Summary

Although Xie Zhi’s acting career was in a slump, he still hated playing bit parts and rejected the role of a soy sauce (read: extremely minor) character in a web drama. Unexpectedly, he died and transmigrated into a novel to become the dead benefactor character who only shows up in the protagonist’s memories: Xie Zhiwei.…hold on, isn’t this the same soy sauce character he refused to act?!To avoid repeating the same tragedy, Xie Zhiwei had no choice but to team up with the System to play (work) act (hard) at his part (death).System: The protagonist needs a teacher, so his shizun will be…
Xie Zhiwei: Leave it to me.System: The protagonist needs to level up, so his helper will be…
Xie Zhiwei: Leave it to me.System: The protagonist needs to blacken, so the villain will be…
Xie Zhiwei: Leave it to me.System: The protagonist needs to fall in love, so the heroine will be…
Xie Zhiwei: @#$^! you, let me float away ethereally.Mu He: Shizun, please fly into this disciple’s arms~

Why Read?

▶If you are a shizun f^cker and love disciple gong x master shou trope, you must read this novel!
▶Yandere disciple gong who is ruthless to everyone but very docile in front of his shizun x acting master shizun who tried to matchmaking the protagonist with his future harem but ended up being pressed down by him
▶Oblivious MC. Well, the MC is a straight man and only focused on his acting to finish the plot, he's literally failed to see ML's wolf eyes toward him until the day ML finally confessed his feelings~
▶Devoted ML who loves MC very much. If you like a love interest who are very fond of MC, seeing MC as like the part of their soul and can't live without them, could die or do evil for MC because of his extreme feelings, if you like that type you will love him and this novel. A little snippet of ML's words to MC: “Disciple takes to shizun as a fish to water, I'll die without it.”
▶The character developments is really really good. From the oblivious straight MC who only saw the world and its people as a mere textbook to finally come to realization that they are a living people with blood and flesh, he also used to treat ML kind because of his addiction to acting and to finish the plot to became genuinely care for him.
▶It's a touching love story where the couple had to sacrificed so much to be together.
▶This novel is really fun and worth to read. There's comedy and funny interactions between MC and the original book's author Gallant Outlaw (the author was bind by the system to guide MC's acting mission), silly misunderstandings (mostly because ML always misinterpret MC's intentions toward him), but there's also sprinkles of angst that can thorn one's heart. Aside from that, it's quite short and is completely translated!
Here's a TBMDE recommendation threadWARNINGS
highlight the space to read: noncon and dubcon (ML was under the influence of mind-altering illusions), torture, graphic description of gore/murder scenes

Arts from audio book, audio drama fanmade, and fansong. Artist who drew for the audio drama and the bloody shizun's death scene: @小皇纸 also posted by TBMDE's author @治病神仙水