#Jiang Cheng, congratulations #you’ve just experienced the fate of the support #you were the pivotal character in this mission #so it can be successful #but the main heroes took all the credits
Luo Binghe and Shen Qingqiu from 人渣反派自救系统 (Scum Villain’s Self-Saving System). It has an ongoing English translation which you can find here.
Basic summary: A modern guy finishes reading a novel and curses the author for the numerous plot holes and for writing everything just to let the Gary Stu protagonist, Luo Binghe, look cool. Unfortunately for him, he ends up getting transported into this novel, taking the place of the canon fodder villain, Shen Qingqiu, who is the protagonist’s bastard of a teacher. Now he has to play by the rules of the system while trying to avoid the terrible fate of the original Shen Qingqiu who got his limbs dismembered by dark!Luo Binghe as revenge for past mistreatment. But unbeknownst to him, because of the changes he’s made, Luo Binghe has fallen in love with him.
It’s mostly hilarious crack as our main character commentates and roasts the plot and characters he encounters, with some angst and suffering mixed in.
‘Thirteen years of asking after a departed soul, waiting for someone who wasn’t coming back.’
Lan Wangji from Founder of Diabolism (魔道祖师). He’s the second main character, the love interest, the type that’s expressionless and in control on the surface but devoted and deeply emotional on the inside.
This is the first time I’ve ever wanted to reverse the top/bottom dynamic in a canon ship. But Chinese fandom seems scarily irrationally pedantic about who tops/bottoms so I’ll just quietly keep it to myself lol.
