24 Chapter 25: Vain, Materialistic Little Green Tea (25) Part 2

Corporate drone Yu Gu was unexpectedly bound to the Male Supporting Character System.

[Host, just stick to your persona and play it well. There'll be rewards galore.] The System dangled the bait.

"Mm." Yu Gu nodded hard, thoroughly sold.

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World One: The Vain, Gold-Digging Little Green Tea Schemer

[You're an eighteenth-tier showbiz nobody, sweet and harmless on the surface, a scheming green tea underneath. When the director hands the role you wanted to the protagonist top, you nurse a grudge. Assuming he's a newbie with no backing, you set him up again and again on set, and end up disgraced, hated by the entire internet.]

Yu Gu settled into the role: sunny and adorable up front, no dirty deed left undone behind everyone's back.

The protagonist top soon traced the mischief to its source. In the crew's restroom, the man folded his arms, looked down at Yu Gu from his full height, and asked with something that wasn't quite a smile, "You started those rumors?"

"N-no... it wasn't..." Yu Gu was too nervous to finish a sentence. Inside, he was perfectly calm. *The face-slapping plotline is finally here.*

"I've already found the evidence. If you don't want your name destroyed and your company shelving you, be my boyfriend." The man's big hand closed over both his cheeks and forced his face up.

Yu Gu blinked, lost. [System, what's going on?]

[He wants to win your heart, toy with your feelings, then throw you away hard.] The System analyzed.

Yu Gu agreed on the spot.

Then his boyfriend turned out to be a man who kissed and hugged him at the slightest provocation and started talking marriage. Love-brained, through and through.

Not only that. The protagonist bottom kept making overtures to Yu Gu too.

The film emperor who'd made his name young wore concern on his cool features, his burning gaze fixed on the red marks showing above his junior's collar. "Why can't you choose me?"

Yu Gu, who had walked the plotline with nothing but diligence, reflected: [Why does everyone like me now?]

The System: [Damn protagonists! Gugu, don't blame yourself.]

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World Two: The Apocalypse's Saintly Do-Gooder Supporting Character

[Gugu's identity is the villainous male supporting character's loyal simp, a saintly do-gooder with an awakened healing ability. You put others before yourself. Whenever someone asks for your help, you never refuse.]

Script in hand, Yu Gu played the infuriating pushover with painstaking dedication.

Teammate Number One, a suspected candidate for the top, took his hand, pressed it against his abs, called him Big Brother with every other breath, and said he felt unwell and could only get better if Yu Gu rubbed it for him.

A saintly do-gooder agreed, naturally.

Teammate Number Two, another suspected candidate, had caught a special poison that only intimate contact could cure, so he came to Yu Gu. "Yu Gu, you wouldn't just stand there and let me die, would you?"

Yu Gu the good man chose to offer himself up, naturally.

Even the protagonist bottom came around often, saying he got cold at night and couldn't sleep, asking Yu Gu to warm the bed for him.

...

Yu Gu worked himself ragged without a word of complaint. Later, that pack of men demanded an answer: which one was he choosing?

Yu Gu: ? *He was only doing them a favor. Since when did a favor come with lifelong responsibility?*

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World after world, the protagonist top and bottom fell for Yu Gu, the supporting character, every single time, and turned on each other over him.

[Gugu, I'm sorry. I didn't catch the protagonist's collapse in time.] The System choked up.

Yu Gu shook his head. "It's fine. You paid me."

Besides, he'd enjoyed himself plenty along the way.