The Seventh-Day Funeral

<The Male Supporting Character Didn't Want to Be Arranged> Author: Baye Dang [Complete + Extras]

Synopsis:

After dying from overwork, Huo Jiu transmigrated into an old-school harem novel about a Mary Sue who charmed everyone, becoming a vicious cannon fodder character.

According to the original plot, after his alcoholic father died, Huo Jiu would be taken to his new home by his biological mother, who had married into a wealthy family. He would become the male lead's stepsibling.

Then, out of jealousy for everything the male lead had, he would scheme to harm him, dreaming of taking it all for himself. His plots and schemes would eventually be exposed. In a fit of rage, his stepfather would throw him out, and the male lead's admirers would exact their revenge on him. In the end, he would die a miserable death.

Newly transmigrated Huo Jiu: Thanks for asking, but I don't want to go along with the plot.

However, Huo Jiu soon discovered, to his dismay, that he couldn't escape the plot's control.

As a character in the story, whenever Huo Jiu did something that deviated from the plot, the entire world would reload.

So Huo Jiu was delighted to discover that he'd gained a lot of extra time out of nowhere—

As a workaholic who lived by the motto "If it won't kill me, I'll work myself to death,"

Huo Jiu had found the perfect way to indulge his work addiction.

He could use the time from each reload to study hard, work diligently, and find all kinds of ways to screw people over (not really). No matter how exhausted he got, he'd come back to life at full strength the next moment and start all over again.

Huo Jiu gleefully exploited bugs in the plot.

He just hadn't expected that, before long, his repeated reloads would break the original plot.

Everyone knew Huo Jiu was despicable, devious, vicious, greedy, jealous, and unpredictable—that he possessed every foul quality known to humankind. And yet, they couldn't help following his every move.

This novel is also known as Entering an Old-School Novel to Build a Career and <The Vicious Male Supporting Character Controlled by the Plot Doesn't Want to Lie Down>.

Theme: No matter how many restrictions stand in your way, you still have to strive to live.

Tags: Strong leads, fantasy, face-slapping, feel-good fiction

Search keywords: Protagonists: Huo Jiu, Diwu Ling | Supporting cast: Upcoming novel How Could I Possibly Have This Character Setting | Others: Completed novels Rebirth into Acceptance, After the Vicious Cannon Fodder's Rebirth

One-line synopsis: The vicious male supporting character controlled by the plot doesn't want to lie down.

Chapter 1: The Seventh-Day Funeral

With a sharp crash, the drunken man hurled a beer bottle to the floor. The remaining beer splashed everywhere with the dark green shards. The boy hiding beneath the bed squeezed his eyes shut in terror and shuddered violently.

"You little bastard! Where are you hiding now? Get your ass out here! Go buy me some booze!"

As he spoke, the man staggered into the kitchen and angrily rummaged through the empty cupboards. "...You can't even cook me a meal!"

"I bust my ass at work to earn money and support you ungrateful brats. All you do is mope around and hide from me."

"Why don't you do what that bitch of a mother of yours did and run off to another city? Go somewhere I can't find you. Damn little bastard."

The angrier he got, the more fiercely he smashed the few dishes and chopsticks left in the kitchen against the floor. Each clatter sounded as if it struck the little boy himself. Cowering beneath the bed, the boy squeezed his eyes shut even tighter and clamped his hands over his ears, hoping he could disappear.

But things didn't go as he wished. A large hand suddenly grabbed his arm and dragged him out from under the bed. Then a powerful blow came, and the man kicked the boy in the shoulder. "I knew you little bastard were hiding here! Why didn't you make dinner? Are you trying to starve me to death? What's the point of raising you?"

"No! No!" The little boy choked out the words, trembling as he cried and tried to explain. "The people who sell vegetables wouldn't let me buy on credit. I—I couldn't get any vegetables. I wasn't trying to avoid making dinner. Daddy, please don't hit me anymore. I'll be good. I'll listen to you. Please don't hit me again. It hurts so much. Mommy, save me..."

"You dare call for your mother?" The boy's cry for help struck a nerve. Gritting his teeth, the man kicked him in the chest again. "I'll teach you to call for her! You love your mother that much? Do you look down on me too? Do you wish that bitch had taken you with her back then?"

"Ah—"

The crisp crack of a rib breaking exploded in his ears, and Huo Jiu's eyes flew open.

"Ha... ha..." In the pitch-black room, Huo Jiu sat up abruptly, breathing hard.

He'd had another dream. For seven nights straight, he'd dreamed every night, reliving someone else's life.

More precisely, someone else's plot.

After dying from overwork as a corporate drone, Huo Jiu had transmigrated after his death into an old-school Mary Sue harem novel, where he became a vicious cannon fodder character with the same name.

According to the original story, the original Huo Jiu was a child of divorced parents who grew up with his alcoholic father. His mother divorced his father when he was seven and went off to make a life for herself in another city. After that, his father drank even more heavily. Whenever he got drunk, he cursed Huo Jiu's mother and beat Huo Jiu to vent his anger, hoping to instill his hatred in the boy.

But young Huo Jiu had never resented his mother. He had seen with his own eyes how his father abused her whenever he was drunk.

So Huo Jiu didn't hate her. All he wanted was for his mother to come back and rescue him from his father. That wish came true on his sixteenth birthday.

His father, a longtime alcoholic, died of alcohol poisoning after efforts to save him failed. At the funeral, his mother, who had already married into a wealthy family, suddenly appeared and said she wanted to take him to his new home.

Huo Jiu was overjoyed. But not long after moving in, an accident revealed why his mother had taken him in: she wanted him to donate bone marrow. His mother's new husband was named Su Shiyuan, chairman of Su Corporation. His only son, Su Zhuo, had leukemia and needed a bone marrow transplant. Su Zhuo had Rh-negative blood, making it difficult to find a compatible donor.

Then Huo Jiu's mother suddenly remembered that he had Rh-negative blood too. Hoping to see if he was a match, she brought the matter up with her husband. Together, they returned to their hometown to find Huo Jiu, never expecting to arrive just as the Huo family was holding a funeral.