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A Novelist’s Guide to Side Character Survival
A Novelist’s Guide to Side Character Survival
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Chu Zu was a novelist in his past life. He died from overworking himself to meet a deadline, pulling an all-nighter to finish his manuscript. After his death, he was bound to the “Marginal Character Correction System.” The system proposed a deal: if Chu Zu could successfully play the roles of hated side characters and “fix” them, he would be given a chance to live again.Chu Zu: “So, I just have to tweak their personalities, right? That’s my specialty!”
First novel—
📖 Reader A: “You can dumb down a villain, but don’t expect your readers to be dumb too. Is that so hard to understand?”
📖 Same Reader A, later: “Holy shit, holy shit, HOLY SHIT! It was a mastermind’s scheme within a scheme within a SCHEME?! Grandpa Zu, I WAS WRONG! I SHOULDN’T HAVE SPOKEN SO LOUDLY!!!”
Second novel—
📖 Reader B: “Enough with this forced character setting. No matter how many times you repeat that he’s a ‘cute loyal dog,’ all I see is a bootlicker—a pathetic one that doesn’t even bark.”
📖 Same Reader B, later: “I TAKE IT BACK! He’s an invincible, sunshine-bright, loyal big dog! Where can I adopt one? A-ZU! LET ME RAISE YOU!!”
Third novel—
📖 Reader C: “Is the author’s life really that miserable? Do you have to create a character this venomous and unbearable? If you’ve hit a creative block, maybe just go get a real job?”
📖 Same Reader C, later: “F**K! LORD ZU, I’M SO SORRY! I’M AN UTTER FOOL!”
Fourth novel. Fifth. Sixth…
Chu Zu: So? My acting might be so-so, but I did a decent job fixing them, right?
System: [“…DO YOU EVEN KNOW WHAT A ‘SIDE CHARACTER’ IS?! HOW DOES TURNING THEM INTO MASSIVELY POPULAR FAN FAVORITES COUNT AS A SIDE CHARACTER?!”]
First novel—
📖 Reader A: “You can dumb down a villain, but don’t expect your readers to be dumb too. Is that so hard to understand?”
📖 Same Reader A, later: “Holy shit, holy shit, HOLY SHIT! It was a mastermind’s scheme within a scheme within a SCHEME?! Grandpa Zu, I WAS WRONG! I SHOULDN’T HAVE SPOKEN SO LOUDLY!!!”
Second novel—
📖 Reader B: “Enough with this forced character setting. No matter how many times you repeat that he’s a ‘cute loyal dog,’ all I see is a bootlicker—a pathetic one that doesn’t even bark.”
📖 Same Reader B, later: “I TAKE IT BACK! He’s an invincible, sunshine-bright, loyal big dog! Where can I adopt one? A-ZU! LET ME RAISE YOU!!”
Third novel—
📖 Reader C: “Is the author’s life really that miserable? Do you have to create a character this venomous and unbearable? If you’ve hit a creative block, maybe just go get a real job?”
📖 Same Reader C, later: “F**K! LORD ZU, I’M SO SORRY! I’M AN UTTER FOOL!”
Fourth novel. Fifth. Sixth…
Chu Zu: So? My acting might be so-so, but I did a decent job fixing them, right?
System: [“…DO YOU EVEN KNOW WHAT A ‘SIDE CHARACTER’ IS?! HOW DOES TURNING THEM INTO MASSIVELY POPULAR FAN FAVORITES COUNT AS A SIDE CHARACTER?!”]
- Chapter 1: Side Character Correction Specialist, Chu Zu.
- Chapter 2: I’ll give you all the best things. Follow me.
- Chapter 3: That’s how novelists are.
- Chapter 4: Rebellious enough? Depraved enough?
- Chapter 5: Less riddler vibes, good for you, me, and the readers!
- Chapter 6: That train accident let us share the same miracle.
- Chapter 7: Am I not good to you, dear?
- Chapter 8: "But that gentleman doesnt believe, that gentleman doesnt believe anyone."
- Chapter 9: "Only one person can wear the crown and ascend to immortality."
- Chapter 10: "Too ambitious, too insane."
- Chapter 11: Is this why I’m suddenly a father?
- Chapter 12: Your son is my son.
- Chapter 13: How can someone be born to endure such things?
- Chapter 14: Ha, the great Chu Zu.
- Chapter 15: You… in pain?
- Chapter 16: I’ve Never Seen Anyone More Pathetic Than You.
