Cannon fodder Cheating System (BL)

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MC wakes up in a western style carriage. This is a world where humans and demons "coexist" in enmity. Thousands of years ago, when humanity was on the verge of being killed off by demonkind, there was a month-long rainstorm that suppressed demon powers, followed by a great flood that destroyed all the demon palaces, and then at the end a great pillar of light descended from heaven, destroying all demons that were on human lands. Humans built a cathedral at the site of the pillar of light, where they found a magic spring that gave some children bathed in it the ability wield holy light powers.

MC's grandfather was an elder of the holy cathedral, and held the position of Saint by the royal family. Twenty years ago, he divined that there is a child born with demonic powers who may cause future calamity. The king ordered a search and found the child, intending to kill it. However, MC's grandfather pled for mercy, saying it's not right to punish someone for things they haven't done yet, and that he wanted to try and purify the child. So the child remained in the cathedral for 12 years, but then one day disappeared right as he was on the verge of being purified. (No surprise, this kid is the Antagonist.)

Three years later, there was a great battle against the demons. During the battle, the crown prince (ML) was infected with demonic energy. MC's grandfather attempted to perform a purification, but was interrupted by another attack, and soon afterwards suddenly died on the battlefield. Losing him caused the ML his first ever loss on the battlefield. Immediately afterwards, the reinforcements led by the second prince swept in and defeated the demon army. He was aided by a strong wielder of holy light, who turns out to be the Antagonist.

When they got back, the Antagonist claimed that he never had demonic energy in him, but instead had holy light which was stronger than MC's grandfather, who kept him locked up in the cathedral out of jealousy, until the second prince helped him escape. The second prince also suggested that MC's entire family should be executed because of this, but the king only exiled them to a remote church where they were kept under house arrest.

Five years later, the demons have a treaty of coexistence with the human kingdom. As part of the deal, they sent a demon beast to the capital, where every year, a youth with holy light powers would be sacrificed to the beast. (And I suppose in return, demons won't attack human cities anymore.) The court agreed, on the condition that only criminals be used for sacrifices. Of course, original MC fit this bill, and thus was on his way to the capital to be scarificed when MC arrived.

Because of the system, MC knows that Antagonist doesn't have a bit of holy light in him. He had become the lover of the demon king with whom he'd formed a contract, and everything was just a staged performance they're playing to trick the humans. He then later seduced the second prince to becoming his patsy in controlling the human kingdom, who he used to lower the kingdom's defenses. Once the second prince dies, he would then help the demon king sweep through and drive humanity to extinction.

On arriving at the capital, MC is allowed a private audience with the king. The king is actually suspicious of the Antagonist, but doesn't have proof of his suspicions. He is also the only person alive who knows that MC was born with tremendous holy light powers, which his grandfather had temporarily sealed for his own good. The king asks MC for any last requests, and the MC asks for 10 extra days, which is granted.

MC goes to his abandoned original room, and pulls out an old shabby cloak hidden under the bed, which is actually an invisibility cloak. He then moves into the cathedral, and at night, uses the cloak to visit the room where ML has been sequestered in. There, he offers to purify the demon energy from ML, but their conversation is interrupted when ML falls in to his frequent fits. However, unlike normal fits which causes him to to try and kill any living being around him, this fit causes him to fall onto the MC in lust. Seeing the pain on his lover's face, MC doesn't resist.

During the next few days, MC lounges around in the day and sneaks over to purify ML at night. Antagonist comes by once to take MC on a tour of the capital, basically to throw his current status in MC's face. He also comes by to try and seduce ML one night, but gets beat up instead.

On the day of the sacrifice, a fully restored ML sweeps in to rescue MC and kill off the demon beast. MC also shows off his tremendous holy powers. The king is happy to have his preferred heir back. The Antagonist suggests they need proof that he's clear of demon energy, because he simply couldn't believe that his handiwork could be completely purified. ML agrees to the test of being soaked in the holy spring to prove his purified state, but further demands that Antagonist undergoes the same test. ML passes the test just fine, but the Antagonist is forced to endure the severe pain of standing in the holy spring while also forced to not show any of it.

