Cannon Fodder Substitute Alliance 

Chapter 1

Translator: Google Translate

Editor: Sai Hiroto

Explosive DJ dance music rang in the ears, and the laser lights above the head spun wildly, almost blinding people's eyes.

Cheng Lang, who had just traveled through time, felt dizzy momentarily and almost lost his grip on the tray. Before the whiskey with ice and two cocktails nearly slipped off the tray and fell to the ground, Cheng Lang quickly adjusted the tray's angle. The three glasses slowly slid back to the center of the tray. The wine inside swayed slightly due to the movement of the cup, and under the light of the dance floor, it emitted the light of money.

"What a close call! Just a little bit and I would have lost nearly a thousand dollars!" Cheng Lang complained in his heart: "Can you find the right time to travel through time next time? Do you have to be so hard on money?"

No one answered.

Cheng Lang didn't take it seriously either. He picked up the number plate pressed under the wine glass and found the customer who ordered the wine based on the order number on it.

After delivering the drinks, Cheng Lang exited the dance floor without leaving a trace and turned directly into the men's room: "Tell me, what's the mission?"

A line of dry text appeared in front of Cheng Lang.

[You traveled to the book "The Domineering President's Substitute Lover" and became the vicious cannon fodder Cheng Lang. According to the setting in the book, you need to complete the task of the vicious cannon fodder on behalf of Cheng Lang, keep committing suicide, promote the relationship between the genuine top* and the bottom*, and make the scumbag top repent and realize that his true love is the genuine bottom, Shen Huaiyu.]

[*Sai: Top = Attacker = One = Gong = Seme | Bottom = Receiver = Zero = Shou = Uke, (cough) you know what I mean, hehe~]

Cheng Lang waited patiently for a few minutes, but the system did not respond. Cheng Lang asked in astonishment, "No more?"

No one answered.

"No! Where's my golden finger?" Don't you usually need a golden finger to complete tasks?

The system is silent.

Cheng Lang asked unwillingly, "Where's the space? Where's the spiritual spring? Where's the magic elixir? Where are the various pretense skills?"

[You have to know your status. You are just a vicious male supporting role.]

"What's wrong with the male supporting role? Is the male supporting role not a human being? The male supporting role has no heart?" Cheng Lang couldn't bear this kind of differential treatment. "Give me a system mall where I can redeem my skills."

The system was silent for a long time: [There is no such thing as secular functions.]

So his broken system has no use except issuing tasks for him!

At this moment, Cheng Lang recognized the status of the system: "It's nothing."

The system remained silent in response to his partner's angry attack.

Cheng Lang left the men's bathroom angrily. As soon as he walked out, he ran into Shen Huaiyu, the real bottom in the original book.

As the male protagonist of a pure love novel, Shen Huaiyu's appearance and temperament are the best among the best. He has a handsome appearance, gentle eyebrows, and an elegant and pure temperament. There is a kind of melancholy and fragility in his quietness that people can't help but hold in their arms. 

Cheng Lang's eyes lit up, and he couldn't help but silently praise the four parallel essays in his heart.

The system, which is well aware of the nature of its partner, silently warned [Pay attention to your identity!]

Cheng Lang turned a deaf ear and asked with concern, "Are you okay?"

A trace of shame and humiliation flashed across Shen Huaiyu's face. Because of Cheng Lang's greeting, he was so ashamed that he couldn't even face him.

Cheng Lang knew what Shen Huaiyu had experienced and what he was thinking.

"The Domineering President's Substitute Lover",  as the name suggests, is a stand-in novel about sadomasochistic love. The male protagonist bottom in the book, Shen Huaiyu, was originally a gifted child from a well-off family. Both his parents were university professors, he was excellent in both character and academics, and he had a younger brother who particularly admired him. 

After the college entrance examination, to celebrate Shen Huaiyu's admission to his favorite university, the whole family decided to go on a spontaneous self-driving tour. Unexpectedly, they encountered a car accident on the way to the trip. His parents died on the spot, and his younger brother was seriously injured and became a vegetable. Only Shen Huaiyu was slightly injured and was discharged from the hospital after a week of recovery.

The family was destroyed overnight. This cruel blow was very heavy for Shen Huaiyu. If it weren't for the hope that his brother would wake up, Shen Huaiyu even wanted to die. 

After handling his parents' funeral, Shen Huaiyu, who was holding back his grief, decided to sell the house to pay for his brother's medical treatment. Although he was very reluctant - this house kept the best memories of the whole family. But Shen Huaiyu had no choice; he was in urgent need of money.

