One Song, 'My Chinese Heart,' and the Nation Steps In to Save Me

[Showbiz / Top-Tier Star Returns / Nostalgic Classics / Prankster Antics / Music and Books]

Good news: He transmigrates to a parallel world as a top-tier singing-and-dancing idol with over a hundred million fans, and his career is scandal-free!

Bad news: He's an exploited celebrity earning just five thousand a month, and the powers that be are plotting to crush him!

Good news: A Defiance System suddenly appears. He can earn Defiance Points by making the audience lose their cool, then exchange them for all kinds of top-tier rewards: smash-hit songs, film and TV scripts, god-tier kidneys, even fruits of life…

And so

Zhang Yaoyang, targeted by overseas capital, takes the stage at the SBS Gayo Daejeon. His performance of “My Chinese Heart” makes all of South Korea lose their cool, and the country steps in to save him at a critical moment!

On the music variety show “Endless Songs: Marrying Youth,” his homespun folk song “The Big Sedan Chair” drives countless sasaeng fans up the wall. “Please, bro, just stop singing!”

At a charity performance in a nursing home, “Listen to Mom” brings lonely elderly people longing for their mothers to tears!

Asked to write a love song promoting West Lake, he sings “Waiting a Thousand Years,” a tale of love between a man and a snake, leaving the local culture and tourism bureau stunned.

He endorses a Speed7 car showroom and sells cars with “Heading North,” making Xiaomi fans across the internet emo.

His song “The Most Dazzling Ethnic Style” gets the guests to recite “The vast horizon is my love” in standard Mandarin, triggering a mass outbreak of speechlessness…

The anti-fans give him the nickname “Crow Brother”?

He films a real-life version of Young and Dangerous, conquers northern Myanmar, and takes Southeast Asia by storm.

“It's too hard to make it? Then none of you get to make it!”

He weighs 130 jin, and 129 jin of that is pure defiance!

After wave upon wave of lost fans and countless turnarounds in public opinion,

Zhang Yaoyang realizes that, without even noticing, he has become a force to be reckoned with: the most defiant entertainer alive, ruling over civilizations in another world!