Song Yan, a washed-up talent-show champion, has been blacklisted for three years and is so broke that all he has left is a pair of flip-flops and a suona. With nowhere else to turn, he takes a gig on a dating reality show nobody believes in. The fee is just a few thousand, and there's only one requirement: cooperate with the production team and play the "aloof" persona.
"Sorry," Song Yan says, pushing the script back. "I'm not doing it."
The moment he rejects the script, he activates the Realness System. Every genuine thing he does on camera earns him a point, which he can exchange for god-tier singing, award-winning acting, or top-level cooking. But if he's caught faking anything, his points are wiped out and the whole internet mocks him.
So the whole internet watches as this man, "the most down-to-earth guy in Chinese entertainment," shows up in flip-flops and gets ridiculed, offends every scripted contestant during the peer reviews, makes the most money on the show selling sweet soup, turns a domineering CEO into a village busybody, and stocks an entire room with provisions for a hundred yuan...
