Jiang Xun was originally just a senior about to graduate.
After revising his graduation thesis hundreds of times and finally passing his defense, he stayed up all night playing games to reward his hard-working self, only to suffer sudden cardiac death overnight.
Then he was bound to the Plot Collapse System.
Jiang Xun's task was to transmigrate into the harem novel "What to Do When the Whole World Loves Me So Much", and cause the original plot development to collapse. Once the collapse value reached one hundred percent, he would earn a chance at rebirth and return to his original world.
The Mary Sue protagonist uke of the novel was Lin Jian, and every named, better-looking character in the text liked him.
Even that rich second-generation punk named Zhou Ruicheng from a moment ago would later fall in love with Lin Jian.
These were all unimportant supporting characters.
The novel primarily detailed the passionate, ups-and-downs, and utterly dramatic love square between Lin Jian and three men.
Canon First Male Lead Chu Xingye: a wealthy young master, domineering, arrogant, and haughty in personality, holding a deceased white moonlight in his heart, having once stood in the rain outside the white moonlight's grave for an entire night.
Because Lin Jian looked somewhat like that deceased white moonlight, it caused Chu Xingye to take an interest in him.
Jiang Xun: A total blockhead.
Second Male Lead Ji Yuntian: a wealthy young master who suffered an accident in his youth, resulting in paralyzed legs and confinement to a wheelchair. Because of his poor health, his personality had become morbidly twisted and paranoid, and he would later even orchestrate a car accident that caused the cannon-fodder original host to be killed upon impact.
Lin Jian's mother had once worked as a nanny in the Ji Family, and Lin Jian had lived in the Ji Family with his mother for a period of time back then, thus forming an intersection with Ji Yuntian.
Over the next dozen years, Ji Yuntian viewed him as the white moonlight and cinnabar mole of his heart.
Jiang Xun: A menace to society.
Third Male Lead Bai Lian: with a tragic background, his parents passed away when he was young and left him with a massive amount of debt. He had to juggle several part-time jobs every day while attending school, possessed a silent personality, and quietly guarded the protagonist uke.
Lin Jian was working a part-time job off-campus and accidentally bumped into Bai Lian being beaten by debt collectors, then rescued him and applied medicine to treat his wounds.
Bai Lian promptly sank into the gentleness Lin Jian gave him.
Jiang Xun: Silent brother.
Jiang Xun: "..."
He had no idea what kind of feelings readers would experience seeing this content, but at any rate, he really wanted to die.
One chuni blockhead, one perverted menace to society, plus a little bitter gourd.
How was he supposed to handle this?
Forget it, never mind these for now.
Thinking of his own situation, Jiang Xun knitted his brows and called out in his heart: [Old Six.]
A pitch-less electronic male voice rang in his mind: [Host, please mind your phrasing. I am Six-Six-Six, not Old Six.]
Jiang Xun: [Oh.]
Jiang Xun: [Old Six, can my left ear return to normal? Do you have any medicine over there?]
Six-Six-Six: [...No.]
Jiang Xun wanted to die again.
Being reborn only to turn into half a deaf person, the only psychological comfort was that going deaf in the left ear sounded rather literary?
It was totally useless.
About half an hour later, the Maserati drove into a quiet villa area, with luxury standalone villas lining the entire way; the families living here were either wealthy or noble.
A few minutes later, Jiang Huaijin parked the car in front of one of the three-story garden villas.
He didn't even spare the passenger-seat Jiang Xun a single glance, coldly pushing open the door to get out, and after scanning his fingerprint, strode straight inside.
Jiang Xun followed him out, the chilly night wind blowing over and making him involuntarily shiver.
Along the stone slab path leading from the front yard into the villa, the original host's short eighteen-year life experiences flashed through Jiang Xun's mind.
The original host was the fiance of canon First Male Lead Chu Xingye, loving Chu Xingye desperately and unable to extricate himself, later repeatedly framing and targeting the protagonist uke out of jealousy.
His ending was being driven out of the house and being plotted against in a car accident by the morbidly twisted Second Male Lead Ji Yuntian, resulting in his death.
In short, the original host was just an unimportant, vicious cannon-fodder character, and the meaning of his existence was to act as a stepping stone for the romantic development between the protagonist uke and the first, second, and third male leads.
The original host's background was also quite complicated, not to mention dramatic.
