Playing a Popular Supporting Character with a Saintly Filter

Before dying suddenly, Fu Zhao transmigrates into an insignificant passerby in an apocalypse novel. His initial popularity and stamina are both zero, and he can only stay alive if his popularity increases.

The System is very considerate: [I’ve applied for a Heal-the-Wounded-and-Rescue-the-Dying buff for my Host. You can build up rage points to unlock skills by taking hits for the protagonist’s team.

Not only can you take the opportunity to get noticed, but using your skills multiple times will also let you exchange points for items that improve your starting constitution.]

Fu Zhao: [Got it. Take damage to charge the ultimate, suffer first and enjoy the rewards later. I’ll take the nastiest hits for Long Aotian.]

But the System didn’t tell him that he would enter the story with a saintly glow, making everything he did look gentle and kind.

Fu Zhao searches a corpse for gear at the start...

Passersby: He’s so gentle. He not only tidies up the dead traveler, but also murmurs a solemn prayer for the departed, his face full of compassion.

During a fight, Fu Zhao shoves aside a teammate who’s interfering with his efforts to build up rage points...

Passersby: He’s so kind. He’d rather let the mutated plant direct all its attacks at him than let anyone else get hurt. Even covered in blood, he’s still protecting the comrades behind him.

And so, amid an apocalypse of scarce resources and warring factions, legends of a saint soon begin to spread.

He takes fatal blows for young explorers who blunder into desperate situations, then hands over the crystal cores after killing mutated plants without taking a single cent in return.

He is powerful and mysterious, comforting every passerby with the gentlest words, while he himself keeps his brows furrowed as he stares into the distance, silently shouldering every injury, as though loving all humanity were simply his nature.

Countless readers in the novel’s comments section worry over him and cry for him, begging the author not to kill off their tragic, powerful father figure.

Meanwhile, in the real world, Fu Zhao’s roommate opens the next page of the novel and can’t help sobbing on the spot. “He’s so compassionate. He even cares for the enemies who betrayed him. The villain was practically on his knees, converted on the spot.”

Fu Zhao: ??? Wait, didn’t he just threaten the villain yesterday, saying, “You’re so useless, you might as well go home”?

On his phone screen, he sees himself kindly pat the villain’s hair. There isn’t a trace of anger over the betrayal in his smile, only boundless affection and sadness. “Go home, child. Go home.”

After he leaves, rain pours from the sky. The villain’s tears mingle with the rain as he thinks of the mother waiting for him at home and weeps in regret.

Fu Zhao: ...??? Who is this saintly father? Is that really me?

Theme: Compassion for all