My Paper Idol Is No Talentless Pretty Face

Ming Xin is a game character in an idol-training game. After a bug, he ends up inside the body of a little-known star named Song Mingxin.

Apart from his looks, Song Mingxin has nothing going for him, and people have dubbed him a good-for-nothing pretty face.

Ming Xin says: Thanks for complimenting my looks, but this genius idol who can both sing and dance is no good-for-nothing!

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Shen Yi is a renowned, cool-headed and composed award-winning actor. In his spare time, he either reads or fishes, and his Weibo has been dormant for years.

One day, work requires the steady, old-school "artist" to try the wildly popular idol-training game, All People Idol. He gets hooked, and for the first time in his life, spends money to raise a little star, getting his very own star into the center position.

Just as he's getting absorbed in the game, a bug strikes, and the paper character he's been raising for ages disappears from the game??

Later, he meets a little-known star named Song Mingxin.

The little star seems to know everything, except how to love.

Shen Yi: Spend money? I'd give my life for you.

Shen Yi (top) VS Ming Xin (bottom)

* Top: An old-fashioned official on the surface, but insecure and a little neurotic on the inside (nothing serious).

* Bottom: At heart, he's still a paper character, so he doesn't understand human emotions, but he's a brilliant learner!

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[Blurb One]

Xi Yin transmigrates into a novel.

In the book, the male lead is a yandere, and the female lead can follow the System's instructions to win him over and earn points toward the protagonist's charm stat.

Xi Yin thinks: Easy. I'll just follow the original plot.

So he brings the male lead a meal, just as the original story says.

Male lead's affection: -1.

He gives the male lead a shoulder massage, just as the original story says.

Male lead's affection: -5.

Xi Yin: ???

Is the original book messing with me?

Xi Yin figures that if he keeps following the original plot, he'll be an idiot.

Giving up on the original plot, Xi Yin lets loose and starts by doing something big: he dumps the yandere male lead. After all, he's just a tool! He's done trying to earn those protagonist charm points!

[Blurb Two]

Sheng Wen unexpectedly gets his hands on a book.

It says he'll fall in love with a man named Xi Yin, and become hopelessly devoted to him.

But Xi Yin won't love him back.

Because Sheng Wen is Xi Yin's mission target. As long as Xi Yin's affection for him increases, Xi Yin can earn protagonist charm points.

After closing the book, Sheng Wen looks at Xi Yin, who's being so attentive and bringing him a meal, and raises an eyebrow.

You're treating me like a tool?

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