Chapter 394 – The Aloof Male God’s Exclusive CP – The Least Noticeable Cannon Fodder (01)
After competing for favor across more than a dozen worlds, Qiu’er—who had finally managed to share Bai Tang’s affection evenly with the male lead—left this interstellar ABO world in a mix of happiness and lingering terror.
Back in the main system space, before Qiu’er could even breathe a sigh of relief, he suddenly discovered that one-fifth of the points and energy stored in his container were gone.
“Who did this? Who did it? Tang Tang, we’ve been robbed!” Qiu’er instantly shed his dead-dog lethargy and sprang to life, standing in the center of the space and scrutinizing every corner. He could feel it—the little thief was still here and hadn’t left yet.
The “little thief,” the female broadcast system, glanced at her friends list filled with all kinds of distinctive, high-quality targets and silently took two steps back, choosing to watch from the sidelines.
She was still young—just a child. She was merely a small broadcast system. She knew nothing.
At this point, points and energy were Qiu’er’s lifeline. He still needed them to maintain Bai Tang’s soul stability. If he couldn’t protect Tang Tang properly, he wouldn’t even need the Master to punish him—he could just end himself.
After scanning the area and pulling up the main system’s surveillance, Qiu’er and Xiao A finally uncovered the identity of the “thief” through multiple methods. It wasn’t an intruder at all, but one of their own!
Qiu’er: shocked expression.
The broadcast system said, “You’re always in pairs, and I… I want to fall in love too~”
Her mechanical female voice had no noticeable fluctuations, yet Bai Tang somehow heard grievance in it.
He reached out and patted the little speaker. Putting himself in her place, he could understand—this really was hard on her.
At first, he had thought she was just an emotionless broadcast system. He hadn’t expected that, like Qiu’er, she possessed self-awareness. Watching him with the male lead, and Qiu’er being all lovey-dovey with Xiao A in this space—of course it must have been uncomfortable for her.
Bai Tang stepped in to calm the two systems, who were on the verge of arguing.
“This was our oversight,” he said. “I have some points here—take them and go make friends. Just be careful and don’t let any unscrupulous systems deceive you, okay? As for Qiu’er’s share, I’ll make it up to him.”
“Wuwuwu, Host is the best…” The voice, forever stuck in a flat mechanical tone, sobbed as it spoke. The sound alone was so stiff it almost felt like fake crying, yet everyone could see it clearly—a blurry girl sitting inside the wall, covering her face as she cried.
Bai Tang gently patted the small speaker used by the broadcast system.
“Don’t cry, don’t cry. Once I earn enough points and energy, I’ll help you upgrade too—so you can have a physical body.”
“Wuwuwu, Host is really so kind…”
Since systems were essentially one entity, the broadcast system gaining self-awareness was a good thing. No matter how reluctant Qiu’er was to part with his points, he wouldn’t ignore her—after all, he finally had a subordinate!
Bai Tang generously gave her points, and as the “boss,” Qiu’er couldn’t be stingy either. He shared a bit of energy with the broadcast system.
“When we go out on missions, stay in the main system space and absorb it properly. Only after absorbing it can you gain a physical body sooner. Guard the place well, okay?”
“I will. Thank you, Host. Thank you, Qiu’er…”
No one blamed her, and the broadcast system stopped crying. She wiped away her tears, announced the points and energy gained from the interstellar ABO world, then hugged her share of the energy and happily moved aside to absorb it.
“What’s the next world?” With the storm over and the sky cleared, Bai Tang prepared to head to the next world.
In the previous world, the difficulty had been forcibly raised by two whole levels midway through the plot due to the male lead going berserk.
Still, there were gains as well as losses. Bai Tang completed the mission perfectly, and both Qiu’er and Xiao A obtained an abundance of spiritual energy. After converting it into usable energy, the amount was equivalent to what they would normally gain from three or four worlds’ worth of missions.
Xiao A randomly selected a world from Qiu’er’s library. With spiritual energy boosting his luck, he drew a modern world with relatively low difficulty—about the same level as a beginner world.
Naturally, a low-difficulty world wouldn’t yield much energy.
But Qiu’er didn’t mind. Missions could be done slowly—there was no rush.
Bai Tang opened the plot book, whose cover bore the title “The Aloof Male God’s Exclusive CP.”
The synopsis was simple and straightforward:
He and she met by accident. They became connected by accident, acquainted by accident, and fell in love by accident. Hand in hand, they would grow old together. From beginning to end, she was his one and only angel…
Even through the book, Qiu’er and Xiao A could feel the thick Mary Sue atmosphere wafting out. It was so strong it almost choked them.
“Well, um… actually, I’ve noticed a pattern,” Qiu’er said cautiously, trying to speak on behalf of his master. “The male leads in these worlds aren’t really the ‘true’ male leads. Only after Tang Tang arrives does the male lead become Tang Tang’s male lead. So there’s no need to worry too much. Tang Tang, you get what I mean, right…?”
Bai Tang nodded. His beautiful face was full of determination.
“I believe he won’t betray me.”
Qiu’er finally breathed a sigh of relief. That was good. Once they arrived in that world, he would definitely create plenty of opportunities for his master and Tang Tang to spend time together.
This type of world—one that didn’t require high-IQ palace intrigue or household scheming—was something Xiao A had never encountered before. As a luck-based system, only worlds filled with hardship and danger could yield massive amounts of good fortune. As a result, his library had long since filtered out these beginner-level worlds with little challenge.
The plot of this world was relatively simple.
The female lead, Wei Rushuang, had taken a year off during her junior year of college due to illness. By the summer before returning to campus, her health had mostly recovered. With nothing much to do, she started playing the currently popular voice-acting game.
On the dubbing app, she joined a club that specialized in audio dramas. Thanks to her sweet voice, she landed a supporting female role on her very first audition and achieved fairly good results.
