I Set the Entertainment Industry Straight

This novel will go premium at Chapter 21, with the usual extra-long chapters. After that, it will update daily with 6,000 characters. Shen Mangyue is a police officer who goes undercover at Xingmang Entertainment to gather evidence that its CEO is dealing drugs. But before he can find the evidence, he makes his debut as an entertainer. After entering the entertainment industry, Shen Mangyue draws a sharp breath. So many commendations are waiting for him. Idol A evades taxes. Actor B solicits prostitution and uses drugs. Singer C sexually assaults ordinary people and abuses assistants. Director D launders money for an organized crime syndicate… Shen Mangyue is run off his feet. Shen Mangyue, the newest artist signed by Xingmang Entertainment, is a certified failure in every category. His acting is awful, his singing is flat, and dancing is his strongest skill, yet he has no grace whatsoever, like a “pole dancer”: his body is the pole, and his talent is trash. The only things he has going for him are his pretty face and his unbelievable proportions and eight-pack abs. But the fan community never insults Shen Mangyue. They treat him as a taboo subject. Because word is that every single one of Shen Mangyue's rivals has crashed and burned! And the kind of crash that lands them in prison. In the end, even Xingmang Entertainment, Shen Mangyue's biggest backer, went down. Everyone wanted to see Shen Mangyue make a fool of himself. Instead, he put on his uniform, rose through the ranks, and landed a government post. Oh, right, he'd been a government employee all along. Damn! So he was the one who took down both his rivals and his own company! This is pure wish fulfillment set in a fictional world. Don't connect it to reality or read yourself into it. The author made everything up for fun. Coming soon: After Shipping My Teammates in a Boy Band, I Died of Embarrassment; The Little Ancestor Takes a Top-Tier Star on a Poverty-Alleviation Variety Show Li Chu transmigrates into a book. It's a novel about a boy-band idol group. The group has five members and two couples. He's the lonely fifth wheel. As the fifth member, Li Chu feels awkward in the group, and his teammates are always picking on him and saying he's in the way. So Li Chu is forced to follow the diligent, career-focused path of an idol, and eventually rises to become the group's ace and most popular member. In his spare time, he casually ships couples to spice up his life. Gentle CEO-type teammate A x hot-tempered cool guy teammate B Ship it! Sadistic, cunning beauty teammate C x aloof, untouchable teammate D So good, so good! By day, Li Chu is an idol. By night, he's a big name in the shipping community. Is there anything more exciting and fun than shipping a couple in person? Yes! When his teammates find the fanfiction he'd bought and written himself. Li Chu looks at the familiar yet unfamiliar faces of his four teammates. Li Chu: Small, pitiful, and helpless. Teammate A flips through the book, admiring the poses, and smiles. “So this is what you like me to be like?” Li Chu thinks of teammate A as the domineering CEO in the story, and his heart skips a beat. Teammate B grits his teeth. “Looks like you have a serious misunderstanding about me. We need to clear up this little misunderstanding.” Li Chu: Talking is fine. No need to get physical! Teammate C points at his sadistic portrayal in the book and relaxes. “I was worried I'd scare you in real life. Looks like you've already mentally prepared yourself.” Li Chu: I haven't prepared myself for anything! Teammate D's gaze moves between Li Chu and the book. A crack finally appears in his perpetually icy expression. “Is there nothing about the two of us?” Li Chu: Is that really the point?! Li Chu's books are confiscated. From then on, his teammates carefully buy him books pairing themselves with Li Chu and feed them to him every day. Teammates: Are you going to read them? Li Chu: No! Teammates: Then we'll act it out. Li Chu: !!! Theme: Justice will always triumph over evil