The Celibate Male Lead Broke His Persona - Chapter 1

Chapter 1

At one in the morning, I was sleeping like a log.

Xu Sinian called and woke me up again.

Over the phone, he hiccupped through his tears.

“Liao Qing, Huo Zhui rejected me again. I feel awful.”

“I’m at a bar right now. I don’t know what to do to stop crying, so I can only keep drinking. Can you come keep me company?”

Huo Zhui was the male lead of this book.

Xu Sinian had fallen for Huo Zhui the moment he first saw him. If he could, he would have tied a bow around himself and delivered himself straight to Huo Zhui’s door.

Unfortunately, Huo Zhui wasn’t interested in him.

This was already the hundredth time he had called me in the middle of the night over something to do with Huo Zhui, asking me to come comfort him.

I rubbed my eyes and checked the time on my phone. A bit of waking-up grumpiness rose in me, and I couldn’t help wanting to say, Do you want to take a look at what time it is?

The System immediately issued me a warning: “Host, pay attention to maintaining your devoted persona.”

I froze on the spot.

Then I took a deep breath and said in the gentlest voice I had ever used in my life, “Sinian, where are you? I’ll come find you right away.”

Originally, I was the male lead of a smut novel.

Every day, the moment I opened my eyes, I would be surrounded by all kinds of handsome men and pretty boys, doing this and that until they fed me nice and full.

My favorite thing to do was turn anything black or white into something filthy.

That was, until the Male Supporting Character System was short on manpower and shipped me over here to play the abstinent second male lead.

The System told me, “You are an abstinent CEO with a tragic background, a beautiful, powerful, miserable man with maximum brokenness, an untouchable flower on a high peak who only shows his gentlest side to Xu Sinian.”

“You are outstandingly handsome yet deeply insecure, refined and courteous yet always treading on thin ice. Your love is forbearance. Restraint. Silent devotion without daring to touch. Even when you want him to the point of madness, you can only suppress yourself in an almost self-torturing way.”

Utterly baffled, I pointed at myself and said, “Me? You mean me?”

The System nodded. “Anyway, that’s the character setup. Treat it like a job.”

From that day on, I diligently played the protagonist shou’s backup-option simp, appearing at Xu Sinian’s side the moment he needed me most.

He had once been an innocent young master, spoiled and pampered since childhood.

Until his family went bankrupt.

Overnight, he fell from the clouds.

Everyone was waiting to laugh at him.

I was the one who asked for nothing in return and kept him by my side, allowing him to maintain his original standard of living.

The people around me tried no small number of times to talk sense into me, saying I was stupid. “President Liao, now that he’s bankrupt, why don’t you just keep him as your sugar baby? Wouldn’t that save you a lot of trouble? Are you still afraid you won’t get him?”

But I didn’t dare take advantage of him when he was vulnerable.

All I dared to do was buy him an apartment of his own and let him live there by himself.

Every month, I transferred money to him on time.

Even after doing all that, his WeChat messages to me were always indifferent at best. He read my messages and never replied.

But as long as he thought of me when he needed something, as long as he opened his mouth and asked me for help, I would be especially happy.

Clearly, this character persona of mine was a severe case of lovesickness-brained fool.