The Melancholy Cannon Fodder Eats Melons After Being Read

Gu Yang discovered that the world he lived in was actually a novel.

A bloated, overpadded masterpiece that stretched on for tens of millions of words, forcibly including the life experiences of every small and large side character—“The Tyrannical Young Master’s Endless Road to Pursuing His Wife.”

And he was one of the cannon fodder characters who continuously opposed the main protagonist gong, only to end up in a miserable downfall with the family destroyed.

After briefly reminiscing about his bizarre relatives—so many that they could only be counted in units of groups—Gu Yang accepted his tragic ending without any psychological burden and instead turned his energy toward gossiping about other people’s drama.

One night, all of Gu Yang’s classmates suddenly gained the ability to hear his thoughts.

At first, they thought it was an illusion, until—

“Hah, that dead-faced Shen Mingjun, who pretends to be so aloof at school—turns out he’s just an illegitimate child born to a mistress who knowingly meddled with a married man. He actually forced the legal wife to her death. Impressive.”

Previously half-asleep during class, the other students instantly sobered up.

#Now this is something we definitely won’t sleep through.

The model student who had been anonymously spreading rumors about Gu Yang in the class group chat suddenly froze, especially in the face of the suspicious gazes everyone threw his way.

“The campus goddess, Xia Chun, is actually a boy disguised as a girl? And supposedly his size exceeds that of most males. Hilarious, this is too outrageous—how can anyone spread this sort of gossip? When should I try asking him out, maybe catch him in the bathroom just to see for myself?”

The poor classmate who had just gotten close to the so-called goddess and was budding with springtime affections instantly turned pale.

“The Lu family’s newly returned son, the so-called sickly twin brother who had been raised outside the household—turns out he was the true son who got switched at birth. But since the Lu family couldn’t bear abandoning the boy they had raised for years, they fabricated this whole ‘twin sons’ story to cover it up?”

“Hahaha, and in the end those two even ended up together? The victim and the beneficiary—eye-opening! Forget class, I’m going to watch this unfold—maybe even catch them coming out of the closet.”

Other classmates: Wait, if you leave, what are we supposed to gossip about—

From that point on, the students of the aristocratic academy began their bittersweet life of melon-eating: dying for some earth-shattering revelations, but also terrified of becoming the next melon source.

They also had to endure Gu Yang’s earth-shaking mental state and his occasional beautifully tragic determination to bid farewell to the entire world.

Some gossip was so explosive that even a classmate was driven to attempt jumping off a building.

Gu Yang’s inner thoughts: What if I go with him? That would make for quite the sensation.

The inexperienced classmates laughed nervously: Hahaha, this is just harmless banter, right?

But then someone realized—wasn’t Gu Yang actually standing on the rooftop right now?

A few seconds of dead silence. Then the classroom erupted with the sound of chairs crashing to the floor.

Quick, someone stop him—!

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Song Yinxing was the shou protagonist of “The Tyrannical Young Master’s Endless Road to Pursuing His Wife.”

A gambling-addicted father, a sick mother, a younger brother still in school, and a broken self—this summed up Song Yinxing’s tragic background.

With such a miserable starting point, he had originally thought his life at the prestigious aristocratic academy would be extremely difficult.

But unexpectedly, someone had reached out a hand to him in his darkest hour.

At first, he thought he was just lucky. But little did he know—starting one day, strange, unbearably tragic memories began surfacing in his dreams.