After Becoming an Idiot, I Got Along with the Villainous Tycoon

[The main story is complete. The alternate-ending bonus chapters are being serialized for free in a separate collection. The blurb for the ongoing novel, The Worthless Beauty Doesn't Want to Keep Pretending, is below.]

[Reformed Big Shot Top x A Playing-the-Fool-in-Public, Clever-Ace-Actor-in-Private Bottom]

1.

Shen Zhibei transmigrated into a supporting character destined to be cannon fodder in a melodramatic body-double romance novel.

Not only was he a little fool, but unscrupulous relatives also forced him into a marriage alliance with the male lead, using him as a tool to curry favor with a wealthy family.

The male lead, however, had a white moonlight in his heart and never took his foolish fiance seriously.

The little fool met a miserable end. First, he was framed and caught in bed by his fiance. After their engagement was called off, he was thrown out of the house, and not long afterward he died an untimely death out on the street.

Shen Zhibei decided to rewrite his miserable fate. So he secretly switched the drink that had been tampered with, giving it to his fiance instead.

The next morning, he woke up in a huge hotel bed with a strange man lying beside him.

Shen Zhibei: ...Who the hell drugged the fiance's drink too?

Afterward, he tossed down two hundred yuan and fled in a panic.

He thought they would never cross paths again, but then they met around the corner.

Shen Zhibei never imagined his one-night stand would turn out to be Gu Guannan, the villainous big shot in the story.

At a banquet, the handsome man sat in his wheelchair, two hundred-yuan bills between his fingers. His voice was cold. "Am I only worth 200 yuan?"

Shen Zhibei broke into a sweat. Trying to keep up his fool act, he fished out another bill. "Here's another fifty. Beibei has no money left. Beibei will give it all to you."

2.

The little fool had a vast fortune, but his unscrupulous relatives had seized it all.

To stay alive, Shen Zhibei had no choice but to keep diligently playing the fool.

Later, he clung to the villainous big shot as his powerful patron.

Gu Guannan, a powerful tycoon from a wealthy family, had been unable to walk since childhood and was known for his eccentric temperament. Everyone in their circle knew to keep their distance.

But one day, people noticed a mysterious man by Gu Guannan's side. He was handsome, but also a daft little fool.

The cold and heartless Gu Guannan showed the little fool special affection.

Everyone wondered what made the little fool so special.

That night, at the Gu residence.

Shen Zhibei dropped his foolish act and said coldly, "It's getting cold. I want my scumbag fiance to go bankrupt."

Gu Guannan: "Sure. Just don't get wild tonight."

A few reading tips:

1: One-on-one romance. The bottom has no romantic entanglement with his nominal fiance.

2: The original character was a fool, but the bottom isn't. The top's legs will recover later.

3: There are thousands of good novels out there. If this one isn't to your taste, don't force yourself to read it. Thank you!

Ongoing novel: The Worthless Beauty Doesn't Want to Keep Pretending

Gu Yu had been in the entertainment industry for years, but his popularity had never taken off. His agency sent him to a talent competition show to boost his profile.

Gu Yu politely declined. "I'm terrible at both singing and dancing."

His agent urged him, "You just need a good-looking face!"

Before he entered the show, his agent gave him three words of advice: Keep low, mooch, cling!

Keep your head down and last as long as you can! Shamelessly mooch camera time! Cling to the powerful without an ounce of embarrassment!

Gu Yu: I just want to coast through the first round and get eliminated.

For the Dream was also known as Gu Yu's spectacular public embarrassment.

In vocal class, everyone else sang with technique and feeling, while he sang with nothing but feeling and no technique. In dance class, everyone else moved with grace and style, while his limbs were as stiff as someone in rehab. In rap class, the others were rappers, while he was a reader.

He earned the nickname Worthless Beauty.

Looking at his bottom-of-the-rankings position, the Worthless Beauty smiled with satisfaction.

But the night before the elimination round, the production team released a behind-the-scenes clip.

In the video, Gu Yu stood onstage, a beam of light falling across his handsome, cool face. But it also revealed the red, tearful corner of one eye.

The young man smiled as tears slid down his cheeks like pearls from a broken string. Like a fragile crystal doll, he had a shattered beauty about him.

Netizens: Gasp... Oh no, I'm falling for him!

That night, the show's official voting site nearly crashed.

The next day, Gu Yu stared silently at his soaring ranking.

Gu Yu's popularity kept climbing, but so did the criticism. The internet was awash with insults.

[He's useless aside from his face! Why does Gu Yu deserve a spot in the debut lineup?]

[Gu Yu has to go, or the world makes no sense! The Chinese entertainment industry is doomed!]

His agent comforted him: "Even hate makes you famous! Keep coasting, keep your head down! The Worthless Beauty is the GOAT!"

But the Worthless Beauty himself didn't want to keep pretending anymore.

Second public performance. After the third group's performance, netizens flooded the comments:

[Ahhh, what's the center guy's name! He's so handsome! I'm voting him into the debut lineup!]

[The center guy is amazing at both singing and dancing! He's clearly an A-level performer, so why is he in F?]

[Because that's Gu Yu... the famous Worthless Beauty...]

[??? You call that worthless?]

Only later did the netizens learn that the Worthless Beauty they had been talking about had ranked first in the arts entrance exams at ten performing arts schools. He was the exam god whom every arts student prayed to before their exams...

On debut night, Gu Yu debuted as the center.

His fans cried out, "Gu Yu! You fooled us so badly! Why did you pretend to be a Worthless Beauty?"

Gu Yu: "I wasn't planning to debut at first. Then I heard that contestants who debuted could choose a mentor to collaborate with onstage."

Fans: "???"

As was customary on For the Dream, the contestants who debuted could choose one mentor for a stage collaboration.

After filming ended, Gu Yu walked up to Shen Ranxuan and smiled calmly. "Teacher Shen, would you honor me with this chance?"

Shen Ranxuan gazed at the face he had longed for day and night, his eyes darkening slightly. He asked in a low voice, "Is the stranger game over, senior?"

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Theme: In adversity, fear no darkness. Forge ahead bravely. Perseverance brings victory.