A Novelist’s Guide for Side Characters to Survive

Chu Zu, in his previous life, had been a novelist. Because he stayed up all night rushing to meet deadlines, he died suddenly. After death, he bound with the "Side Character Correction System".

The system proposed a deal: as long as Chu Zu could play and correct those side characters hated by readers, he could be reborn.

Chu Zu: Change the character setting, right? I’ve always been good at that!

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First book-

Reader A: 【You can make the villain dumber, but don’t dream that the readers will get dumber too. Is that so hard to understand?】

Still Reader A: 【Damn, damn, damn! You should’ve said earlier it was a mastermind’s plot within a plot within a plot!! Grandpa Zu! I’m sorry! I was speaking too loudly!!】

Second book-

Reader B: 【Enough with the lousy dog persona. Even if you emphasize five hundred times that he’s an adorable puppy, all I see is a bootlicker, and the kind that doesn’t even bark.】

Still Reader B: 【Woke up to find an invincible, sunny, cheerful big puppy—where can I adopt one? Ah Zu! I want to raise Ah Zu too!!】

Third book-

Reader C: 【Is the author’s life so miserable that they have to write such a vile, loathsome character? If you can’t write, just go get a job.】

Still Reader C: 【Damn it, God Zu, I really deserve to die!】

Fourth book, fifth book, sixth book…

Chu Zu: So, how was it? My acting might be average, but my corrections are decent, right?

System: …Do you even know what a side character is? A character whose popularity explodes—how is that a side character!!!