According to the transmigrator, I am the vicious male supporting character who pesters the male lead endlessly. The male lead is my childhood friend, the favored son of heaven. After failing to conquer the male lead, the transmigrator exposed my secret crush in front of him. Facing the male lead's careful questioning, I did not deny it. After my confession failed, I retracted all special treatment. No more indulging his closeness, no more accepting excessive physical contact, no more watching him. Upon learning I made a new best friend, the male lead exploded with separation anxiety and severe codependency. His condition was so serious that even my new friend couldn't help but say: "You're driving him crazy." I didn't think I was that important, until he truly lost his mind in front of me. 1 The day I learned my life was just a supporting role, I accepted the fact calmly. After all, if you were attacked by a mutant as a child, lost your spiritual power, were abandoned by your family early on, and failed to awaken as a Sentinel or Guide upon reaching adulthood while everyone around you excelled, it's hard to believe you are the protagonist of the world. The match in the arena continued. sitting in the stands, my attention couldn't help but be drawn to the golden bullet comments scrolling endlessly above the head of a strange Guide in front of me. From their fragments, I pieced together a truth. This world is a power fantasy novel. The protagonist is my childhood friend, Caleb. He is a very compelling "villainous protagonist," starting with max-level stats: 3S-level spiritual power, direct imperial lineage, top-tier looks and wealth, and the support of heirs from various powerful families. Unlike other male leads who grow through setbacks or hide their strength, Caleb never hides his power. He kills without a word, slashing his way from beginning to end. However, at the end of the story, after killing the strongest mutant, when everyone thought he would ascend the throne surrounded by the masses, he suddenly turned dark and destroyed the world. To save the world, the System bound the strange Guide in front of me, who had transmigrated into the book, tasking him with conquering Caleb and preventing his corruption. Perhaps I stared at him for too long. The strange Guide turned his head. He froze for a moment, then looked at me with disgust and contempt. The comments above his head instantly flashed a wave of malicious remarks about me. The most repeated words were [Cannon Fodder], [Shameless], [Bitch], [Still Alive]... In the mouths of these comments, I am the vicious cannon fodder who knows Caleb doesn't like me but relies on our childhood friendship to pester him. Caleb, out of consideration for old times, is unwilling to speak harshly to me, but actually hates me very much. The bell signaling the end of the match rang. I was still dazed by the words in the comments. People around me stood up excitedly, cheering and surging towards the arena in the center. I was a moment late getting up to follow the crowd. I had just taken a few steps towards the arena when a figure quickly pushed through the crowd, rushed from the ring, and hugged me. A scorching aura wrapped me from head to toe. The hard chest armor pressed painfully against my cheek. I could almost hear the blood boiling in his veins. Caleb lifted me up by the waist, lowered his head to rub intentionally against my neck, then loosened his grip, revealing a flamboyant and slightly silly smile: "I won!" This was an overly intimate gesture, but the people around were used to it. "Mmh." I patted his head, praising him skillfully: "Very impressive." "Caleb!" A crisp voice suddenly interjected. I patted Caleb's arm. After he reluctantly let go, I turned to look in the direction of the voice. The strange Guide from before squeezed out of the crowd, looked up at Caleb, blinked, and asked crisply: "Who is he?" Caleb put his arm around my shoulder, as if just remembering, and introduced to me: "This is the new S-class Guide joining our squad, Lucas." Then he turned to Lucas and said: "This is my best, best friend, Julian." He emphasized the word "best" and said it twice, his tone certain and proud. I extended my hand to Lucas: "Hello." "Hello, hello." Lucas shook my hand, asking curiously, "Are you a Sentinel or a Guide?" I smiled and replied calmly: "I am an ordinary person." "Ah." Lucas seemed shocked, saying innocently yet flusteredly, "I didn't mean to. I didn't expect Caleb's friend to be a... person without spiritual power." He was apologizing, but his expression when looking at me seemed to say "a useless person without spiritual power." He was sure only I could see his expression from this angle, but a terrifying spiritual pressure descended on the entire venue the second his words came out. A spiritual entity in the form of a Qiongqi (a mythical winged tiger), shrunk to the size of a palm, jumped onto my shoulder, panic-stricken, trying to cover my ears. Caleb indeed hadn't seen his expression, but mentioning my spiritual power was Caleb's taboo. I patted the back of Caleb's hand. Caleb looked at me and withdrew the spiritual pressure that was on the verge of