A Plan to Create a Villainous Movie Star [Book Transmigration]

The King of Bad Movies will be followed by the upcoming novel I Only Like Your Voice

The bestselling author Qin Deng transmigrates into the entertainment-industry novel A Glittering Star Path, becoming the suicidal screenwriter who sucks up to the protagonists and sabotages newcomers to get famous.

Unluckily for him, the newcomer he sabotages, Pei Nianming, grows into the novel's great villain and ruthlessly settles scores with each of his enemies. Qin Deng gets one of the worst fates of them all.

After years of working diligently as an extra, Pei Nianming has only just begun to establish himself in the acting world. His bad luck starts when he meets the protagonist couple.

Who can blame him for lacking the protagonist's halo?

He could have become a rising star, but in an industry that fawns on the powerful and bullies the weak, he is broken down and turns dark.

And villains, naturally, don't get happy endings.

The day the protagonist couple become top actors, he dies unnoticed in a great fire.

When Qin Deng arrives and meets Pei Nianming for the first time, his heart stirs. "I feel for him. Just watch me, a disposable character, save you, the villain."

But he has no idea that Pei Nianming, reborn, watches this little screenwriter, so different from the one he remembers, working tirelessly to help him, and thinks with a cold laugh: "Hah!"

A devious coworker spreads negative rumors online. Qin Deng: "I'll fight him for three hundred rounds!"

Pei Nianming: "Already dealt with him."

An evil boss frames him with ulterior motives. Qin Deng: "I'll use my foresight to find evidence of his crimes."

Pei Nianming: "Already had him taken away in the middle of the night."

Qin Deng is confused. Finally, when the original novel's male lead mistakenly thinks Pei Nianming and the heroine are together, which could hurt Pei Nianming's career, he steps in and grabs Pei Nianming. "This one's already taken."

Pei Nianming: "?"

Qin Deng explains afterward: "Don't worry, it was all an act. We'll break up when filming wraps."

Pei Nianming: "..."

There's a screenwriter in his life who writes scripts without permission. One is titled I Hadn't Even Fallen for You Yet, and Now You're My Ex

A brilliant actor who's a wolf in sheep's clothing, seme x a talented screenwriter who walks right into his trap, uke

Reader's Guide:

1. The seme is reborn. At first, Qin Deng is just a fish on a chopping board to him.

2. Sweet story! Sweet story! This is a sweet story!

3. No real-life inspirations! All characters are made up by the author!

4. As usual, 1v1, happy ending

Synopsis for The King of Bad Movies:

Shen Qisheng has acted in countless bad movies since his debut. None has ever scored above 3, but he still believes he's an undiscovered gem.

Audience: He's been acting for years, and he's still as bad as ever.

Shen Qisheng: There's more than one method of acting.

Audience: Not only is the acting bad, the script is awful too. It doesn't even have basic logic. An elementary school student could write better.

Shen Qisheng: That's called leaving room for interpretation and imagination, understand? Elementary school students don't need everything spelled out when they watch a show.

The upside of being obscure is that you can argue with viewers online for three hundred rounds and nobody cares.

After appearing as an extra once, Mu Xia's dream of becoming an actor burns bright. He believes that with talent and hard work, he can make a comeback and become a top actor.

After landing a few bit parts in Shen Qisheng's movies, he finally gets a supporting role with substantial screen time.

He excitedly posts: There are no small roles, only small actors. Keep at it, and you'll get your chance to shine.

Netizens: Hope you keep making bad movies forever. Don't go ruin any other films.

Later, the netizens' "good wishes" come true.

Shen Qisheng and Mu Xia are pulled into a strange space and ordered to co-star in a movie, using their acting skills to fix the nonsensical logic of the original script.

A horror movie that relies entirely on sound effects, with a poster that's the only scary part

A melodramatic urban romance that shatters your worldview and has no shame

An artsy movie that keeps a deadpan expression from start to finish, with nothing but gloom and pretension

After reading the script, Shen Qisheng flips the table. "Which idiot wrote this? The logic is so broken, there's no way to make it work!"

Mu Xia: "...Brother Shen, what happened to leaving room for interpretation and imagination?"

A "veteran" of the bad-movie industry, seme x a "dream-chasing" newcomer to the acting world, uke

Synopsis for The Clamor:

Also known as I Only Like Your Voice

Shao Tinglan was once a hugely popular silent-film actor. When talkies swept the industry, his inability to deliver lines well eventually made him fade into silence.

Later, he died in a bombing. By then, no one remembered him. The only record of his life in the history books reads: Born in 1908, year of death unknown.

When he opens his eyes again, Shao Tinglan has become an actor with a little fame, but terrible acting and line delivery. A third of the fans won over by his stunning looks give up on him after seeing his acting.

Just as he is about to become a has-been whose time as a celebrity will last only seven months, his company decides to send him on a variety show. At least he can make some money there.

On a dating show, Shao Tinglan is paired with musical theater actor Xi Guan.

The day he sees Xi Guan perform, Shao Tinglan realizes that his voice is exactly what he's dreamed of. For the first time, he feels the clamor of his heartstrings trembling.

To hear more of that voice, he sticks close to Xi Guan throughout the show, speaking to him so tenderly that his words seem to drip with affection.

"Shao Tinglan definitely has real feelings for him."

"No one would believe this is acting. Everyone knows Shao Tinglan's acting is terrible."

"Hahaha, it hurts, but it's true. If Shao Tinglan doesn't like Xi Guan, I'll eat a keyboard while standing on my head."

Xi Guan believes it too.

After the show ends, he confesses to Shao Tinglan: "I think we could give this a try."

Shao Tinglan is delighted. "Really? I can pay you."

Xi Guan realizes something is off. "...Pay me for what?"

Shao Tinglan: "For teaching me my lines."

Xi Guan: "..."

No one knows that Xi Guan has collected every work by silent-film actor Shao Tinglan.

When Xi Guan saw Shao Tinglan's films as a young man, he couldn't put a name to the surging emotion in his chest. When he learned that Shao Tinglan had vanished from the film industry because he couldn't deliver his lines, he made a wish: if he could return to Shao Tinglan's era, he would become his voice.

Go, get drunk

Go, get drunk

Alone, plunge into the sea and dream a great dream

What's wrong with scooping up the moon?

Listening to the Waves

An artist at heart, transmigrated to the Republican era, gentle actor uke x talented, modern, younger musical theater actor seme

Theme: Keep your passion alive, and pursue your dreams and love