How to Save My Childhood Friend in Peril

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[Reborn gravity-wielder who is great at acting like a delicate weakling, top × indulgent and carefree bottom who takes advantage of being favored]

[Blurb]

After a car accident left him with a head injury, Lian Chuyu awakened.

He discovered that the world he lived in was actually a huge anthology of web novels, and he could see NPC-like labels above some people's heads.

His elders had forced an engagement on him. His fiancée turned out to be the heroine of a satisfying revenge story about breaking off an engagement. They had agreed to end the joke of an engagement peacefully, but then she suddenly called him in the middle of the night, passionately declaring, "Thirty years east of the river, thirty years west of the river. Don't bully a poor young man!"

His straight-as-an-arrow buddy was the pathetic, devoted second male lead in an angsty story about a kept lover who gets promoted to a legitimate partner. After inexplicably turning gay, he inexplicably fell in love at first sight with a male escort at a club, giving him both money and his heart. In the end, he lost everything and died on the street.

His own troublesome parents were deep into fake-substitute romance, both talking past each other and misunderstanding one another for years, only to realize after twenty years of marriage: "My own self was my first love all along" and "My wife was my first love all along."

As for Lian Chuyu himself, he was the fake young master and cannon fodder in a story about a real and fake young master.

The first minute after learning the truth, Lian Chuyu: Enjoying the show.jpg

After all, five years ago, once the real young master, his adoptive younger brother in name, was found by the Lian family, he went abroad of his own accord to avoid suspicion. He had already reached his bleak ending of being "exiled abroad," so in theory he could now lie low and enjoy a long, peaceful life.

The second minute after learning the truth, Lian Chuyu: ?

Because the plot that came next told him that the real young master was also the kept lover bottom in an old-school, domineering BL romance. Before long, he would go through a whole parade of melodramatic tropes with a sadistic CEO top: love at first sight, domineering captivity, one running while the other chases, physical and emotional torment, and so on. In the end, the scum top and shameless bottom would find their happy ending.

Of course, none of that was important.

What mattered was that this dumbass CEO had a screw loose. To make the real young master a dependent flower who could cling only to him, he would actually bankrupt the entire Lian family midway through the story!!!

Lian Chuyu, forced to become part of the plot and face the future of losing his family and becoming destitute overnight: ???

More importantly, his poor childhood friend Ji Mingxing, who was still studying back home, was the devoted antagonist in this melodramatic BL novel.

After growing up in an oppressive, loveless environment, he gradually became attracted to the real young master's kind and gentle nature during their five years together. So he did everything he could to hold on to the one ray of light in his life.

But the CEO top had the protagonist's halo, after all. After battling him for eight hundred chapters, Ji Mingxing lost. After his company went bankrupt, his parents cruelly abandoned him. His family's illegitimate children bullied and humiliated him at will. In the end, penniless and destitute, he died in a dark, damp basement on the outskirts of the city.

Lian Chuyu, forced to learn that his childhood friend would soon turn gay, fall for his younger brother, and die horribly: ???

And so, three weighty tasks were suddenly placed before him.

1. Protect his family's fortune.

2. Protect his younger brother's ass.

3. Save his childhood friend from a deadly fate.

[Little Scene]

After returning home, Lian Chuyu grips his childhood friend's right hand, speaking earnestly: "Bro, don't worry. This time, I'll help you take back everything that belongs to you."

Ji Mingxing (reborn): "Is that so?" (He discreetly slips a gleaming dinner knife into his sleeve.)

[Content warnings / Important notes]

1. The childhood betrothal is a misunderstanding. The bottom and the girl have no romantic entanglements, and it won't cause any misunderstandings between the top and bottom. They will become friends later.

2. The top has never been in love with the bottom's younger brother, either in his past or present life. The bottom only concludes that the top is a "devoted antagonist" after reading the plot. The top and bottom are each other's only partners in body and heart, in both their past and present lives. Both are virgins, and the story is strictly one-on-one.

3. This is fundamentally a comedy, so there won't be melodramatic misunderstandings like "he loves my younger brother." Both the top and bottom communicate clearly, so read without worry.

4. [No switching pairings or extreme character-control fans. Related comments will be deleted. The family's financial interests are firmly mutual, thanks for respecting that.]

Theme: Everyone is the protagonist of their own life