After Quitting Showbiz Amid Online Hate, He Became a Star by Playing Cannon Fodder

[Female-Audience Novel, Male Protagonist's Perspective] [Entertainment Industry] [Talented Actor] [Story Within a Story] [Unforgettable Regrets] [No CP]

Jiang Yubai was once an astonishingly handsome newcomer who shot to fame in China's entertainment industry, only to be maliciously slandered and blacklisted by his former agency.

Burdened with an astronomical contract penalty, he was boycotted across the internet and forced out of the industry.

At his wit's end, he was bound to the "Unforgettable Regrets in Bad Dramas Completion System."

All he had to do was join the most cringe-worthy productions and play their most idiotic, most marginal cannon-fodder characters.

If his god-tier acting could save the day, he'd earn generous rewards.

So, in a clichéd historical romance, he played the blind musician who was pierced by a hail of arrows while protecting all living beings, without even being given a name.

In a melodramatic modern romance, he was the kind older brother and idealized first love who died in a car crash after just three episodes, forever watching the hysterical male and female leads with a gentle gaze.

At first, netizens came to take screenshots and make memes, eager to mock him.

But as they watched, tears began streaming down their faces despite themselves.

"What kind of epic-level garbage drama is this? Everyone in the cast and crew deserves to be shot, except Jiang Yubai!"

"I sat through forty-five minutes of this crap just to watch his three minutes in a bad drama!"

"Who was it that slandered him back then? Please, someone in the industry, let him star in a normal leading-man role!"