Chinese Entertainment: The Heartbeat Agency

Zhang Bin, a relationship counselor, transmigrates into a parallel world remarkably similar to reality, with a System appearing in his mind:

Within three years, win over one hundred actresses with an overall rating above ninety. For each one, he must reach a favorability score above ninety and complete all three stages of intimacy. Both conditions must be met for her to count.

Fail, and he'll be erased.

The 1,095-day countdown has already begun.

He has no special talent, except for one thing: he can tell when someone's lying. So he reopens his rundown agency, saddled with 470,000 in debt, and uses the simplest, most ruthless methods to pry open the hearts of top-tier stars, one by one: counting how many times she mentions him, watching which way her toes point, and dividing seventy-five years into nine hundred squares.

The first wears three layers of masks. The second doesn't say a word. The third walks in smiling and leaves in tears. The fourth asks if he wants to win for once.

He thinks this is just about staying alive.

Only after the ninety-ninth does he discover that the rating was never about looks--and that the word "erased" was never an idle threat.

This novel and its characters are entirely fictional. Any resemblance is purely coincidental. Do not imitate.