After dealing with these things, Shen Huaiyu finally had time to report to school. Because he missed the reporting time stipulated by the school, Shen Huaiyu was not assigned to a dormitory for his major but was stuffed into a dormitory of the Department of Economics and Management, which was Cheng Lang's dormitory. Thus, he met the original self.

The original owner is an orphan without a father or mother. He grew up in an orphanage and was used to the dark side of society. His heart had long been stained black by the big dye vat of society. 

However, the original owner was good-looking, good at pretending, and sweet-mouthed, so people around him could not recognize the original owner's true face at all. The original owner relied on this mouth to cheat food and drink, and he was admitted to the most popular finance major in the most famous key university in the city.

Before Shen Huaiyu came to school, the original owner was recognized as the school hunk. As a result, when Shen Huaiyu came, he stole the limelight from the original owner just by his face. 

The original owner was jealous, but on the surface, he did not reveal anything and deliberately approached Shen Huaiyu. With the sympathy of their life experience, he won Shen Huaiyu's trust. After learning that Shen Huaiyu was in urgent need of money, he introduced Shen Huaiyu to the bar where he worked as a part-time waiter.

The original owner knew that Shen Huaiyu's face was the source of trouble. With that look, he would attract the attention of the bar's guests. Then something would happen that the original owner would be happy to see happen, but Shen Huaiyu himself would never accept. 

However, the original owner did not expect that Shen Huaiyu would be favored by the real top in the book on his first day at work. 

After learning about this, the original body was jealous and resentful, and deliberately used words to bully Shen Huaiyu, making Shen Huaiyu feel ashamed and angry. At the same time, it also left a negative impression of deep scheming on the genuine top who accidentally heard this conversation.

[Task 1: Use words to stimulate Shen Huaiyu and make him feel ashamed and angry. Let the genuine attacker have a negative impression of you as greedy, vain, impatient, and scheming.]

"I've heard it all." Cheng Lang sighed and patted Shen Huaiyu on the shoulder. What a pitiful child! 

It's tragic enough that his family was broken up, and he had to deal with such a nasty thing. To meet the needs of the original novel, he had to have a happy ending with such a nasty thing. 

He can't blame the original author for being so depressed that he just wanted to die and didn't even want to move on with the plot. No matter who is involved in this matter, no one will be able to get over it.

Cheng Lang felt that Shen Huaiyu might tend to be depressed, so he couldn't help but comfort him: "Don't feel too bad. We are all men, it's no big deal. Just think of it as being bitten by a dog."

Shen Huaiyu felt ashamed and angry and said he didn't want to discuss this kind of thing with Cheng Lang.

But Cheng Lang refused to let Shen Huaiyu go, "Oh, right. Isn't your family short of money? Since it has already happened, there is no need to dwell on it. If that person keeps pestering you to support you, you can ask him to help you pay for your brother's medical expenses and buy back your parents' house. After all, it is the place where you and your family once lived together, so there is nothing wrong with keeping a memory of it.”

At least he hasn't reached the point where if he refuses to comply, then he ends up being illegally detained by the real attacker.*

[*Sai: In this sentence, I'm a little confused about how to translate it. '實在不至于搞到抵死不從，最後被正牌攻非法拘禁的地步.' The sentence is written like that, hope someone can enlighten this poor translator TvT]

Shen Huaiyu widened his eyes and looked at Cheng Lang in shock. It seemed that he didn't expect Cheng Lang to say such a thing.

Cheng Lang wanted to say something more, but the foreman came over: "... Why are you slacking off again? Don't you see how busy the dance floor is? If you keep running around without doing any work, I'll deduct your wages."

What are you talking about? Don't talk to Cheng Lang about money. That's Cheng Lang's only weakness. Even during the mission.

"No! No! No! Please don't deduct my money!" Cheng Lang begged for mercy from the foreman and said with a playful smile, "I will go back to work right away. I will work hard and love my job."

Cheng Lang hurried back to the dance floor. As expected, everyone at the bar was already busy. The bartender put the mixed drinks on the bar, and several waiters came and went like bees. Seeing Cheng Lang coming back, someone couldn't help but complain: "Cheng Lang, you are lazy again!"

"What does laziness mean? Everyone has three urgent needs. If you have the ability, don't ask me to cover for you next time you go on a date with your girlfriend." Cheng Lang blocked the waiter's mouth with one sentence. Pick up a tray and deliver wine around. When delivering wine, he did not forget to be dedicated to his job. He persuaded his guests to buy several bottles of red wine to show off in front of his female companion, and successfully earned thousands of dollars in commission.

