I'm the Only One in the World Who's a Couch Potato

In her previous life, Song Yu was a top-tier star and celebrated actress whose fame spread across the country. In the end, she died from overwork amid the cutthroat competition, collapsing in front of the red carpet... After she died, she opened her eyes in a new world, only to find that the competition there was a thousand times fiercer! Everyone in this world wants to become a Beast Tamer. High schoolers train their bodies at four in the morning, university takes twelve years, and children who don't study hard are even sent to psychiatric hospitals... The original owner wanted to rise above the rest, so she broke off her engagement to her poor fiance and latched onto a rich heir. As it happens, this is a male-oriented revenge power fantasy, and the poor fiance, Bai Yuhan, is the male lead. The original owner is ultimately killed off by the plot and left to rot in the wilderness... Song Yu: ...I'm tired. Just destroy the world. I only want to be a lazy fish. But even a lazy fish doesn't want to be sent to a psychiatric hospital. So... From that day on, Song Yu put all her acting skills to work, becoming a total drama queen. When other people competed in battles, she pretended to be badly injured and lay on the ground watching the action. When everyone else wrote furiously in the exam hall, she pretended to have a stomachache and went to sleep in the infirmary. When other people chose high-potential contract beasts, she put on a show of trying her best, then reluctantly chose a good-for-nothing pet beast. Even when her contract beasts wanted to train, she encouraged them to watch anime, read novels, and play games with her, pretending this was the true path to getting stronger. However, six months later... The good-for-nothing little white cat that read novels evolved into a ninth-tier, nine-tailed soul-devouring cat. The good-for-nothing dodder vine that played games evolved into a ninth-tier bloodthirsty tyrant vine. The good-for-nothing four-legged lizard that visited amusement parks evolved into a ninth-tier terrifying ghost dragon. Song Yu was dumbfounded: ??? What's going on? There's something wrong with you guys. The students: Oh my god! You're so hardworking and amazing! The teachers: Student Song, you're a once-in-a-millennium genius, the supreme king of Beast Tamers! Beast Tamers around the world: We'll definitely do our best to learn from Song Yu! Song Yu: ... Male lead Bai Yuhan: I knew I was right about you. You've been hiding your strength all along. Let's fight! Song Yu: ??? Bai Yuhan wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth. "Miss Song is truly formidable, worthy of being the strongest Beast Tamer alive. I hope we can spar again next time." Song Yu: ...I'm tired. Just destroy the world. ~~ Bai Yuhan has a secret: he was born with a pair of Divine Eyes. The Divine Eyes can see through everything in the world, revealing the potential and talents of every pet beast. Everyone in the world wants to get their hands on them. His parents died because of the Divine Eyes, and his family was destroyed because of them. He can even hear people on the street saying they want to dig out his eyes. Until one day... He saw that the soul inside the body of his former fiancee, who had once wanted to climb the social ladder, had changed. This soul didn't want to become a Beast Tamer. All she wanted was to eat, drink, and have fun, living like a lazy fish, and she didn't care about his Divine Eyes at all. He deliberately got injured and revealed his golden Divine Eyes, only for her to give him a pair of black contact lenses. He pretended to faint from weakness, but she dragged him into some bushes and ran off to fish. Bai Yuhan: ??? And yet, the more she acted like that, the less he could take his eyes off her, and the less he wanted to leave... His father once said: If one day you meet someone who doesn't care whether we have Divine Eyes, hold on to them tight. Bai Yuhan: I have no strengths, but I know how to take advice. PS: This story is all about a drama queen who wants to be a lazy fish. Beast taming is just a side element, not a standard pet-beast leveling story. If you're looking for a standard pet-beast leveling story, you can probably move on. PS: This story is all about a drama queen who wants to be a lazy fish. Beast taming is just a side element, not a standard pet-beast leveling story. If you're looking for a standard pet-beast leveling story, you can probably move on. This story was screenshotted in May 2021. Also, please add my new book to your reading list, mwah~ The Male Leads Can All Hear My Thoughts Yu Jiao is a lazy-fish spirit. For a thousand years, she lay around in the sun and wind, unable to eat or drink. Her dream is to become a living fish spirit and enjoy all the pleasures of the