After Transmigrated as a Black-Hearted Entertainment Boss [Transmigration]

Overworked office drone Tao Zui transmigrates into a book!

Good news: He becomes a rich second-generation heir and never has to work 996 again!

Bad news: He transmigrated into more than one book, and all the artists under his management are protagonists. He's the unscrupulous boss who bullies them, and he ends up disgraced and thrown in prison.

Good news: The original owner has only just returned from abroad to inherit the company, so none of it has happened yet!

Bad news: The company is running out of money and is on the verge of bankruptcy.

Looking at the disastrous financial statements, Tao Zui makes up his mind: He'll sell everything he owns if he has to, just to cling to the protagonists and ride their success to fame and fortune!

But before long, he discovers that the plot has gone so far off the rails even his own mother wouldn't recognize it!

The role of the top-tier star and Best Actor gets stolen, and he's blocked at every turn, unable to make any progress. The powerful lover of the currently popular Best TV Actor is promoting someone else, while waves of smear campaigns keep coming. A popular boy band runs into a golden child on a survival show, and their chances of debuting are in jeopardy.

Tao Zui: ...Can this world get any worse?!

With the novel's plot hanging by a thread, Tao Zui can only rely on himself.

To help the protagonists rise to the top, he takes on the movie industry's shady practices, kicks the unscrupulous rival company to the curb, charges online to tear into clickbait accounts, and can also turn into a bodyguard to fend off invasive fans and stalker photographers.

Just as the plot finally gets back on track and Tao Zui at last holds the top-tier Best Actor, the popular Best TV Actor, and the hit boy band in his hands as he reaches the pinnacle of life, the protagonists start looking at him rather strangely.

Taoli Entertainment is bad at managing scandals, has terrible resources, a useless team, and no control over public opinion. Every day, the fans show up on time to ask: Has Taoli Entertainment gone bankrupt yet?

- Tao Zui must have saved the galaxy in his last life. This time he gets to lie flat and ride on my idol's success, and now he has the youngest three-time Best Actor alive [eye roll]

- My idol became a Best TV Actor through his own hard work. Tao Zui is just a useless fool who got lucky and signed the right person.

- Didn't Tao Zui's dad sign all of them? Tao Zui is just a useless rich kid who parachuted in and gets to lie flat while owning a hit boy band. Must be nice!

Later, the popular Best TV Actor appeared on a travel variety show and clung desperately to a chibi Tao Zui pillow from his luggage.

Popular Best TV Actor: This one stays! I can't sleep without it!

Fans: ...Honey! Do you know what you're saying, honey?!

The hit boy band appeared on a laid-back variety show. When the MC asked what their favorite food was, the three of them nearly came to blows.

Hit boy band: Tao Dad's twice-cooked pork (boiled beef in chili broth / fish-fragrant shredded pork) is obviously the best!

Fans: ...Son! Don't go around calling people Dad, son!

An internet celebrity was livestreaming at a newly opened amusement park overseas. Two handsome guys walked into the background, and one of them looked remarkably like Gu Nan, the top-tier star and three-time Best Actor.

Tao Zui: Ugh! This sandwich filling is strawberry-flavored!

Gu Nan: Give me the rest. You eat this one, it's banana-flavored.

Fans who saw the two of them eating each other's leftovers with their own eyes: ...Husband, stop talking!

Content warnings: 1. The protagonist is not universally adored; one-on-one romance. 2. There is a five-year age gap, with the younger one as the pursuer.

Reader's guide: 1. A socially adept, truly laid-back older office drone x a cold wolfdog who turns into a clingy puppy, a younger Best Actor;

2. All characters in this story are fictional and are not based on real people;

3. If it's not your thing, please click the X. Thank you!

[My Ex-Boyfriend Turned into a Paper Doll returns from hiatus in December. Please add it to your collection!]

Bookshop owner Lin Sheng is beautiful, has a lovely voice, and is both talented and charming. He has a history of mental illness, but has been out of the hospital for years and is emotionally stable, until he receives a notebook from his missing ex-boyfriend.

The moment he sees the notebook, Lin Sheng is so furious he nearly loses his mind on the spot. He immediately decides to follow the address and go kill him, and then

Antisocial alternate personality: Then let me out, and I'll skin him alive, pull out his tendons, and twist his head off to kick it around like a ball!

Who knew that the moment he stepped outside, he'd enter a bizarre place? The notebook floated in midair and turned its pages by itself. A line of bloody writing appeared on a blank page

[Give your wife a kiss~]

Lin Sheng: ...Heh heh, the world of mental illness sure is getting more and more colorful!

