A Novelist's Guide to Saving Side Characters

[My new novel, I Became a Steampunk NPC and Usurped a God's Throne, is now out!]

[Gradually correcting typos and polishing the text] [Bonus side stories are being updated slowly]

In his previous life, Chu Zu was a novelist who died suddenly after pulling an all-nighter to meet a deadline. After his death, he was bound to the "Side Character Correction System."

The system offered him a deal: if Chu Zu could play and reform side characters hated by readers, he could have a new life.

Chu Zu: "Changing a character's persona? I'm a pro at that!"

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The first book-

Reader A: "You can make your villain an idiot, but you'd better not dream that your readers are idiots too. Is that so hard to understand?"

Reader A again: "Holy crap, holy crap! You should've said this mastermind had a scheme within a scheme within a scheme!! Daddy Zu! I'm sorry! I shouldn't have raised my voice!!"

The second book-

Reader B: "Enough with the dog comparisons. You can say he's an adorable puppy five hundred times, but all I see is a desperate simp who can't even bark."

Reader B again: "I must've gotten up too fast. I'm seeing an impossibly sunny, cheerful big puppy! Where can I adopt one? A-Zu! I want to adopt A-Zu too!!"

The third book-

Reader C: "Is the author's life really so miserable that they had to create a character with every vice under the sun? If you can't write anything decent, go get a job."

Reader C again: "Damn it, God Zu, I really deserve to die!"

The fourth book, the fifth book, the sixth book...

Chu Zu: "So? My acting wasn't anything special, but I did a decent job fixing them, right?"

System: "...Do you know what a side character is? How is a wildly popular character a side character?!"

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