losing control. Only then did Lucas retreat a step, face pale. He looked up at me in fear, tears welling in his eyes: "I'm sorry, did I say something wrong? I, I didn't mean to... will you forgive me?" The comments above his head started spamming again: [Ahhh, how can Caleb treat our Lu-bao like this!] [Life sentence without wife! I sentence him to life without a wife!] [So angry. Wait until the conquest succeeds, see how he begs for forgiveness in the crematorium!] [Is the vicious male supporting character cheap or what? Is it worth holding onto this little thing? Knowing an ordinary person like him isn't worthy, why doesn't he leave? Does he have to insert himself between our couple?] I lowered my eyes. The "it's okay" I wanted to say was stuck in my throat. Caleb noticed the subtle change in my emotions immediately. The shrunken Qiongqi on my shoulder jumped anxiously. He also reached out to grab my hand. I avoided his movement, took the Qiongqi from my shoulder into my palm, squeezed it gently, then turned to Lucas and smiled: "It's okay, you didn't say anything wrong." 2 [Big news! Will the new S-class Guide stay in Caleb's squad?] [What happened? Yesterday we were discussing if the new Guide could conquer Caleb, how come today it's a question if he can even stay?] [He mentioned Julian's spiritual power.] [And he mentioned it in front of Julian and Caleb.] [That's it then.] [No way—I just bought stocks in the new Guide. Heard his compatibility with Caleb is 90%.] [Does no one think Julian is excessive? The new Guide didn't know he lacked spiritual power. What's wrong with asking? And he apologized. Is it necessary to be so dramatic?] [??? You dare say it, I dare not listen.] [Those who mocked Julian to his face for losing spiritual power have been mining coal in District 10 for two years.] [Before Caleb reaches the battlefield, Julian's research fans will blow up your account.] [Can participants in account bombing get priority to buy Julian's new weapons? If so, count me in.] [+1, our squad has been queuing for three months.] [Should we go kneel in front of Julian and beg him to research how to expand production?] [Can I kneel too?] [Yes.] [If not, take all our savings.] [Can I give too?] [Yes.] Lucas angrily exited the Star Net forum. Walking in the mall with two other Sentinels from Caleb's squad, he sighed after closing his terminal, looking very worried: "Sigh, is Julian unwilling to forgive me?" "No, don't overthink it. Julian is a very nice person." The Sentinel didn't hear the undertone of Lucas silently applying eye drops (sowing discord) and comforted him, "Yesterday, Caleb wanted to submit your application to leave the team, and it was Julian who stopped him." Lucas choked. He took a deep breath and continued: "Isn't there a joint exercise in three days? I want to buy him a gift to apologize. Can you tell me what he likes or hates?" "Julian? He doesn't seem to have any special preferences." Another Sentinel scratched his head in confusion, "If you ask us, you might as well ask Caleb. He understands Julian better." The first Sentinel nodded. Seeing Lucas reaching for a leaf-shaped necklace, he seemed to remember something and said: "But you'd better not give him a necklace." Seeing Lucas look over in confusion, he explained: "Julian has a necklace he really likes. Since we've known him, we've never seen him change it. If you give a necklace, he probably won't wear it." Lucas's hand paused, shifting from the necklace to a brooch, but his eyes flickered imperceptibly. The joint exercise took place in the Northern Pollution Zone. When Lucas found me, I was sitting on a large gray rock not far from the temporary camp, verifying the optimization model of a weapon based on the data just recorded. Caleb sat beside me, playing with my left hand out of boredom. He stepped on the accumulated snow. Before he got close, Caleb raised his eyes alertly, his gaze sharp and cold. Lucas froze instantly, as if doused with ice water from head to toe. Comments scrolled before his eyes. [Damn it, when will the male lead know the true face of the vicious male supporting character?] [Lu-bao don't be afraid. Today you are ignored, tomorrow you are out of his league.] [So angry. Vicious male supporting character relies on the male lead not knowing his feelings to be so close. When the male lead remembers later, he'll be disgusted.] [Ahhh torture me to death. Clearly Lu-bao is here to save the world and him, the male lead knows nothing and glares at our Lu-bao.] [Just wait. The male lead is guaranteed to regret it later.] I put down the pen, withdrew my hand held by Caleb, looked up at Lucas standing in the snow daring not to speak for a while, and smiled gently: "Do you have something to say to me?" Lucas walked a bit closer, took out a beautifully wrapped gift box, looked up pitifully: "I'm here to apologize for last time. Can you accept my apology?" I stood up. Caleb walked in front of me with me. Lucas was saying sorry to me, but his eyes were constantly on Caleb. I sighed, signaled Caleb to leave first with my eyes. After Caleb walked away reluctantly, I looked at him again, tone flat: "I'm not angry." "Really? Then can you