Good news: My ex-boyfriend is back, so I can get revenge!

Bad news: My ex-boyfriend has become a paper doll. I can see him, but I can't touch him.

Lin Sheng looked around helplessly, sword in hand. He couldn't cut down the heartless man, and now he was surrounded by a bunch of fellow patients.

Fellow Patient A: Hey, do you believe in religion? We have the Great One, the Eternal Child, and the Flying Spaghetti Monster. Believe, or we'll kill you!

Lin Sheng, who was only passing by: ...

Fellow Patient B: I can see everyone's evil thoughts. And you! You're full of them, so you deserve to die!

Lin Sheng, who has an antisocial alternate personality but is fundamentally a law-abiding citizen: ...

Fellow Patient C: Excuse me, friend, please stop and listen to me read...

Lin Sheng: I don't believe in religion.

Fellow Patient C: This isn't scripture, it's my diary. May 18, Year 133 of the New Era, sunny. The pretty girl from the class next door smiled at me today, but I'm still dating Meimei. Ah! We're sugar, sweet enough to hurt~

Lin Sheng: ...

With a paper-doll boyfriend who wants to rekindle their old romance using a cybernetic penis, and an alternate personality who keeps clamoring to become a god, Lin Sheng decides the world might as well be destroyed :)

[An exquisitely beautiful, snarky mentally ill protagonist x a gentle, crazed fake-notebook love interest]

[Preorder: Married in Secret to a Top-Tier Star, Then We Went on a Couples' Variety Show. Please add it to your collection!]

Ye Zhinian placed first in the entrance exams for the Central Academy of Drama, but accidentally wound up in a den of thieves for eight years. Even after returning, he's still a nobody, known as the most beautiful face among the nobodies.

Luckily, his contract is about to expire. All he has left to do for the company is play second fiddle to its popular young star and pretend to be the star's friend on a livestreamed friendship variety show.

The company's persona for Ye Zhinian on the show is a gentle, easygoing older brother who always gives in and never talks back. In other words: a doormat.

To get his contract terminated without a hitch, Ye Zhinian acts flawlessly in front of the cameras, until top-tier star Lu Chen makes a surprise appearance and one "holy crap" from Ye Zhinian destroys the whole act.

Lu Chen debuted overseas before returning to China to build a career. He's active in film, television, and music, a top-tier star with no real competition, and is called the entertainment industry's number-one Alpha.

His scandal-prone nature means rumors follow him everywhere. He's issued so many clarifications his fingers are sore, but people still hire online trolls to spread rumors that he's deeply in love.

Unable to tolerate any more attacks on his reputation as a model of virtue, Lu Chen angrily joins the friendship variety show, intending to announce his beloved wife. But just as he appears on camera, he receives a text from his wife

If you reveal anything, you'll sleep on the couch for three months :)

Lu Chen: Okay QAQ

The livestreamed friendship variety show Utopia is packed with drama from the moment it starts.

The popular young actor and the energetic idol are rivals. The popular young actress and the glamorous star have been at odds for years. The surprise guest, top-tier star Lu Chen, has been rumored to be involved with every guest except one background character!

The friendship show instantly turns into a battlefield. The gossiping viewers are enthralled, and the show's popularity keeps soaring.

But as they keep watching, their focus gradually shifts...

- Why does Lu Chen keep sneaking looks at Ye Zhinian?

- Ye Zhinian is polite to everyone. Why does he boss Lu Chen around and treat him so rudely?

- Lu Chen, you're supposed to be a cold, aloof top-tier star! Look at what a fool you are, smiling at Ye Zhinian!

- That otherworldly big brother Ye Zhinian from day one seems like a hallucination...

- That look, that smile, that completely oblivious-to-everyone-else atmosphere! Everyone knows I'm shipping them, and I'm obsessed!

After the variety show ends, Lu Chen's 108 pairings automatically disband, and "Everyone Knows Lu" appears out of nowhere. Ye Zhinian becomes famous as a result.

The company refuses to let go of its newly minted cash cow. It forces Ye Zhinian to renew his contract, threatening to expose his secret marriage and break up his pairing, sending him back to being a nobody overnight.

The next second, Lu Chen posts an update.

@Lu Chen: My wife @Ye Zhinian's contract has finally expired, so I can announce it! My wife and I were childhood friends, grew up together, and have been married for four years. I love only my wife in this life. Everyone else, stay away! [Holding marriage certificate, model-husband selfie.jpg]

[Gentle and steady on the outside, a spoiled and bratty young master at heart x aloof and arrogant on the outside, a clingy chatterbox hopelessly in love at heart]

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