Shen Zhaobai, the only son of a financial magnate and an S-rank ice-type ability user, is a disposable character in the comic Superpowered Battle Frenzy, where he and the protagonist fight to the death. In the end, he dies in a beast's jaws because he underestimates his opponent.
That's what the System that showed up at his doorstep yesterday told him.
The System claimed it could help him change his fate and observe the comic and its forums. It also said he could exchange items in its shop based on how much the comic's readers liked him.
Shen Zhaobai raised an eyebrow, a trace of disdain appearing on his proud, refined face. When had the young master of the Shen family ever needed to live off the audience's affection? There was nothing he couldn't get just by lifting a finger.
Still, he decided to go see the future “comic protagonist” who would supposedly cause him to become a disposable character.
Shen Zhaobai had his butler look up every person named Ji Yang.
In the end, he found the protagonist in the arena of an ability-user prison, collapsed on the ground like a puddle of mud.
Looking at the protagonist, who was almost a corpse already, breathing out more than he breathed in, yet still watching him warily like a stray dog,
Shen Zhaobai raised an eyebrow and said, “Things just got interesting.”
The game System shrieked, “Stop cosplaying as a villain! You can't let the protagonist die here!”
In the end, Shen Zhaobai, whose words were harsher than his heart, still reached out and saved the stray dog's life.
Ji Yang, the most vicious “mad dog” in the ability-user prison, inmate number zero.
He was thrown into prison and forced to struggle for decades. Shen Zhaobai was the only person who ever reached out to him and asked:
“Can you still stand?”
With just those words, the mad dog acknowledged his master.
Ji Yang, born in prison, had never seen sunlight. Then a person with shining golden hair reached out to him, and for that moment, he felt like he was bathing in sunlight.
He wanted that ray of sunshine to shine on him alone. So he climbed out of his deepest nightmare.
Half a year later, Shen Zhaobai ran into a black-haired boy wearing electronic shackles at the entrance to the academy. The boy had a brilliant smile, like a stray dog who'd finally found his master.
“Hello, Young Master Shen. I'm Ji Yang, the new transfer student.”
Shen Zhaobai: Tsk, why has the male lead's characterization changed?
Later, he followed the comic and tried to trip up the male lead, wanting to see if he really had become a little ray of sunshine.
But the protagonist took everything in stride.
Shen Zhaobai was baffled.
Until he looked at the comic and saw the comments floating across the screen during their confrontation. They all said, “Enemies are just spouses in the making...”
Shen Zhaobai exploded. Him and that mad dog? Absolutely impossible!
Ji Yang: Woof woof woof
Proud, tsundere young master x sunny, lovesick mad dog
Theme: Everyone has a reason to exist
