The Cannon Fodder Just Wants to Live Off Their Looks (Entertainment Industry)

Blurb: The day after the finale of the smash-hit idol competition show Idol 202, Jiang Chenyang learned that he was a disposable character in a BL entertainment-industry novel, a contrast to the protagonist, Xie Wulv. In the story, Xie Wulv had incredible stage presence and deservedly won the center position, while Jiang Chenyang was effeminate, obnoxious, and useless. Yet his good looks earned him second place, enraging the antis. In the end, they splashed acid on him, disfiguring him, and he jumped off a building and died spectacularly. Every year on his death anniversary, Xie Wulv would post a long tribute to him on social media. Fans said he was kind and sentimental, and that even after Jiang Chenyang died, people remembered him thanks to Xie Wulv. The CEO protagonist misunderstood him over this. Once the misunderstanding was cleared up, their relationship quickly blossomed. Even in death, Jiang Chenyang was still helping their romance along. Jiang Chenyang was disgusted. The protagonists were going to sully his afterlife too. He'd play his disposable role to the bitter end: he'd take the protagonists' path and leave them nowhere to go. First, he'd steal a role from a hit work that made one of the protagonists famous. Rumor had it Jiang Chenyang was going to ruin the film industry by acting in a movie, and it was directed by a famous director, no less. Antis: What the hell, the useless guy can act? Is he going to play a corpse with his eyes shut? When the film came out, Jiang Chenyang's acting was astonishing. He brought the character to life. Antis: What? That was played by the girly pretty-boy? Face fans: I can't believe my pretty boy can act! Hey, you upstairs, screw you for calling him girly. He's just gentle and refined. ** One day, the media exposed Jiang Chenyang coming and going from a hotel with a powerful CEO. Antis: His resources are so good. He must have slept his way to the top. That same day, the CEO admitted on social media that they were dating. Antis: ... Antis: Jiang Chenyang is so girly. He's definitely the bottom. One day, paparazzi caught the two of them together. The usually domineering CEO was lying in Jiang Chenyang's arms, acting cute. Antis: ... Everyone was stunned. This wasn't the powerful CEO they'd imagined! Aaaah, the ship had been flipped! Jiang Chenyang was the top! P.S. 1. The protagonist is the pursuer, and younger than his love interest. 2. The characters aren't based on real people. Please don't associate them with anyone. 3. The author isn't familiar with the entertainment industry, so the plot is made up. 4. The blurb is for reference. ** Upcoming novel: Help, I Transmigrated into a Dinosaur Blurb: Xie Xing woke up one morning to find he'd become an adult Tyrannosaurus rex from the comic The Lost World. He looked at the terror and horror on the faces of the protagonists. Drool dripped from his sharp teeth. His stomach was so empty, and he couldn't control the urge to eat them. What should he do? * Please add my upcoming novel to your favorites: The Years I Spent as a Male Lead [Quick Transmigration] Blurb: Some male leads in romance novels are powerful, rich beyond compare, devastatingly handsome, and immensely talented... (insert ten thousand more words here). They stand at the top of the pyramid, yet fall in love with a vicious black-lotus heroine, a heroine who transmigrated into a book and only cares about money, a reborn heroine who is an old woman in a young body, a green-tea heroine... Some male leads in BL novels are just as exceptional, all of them winners in life. Yet they fall in love with scheming protagonists who transmigrated into a book to cozy up to the powerful, occupy the original owner's body and abundant resources, then frantically diss the original owner to make themselves look good... The male lead is a tool, a golden finger, seemingly created for the sole purpose of doting on the other protagonist, loving them, making the plot sweet, and helping the "poor" protagonist become a winner in life. Readers can't accept this and seethe with resentment. Chu Anran's task is to soothe readers' resentment, become the male lead, break free of the plot's divine control, and forge a different ending. And so he becomes a domineering CEO, a bewitching prince, a devoted tyrant, a cold academic prodigy... * Please add my upcoming novel to your favorites: I Transmigrated into a Regretful-Chase Crematorium Novel and Became a Snake Spirit. Blurb: Su Nong was struck by lightning and transmigrated into a BL CEO novel with a regretful-chase crematorium plot. Other people transmigrated as rich heirs, irresistible charmers, or the unreachable moonlight, and even if they became disposable characters, they could still turn things around. But he transmigrated into a cold-blooded snake! Worse still, he was the pet snake of the scumbag CEO top, Ji Mo jun! Other people kept cats or dogs, but this scumbag had to be different and keep a snake. Later, Ji Mo jun would go through the regretful-chase crematorium arc. Since the protagonist bottom was afraid of snakes, he would stew his pet snake, and the two of them would drink two bowls of delicious snake soup! Two bowls of delicious snake soup! Two bowls of delicious snake soup! Snake soup!! Su Nong trembled in fear and made countless attempts to "run away from home" to save his life. But every time, he was caught and brought back. Ji Mo jun: Run again, baby, and I'll stew you and eat you. Su Nong shook his head frantically, too scared to resist. Hiss, hiss: Don't eat me! Don't eat me! I won't run away again. Ji Mo jun discovered that his pet snake was unusually clever, as if it could understand human speech, so he played cat and mouse with it every time. Later, he discovered that it could transform into a young man, and was overjoyed. After becoming a spirit, Su Nong finally found a chance to escape. The man who was supposed to be going through the regretful-chase crematorium arc went mad, and when he caught Su Nong, his gaze looked ready to devour him. Su Nong: ??? Big guy, I'm human now. You still want to eat me? Ji Mo jun's eyes welled with deep affection. He whispered in Su Nong's ear, "Not eat. Eat." In the end, Su Nong, sore all over, pounded the bed. Damn it, where was the promised regretful-chase crematorium? Completed novels: The Male Lead Always Has Designs on Me [Quick Transmigration] - protagonist is the pursuer The Phoenix Man's Path to Bosshood [Quick Transmigration] - protagonist is the pursuer The System Made Me Kill the God of the System - protagonist is the pursued The Demon Is Always Causing Trouble [Quick Transmigration] - protagonist is the pursued Theme: Hard work makes you better