Starting with Donkey Hooves, I Set the Variety Show Straight

At first, when Qin Wudi said he was going into variety shows, netizens did not support him. He had set a record by winning Best Actor at age nine. Now that he was grown, he was giving up acting and going crazy by becoming a variety-show personality? Had a donkey kicked him in the head? Qin Wudi: ...I'm not crazy, and I haven't fallen out with any donkeys. To clear things up, his first variety show had him trimming a donkey's hooves. Netizens: ??? His technique is so practiced! Curiosity got the better of them, so they clicked into the show's livestream, only to find they couldn't leave. One million people watched live... uh, Qin Wudi trimming a donkey's hooves. An entertainer at his company got hemorrhoid surgery and had to skip Escape Room 6, so Qin Wudi filled in. The director figured Qin Wudi was afraid of the dark and hoped he would scream in terror to make the show more entertaining. Qin Wudi: It's about to get dark in here, folks. The NPCs ran around clutching their heads and screaming in terror. The guests, who were supposed to film late into the night, cleared the challenge early and wrapped up in time for afternoon tea. Director: ??? How am I supposed to edit this episode? The guest lineup for The Meaning of Travel was announced: a diva of the music industry, a retired pop king, a Best Actor, a Best Actress, and Qin Wudi. Netizens: The production team is insanely awesome. They actually managed to get four major celebrities together! They're all so! hard! to deal with! Poor Qin Wudi, the "porter," is in for it. But then the four major celebrities were the ones who got thoroughly put through the wringer??? The grand variety-show production Survival Paradise 101 brought together 101 contestants, including wilderness survival bloggers, ordinary people, and entertainers... Netizens: What are entertainers doing here? Did they get the wrong idea? Then they spotted a familiar figure. This show is definitely going to be good! One variety show after another became a hit. Qin Wudi went from a variety-show personality people mocked to a major star in the variety-show world. Major TV networks and streaming platforms competed to invite him, all eager to create a custom show for him... Reporter: From a child star who won Best Actor to the top-tier star of variety shows, netizens say you've come to reform the variety-show world. What do you think? Qin Wudi: ...It's a long story. The retired System had malfunctioned. It had sent Qin Wudi, a quick transmigration veteran, to this world, mistakenly given him the identity of a child star and Best Actor, and bound him to variety-show missions. "To compensate the Host, you'll receive a reward of 100 million for completing each show." "Ding! Mission reward of 100 million received." "Ding! Mission reward of 100 million received." A certain country was launching a global wilderness survival show and inviting contestants from all over the world to sign up. Netizens in China unanimously declared: Qin Wudi is ready to represent China!!! Qin Wudi himself: No, I don't want to. I'm planning to retire. The general audience: Wudi, the variety-show world can't go on without you! Go reform the foreign variety shows too! P.S. Here's a little preview of some of the shows he'll film: Animal variety show A large-scale AR vampire murder-mystery game Escape room Travel variety show Wilderness variety show Acting variety show... My next novel will be All-Male Group Survival Show: Reborn as a Group, I Secretly Become a God. Please add it to your reading list. Here's the blurb: On the day the S+ idol survival show Idol Training Diary premiered, every contestant was Reborn. The five favorites who had debuted in a group in their previous life, the trainee from Korea who had dropped out halfway through, the former idol who had failed to make the top twelve, the sacrificial contestant who had narrowly missed debuting... Everyone held the script of the future in their hands. They saw the debut spots as already theirs and coveted the center position. Everyone thought they had the situation under control this time. They were ready to outwork and eliminate one another, certain they would win. Only Su Yushuang was an exception. He wasn't Reborn. He had transmigrated into a book. In an idol-survival novel, Su Yushuang had been written as a "fake rich second-generation" sacrificial character. His family went bankrupt when he was fourteen, leaving him with a massive debt. At eighteen, he risked everything and entered the competition. He was eliminated in the first round, eliminated in the second, eliminated in the third, and then withdrew on the night of the final, just as he was about to claim the eighth debut spot... He gave everything to get close to debuting, only to fail again and again. In the end, he finally awakened to the truth: his life had already been written for him. Perhaps it was that refusal to accept his fate that brought him to the real-world competition. At first, no one paid any attention to the addition of Su Yushuang. Even fewer people knew that beneath the cheerful, well-behaved exterior of this cute boy with symmetrical beauty marks under his eyes, there was a second personality: proud, ruthless, and skilled at disguise. While the Reborn contestants used their knowledge of the future to scheme, fight for screen time, band together to reach the debut lineup, and secretly undermine their rivals, Su Yushuang played the role of an invisible little weakling, keeping a low profile and coasting along. At the same time, in corners no one could see, his two personalities took turns coming to the fore. He trained his singing and dancing skills frantically, improved at astonishing speed, and quietly surpassed everyone. The Reborn contestants schemed against one another and guarded against every dark horse, dark horse, dark horse. The only one they overlooked was this outsider, who seemed ordinary and utterly unambitious. Later, producers across the internet went wild cheering him on, the mentors favored him, and he came in first by a huge margin in the voting. Everyone was stunned: We had memories of our previous lives when we were Reborn. So how did an ordinary person quietly reach the top and become a legend along the way? Su Yushuang lowered his eyes and smiled, two different emotions quietly turning in their depths. Sorry, you can fight over the scripts from your past lives. I'm here to crush everyone. P.S. The title and blurb are provisional. I got the idea last year and really want to write it. Please add it to your reading list. I'll start it soon! Core theme: Move forward with optimism and bravely embrace a new journey.