He was the youngest son of the Jiang Family, a wealthy clan in City A, and should have enjoyed his parents' and family's doting affection right from birth, growing up carefree amid fine clothes and rich food.
Yet trickery of fate, Jiang Xun was swapped at birth by a nanny of the Jiang Family in a "civet cat for crown prince" scheme. The nanny stealthily switched her own newly born child with the Jiang Family's youngest young master in order to let her own son live the life of a wealthy youngest young master.
Soon, the nanny took Jiang Xun back to her hometown, living in some remote small town.
Perhaps harboring guilt, the nanny indeed treated Jiang Xun as her own biological child at the very beginning, but after only a few years, she became pregnant again and gave birth to a son.
An adopted child naturally could not compare to a biological one.
Following the birth of the two's younger son, Jiang Xun's nightmare began.
His adoptive parents beat and scolded him unsparingly, made the young child do chores, and frequently refused to let him eat his fill.
Gradually, little Jiang Xun became insecure and sensitive, suffering the torment of his adoptive parents day after day for ten years.
His left ear was ruined by his violence-prone adoptive father; at first he could still hear, but later, lacking timely treatment, he lost his hearing completely.
When little Jiang Xun grew up and gradually understood things, he learned from the gossip of the neighbors that he was abducted and wasn't his adoptive parents' biological child.
He also tried searching for his biological parents, but amid the vast sea of humanity, relying solely on his meager abilities, how could he possibly find them?
The turning point in matters occurred a year ago when Jiang Xun's adoptive mother fell ill with cancer and was not long for this world. Wishing to see her eldest biological son one last time before death, she secretly went to the Jiang Family to look for someone.
Who would have expected her to run right into Jiang Father, and the "civet cat for crown prince" plot thus became exposed.
Learning the truth, the Jiang Family members felt grief-stricken beyond measure, and accordingly set off without stopping to recognize Jiang Xun.
Originally, this ought to have been a family reunion with a happy and complete ending, but things went contrary to expectations.
Jiang Xun happily followed his parents and older brother back to the Jiang Family, only to discover that there was an extra person in the house named Jiang Zixing-which was the adoptive mother's son, the fake young master who had usurped a dozen years of his life.
Returning to the Jiang Family, Jiang Xun found that everything was different from what he had imagined; he felt like an outside intruder.
Jiang Zixing had lived in the Jiang Family for over a decade and had long since integrated into this household.
He was confident and cheerful, excelled in his studies, could dance, played various musical instruments, and also won the fondness of his parents and older brother.
Yet for Jiang Xun, who had lived in a remote little village for over a decade, all of this was so unfamiliar and out of reach.
Jiang Xun felt that he was completely out of place in this family, and his insecure and sensitive inner self rendered him suspicious and constantly anxious by nature.
He felt that his parents and older brother favored Jiang Zixing more, and the facts seemed to prove that to be the case.
A biological child who popped up out of nowhere versus a child raised by their side since youth-even without biological ties, the bond was profound.
Unable to control his feelings of jealousy, Jiang Xun began targeting Jiang Zixing.
He intentionally dampened Jiang Zixing's bedsheets, cut up his beloved plush toys, ruined his piano and other instruments... and even drove Jiang Zixing out of the house on a rainy night, making him get soaked in the rain and fall ill.
At the very beginning, Jiang Father and Jiang Mother did not take these petty scuffles seriously, and couldn't even bear to say a harsh word to Jiang Xun.
Having finally found their lost child, naturally they wanted to make it up to him; even if his mindset and personality had warped somewhat, it could always be corrected, seeing as he had never received a proper education and grew up in that kind of environment.
However, as time went on, Jiang Xun's flaws were not corrected, and instead he bullied Jiang Zixing with escalating severity.
On the most severe occasion, Jiang Xun even intentionally pushed Jiang Zixing down the stairs, causing him to break a leg which took several months of recovery to heal.
Jiang Zixing had originally been scheduled to participate in a dance competition, and missed it as a result.
From then on, Jiang Father and Jiang Huaijin grew completely disappointed in him, and their attitude toward him shifted from initial heartache and guilt to aversion.
[Ding-Congratulations to the host for unlocking side quests and fulfilling the original host's wishes.]
[Side Quest One: Gain the unconditional favoritism of your parents and older brother]
[Side Quest Two: Gain Chu Xingye's love and get engaged to Chu Xingye before college graduation]