A Background Character in a Creepy Animation Sells Bromance to Survive

[After thinking it over, this setting just feels right]

Shi Fuxue was dragged into a horror game. Luckily, in the beginner dungeon, he bound himself to a System and discovered that the world was an eerie animated series, and he was the most common kind of character in it: an extra.

Good news: a golden finger just fell into his lap 😎

Bad news: he's about to die 😨

His useless System won't even tell him who the protagonist is, let alone show him anything beyond the animation!

With no other choice, Shi Fuxue set his sights on the best-looking man in the beginner dungeon, who carried himself with effortless ease and instantly dispatched monsters without lifting a finger. If he wasn't the protagonist, who was?

There was no time to cling to his leg, so while the man wasn't looking, Shi Fuxue suddenly rushed over and kissed him 😙

Whether he dies from the start depends on this one moment!

Even a cannon-fodder character who sexually harasses the protagonist gets to live two episodes longer than an extra!

The man froze for a moment. Under Shi Fuxue's stunned gaze, he reached out and gripped his slender waist, then licked the bite mark on his lower lip, looking thoughtful 🤔

"You kissed me. Do you know me? Did I have a boyfriend before I lost my memory?"

Shi Fuxue: !! This is a protagonist who's a powerful amnesiac!

The man smiled. "If you don't know me, then are you sexually harassing me?" 😄

Thinking of the way he'd instantly dispatched the monsters, Shi Fuxue gritted his teeth. "Yes, I'm your boyfriend!" 😤

At the brink of death, even a straight man can turn gay in an instant!

The animation updated in real time. The comments above his head filled with question marks, and its popularity skyrocketed.

[Wait, what? Am I seeing things? Two guys kissed? My eyes! 😨]

[That extra just appeared out of nowhere? Hold on, he's so handsome? Was he lurking at the edge of the frame this whole time? 😉]

[Heh, a rumored boyfriend is obviously about to die horribly. Followed! That face is going to look gorgeous when he dies 😏]

[Rainbow Studio copying all the worst trends, turning an ensemble monster animation with no romance into a BL show? Don't you care about sales anymore? I'll say it now: if subscriptions pass a hundred, I'll eat my words! 😡]

[...Oh my god, subscriptions are over ten thousand. Who's paying for this episode?! 😱]

The comments were full of insults, but that didn't stop Shi Fuxue from going from an extra who was doomed to die from the start to the protagonist's rumored boyfriend, with his popularity soaring.

Shi Fuxue's pupils shook with shock.

Fortune favors the bold!

If selling BL can keep him alive in a horror game, what reason does he have not to do it?

An ensemble cast? There are other protagonists too?

Shi Fuxue's gaze gradually turned resolute.

Whoever looked like a protagonist, Shi Fuxue would sell BL with them.

--The top infinite-dungeon player is the male god he admires.

Shi Fuxue puts on the persona of a devoted fan, but doesn't even know the name of his idol's signature weapon.

His teammate (secret identity) gives him a knowing smile 😊. "You're such a fake fan."

--The irresistibly charming heartthrob is the friend he's secretly in love with.

Shi Fuxue watched as players and NPCs alike acted as if they'd lost their minds, rushing to die for the heartthrob. He didn't dare reveal that he wasn't under the spell, so he worked hard to improve his status as a devoted simp while pretending to be infatuated.

The next day, the heartthrob singled him out. "You were the only one who slept soundly last night."

Shi Fuxue: ...A simp can't even sleep now? 😨

--The max-level expert pretending to be weak is the little underling he looks after.

He was the best-looking person in the dungeon, so Shi Fuxue figured he ought to change up his image too. He didn't want the audience to keep teasing him about being the one who gets topped, so he saved the guy. Halfway through, he noticed something was off and started pretending he hadn't.

But his acting wasn't convincing. The expert realized that Shi Fuxue had noticed something was wrong, and Shi Fuxue realized that the expert knew he had noticed.

Two people who both know the truth play at pretending, with the expert wanting to flip the table and Shi Fuxue holding him down and forbidding him from doing so 🤗 vs 😖

--The madcap troublemaker who scams gods is a confidant who's both friend and foe.

Shi Fuxue unexpectedly ended up in the same dungeon as a classmate from real life. The players didn't know his sexual orientation, but surely his classmate did, especially since this guy really hated him 😰

In a panic, he made up an intimate relationship with a madcap troublemaker who vanished without a trace and would never show up in a low-level dungeon.

He spun such a tearful tale, full of childhood sweethearts, the black-and-white moonlight of first love, and the melancholy of how youth never returns. No matter how furiously his classmate called him a liar, his teammates believed every word.

Even the dungeon NPCs were moved by his tall tale. They said the madcap troublemaker happened to be here, and that they'd bring him over right away so the two of them could clear up their misunderstanding.

The hat-wearing tourist next door put down his newspaper and smiled with interest at Shi Fuxue, whose face had gone rigid. The next second, he turned Shi Fuxue into a cat and held him in his hands.

Shi Fuxue arched his back and cried out in terror 😱. "Meow, meow, meow!"

The madcap troublemaker raised one eyebrow 😉. "Well, someone's got their hackles up."

--The amnesiac evil god who thinks he's an ordinary person is his boyfriend.

With this initial BL target, Shi Fuxue gave him everything he wanted and doted on him endlessly. Aside from the kisses required for the act, he did nothing else.

Until one night, his boyfriend climbed into his bed and looked at him suspiciously. "Why aren't we doing it? Are you really my boyfriend?" 🧐

Shi Fuxue: "..."

He never meant to get himself tangled up in his own act! 😵

The viewers cursed him for turning an animation with no romantic pairings into a BL series, while muttering that in the next episode they had to make all his BL targets run into each other for a glorious love rivalry 🤣

Every time he nearly got caught by the protagonists, the comments above his head exploded.

Shi Fuxue smiled disdainfully 😌. Infinite dungeons were a dime a dozen, and his BL targets never crossed paths. How likely could it be that they'd run into each other?

So he doubled down and went even further.

Who could have known that when the next dungeon started and Shi Fuxue opened his eyes, all his teammates would be BL targets?

The protagonists warily sized each other up for a moment, then instinctively started walking toward him. When they realized they were all heading in the same direction, they stopped and looked at Shi Fuxue in unison 😶

With every eye on him, Shi Fuxue sweated like a waterfall 🥶

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