accept my gift?" Lucas opened the gift box happily, revealing a blue gem brooch inside. Before I could react, he picked up the brooch and pinned it on my collar. I was stunned for a moment by his sudden offensive action. In that instant, Lucas's finger hooked the cord of the necklace around my neck. Don't know what he did, but the necklace with the pendant broke in the middle and fell to the ground with a bang. "Ah." Lucas cried out in panic, hurriedly reaching to pick it up. The pendant that looked like jade didn't break. Lucas gritted his teeth, pretended to lose his balance, and threw the necklace in his hand out again. I looked at him coldly. After he accidentally threw the necklace out for the third time, I called his name softly: "Lucas." The next moment, a cold gun muzzle was aimed at his head. I smiled, still gentle: "You'd better not make me angry." Lucas's body stiffened after seeing what I was holding. Physiological fear made his face pale instantly. He looked at me almost in terror. I said: "Pick it up. The pendant casing is made of special alloy; it won't break." Lucas picked up the necklace tremblingly and held it in front of me. I took the necklace and sighed again: "I sent the books, celebrities, and battles Caleb likes to your terminal. If you want to pursue Caleb, you can take a look at these." "If there's anything you don't understand, you can ask me. But you'd better have your own ideas." Lucas was completely stunned. "Why?" He looked at me stiffly, almost losing his voice. "No need to treat me as an enemy." The coldness in my brows dissipated, revealing my usual gentleness, "Of course I hope he can be happy." [???] [???????] [????????????] The comments above Lucas's head were almost screened by question marks. [He's actually kinda nice?] [Done for, I'm about to fall in love with him.] [Thinking carefully, the vicious male supporting character doesn't seem to have done anything bad, always quite gentle.] 3 Meanwhile on the Star Net forum, a post was rapidly building high. [Shocking, I'm at the joint exercise site, guess what I just saw] [Image] [Image] [Image] [WTF, why is Julian pointing a gun at Lucas? What did Lucas do to him?] [Haven't seen Julian's cold face for a long time, so nostalgic.] [I'll call him Master first out of respect.] [So what is the reason? Where is the OP? Don't tease and run.] [Seems like Lucas broke Julian's necklace.] [Video] [Video] [Is it that necklace Julian never takes off? Then he's done for.] [Speaking of which, why does Julian care so much about this necklace? Is it a relic or something?] [Or the first gift Caleb gave him?] [No, I remember Caleb asked who gave him this necklace. Julian didn't tell him after being asked for a long time.] [Ahhh I really want to know. Scratching my heart and liver anxiously.] [Star Net's tenth unsolved mystery: Why does Julian treasure his necklace so much?] ... I reconnected the necklace and put it back on, walking back to the camp with Lucas. Around the bonfire, small tents were set up in the snow. I led Lucas to the tent shared by me and Caleb, and started packing my things. Caleb, who just returned from a surprise inspection, saw the scene of me and Lucas moving things out. He froze for a moment, unable to react. I had already skillfully blocked his mouth before he could speak. "I need to think quietly about the research plan tonight. Lucas happens to be alone. I discussed with him to swap tents tonight." Caleb stared at me with a long face for a while, then muffled an "Oh." I wasn't completely lying to him about studying the plan tonight. Under the dim light, the tip of my pen crossed one formula after another, but the terminal on my wrist suddenly vibrated. I stopped writing and clicked open the message from Lucas. [What was the key to victory in the Battle of Xuanyan?] I entered the answer and forwarded a summary of the Battle of Xuanyan. Not long after, Lucas's message popped up again: [Does Caleb like General Mo? Should I praise him or scold him?] I typed silently. [He asked me which commander in history I think is the strongest. What should I say?] I was speechless for a while, replying: [You can have your own ideas.] Quietly created a few more opportunities for them to be alone. Two months later, Lucas felt the time was ripe. [Really confess now?] The comments raised a question. "Of course." Lucas said confidently, "I confess to him first. In the future, when he thinks of me, he will think of the fact that I like him, and slowly he will fall." "Besides, last time on the mission, Caleb came to save me immediately. Maybe he already likes me unconsciously." [I'm still a bit worried. Maybe tell Julian first?] Impatience appeared between Lucas's brows. He pursed his lips and said: "Caleb won't like Julian anyway. What use is his opinion. I am the chosen one. Whose side are you on anyway!" The comments shut up. So in the evening, Lucas stopped Caleb coming out of the training room. "I like you." Under the setting sun, the handsome boy looked up to confess. It should have been a dreamy and beautiful scene, but it was shattered by the ruthless words of the person opposite. "I will submit your transfer application tomorrow." "Why?" Lucas