- Chapter 17: Molten Gold Fire Rain Scattered Across the Pitch-Black Sky.
- Chapter 18: We Won the Bet.
- Chapter 19: But Your Dad Has All the Fertile Soil of the Upper District.
- Chapter 20: Stay… Away from My Dad…
- Chapter 21: You Are Not His Choice, You Are His Instinct.
- Chapter 22: I Can Still Become a Popular Character?
- Chapter 23: You Are My Future, Luciano.
- Chapter 24: The Man Who Spiced Me Up to Crawl All Over, Ancestor Dad.
- Chapter 25: I Can’t See a Wide-Open Path to Defeat at All.
- Chapter 26: "Imagine Such a Society."
- Chapter 27: "Both Sides All In, the Final Game Begins."
- Chapter 28: My Chu Zu Is a One-of-a-Kind Monster in This World.
- Chapter 29: Created a Faith, Serving a God Who Could Fall at Any Moment.
- Chapter 30: Who Keeps a Diary Like a Normal Person.
- Chapter 31: Eighteen-Year-Old Jiang Zu Wanted to Be Smart.
- Chapter 32: The Most Ferocious Wound Leaves Only a Scar on the Skin.
- Chapter 33: Efforts Are Rewarded, Everything Echoes.
- Chapter 34: Then I Have One More Wish.
- Chapter 35: I Will Look Forward to the Next Summer, Every Summer.
- Chapter 36: Is This How People Talk Nowadays?
- Chapter 37: The Author Hopes Her Little Girl Can Have, and Grow.
- Chapter 38: I’ll Give You My Positivity and Cheer, You Give Me Your Anger and Selfishness.
- Chapter 39: I’m Going Traveling Too, Wanna Join!
- Chapter 40: Yes, That Scammer Is Lu Lin.
- Chapter 41: BestActorLuChulinORScumbagLuLin
- Chapter 42: Just to Let Him Learn to Pretend to Be Selfish?
- Chapter 43: Jiang Zu Is a Genius in This Industry.
- Chapter 44: This Is His Only Way to Redeem Himself.
- Chapter 45: For You and My Own Grand Futures!
- Chapter 46: I Don’t Want Him to Present My Award.
- Chapter 47: Peach and Plum Speak Not, Yet a Path Forms Beneath.
- Chapter 48: Wrong, Wrong, Wrong, Wrong!!!
- Chapter 49: How Come I Run Into So Many Demons and Monsters Right Away.
- Chapter 50: Suddenly I Feel Like Watching Nilia Act Sleazy Is Pretty Nice.
- Chapter 51: Worshipping These Mad Gods Has No Future—Better Worship Me.
- Chapter 52: The Embodiment of Power Coalesces into Sagteni’s Sole Will.
- Chapter 53: Is There a Secret Art That Allows One to Rely on Another’s Power?
- Chapter 54: Is He Too Easy to Fool?!
- Chapter 55: All Glory to the King of All Kings——!
- Chapter 56: There are only a few ways for brothers to make up.
- Chapter 57: What fucking noble? Are you an idiot?!
- Chapter 58: The world recognizes the plot single-handedly pushed forward by Chu Zu.
- Chapter 59: As long as I can kill Sagteni I.
- Chapter 60: You are the fake, Hikta.
- Chapter 61: A genuine ‘Good Friday’.
- Chapter 62: Fate guides the willing, and drags the unwilling.
- Chapter 63: If I say its fine, its fine.
- Chapter 64: Goni.
- Chapter 65: Then you are the best little yellow chicken in my life.
- Chapter 66: Who can take over Sagteni?
- Chapter 67: Maybe Nilia will get more and more pumped up the more he fights.
- Chapter 68: The world seems to be the same world.
- Chapter 69: Only he himself knows the reason for doing this.
- Chapter 70: Does my mom know?
- Chapter 71: Lu Anji is truly a hate warrior.
- Chapter 72: Godzilla burping.
- Chapter 73: Stay away from him.
- Chapter 74: I didnt even change his character design, but he comes and changes mine?
- Chapter 75: Family will betray each other, friends will not.
- Chapter 76: I have to find a way to insert the key lines.
- Chapter 77: Humans can reignite the sun.
- Chapter 78: Is it non-human enough?
- Chapter 79: Oh no, Ive run into a real saint.
- Chapter 80: I saw the hole in your ass, sir.
- Chapter 81: Good night.
- Chapter 82: My friend is dead, what should I do?
