes bankrupt, forcing him to leave town. With his law firm's reputation about to be ruined, his legal career looking bleak, and his investment down the drain, Ling Ji falls silent. Ling Ji: Can we change the plot? Vic: Sure. Vic: Changing the plot earns you cards, and you can build a stronger deck in the System... Ling Ji: ? Ling Ji: Isn't playing cards in a romance novel a little weird? - After transmigrating, Vic confirms through the System that he's landed in a world made up of melodramatic ABO romance novels. But Vic is more interested in the card game built into the System than in romance. And the only way to get cards is to change the plot of a romance novel. Determined to build the strongest deck, Vic sets out to change the plot, only to learn that there's another transmigrator in the world. And the other transmigrator seems kind of irresistible. - When Ling Ji first meets Vic, Vic's pheromones knock him out, even though he's never been affected by an alpha's pheromones before. From then on, everyone thinks Vic is the alpha destined for Ling Ji. For Ling Ji, Vic topples evil organizations and battles cybernetic eldritch gods. He'd even shatter the stars for him. Only Ling Ji knows that Vic is really just trying to collect cards. But why is there a villainous boss like a cybernetic eldritch god in a romance novel? Is this really a proper romance novel? Theme: A fated encounter