I Became the Male Supporting Character in a Comparison Story

Overworked to death from staying late at the office, Pei Yanning, an older young man, transmigrates into a book: A Happy Life with My Cousin as the Comparison.

The reason? He shares a name with one of the book's male supporting characters, and yesterday, unable to bear seeing his namesake cannon fodder live such a miserable life, he wrote an extremely out-of-character ending.

The original Pei Yanning was the eldest son of the Pei family in Shallowwater Village, and the hapless male supporting character who suffered in comparison throughout the book.

After his parents died, he moved in with his maternal uncle's family. Under the same roof lived his cousin Pei Minghe, who was also a ger. He was handsome, good-natured, and better than Pei Yanning at everything.

The wealthy Xue family had originally agreed to marry into their family, but after Pei Yanning's parents died, they used it as an excuse to break off the engagement, then turned around and married his cousin Pei Minghe instead.

The original Pei Yanning lived timidly, and spent every day swallowing herbal medicine just to stay alive. By the time he was twenty-two, his aunt could no longer bear having him freeload at home, so she arranged a marriage for him.

The third son of the Gu family in town was born to a concubine and was notorious for being a good-for-nothing. In a fit of anger, Pei Yanning hanged himself.

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His suicide attempt failed. When Pei Yanning opened his eyes and learned the truth, he laughed so hard he sounded like a pig. Because of his job, he'd always had to watch himself and had lived a miserable life. Now that he'd transmigrated into a book, he could finally look at men openly. He declared, "I'll marry him! But I have one condition!"

He secretly vowed to reclaim everything the original owner had lost. First on the list was the property his uncle's family had swallowed up!

On their wedding night, Gu Huaiyin learned that Pei Yanning would rather kill himself than marry him. Angry, he deliberately spoke coldly: "There's someone else in my heart. Don't get your hopes up."

Pei Yanning waved a hand dismissively. "Go see him, then. I won't stop you."

Gu Huaiyin had thought Pei Yanning would praise him for being understanding, but instead he snapped, "I knew you still had your eye on Xue Qi!"

Pei Yanning: What a huge misunderstanding!

After they married, Pei Yanning lived it up. When his husband visited brothels, he went to men's houses. When his husband admired beautiful women, he admired handsome men.

Unable to have children himself, he cheerfully took concubines for his husband. At last, Gu Huaiyin saw the good-looking new arrivals filling the courtyard and snapped, crushing the cup in his hand to pieces.

Fuming, he ordered a servant to fetch Pei Yanning so he could question him.

The young servant scratched his head. "The madam can't come... He's practicing sword dance with the young master of the Sun family..."

At long last, unable to bear it anymore, Gu Huaiyin stormed into the back courtyard, grabbed the man whose face was flushed from dancing with a sword, dragged him inside, and pinned him to the bed.

P.S. The gong is a concubine-born son pretending to be a playboy.

Pei Yanning: This is different from the original book!

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