Then there's still the issue of killing the demon beast means that the previous treaty with the demons is no longer valid, and there's the danger of demons attacking human cities again. So the king sends both princes and their entourage to the border to renegotiate (or fight) with the demons.

Once they left the capital and and are settling down for the first evening on the road, ML reveals an edict the king gave him before they left, stripping Antagonist of the Saint position and giving it to MC. Also, as they drew closer to the border, they found that the land had more and more demon corruption and people living in perpetual fear. It turns out, the guy send to oversee the area, a cousin of the second prince, had outright left 3 cities in demon hands "to prevent conflict". Neither the second prince nor many of the nobles in the capital were aware of any of this.

Initial negotiations fall through. MC suggests that the second prince and Antagonist should have the job of recovering the 3 lost cities since they were lost because of them. Antagonist plots with the local noble to drug and rape MC, but MC turns it back on him. He also uses the chance to remove the magic bone that the demon king had place into Antagonist to allow him to disguise his demon powers as holy power. So when negotiations led by the second prince break down into a fight, Antagonist is no longer able to pretend to use holy power. Knowing he can't go back to the humans, Antagonist immediately turns on his own party and helps the demons capture them. As Antagonist goes all lovey on the demon king and refuses to acknowledge that he had any other romantic relationship, the second prince realizes that he's been played for a fool.

ML isn't willing to negotiate further with the demon king, so they fight. With help from the MC, they force the demons to flee. However, their goal is bigger than that. MC goes by himself to see the demon king, pretending that he is willing to contract with the demon king in return for the authority to rule over all humans. In order to do this, the demon king must dissolve his former contract with Antagonist, thus withdrawing the power he had given him. The demon king, thinking that the MC couldn't use his holy powers inside his demon palace anyway, and that the lust for power is a motive he could understand, and also because Antagonist hasn't come through with his promises, eventually agrees. As soon as the contract with Antagonist is dissolved, ML, who had snuck in with MC under the invisibility cloak, stabs the demon king through the heart from behind. This forces the demon king to use all the gathered ancestral demonic power in the palace, which is what MC wanted. He calls down a giant pillar of light similar to the old legends, and purifies the root of demonic energy. ML's soldiers then sweep in to clean up the rest. From then on, the demon kind will only get weaker and weaker until humanity can eventually destroy them all.

On arriving home, the king is able to hear the happy news shortly before his death. The kingship is passed to ML. The second prince was crippled during his stay in the demon king's torture chambers, and now hates Antagonist with a burning passion, often going down to the dungeons to torture him. MC asks ML what he's going to do about an heir, and ML basically plans to drug his younger brother to sleep with an appropriately willing woman, and then adopt the kid as an heir.
MC wakes up in a crashed escape pod, feeling like all his bones have been shattered (they probably are). Before he could do anything else, a couple of mechas descend from the skies. A person descends from the leading mecha to take a closer look at MC's pod. MC instinctively knows this is not an enemy, and weakly calls for help. Since the guy is ML, the young general in charge of the fleet overhead, he orders for MC to be brought back to his ship and given medical help. In recovery, MC reviews his backstory.

This is a sci fi setting with several rival nations that compete for natural resources of newly found worlds. Several of these nations banded together in an alliance. Original MC was from one of the major nations in the Alliance (and ML is from a peer nation also in the Alliance). MC's grandfather was an important government official, his dad was a decorated captain in the navy, MC himself was a prodigy engineer, and he also had a fiance who was from a high status family too.

This fiance unfortunately had rescued Antagonist, who was a soul that was transmigrated from an even more future setting, who then fell for his savior. Antagonist and his original body's brother then plotted against original MC's family, paying pirates to kill his dad, framing his uncles to be executed, killing his grandfather with the shock, and buying mercs to kill MC. MC's brother sacrificed himself to allow MC to flee across the border, though he was already heavily damaged, and crash landed on the planet where ML found him. MC's fiance also became Antagonist's fiance (though he soon found out about Antagonist's real character and regretted choosing him over MC).

MC doesn't bother to hide his background from ML. He also uses his recovery time to take apart his wheelchair, and rebuild it into a wheelchair-transforming-mecha that gave a ship-full of soldiers the runaround in his demo. With that as the proof of his ability, ML gives him a spot on the his ship's engineering team.