While Cheng Lang was busy earning commission on drinks, there was a sudden commotion on the dance floor. Cheng Lang was stunned for a moment, then looked around and saw a wild and unruly little boy wearing a small vest and smoky makeup, standing on the stage with his neck stiffened. There were guests below shouting for him to sing.

Cheng Lang suddenly remembered this plot. The little wild horse on the stage was called Meng Tianye. He was the resident singer of the bar. He was also one of the little substitutes kept by the real top in this novel. Because his voice sounds like the real top's white moonlight, he was very favored by the real top before Shen Huaiyu.

After he knew that the real top had slept with Shen Huaiyu, he couldn't help but lose his temper and deliberately went on strike during the performance. However, he didn't know that the real top's white moonlight happened to invite someone to the bar to discuss business that night, and Meng Tianye's strike killed white moonlight's interest. After the real attacker found out, he severely punished the little wild horse.

Another thing worth mentioning is that this bar was actually invested by the real top’s white moonlight. Originally, he wanted to build a club to facilitate his business talks, but he didn't expect that after the bar opened, it would become the most popular den of money in the city. 

The real attacker just wanted to show his support for white moonlight at first, but later he became a regular customer of the bar. As for why he dared to openly build his own fish pond in the white moonlight's bar, Cheng Lang didn't know. He was just curious about how this person's head grew!

White Moonlight deserves to look down on him!

Cheng Lang was among the bustling guests on the dance floor. He looked up at Meng Tianye, who was sitting on the stage with his neck stiff and silent, his eyes always glancing towards the VIP area on the second floor. Thinking of the abuse that this young man was about to suffer, his heart, which was full of sympathy for him, began to stir again.

Cheng Lang pushed aside the noisy crowd and went directly to the stage. He picked up the electric guitar from the band member's arms and walked to the microphone, "Hello everyone, our Tian Ye's throat is a little uncomfortable tonight, I will sing a song for him."

There was an uproar in the audience: "Who the hell are you? We want to listen to Tian Ye sing!"

"Get out!"

"Get out!"

However, some people saw that Cheng Lang had a good appearance and wanted to give him a chance.

The person involved, Meng Tianye, looked at Cheng Lang in disbelief. He still remembered that it was this waiter who invited the wolf, and couldn't help but scold: "What does it have to do with you—"

A passionate and smooth guitar solo interrupted Meng Tianye's complaints. Cheng Lang's fingers flew, and he performed a very difficult solo with special skills, which directly suppressed the voices of dissatisfaction and protest on and off the stage.

Taking a gap they focused on him, Cheng Lang approached the microphone, looked at the young girls and boys on the dance floor who stretched their necks to look at the stage, and said with great energy, "I have been immersed in your beauty many times, and I am drunk only for you..."

A handsome man with a good appearance and good temperament, wearing the uniform of a waiter like a high-end suit, played the most dazzling guitar solo. The first song is a brainwashing song that can send people dancing in the square. The strong contrast caused a huge impact.

Instantly, the whole bar was stunned. These guests who spent a lot of money probably never thought that they could hear this style of music in this bar. But soon, the atmosphere on the dance floor was mobilized by Cheng Lang. Everyone danced and swayed to Cheng Lang's beat, and after Cheng Lang sang a series of magical and mind-boggling songs that burned the brain, the whole place exploded.

Cheng Lang retired after his success.

System questioned [Why did you do this?]

Cheng Lang pretended to be confused: "What?"

[You deliberately helped another cannon fodder substitute out of trouble. Your actions are not in line with Cheng Lang's personality. OOC warning.]

"Didn't you make me want to die so that the real top would think that I am greedy, vain, scheming, and vulgar?"

Cheng Lang asked the system, "Are those songs I just sang vulgar enough?"

... That's for sure!

Cheng Lang asked the system again: "I took advantage of Meng Tianye's strike to take the initiative to go on stage to express myself and dominate the limelight. Am I sufficiently scheming?"

...There seems to be nothing wrong with it!

Cheng Lang asked the system again: "Now does the genuine top think that I am vulgar and sinister?"

The system checked the genuine attacker's favorability towards Cheng Lang and remained silent.

Cheng Lang concluded, "That's it! I strictly followed the system's rules and achieved the results you wanted. Why do you say I'm OOC?"

The system was speechless.

The author has something to say:

System: That makes sense, but I always feel like something is wrong!