The Devoted Second Male Lead Decided to Favor Someone Else

Actual Fairytale – Picking up a Mermaid! (26)

Lu Shijin hurriedly moved Jun Yu from the ground to the sofa, then inspected his condition. Thankfully, he was just unconscious.

Seeing Jun Yu’s familiar yet unfamiliar face, Lu Shijin felt a myriad of emotions.

In the past three worlds, Lu Shijin had first stayed with Huo Lian out of curiosity, then repeatedly ran across him in subsequent worlds.

It was like a dream.

In the previous world, Lu Shijin personally got rid of the tooth mark on Xu Yifan’s body to find his lover without any help.

He believed that as long as they wholeheartedly loved each other, they would meet again no matter what.

711 once told him that Jun Yu was just someone without consciousness, simply serving the plot.

Lu Shijin originally thought that he was the only one who remembered what happened between them, so he was planning on finishing his tasks as quickly as possible to finally be together in reality at the end.

But he didn’t expect that Jun Yu had actually long finished his tasks and remembered everything, then even asking the main god to let him be with him for the remaining worlds.

A sour and sweet feeling rose in Lu Shijin’s heart, making him want to cry and laugh.

It turns out he’s always loved me, thinking about me, just like I did.

They had vastly different characters and appearances in each world, but would always be inexplicably drawn together.

Perhaps this was destiny.

Lu Shijin stared at Jun Yu. He suddenly wanted to know what his original name and appearance was.

When they met with their real selves, would they still fall in love?

“211, you said that you wiped Jun Yu’s memory? Does that mean he doesn’t know who he is?” Lu Shijin asked.

“Yup. It’s already against the rules for two task takers to be in the same world. If he remembered anything, it might cause the world to collapse, which would have unimaginable consequences.”

“Then as his system, you should know his past, right?”

211 hesitated, “Yes, but that’s personal information, so I can’t say anything.”

“Host, I can vouch for this. We can only have one host at a time, and cannot tell anyone about our host.”

Lu Shijin smiled, “No worries, I was just asking. I don’t have to know. Right, since my system is ‘devoted second male lead’ what’s Jun Yu’s system?”

Before 211 could respond, Lu Shijin spoke again.

“Wait, let me guess.” Lu Shijin thought about Jun Yu’s performance and said confidently, “Is it ‘correcting the ways of the villain’? A terrible brother who originally didn’t understand human emotions changed and started guiding his brother down the right path?”

“. . . No.”

711 chimed in, “Host, you may not know this but 211’s unstable in the sense that it’s not fixed to one specific kind of system. The task changes with every world, so you can’t predict what it’d be in the next world.”

“. . . That random?” He felt a bit bad for his husband.

211 laughed, “What can I do, who knew his wish would be like that. Everyone else was busy, so the main god told me to come. Although I’m not stable, I’m still really strong!”

“So what are you right now?” Lu Shijin had a bad feeling.

211 announced proudly, “Forcibly taking the villain’s love!”

“??? Forcibly what? What love? What the fuck?”

“Host needs to take someone who doesn’t love him and use overbearing methods to make him fall in love. His task is completed when the target falls in love with him.”

Lu Shijin immediately said, “Then his task is complete. I’m already in love, that counts, right?”

“Nope.”

Lu Shijin didn’t understand, “Why not?”

“The keyword is ‘forcibly’. You can’t love him just because. The best part is seeing hate turn to love. Where’s the content in love at first sight?”

Lu Shijin: . . . I knew this was another scammer!

“I’m Jun Yu’s target?” Lu Shijin asked.

“Right. He’s had his eye on you since the very first time, but you didn’t seem to care about him. It was clear you were the best target.”

The only reason he didn’t care before was because lu Shijin would’ve never guessed that his husband was a fellow task taker.

But it was different now. Since he knows Jun Yu’s the one he loves, then he has to do something.

Lu Shijin knew that to help Jun Yu complete his task, he had to refuse all of his advances.

Only by doing this could he complete the task.

Lu Shijin looked at his cute and loveable husband and felt strange.

It might be a bit difficult to pretend that he doesn’t love him.

“I also need to remind you that even though you know my identity, you can’t tell him about it, or else it would count as cheating and this task would count as a failure.”

Lu Shijin sneered, “It’s not like I wanted to know about your existence, it’s your fault that I heard you, so why are you blaming me? Why should I cover up for your mistake?”

Seeing that his threat didn’t work, 211 acted pitiful and begged 711 for help.

“Seventh brother, if the main god knows I was found out by someone else’s host, he’s definitely going to take me back to the forge. I finally got the chance to do something, I don’t want to die! You have to help me!”

“Heh, you acted so pitiful to your seventh brother, weren’t you being so stubborn with me?” Lu Shijin said deliberately, “Since you’re so unstable, you might have a terrible bug soon, so isn’t it better for that main god to take you back and send a more dependable system?”

211 was nervous, “Seventh brother! Your host is bullying me!”

711 tried to smooth things over, “How about this, host. As long as you don’t tell Jun Yu the truth, I’ll let 211 contact us in every single world so you know who the other person is. That’s better than sifting through everyone in that world, right?”

211 agreed. “Yes, yes, yes, I can give you hints!”

“Really?” Lu Shijin didn’t actually want to do that to 211. Since he got something useful, he took advantage of it, “Then I won’t do anything, on behalf of convenience store’s face. We’ll be on the same boat from now on!”

211 hurriedly agreed.

Jun Yu had been unconscious for a long time. Lu Shijin started regretting that he used too much force before.

But it was good that he was unconscious. It gave him time to think about what to do next.