With MC's help, ML's fleet is able to gain several worlds/contracts ahead of Antagonist's forces. Antagonist is livid that his nemesis is alive and showing him up, and holds a press conference accusing MC of betraying his home nation and demanding his repatriation from ML's nation. In response, ML's fleet attacks the largest pirate fleet in the region, showing off the new mecha MC built for his lover, and capturing the pirate leader alive. They then hold their own press release, showing the evidence and testimony of the pirates proving that Antagonist & his brother had betrayed many of their own people to the pirates in order to gain power, as well as selling military gear to the pirates and using them to help them hold power over their nation's major government officials and becoming shadow rulers.

This revelation causes the public to turn against Antagonist, as well as many government officials who no longer have anything to fear. Antagonist's brother is preparing their private fleet to flee and set up their own country elsewhere. However, Antagonist could not help but go and see the fiance one more time to ask him to go with him (just like original MC once did before he fled). The fiance angrily rejects him and gets killed by Antagonist, since if he can't have him then no one can.

Meanwhile, MC gets married to ML, which also gives him citizenship and thus no one has the right to demand his repatriation anymore. After the wedding, they go after Antagonist's fleet, wiped out their forces, and captured the brothers. They're tried before the Alliance court and sentenced to some hole somewhere for the rest of the lives. 
 
  • #75
Yes, please tell us more 
 
  • #76
That arc 3... Tsk Tsk. It spun me faster than a washing machine at full blast 
 
  • #78
hehe, i do this to myself >.< can it be called masochistic if i enjoy the torture of sleep-deprivation and deliriousness in exchange of more danmei? xD

tbh, i think i kind of exaggerated the mistakes and typos? or maybe bc i switched websites (now i read from sto.cc), i notice a decrease in extra characters stuffed into a name (that shouldn't be there). but there are still some types inbetween chapters bc of fast typing. the frequency is maybe 2-3 typos per chapter, so it's not that bad.
i just kinda complained, bc i really liked the first world with cooking, but bc of typos or maybe code errors on the danmei website, it was full with mistakes. in arc 2, the mistakes were still there, but less frequent.
i see a decrease in typos and mistakes (especially name switches) the further i get into the story, so maybe some chinese readers complained about it or the author got more experience/patience in detecting typos?  
 
  • #80
There's prologue + 15 arcs + conclusion.

MC wakes up on a beach with the beginnings of a cold, near some media crew who were prepping to shoot an MV for a pop star who the original MC was a fan of. He walks over to the group, just as the director got a call that the person who was doing the background drums got in a bar fight and can't come. He asks the people standing around if anyone knows how to work the ancient style drums, and MC volunteers without even thinking about it. So they let him try the part and he does really well, impressing both the director and the big shot star, who turns out to be the ML.

Original MC was a upcoming pop musician who has a lot of creative talent in writing lyrics and music, but so-so vocal ability. He has two friends, one who used to be his BF, and who is a manager of the recording company he works for. The other (the Antagonist) lied about having only 2 years left to live (he actually already had a heart transplant done overseas), and used that to steal MC's BF, as well as to get the ex-BF to use MC's lyrics/music for his songs, making him a well known pop artist while MC still remains unknown in the industry. MC's original self had fallen asleep on the beach that night, and came down with a severe cold. His so-called friend (the Antagonist) then lied to him to get him to do a lot of voice recording while his throat was still infected from the cold, thus permanently injuring his vocal cords, and ruining any future hope at a vocal career, relegating him to continuing to write songs to further the Antagonist's career.

Anyway, after the MV production is done, ML invites the MC with him to the van for a ride home. He notes that MC cold is getting worse, so much that he couldn't stand properly when they got to his apartment, and decides instead to take him home with him. However, once he got the MC onto his bed, he feels as if a strange force takes control of his body, and he ends up having sex with the half-delirious MC. He feels guilty afterwards for taking advantage, and after MC wakes up again, says he'll take responsibility. MC teases him, but tells him that he'll call it even if ML can help him end his contract with this current recording company.