panicked instantly, "No, you can't do this. Our compatibility is 90%. I am the most suitable person to be by your side. You can't do this, the higher-ups won't agree..." "Of course I can. Do you want to test my power?" Caleb said expressionlessly, "Leave. I won't keep people with impure thoughts around me." Lucas broke down. He hissed: "If you can't accept me continuing to stay by your side, what about Julian?! He likes you too. Can you tolerate him?" Full screen of question marks scrolled through the comments: [????] [??????????] [Can't do it. This time I really can't stand with you. Julian helped you so much, and in the end you backstab him like this.] [Some people being disliked has a reason.] [Ahhh previously I whitewashed those behaviors with saving the world or destined soulmates. This time I really can't whitewash.] [Don't! If Caleb alienates Julian because of this, I'll feel it's my fault.] [Done for, done for. Julian is coming this way.] "What did you say?" Caleb's expression finally changed. He frowned at Lucas. Lucas simply smashed the pot (went for broke): "I said Julian likes you. Not the friend kind of like. Are you going to drive him away too?" Don't know which word poked Caleb's lung tube (hit a nerve), Caleb's anger was instantly ignited: "What nonsense are you talking about!" The tall Qiongqi spiritual entity rushed out, pouncing on Lucas without any buffer. Sharp claws and teeth were about to attack his neck. Lucas fell to the ground in embarrassment. Fear bubbled up uncontrollably. Golden comments flew past his eyes. He grabbed the most frequent word on them: "Julian!" A familiar profile appeared in his peripheral vision. Lucas shouted in panic: "Julian, save me!" 4 "Are you still angry?" Under the dim evening light, Caleb hung his head, following behind me ready to be scolded. His spiritual entity's tail and ears drooped, trailing listlessly beside him. My pace was neither fast nor slow, tone without fluctuation: "Why should I be angry?" "I didn't mean to hurt anyone." Caleb tugged at the corner of my shirt, saying indignantly and somewhat unconvinced, "He talked nonsense first." I stopped, finally turning my head to look at him: "What did he say?" Caleb's expression stiffened. He hemmed and hawed, pulling east and west for a long time, telling the whole story of Lucas coming to confess to him, before carefully saying lightly in a joking tone: "So funny, he actually said you like me. I wouldn't..." "It's true," I said. Caleb froze. He stared at me blankly. I nodded and affirmed again: "It's true." "W-What do you mean?" Caleb stammered, voice getting smaller. I looked at him, saying calmly: "It means exactly what you think. I like you." "Huh? You... uh, I..." Caleb's eyes went straight, as if experiencing a worldview reconstruction. The whole person seemed silly. He stumbled, "I, I never thought... we... but..." "I know." I pulled back the sleeve corner he was holding, saying softly, "I accept your rejection." "Wait!" Caleb subconsciously grabbed my wrist. "Don't go yet." All past persistence was thrown to the back of his mind. Inexplicable panic made him eager to get an answer from me, "We are still friends, right! Right?!" "..." I looked at him quietly for a while, said: "Mmh." Caleb's intuition was not wrong. If he didn't ask me to stay, I would completely withdraw from his life. Of course, didn't mean that because he asked me to stay, I wouldn't leave. When Caleb rushed down from the arena victorious to hug me again, I didn't refuse. But after a few seconds, when this hug was about to exceed the meaning of a friend's congratulation, I pushed him away. Caleb stared blankly at his empty arms, only coming back to his senses when a teammate patted his arm. Then he looked up and saw me talking and laughing with another teammate of his as if nothing had happened. Caleb couldn't say what was wrong, but an overflowing sourness blocked his chest dully. Hands reaching out to pull people were cleverly avoided, heads leaning over were pushed away, smiling eyes no longer stayed on him. Caleb lowered his eyes, expression heavy. Half a month later, Star Net Forum: [What's wrong with Caleb lately? All the Sentinels in the training ground aren't enough for him to beat up.] [Just like this after not sniffing Julian for two days.] [Is he watching Julian too closely recently? Only two days. Wasn't like this before.] [Clingy index went up? Used to take a week of not seeing him to start getting anxious.] [Don't know. They are weird lately. Quarreled?] [Last time participating in a 3-day 2-night mission, Julian didn't sleep with Caleb at night.] [I was there too. Wasn't that because another researcher was there, and Julian wanted to discuss ideas with him?] [Anyway Caleb's face stunk to death the whole time after.] [Feel something is wrong but can't say what.] [I have even more explosive news, do you want to hear?] [What what?] [Ears perked.] [Isn't Julian going to the Southern Pollution Zone frontline battlefield in two days? This time the escort squad he designated is not Caleb's team, but Arthur's.] [!!!!!!!!!] [No way—how are my two wives together?]
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