Showbiz: Getting Close to Zhao Liying from the Start

After transmigrating into a parallel version of China's entertainment industry, Zhang Bin becomes a cold, handsome god with nothing going for him but his face.

He stars in Shanghai Fortress: a 360-million-yuan budget, 120 million yuan at the box office, and a 2.9 rating on Douban! The whole internet mocks him, and his company pressures him to sign a predatory contract.

At his lowest point, he binds himself to the Entertainment Industry Uninhibited System: as long as I can make fun of myself enough, nobody can mock me harder!

At the Golden Broom Awards, the whole internet waits for him to embarrass himself. Instead, he takes the stage and delivers a stand-up routine, roasting his agent, his boss, and the director. He takes them down one by one, and the haters become fans!

The company tries to take him down with a hit piece? He counters with a PowerPoint that dismantles it point by point, then reports them, sending a publicly listed company plunging into the abyss!

His singing brings the whole internet to tears, his villainous roles make audiences feel for him, and he makes the year's highest-rated movie on a shoestring budget!

From the butt of the internet's jokes to a giant in China's entertainment industry, he did just one thing:

He stopped pretending.

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