MC stays for a few days until he recovers from his illness, then goes home. His ex-BF (who still has feelings for MC and is only with the Antagonist out of guilt/pity) visits him to ask about where he's been. MC tells him he wants to break away from the company. Ex-BF refuses. MC tells him he'll be sending lawyers (and by that he means ML's lawyers). In the end, he cuts ties with the old company.

MC enters a music contest (which his original self was not able to enter due to a ruined voice). ML finagles his way into becoming one of the judges of the contest. MC's entry recording ends up hitting 2nd place in the popular votes, nearly tying for the Antagonist's first place entry.

I won't go into details about the specifics of the contest, but suffice it to say that MC takes first place in all areas and wows the critics and the audience, while Antagonist doesn't do very well at all and gets a lot of harsh criticism from ML. The ex-BF visits him once and tries to ask him to throw the last match because Antagonist only has 2 years to live, yaddayadda, and Antagonist fakes fainting in one of the matches so he can post online about his terminal illness to get pity votes. However, MC still wins the contest.

The next morning, the entertainment news reveals the fact that Antagonist had already performed surgery several years ago and is lying about still having a terminal illness. This causes a huge backlash from his fans. Also, causes an altercation between the ex-BF and Antagonist, which results in Antagonist falling down the stairs and falling unconscious.

At that exact moment, MC also suddenly goes dizzy and blacks out. Then he has a vision of two young men in ancient style garb in a palace chamber. One of the young men suddenly takes out a knife and stabs the other in the heart. MC feels a sharp pain as if he was stabbed in the heart. (Note: MC doesn't know this yet, but he's actually seeing a scene from the backstory of his next incarnation.)

MC is woken up by ML, who is anxious about his suddenly falling unconscious. MC just says maybe he's tired, and also notes that he actually has been tired a lot both in the last life and this one, such that when not immersed in immediately work, he's basically spending all his time eating or sleeping. He had dismissed it the last incarnation as maybe just the nature of that incarnation being a stay-at-home kinda guy, but now he's not sure this is normal, but he can't do much about it.

Meanwhile, while Antagonist in unconscious in the hospital, he recalls fragmented bits and pieces of his previous incarnations. When he wakes up, he realizes he no longer loves the ex-BF anymore, and that the only thing he feels is a strong urge to destroy the MC and make sure he doesn't get a happy ending. He stalks the building where MC works at, and then jumps out at him with a knife. However, the ex-BF had been staking out the building too (trying to get MC back), and when he sees this, he gets in the way and gets stabbed. There was poison on the knife, so he dies on the way to the hospital. Antagonist of course is arrested and convicted, and there's no more bright future for him.
MC wakes up alone at night in the wild. He gets up and looks round for somewhere to shelter from the cold night wind. Then gets a scare because there's a person who appears right behind him and attacks. Not knowing what's going on but feeling a danger to his life, MC dials up his martial ability from the system, exchanges a few blows with the mysterious attacker. During the exchange, they get into an area where there's moonlight. MC realizes his opponent is ML. While ML is shocked by the pretty face of the person he's facing and pauses a bit. This gives MC a chance to run away.

However, MC's body's stamina isn't good, and after a while, he's forced to stop and seek shelter at an abandoned temple. He recalls his body's memories, and understands he's in a world with no females, and instead feminine males who are able to give birth. MC is princess Anyang, the daughter of the previous emperor and essentially known as the fairest person in the land.

Before MC could recall further, he's suddenly attacked again. This time he let's himself be taken captive, because he's fairly certain ML won't kill him. ML however thinks he's a honey pot spy/assassin, and questions him about who sent him. MC doesn't know what to answer as he hasn't finished recalling everything from this life yet and doesn't know what's safe to say, so refuses to answer. ML strips him and ties him up in his bed, before going off to complete his latest mission, which is to kill the king of the enemy country.

