Can a Damp Little Mushroom Become Everyone's Favorite?

Gu Rong is a little mushroom that has gained sentience.

On the very day he wakes up, he runs into mushroom pickers. As they pick mushrooms, they excitedly discuss a hundred different ways to cook and eat them.

Gu Rong: I’m scared! Please don’t eat me! QAQ

Later, Gu Rong accidentally transmigrates into a character in a novel.

The bad news: He isn’t very good at transforming into human form, and sometimes he turns back into a little mushroom. If humans discover him, they might pluck him and eat him!

The good news: His new identity is the universally despised one.

He’s someone everyone hates, ostracizes, and excludes!

The little mushroom, universally despised, wears ugly black-rimmed glasses, keeps thick bangs hanging over his eyes, and dresses in baggy, drab clothes. In an unnoticed, damp corner, he lives the life of a gloomy little mushroom.

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But Gu Rong doesn’t know that his arrival has made the “universally despised” buff imposed on the character by the original novel disappear.

More and more people are beginning to notice an adorable little thing in their midst.

Without his glasses, the adorable little thing has beautiful dark eyes. Beneath his thick bangs is a sweet, innocent face that looks like everyone’s first love. When he rolls up his sleeves, a slender, pale wrist peeks out...

And he has such a lovely, fragrant scent.

It makes people want to take a bite out of him.

Gradually, Gu Rong realizes something is wrong.

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Luckily, the novel’s main antagonist, Gu Rong’s nominal “older brother,” returns from overseas just then.

The villainous older brother is the character in the book who hates the universally despised one most. The little mushroom, pursued and cornered by his admirers, flees to his side in desperation. The man only glances at him coldly, then looks away.

So disdainful, so indifferent.

Gu Rong: I’m relieved.

Staying beside my cold-blooded villain of an older brother really is the safest option for a gloomy little mushroom!

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Gong’s point of view.

After an accident, Gu Baiya loses his sense of smell and taste, and with them much of the pleasure in life.

He grows ever colder, devoting himself entirely to his business overseas. Still young, he becomes a rising star in the business world and returns home in glory.

On his first day back at the old family home, he smells something wonderful coming from his unpopular younger stepbrother, despite having lost his sense of smell.

It’s like freshly picked matsutake mushrooms: fragrant and sweet.

At first, Gu Baiya exercises the utmost restraint, struggling every day to suppress the urge to take a bite out of him.

Later, Gu Baiya has only one thing on his mind every day: how to beat all his rivals and eat that adorable little mushroom.

Theme: Love is restraint