I Went Viral as a Screenwriter [Book Transmigration]

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Su Tang is a screenwriter so sought-after that people fight over him. After transmigrating into an entertainment-industry novel, he becomes a newly graduated screenwriter with only 3,000 yuan to his name. If he can’t pay next month’s rent, he’ll have to sleep on the street.

Selling a script finally earns him enough to support himself, but he never expected the investor to go to every length to get him to act.

Gu Wenjun: Make a cameo in my show, and I’ll let you take part in casting.

That one little cameo sends the stunningly handsome Su Tang straight to stardom.

[So gorgeous! So polished! Why has nobody dug up his Weibo yet?!]

[Holy crap, he’s the screenwriter of this show?! Are all screenwriters like this these days?]

[Hey, don’t get the wrong idea about screenwriters!!]

[He could’ve debuted on his looks alone, but he chose to make it on talent. I’m crying.]

Su Tang, who has no clue how good-looking he is: ???

Offers from production teams come flying in like snowflakes.

Su Tang: Thanks, but no thanks.

That night, Su Tang posts on Weibo: "I’m a screenwriter by profession, and acting is just a side gig. Please follow my shows, not me."

Before long, everyone is praising Su Tang for devoting himself to art and treating money like dirt.

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[Bonus scene]

Screenwriters are the production crew’s designated scapegoats. They work themselves to the bone and still get blamed for everything.

But Su Tang is different.

Gu Wenjun, the future head of the Gu family, spoils him rotten, and Su Tang gets to join productions as a screenwriter with the investor’s backing, openly and without shame.

People in the industry say, "President Gu shields Great Screenwriter Su from all the darkness and difficulties, so he can focus on his art and stay out of worldly affairs."

Meanwhile, this powerful man is jealous of Su Tang’s supposed love rival.

Gu Wenjun: Why are so many of your shows starring Xia Shuhe?!

Su Tang: He’s a good actor, and you’re the investor for every one of my shows.

Gu Wenjun: So which of us matters more to you, him or me?

Su Tang: ...You, I guess?

You can always find another lead actor, but there’s only one investor...

Reading guide:

A refined, gorgeous screenwriter who cares only about his career and sees through worldly concerns x a powerful investor with a possessive streak, a jealous streak, a doting nature, a chatty mouth, and a talent for flirting

Loosely fictionalized setting, no real-life models, with original worldbuilding

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"As the Crown Prince of a Fallen Kingdom, I Made My C-Position Debut [Book Transmigration]"

Yan Ti, crown prince of a fallen kingdom, transmigrates into an idol survival-show novel and becomes a pretty but talentless trainee.

His stage presence is weak, he can’t sing or dance, he has terrible people skills, and he’s on the verge of elimination.

At the first team performance, his stunning opera-style singing wins over the entire audience and earns him countless fans.

[Ahhh, that was incredible! I’m your fan from now on!]

[An idol survival show is such a waste of your talent. You should head straight to CCTV!]

[So noble! You should go act in a historical drama!]

A marketing account seizes on his terrible people skills and makes a huge fuss about them.

But before long, the others are the ones who step up to set the record straight.

Mentor Su Liuxu: He has the best people skills of anyone I’ve ever met. It’s really hard to get him all to myself.

The original center: If he’s so unpopular, why can’t I ever get the seat next to him at meals?

A certain star dancer: Who’s spreading rumors about our baby brother? He’s so cute, who wouldn’t like him?

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Mentor Su Liuxu is widely regarded as a genuinely good person: warm and kind, always willing to share what he knows.

But Yan Ti’s instincts tell him this man isn’t a good person.

Maybe his instincts are wrong.

After all, Su Liuxu stays up all night practicing dance with him,

teaches him personally, step by step,

and kindly warns him that the outside world is dangerous and eliminated contestants never come back.

Once he learns the truth and finds himself pinned in the corner of the bed, Yan Ti thinks: To hell with being a genuinely good person!

[Bonus scene]

Su Liuxu: If you get eliminated and sent outside, you’ll die.

Yan Ti believes him and works hard at practice.

Su Liuxu: Actually, I was lying. But you looked really cute when you cried during the elimination announcement.

Yan Ti: ...?

Reading guide:

A proud and sweet darling of the heavens x a deceptively innocent, dark-hearted demon king

No real-life models, each other’s first love

Fictional setting where same-sex marriage is legal

Theme: Success comes from 99 percent hard work and 1 percent talent.