MC takes the chance to finish recalling the current life's memories: The Antagonist is a transmigrated person who's family rebelled and slaughter the emperor and the prince (MC's brother). They had originally wanted to keep Anyang around to be forcibly wedded to the brother of the Antagonist, but the Antagonists rampant jealousy caused him to stab Anyang in her chambers (this was the scene MC saw in the last incarnation). However, one of the hidden agents of the old emperor used some special medicine to help fake MC's death and instead smuggled her out to a small border town. He then left to try and contact other loyal factions, but had died in a fight soon after. Meanwhile, Anyang spent the last 7 years in hiding, each month gathering special herbs to hide her appearance. The effects of the herbs had just wore off when he met the ML, thus allowing him to see her true beauty. Also, the ML is the son of a loyalist general who holds most of the military power of the nation. The general had never truly recognized the rule of the Antagonists family, and hence the current rule of the traitor faction has remained unstable all these years.

ML eventually returns from his job and tells MC that the king of the southern kingdom is dead, still thinking MC is a spy. MC doesn't really care. ML keeps pressing him further, and then decides it doesn't matter if MC is a spy since he can just kill whoever sent the spy anyways, and then goes on to have his way with MC. After they have sex, MC finally admits who he is. He doesn't have any proof on him, but knows that ML's dad will recognize his face once they get back to the capital. Even though ML still looks skeptical, in his heart he immediately believes the MC.

On the way back to the capital, MC realizes that ML had drugged him (during their initial sex session) with something that causes aphrodisiac effects every once in a while. He demands the antidote, but ML prefers to use sex to "cure" him instead. MC also objects to ML not being careful about pregnancy, since his body is now capable of it, but ML is nonchalant about it and says if pregnancy happens then it happens, and that he's fine to have the kid carry on Anyang's imperial surname instead of his.

They get back to the capital. ML's dad confirm's Anyang's identity. Antagonist sees ML with the returning army and gets a crush on him, inviting him out to an imperial boat cruise. ML rejects the invitation. MC makes some jealous comments and decides that they should have their own boat cruise. He puts on a disguise to hide his appearance, and they go out that night on ML's boat. As they approach the imperial boat, MC realizes that some of the music that the Antagonist is showing off is actually the music written by MC's previous incarnation. Still, that doesn't prevent him from picking up a pipa and showing up the Antagonist. Antagonist is angry at being shown up, and is further humiliated when ML says the musician is his fiance, and the only person he loves.

Antagonist goes and asks his dad the current emperor to decree a marriage between him and ML instead, but the emperor is unsure about it. Antagonist promises he'll be able to seduce ML, and then uses some tricks to cause a "supernatural sign" or ill omen. He then hires some daoists to spread the rumor that there's someone in the capital born under a blood star, which will cause calamity unless his fate can be changed by marriage to someone of a suitable opposition to his fate.

According to the daoists, the way to determine the person who will be able to cure the blood star destiny needs to be able to walk across a field of burning coal. MC of course mixes some potions beforehand that allows him to complete this task easily. Antagonist also forces himself to complete the task, though he gets burnt painfully doing so.

The second sign to determine the destined person is to call the hundred birds from the air. Antagonist had rigged the hot air balloon setup so that it would fall and kill the MC, but MC doesn't even bother using it, and instead uses a lightness technique to rise into the air while using a flute to call the hundred birds.

After he comes down, MC's activates his plan to counterattack. A mass of black crows descend upon the divine stone that was used for the original prophecy, as a sign of ill omen. When the crows leave, they leave behind bloody writing that directly states that the current imperial family are traitors that will bring calamity to the world. Since this whole event was open to the public, this immediately causes the public to call for the general to save them from whatever calamity is coming.

Anyway, at this point, the fight is on. ML has command of the military forces and they clash against the palace guards and whatever imperial military is still in the city. Of course the ML's forces win and they force their way into the palace. There, MC reveals she's the lost princess Anyang, and proves her identity by revealing the location of the hidden imperial seal that the traitors had never been able to find all these years.

And so the Antagonist & family are executed and go down in history as traitors. ML's family restores the original dynasty instead of starting their own. While ML acts as emperor, he's more of a regent until MC can give birth to the next real emperor.

MC spends his time lazying away in the palace. At one point in mid-life, he thinks that everything that he needs to accomplish in this life for a happy ending has been accomplished. Then, he falls asleep and wakes up in the system, instead of finishing the rest of his life until natural death like previous incarnations. Before he can wonder why this last incarnation finished early, he's sent into the next world. 
 
  • #81
First thing ML does is THAT? I was expecting, you know  
 
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