- Chapter 83: Dont... keep using me in front of her.
- Chapter 84: Son of the Sun.
- Chapter 85: But he shouldnt have kept his eyes on Azul.
- Chapter 86: Ill take you home.
- Chapter 87: Fifty billion years of solitude.
- Chapter 88: You dont mind whether youre lonely or not.
- Chapter 89: Our brotherly love is constant.
- Chapter 90: "Just listen to me."
- Chapter 91: Rock, Paper, Scissors.
- Chapter 92: Are you going to sell your life to me?
- Chapter 93: The character is in my hands now. I call the shots.
- Chapter 94: Very good at dealing with rebellious teenagers.
- Chapter 95: "Youre not working a job, youre investing."
- Chapter 96: They are my reality.
- Chapter 97: Its me, its me! Brother Earth, its me!
- Chapter 98: What would happen if the Financial Street went bankrupt?
- Chapter 99: You still have to know how to tell a story.
- Chapter 100: Let the righteous detective stop a vicious murder.
- Chapter 101: Every time I start to think about you, I get very bewildered.
- Chapter 102: The creditor of emotions.
- Chapter 103: Why didn’t he make it before, but he’s making it now?
- Chapter 104: The Financial Street is bankrupt?
- Chapter 105: To hell with the Financial Street!
- Chapter 106: Just now, you handed the authority to me.
- Chapter 107: People are enthusiastic and speak nicely.
- Chapter 108: This isnt over yet.
- Chapter 109: That is the home Chu Zu gave Sidney.
- Chapter 110: The chicken from the other side contacted me
- Chapter 111: The final game has begun.
- Chapter 112: How much is my future worth?
- Chapter 113: "We won the bet!!!"
- Chapter 114: I have a high opinion of him, higher than you think."
- Chapter 115: Long Aotian! We must have Long Aotian!!
- Chapter 116: He’s asking for a scolding.
- Chapter 117: Then I can be dissolved partners with him.
- Chapter 118: What if I kicked out the uncle and took over the nephew.
- Chapter 119: Oh my god, oh my god!
- Chapter 120: Little Qiao, close the door.
- Chapter 121: Wanshu Zu likes shiny things.
- Chapter 122: Nonsense, why should I let someone else snatch away what I discovered.
- Chapter 123: Immortalstar.
- Chapter 124: The pampered kitty waited for her real dad to come home.
- Chapter 125: Oh my black cat ancestor.
- Chapter 126: Readers, its a pleasure to meet you.
- Chapter 127: Wanshu Zu’s Artists Romance Exposed?!
- Chapter 128: Misunderstandings piled on misunderstandings, leading to misunderstanding.
- Chapter 129: You think Im not good enough for you.
- Chapter 130: Wanshu Zu would always give him time, it didnt matter even if things were delayed.
- Chapter 131: Those stars seemed to have fallen into his eyes as well.
- Chapter 132: This is too absurd.
- Chapter 133: Chu Zu needs security.
- Chapter 134: What’s the situation with Shen Weidi?
- Chapter 135: A thousand miles of Jiangling returned in a day, five hundred miles of Jiangling returned in half a day.
- Chapter 136: Tell him to stop slacking off; a Long Aotian shouldn’t slack off.
- Chapter 137: When he liked something, he truly liked it.
- Chapter 138: Our teacher is so handsome.
- Chapter 139: Sister Qiao’s father came looking for her!
- Chapter 140: The world of young people is so complicated.
- Chapter 141: The long holiday is over.
- Chapter 142: My superior is currently… fighting two chickens.
- Chapter 143: Chu Zu has already completed the import, but you cant get in.
- Chapter 144: Is the winter sea even colder than our lives.
- Chapter 145: ...You are the third party.
- Chapter 146: Yes, this is the first truth you have recovered.
- Chapter 147: Obey the rules.
- Chapter 148: It’s not your host’s problem, it’s your problem.
- Chapter 149: Chu Shiju previously worked at 「Bad Ending Correction」.
- Chapter 150: A tigers ghost cannot be freed, it can only find someone else to take its place.
- Chapter 151: Did you see your state of death?
- Chapter 152: ——Second Playthrough——
- Chapter 153: A good-for-nothing trying to drag out a feeble existence.
- Chapter 154: The host’s name, however, is crystal clear.
- Chapter 155: Because I would rather be in pain, than be numb.
- Chapter 156: Are you ready, Chu Zu?
- Chapter 157: =w=
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