A Trending-Topic System Made Me the Entertainment World's Cao Thief

In a parallel world's Chinese entertainment industry, popularity reigns supreme and capital calls the shots.

Chen Yanzhou transmigrates into the body of a second-tier star being exploited by his agency. His timid, useless predecessor was constantly kept under someone else's thumb.

The company sabotages him, cuts off his resources, and his peers mock him. His future seems all but sealed shut.

Then he unexpectedly gains a golden finger: the ability to predict what's trending across the internet and grasp the secrets of going viral.

Trending topics update in real time, hit-song inspiration flows without end, and he can predict exactly how a script will unfold.

While others buy fake engagement to get noticed, he can set the whole internet ablaze with a couple of casually hummed lines.

An impromptu head-bobbing dance at a mall shoots straight into the top three trending topics, adding a million fans.

He rewrites the lyrics on a variety show, and one line, "My rose has thorns, and I hold the gun," blows the audience away.

When the casting of a film is manipulated by investors, he turns around and takes on an underdog script that goes on to earn over a hundred million at the box office and make him a legend.

Chu Yao, Lin Shu, and Qin Wei all draw closer, while resources and connections pour in.

He was once a pawn others could manipulate at will. Now, he's the mastermind controlling the buzz.

As long as the topics keep coming and the hype never dies, the entire entertainment industry will have to answer to him.

From breaking free of his contract to ascending the throne as the ultimate playboy, he'll crush every top-tier star and become a godfather-level figure.

This novel and its characters are entirely fictional. Any resemblance to real people or events is purely coincidental. Do not imitate.