Mushroom's Comic Survival Notes

[Not on hiatus!!! I'm just rewriting it, and writing a tiny bit slower QAQ]

An Pingyong is an innocent mushroom who just happened to get caught in the crossfire of a one-on-one fight between the protagonist and the villain.

The good news: He's lucky, and somehow survived.

The bad news: The world's consciousness caught him.

It turns out this world is a comic that runs on bugs.

An Pingyong's mission is to complete a series of unpredictable tasks until the comic ends, such as keeping the protagonist alive, providing information the protagonist can't obtain, and helping the protagonist level up.

Yes, in short, he has to become the henchman of the person who'll one day wipe out his family.

An Pingyong fell silent. With some tactful encouragement from the world's consciousness, he put on the acting skills he'd honed through years of outmaneuvering his mother. Using the most unreasonable supernatural ability, he played the most popular beautiful-but-tragic character, and his popularity soared far above everyone else's.

You mean that useless healer who loves chewing jerky and playing mobile games?

Readers gave him complicated looks.

That's obviously the top-tier guardian who, after the protagonist's team fought tooth and nail to defeat a monster and then ran into a top-level boss, casually blew up the enemy's crystal and took out their base from behind the scenes.

You mean that top-tier guardian who's one person in public and another in private?

Readers let out a long sigh.

It's hilarious. He's a cold-hearted jerk who's thick as thieves with the villain, has permission to come and go from the base as he pleases, and is so spoiled he can even bite off a chunk of the other guy's flesh and still get a friendly hug.

An Pingyong: A henchman? If I'm going to do it, I'll do it big.

So when the protagonist's team reached the pinnacle and spoke with the country's highest official, all they could think about was how to cater to some heartless guy.

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A sunflower beneath the night sky.

Radiant, beautiful, rotting in the mud.

Listen to the maddened whisper at the instant the world collapses;

Crows come to celebrate, wild jackals bring good tidings,

An says, dear friend, do not cry.

Reader's Guide 1.0:

1. An original work, with no real-life inspirations.

2. The main text is in third person, with a mountain of headcanon.

3. There are forum-related plotlines. Feel free to skip them if they're not your thing.

4. Although it's categorized as no CP, the story contains a little pseudo-narcissistic romance: the mushroom itself and its fake-spore believer pretending to date for fun.

5. There's a high proportion of nonhumans. Different species have different values, so readers with very high moral standards may want to give this one a miss.

[The character cards are all doodled by the author!!!]

More content warnings will be added gradually.

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[After I started writing, I realized I'd bitten off more than I could chew. Being able to write a good outline doesn't mean you can write a good novel. In fact, a well-developed outline makes the prose more demanding, and problems are more likely to crop up as you write.

Especially since I went straight into tackling a difficult ensemble cast story. The dazzling, intricate, interlocking setting only makes writing even harder.

With too little experience and a bad state of mind, writing every day feels like I'm torturing myself. When I'm in a good mood, I get tired after writing just a little. When I'm in a bad mood, I grit my teeth and grind out words, with no idea what kind of garbage I'm writing.

And more often than not, I only realize later that I left things out earlier, so I'm constantly revising and updating.

I want to write this novel well, not just rush through to the end.

Since updates are slow, readers who don't have the patience may want to bookmark this and come back when it's complete. /bows JPG

Posted 2025-12-23]

Theme: Everyone deserves a wonderful future.