Shock! The Male Lead Is a Stick Figure

Please add to your reading list: Turned into a Variety Show, Chasing Down a Billion in Debt

Blurb:

After transmigrating into a book, good-for-nothing cultivator Lu Xiyue is suddenly chosen as the owner of Ma Liang's Magic Brush.

The brush is the foremost of the four great artifacts of the cultivation world. Not only can it bring anything it paints to life, it can also help someone ascend to immortality in a single step.

Just like that, Lu Xiyue, who has always been alone, becomes a target for everyone.

By all rights,

anyone who gets the Magic Brush should be able to swagger around wherever they please. After all, someone once nearly used it to recreate an entire cultivation world.

However,

Lu Xiyue is hopelessly bad at drawing.

Lu Xiyue: ...All right. After putting in a tremendous amount of effort, she manages to bring a stick figure to life.

Lu Xiyue keeps getting targeted by people who want to kill her and steal her treasure. She is having the worst luck ever!!

To stay alive, she has no choice but to improve her drawing skills while on the run.

Finally, one day, while being chased, she draws an exceptionally nimble stick figure: Xiao Hei.

Xiao Hei takes one look at her pursuers and wipes them all out in an instant.

Lu Xiyue, overcome with emotion: At last, you're here. Thank goodness I didn't give up.

Looking at the handsome black stick figure,

Lu Xiyue: My little boy is so handsome! Mommy loves you!

The male lead, who has lost his memories and accidentally ended up inside the stick figure: ???

He looks at the petite, adorable girl gazing at him with loving eyes and asks, sounding deeply uncertain, "Mother?"

Lu Xiyue pats the male lead, still in stick-figure form, on the head and exclaims, "Son!!"

Later,

the nimble Xiao Hei turns into a peerlessly beautiful man. The most important thing is, he has exactly the same face as the male lead.

Lu Xiyue: ??? Where's my stick figure? Where did my nimble, dark-skinned stick figure go?

Lu Xiyue: Aah! Give me back my son!!

Xiao Hei, who has transformed into a living person: How about I give you a husband instead?

Blurb for the upcoming novel:

The reality show Shining Stars is a blind-box variety show with a budget of ten billion. That money was originally meant for something else, so debt collector Qian Lai becomes the show's chief director in order to get it back.

To recover the debt, amnesiac, broke Qian Lai cautiously explores and boldly films.

The result is a smash-hit variety show on a scale no one dares to imitate.

Netizens praise it again and again: Wow, this isn't a variety show. It's a god sent to clean up the entertainment industry. Let's crowdfund eighty or a hundred seasons and send all the celebrities there to learn something.

Other work-reality shows: Celebrities eat and drink well, slack off, and pick up a 300-yuan-an-hour job, then put on a show of how hard life is for ordinary people.

Qian Lai goes straight for it: She makes celebrities live like ordinary people again.

Take the bus and subway, submit resumes, and look for work. You start with 500 yuan, and filming lasts at least a month. If you can't find a job, you go hungry.

Here, all celebrity privileges are useless.

Watching celebrities get swindled out of their money, tricked into taking out loans, and nearly lured into pyramid schemes,

Qian Lai calls the police just in time: Thank you for your hard work, guests. Here's a cup of water and some heartfelt concern.

Please be careful, everyone. Watch out for scams.

Oh, and you haven't earned today's money yet, so keep at it, and stay safe.

Acting variety shows

Other shows: Fake lessons, real favoritism, with catfights more entertaining than the acting.

Qian Lai: No tricks. We judge the acting, and nothing else.

New technology immerses the guests in their performances.

Those who became famous young always regret that they lack life experience and can't portray a character's complexity. Now, I'll make that wish come true.

Attention, guests. From this moment on, treat everything here as real.

If your acting is terrible, watch out or the NPCs will kill you.

If your acting is barely good enough, you'll repeat the current scene over and over until you get it right.

After a popular wooden actor appears on the show, his fans are moved to tears: Poor brother, he's suffered so much. His acting is incredible, absolutely explosive. How can he portray fear so realistically?

Passersby: Good grief, that's amazing! Has this wooden actor finally figured it out? I can actually see emotion in his eyes! He even gave me goosebumps with how scared he looked! Nice, I've gone from a passerby to a fan.

His agent: You've improved so much this time. Are the show's instructors really that good? Why not go on a few more episodes?

The popular actor, who finally gets it after experiencing twelve different ways to die: No, no, let's not.

Survival idol show

The best stage for trainees who dream of becoming idols and idols who have no stage to perform on.

Stop complaining that you don't have a stage! Stop being forced to switch careers and become actors, making a mockery of the audience's eyes!

Now there are stages for every taste: mountains, rivers, oceans, explosions, forests...

Absolutely realistic and wildly imaginative sets, with visual experiences more thrilling than album effects.

A friendly reminder: Please perform the choreography and actions as directed on the stage.

The stage has no place for slackers. Those of you phoning it in, get moving, or the stage will eat you alive.

There are other themed variety shows too.

Blind-box variety shows are full of surprises. To avoid spoiling too much, please stay tuned and enjoy!

Theme: It's okay to have shortcomings.