I Went Viral After Standing Up for the Villain's Kid on a Variety Show

Sheng Xing, a former top-tier star, discovers that he's actually the villain in a variety show novel about celebrity parents and children.

Because he's in love with the male lead, he keeps digging his own grave, even targeting Xie Yu, his adopted son with a tragic past. Instead, he helps the male lead and his husband fall sweetly in love on the show. In the end, he gets so angry that he dies, and his resentful death scene gets a three-thousand-word close-up!

Sheng Xing: "???"

Sheng Xing laughs in anger. He only married for the sake of adopting Xie Yu, okay!

Not only is Xie Yu smart, he's also hardworking and ambitious. He studies every subject diligently every day, and loves wearing a little suit and puffing out his chubby cheeks as he imitates adults. He's just too adorable.

He's exactly the kind of heir the Sheng family has always dreamed of!

But who could have guessed that in the story, Xie Yu is actually a yandere little villain? He'll do anything to monopolize the male lead, and even pushes the pregnant male lead's partner, before dying himself.

Sheng Xing: "…"

Sheng Xing had no intention of getting involved, but then the so-called male lead's partner and his supporters started running their mouths. "You're just a male nanny. How dare you throw your weight around?"

"Nobody's going to root for a romance between a washed-up nobody and a CEO."

With his short temper, Sheng Xing decides to cut through the nonsense and turns to the parents in charge. "There's something wrong with this show. Suspend it!"

The show is suspended.

The program's backer, Xingchen Entertainment, announces its bankruptcy and restructuring.

Thinking he'd torn up the script from the start, Sheng Xing never expected someone to taunt him from afar:

The male lead's partner, who believes in lying flat: "Forcing kids to study only turns them into learning machines. In the end, they're still just 996 wage slaves. Better to let them have a happy childhood. Right, President Sheng?"

Netizens point fingers, full of malice: "Sheng Xing is just using the kid. He doesn't care about the kid's mental or physical health. What child wants to study from morning to night? What an idiot."

Xie Yu's eyes turn red with hurt. "I'm just as capable as my uncle and Daddy. I know how to balance work and rest. I don't want to play like a silly kid."

Sheng Xing immediately stands up for his little one and fires back at everyone. "My kid has a psychologist and education experts teaching him, ten to one."

"Then let's make a survey and ask workers whether they want an incompetent second-generation heir with nothing but blood ties to drop in as their boss, or whether they dare to answer the call of entrepreneurship and become their own bosses!"

"And then we'll get a lawyer to ask what it takes to fight for custody of a child!"

Later, workers everywhere wish that all second-generation heirs were as dependable as little Xie Yu.

Business tycoons publicly express their envy: "If my son had Sheng Xing's self-awareness and didn't meddle in things he knows nothing about, and if he adopted a clever kid, I'd gladly donate half my fortune to thank everyone online."

Education experts publish ten articles in a row about teaching according to each student's abilities.

The Ministry of Commerce awards Xie Yu the Best Young Heir medal.

The netizens who used to mock him can only feel their faces burning.

The male lead's partner, who was tricked by a friend into signing a contract and losing his family fortune, is even more regretful, his eyes brimming with tears as he wishes he'd studied harder back then.

Sheng Xing is thoroughly satisfied, with only one complaint: his arranged-marriage partner still won't sign the divorce papers!

After founding Xingchen Entertainment, which came to control half the entertainment industry, and then destroying it with his own hands for the sake of a child, Xie Ting thinks he's the obvious choice for World's Best Dad.

But the kid who used to cling to him says, "Uncle, you're getting a divorce. I want to live with Daddy."

"But you can be my dead weight!"

Xie Ting: "???!!!"

Furious, Xie Ting digs out their marriage contract. "Look carefully. Your uncle married into the Sheng family. Go back to the Xie family and inherit the business!"

#Before marriage, he thought they were each getting what they wanted. After marriage, life as a live-in son-in-law isn't bad at all#

Reading notes:

1. Probably a low-skill, high-enthusiasm, somewhat bratty bottom X a sharp-tongued CEO top. They had no connection at first, and only got together because "the family's business empire needs an heir".

2. The CEO thinks his talented older sister should inherit the family business, so he's perfectly willing to marry into the Sheng family.

Theme: Good communication matters. Don't jump to conclusions.