human world. But Yu Jiao's magic is too weak, and she still hasn't managed it. Until Yu Jiao gets hit by a full-time supporting-female-character System. The System says that if she completes the supporting-female-character plot, it will bring her back to life. Yu Jiao is thrilled: No problem! Leave it to me! Yu Jiao transmigrates into an entertainment-industry novel about a hundred handsome men and ends up as the female lead's foil: a stunning beauty with a big chest and no brains, a second-tier vixen who is always trying to seduce the male leads. In the book, the supporting female character and the female lead both join a dating show called Celebrity Romance. Faced with five top-quality male guests, the supporting character can't decide who to pick. The celibate, old-school movie emperor; the cold, elite billionaire CEO; the handsome, refined scoundrel of a director; the sunny, athletic national heartthrob; and the roguishly charming, wolfish prince of love songs. The supporting female character pulls out all the stops, trying to attach herself to one of them. Under the dinner table, she uses her toes to flirt with the movie emperor. In the middle of the night, she sneaks over to knock on the CEO's door. On a date, she deliberately touches the national heartthrob's hand to make a move... Unfortunately, not only does she fail, everyone thinks she's stupid and disgusting. In the end, the whole internet mocks and hates her, the audience curses her, and all five male guests give her the boot! By contrast, the female lead, Su Qian, has a hundred-men conquest System. Not only does she win the genuine affection of all five male guests through the dating show, she also leaps from being a third-tier actress to a first-tier starlet! Yu Jiao is thrilled: Getting blacklisted and mocked? No problem! I can do that! So... As soon as Yu Jiao joins the show, she eagerly follows the plot! But she doesn't know that because the System is damaged, the five male leads have all acquired a few System fragments and gained some of its functions, including the ability to read the System host's innermost thoughts. At a fancy dining table, Yu Jiao bats her eyes seductively. Her fair, little toe, painted with bright red nail polish, rubs against the movie emperor's calf, teasing him like a temptress. But what the movie emperor hears is: [Yu Jiao: Wow! I didn't expect the movie emperor to have such long, thick leg hair. It hurts my foot! Whatever, once he gets me blacklisted, I'll eat ice cream every day to calm my nerves!] Movie emperor: ?? At an amusement park, Yu Jiao winks at the national heartthrob and drops her phone on the ground. When he bends to pick it up, she deliberately holds his hand, acting like a lecherous fiend. But what the national heartthrob hears is: [Yu Jiao: Ouch! He's only twenty and still in school, right? Kids these days are so pitiful, having to work and study every day. Whatever, that's none of my business. Once he finds someone to blacklist me, I can ride roller coasters every day to calm my nerves!] National heartthrob: ?? What are you even nervous about? By a series of misunderstandings... The five male guests not only learn that they'll all fall for the same woman, Su Qian, but also discover that the fiery, foxlike beauty in front of them, who seems to be flirting with them, really just wants to finish the plot and then lie in bed eating and drinking to her heart's content. Hah! Woman, you want to put on an act? Then let's all put on an act together! We're all in showbiz. Who's afraid of whom? So... The female lead, who has the handsome-men conquest System, watches helplessly as all her System items stop working and the male leads turn around and go looking for Yu Jiao. Female lead: ??? What's wrong with you guys? In front of their TVs, tens of millions of viewers watch as the male guests, who initially paid Yu Jiao no mind, all turn around, talking nonstop about Yu Jiao this and Yu Jiao that. Viewers: ??!!! How did this variety show get so surreal? I can't make sense of it at all!!! B-but it's still so sweet, sob! I'm shipping them! But sometimes, as people keep acting out a romance, it starts to feel real. And as they keep telling lies, those lies become the truth, especially when they can read minds and learn about certain plot points in advance. Movie emperor: Ahem, I think Yu Jiao is pretty great. CEO: She likes eating, drinking, and having fun. I like making money. We're a perfect match. Prince of love songs: I sing love songs, but I'd rather find someone to sing duets with. Her voice is especially beautiful. National heartthrob: I want to ride the Ferris wheel with Big Sister. Yu Jiao is dumbfounded: ?? Yu Jiao doesn't understand: ?? Wait, what's going on?! With the plot going this far off course, can I still become a living fish?! Theme: Be true to yourself