Being able to reach this level upon first entering the online voice-acting scene already meant Wei Rushuang had a very high starting point.
After the new semester began, as a student repeating a year, she gave her self-introduction. Due to a malfunction with the sound system, her voice was broadcast through the speakers of several classrooms at once. Her sweet voice immediately attracted a wave of voice-control fans.
The vice president of the school’s voice-acting club took the initiative to approach her. Considering that she might soon have more radio drama dubbing work, Wei Rushuang declined the vice president’s invitation. However, as she was leaving the club, she heard a pleasant male voice that instantly captured her heart.
Wei Rushuang changed her mind and decided to join the voice-acting club. After asking around, she learned that the boy who had just left was the club president. Unfortunately, since he was about to graduate and had many commitments, he rarely came to club activities.
Though regretful, Wei Rushuang did not lose heart and instead devoted herself wholeheartedly to her passion.
During a radio drama dubbing project, she was recommended for the female lead role. To her surprise, the male lead’s voice actor turned out to be the renowned veteran dubber Yin Yue, who had not accepted new projects for a long time. What was more, his voice sounded strikingly similar to that of the club president she had heard at school.
Still a relative newcomer to voice acting, Wei Rushuang approached their paired recordings with humility and eagerness to learn, never hesitating to ask questions. Gradually, she grew closer to Yin Yue. Along the way, many incidents occurred—club conflicts, being framed by a malicious supporting character and nearly losing her voice, and more—all of which were perfectly resolved by Yin Yue, who had been paying close attention to her.
From online interactions to real-life meetings, their journey was not dramatic or earth-shattering, but they faced hardships hand in hand.
After meeting in person, Wei Rushuang discovered that Yin Yue and the voice-acting club president were actually the same person—and that he was unbelievably handsome.
The male lead was a senior in his fourth year and no longer lived on campus, having moved out to do an internship. By winning over the school’s most popular male god, Wei Rushuang became the target of widespread jealousy and was frequently singled out and targeted.
Wei Rushuang came from a well-off family, but in order to make sincere friends, she had deliberately kept her wealth a secret. After being targeted one too many times, she grew fed up and simply made a phone call, asking her family’s butler to handle the matter.
The male lead’s background was equally formidable. He was the heir of a multinational conglomerate. When he learned that his girlfriend had been deliberately harassed while he was busy with company affairs, he issued a single order that directly cut off the financial prospects of those who had targeted Wei Rushuang. Most of them were business majors—entering a large corporation became impossible, and smaller companies dared not offend him either. Their path to success in the business world was effectively severed.
In the end, the male and female leads were not only deeply in love but also united through a business alliance. Although the male lead’s family was not entirely satisfied with the female lead, they respected their child’s choice and treated her fairly well. With the male lead’s assistance, the female lead’s family business entered the Global Fortune 500 within just five years, and the two became the business world’s most celebrated power couple.
As for Bai Tang, he was nothing more than a cannon-fodder supporting male—so insignificant he could hardly be more so.
He liked the male lead and was also a member of the voice-acting club. Every bit of kindness the male lead showed toward the female lead filled him with heartbreak and sorrow. He was deceived by another female supporting character who was driven mad by jealousy toward the female lead. Intending to be kind, he prepared a cup of tea meant to soothe the throat for the female lead, but the female supporting character secretly added something harmful to it.
Fortunately, the female lead only took a single sip and received treatment in time. After resting for a few days, she recovered. Otherwise, had she drunk the entire cup, she would have lost her voice permanently.
In the later development of the plot, under the suppression of the butler and the male lead, Bai Tang—who had once “bullied” the female lead—met a miserable end as well. He was sued by the Wei family’s butler and was forced to pay out the entire inheritance his deceased parents had left him. On top of that, he was saddled with heavy debt. When he tried to earn money through work, he was blacklisted by the male lead, and no company dared to hire him. In the end, he was beaten to death on the streets over unpaid debts.
After reading through the entire plot, Bai Tang realized just how insignificant his role truly was. From the moment the female lead joined the club, he never encountered the male lead again—not until the story ended.
“Don’t panic, Tang Tang. Even if you can’t meet the m—male lead, he’ll come looking for you anyway. It’s a law. A law!” Qiu’er said confidently.
Bai Tang smiled. “Alright, I believe you, Qiu’er~”
After analyzing the major characters, Xiao A said, “Judging from the world’s plot book, the female lead’s character isn’t particularly bad. She seems to have been unaware of the butler suing the male supporting character and simply let the butler handle everything. If she had truly cared, she would have dealt with the male supporting character as well when she resolved the issue with the malicious female supporting character after losing her voice—but she didn’t.”
Qiu’er snorted coldly. He had seen far too many female leads who appeared kind in the world scripts but turned out to be vicious beyond measure once you actually entered the world. Without direct contact, he wouldn’t lower his guard.
“Alright, alright, I’ll be fine. With Qiu’er and Xiao A protecting me, what bad person could possibly get close to me?” Bai Tang said with a gentle smile.
The little squirrel was getting better and better at reading Qiu’er, and his “fur-smoothing” skills had become increasingly adept. Bai Tang’s coaxing left Qiu’er beaming with delight.
“Exactly! Anyone who dares go after Tang Tang—I’ll make sure they don’t make it back.”
Only Tang Tang gets to bully others; Tang Tang will never be the one being bullied. Qiu’er swore this solemnly, gripping his tiny paws.
Bai Tang and Xiao A exchanged a glance. In the eyes of one man and one dog, there was nothing but amusement. Qiu’er’s state had been far too abnormal some time ago—seeing him recover like this was truly a relief.
Author’s Note:
The voice-actor dubbing world that my dear readers requested is finally here!