Rumors Say I Have a Boyfriend [Book Transmigration]

As a minor female character in an old-school Mary Sue school story, Feng Xue had always watched from the sidelines as the universally adored heroine tangled with all sorts of male leads. Sometimes, if Feng Xue ran into the male and female leads on the road, she would turn around and avoid them, just to keep from getting caught up in some melodramatic plotline. But one day, on her way to class, Feng Xue witnessed an accident. Someone nearly got hit by a car while crossing the street, so Feng Xue reached out to pull them back. She didn't manage to pull them away, and instead accidentally crashed into their arms. To anyone watching, it looked like a romantic street-side embrace. Someone captured that moment and posted it on the school forum. [Feng Xue... seems to have a boyfriend.] From that day on, everything changed. "Weren't you uninterested in dating?" "Why did you reach out to him?" "You won't even look at me, yet you embrace some random nobody..." "Then why should I keep watching you from afar?" Those proud, exceptional male leads, usually so cool and distant toward Feng Xue, changed in an instant. Violent, furious, gloomy, cloying emotions swept over her from all sides, threatening to swallow Feng Xue whole. Only then did Feng Xue belatedly begin to realize something. She was the one everyone adored. For Feng Xue, there had only ever been one goal: [Pass the AS exam with the highest score so I can go home.] But this place... might not be as simple as an ordinary Mary Sue school story. - In a nutshell: The male leads go crazy after the supposedly minor female character gets a boyfriend. - Reader's guide: 1. A universally adored heroine, unaware she's a goddess, the unattainable ideal in everyone's eyes. 2. The heroine has basically no romantic feelings! (The reason is revealed in Chapter 90.) 3. No logic! Chuunibyou! Cheesy! Indulgent, melodramatic Mary Sue chaos! Full of old-school tropes! 4. Everyone loving the heroine is the basic premise! 5. The characters are all pretty good at jumping to conclusions. 6. [Not a traditional stock-picking romance. Some characters will get more page time, because this story is only one part of a much bigger world.] [Everyone's likes and dislikes differ. The story and romance get equal focus. If it's not for you, run for the hills~] Cover + Weibo: @Miao Xiaoli Coming soon: I'm the R-Rank Little Sister of an SSR-Rank Brother (I) [Third-person narration] This is a world where stardom depends on talent. The moment a star is born, their maximum rank may already be set. Unfortunately, you weren't born under a lucky star. You were R-rank from birth. Your brother, on the other hand, is SSR-rank. He became a top-tier star after appearing in a formula commercial as a baby, while you joined an entertainment company as a trainee at eight. Even now, all you can do in front of a camera is flash a helpless peace sign. (II) Ten years have passed. If this were a game, your maximum scores in acting, singing, and dancing would be just 59.9. Your brother's maximum score could reach 100,000. (III) Making your debut is out of the question. You can't put all your eggs in one basket. You want to change careers, drive an excavator, become a chef, anything. But the exorbitant contract termination fee stands in your way. Your family fell on hard times, and your brother turned into a fully automatic, 24-hour debt-repayment machine to clear the family's debts. Since you were twelve, you and your brother have been so broke your pockets were cleaner than your faces. Still, you're optimistic. With your physical fitness, you should be able to find some way to work part-time (?). (IV) Your brother has a job on an adventure reality show. He asks if you want to come along. With your entertainment-industry stats, what kind of show could you possibly go on? You'd be better off getting a part-time job. Your brother drops to his knees and cries, "There's money in it." Ah! For the sake of sibling love (and the termination fee), you have to give it a try. (V) But you think your brother must be crazy to join this show. Your brother has a twisted personality and is very good at his job, but he's afraid of the dark, ghosts, heights, snakes, bugs, and every scary story under the sun. Then he accidentally signed the contract and had no choice but to go. You grin. For the prize money, even if your brother screams himself hoarse, the two of you are going to make it to the end. ^_^ (VI) In the show's introductory video, your singing, dancing, and acting are all so bad that people would switch channels at once. The stars on the show look down on you, the talentless pretty face, whether openly or behind your back. Online, people mercilessly mock your brother for using his connections to bring you into the industry. Looking at your delicate, pampered appearance, they figure your brother will have to carry you the whole way. In the show's first haunted-house escape challenge, everyone expects you to be left helpless, then scared to tears and unconscious by the NPCs dressed as ghosts. Instead, you grab an NPC hiding under a stool and haul them out with one hand. You're very polite. "Hello. The key is in your intestines, right? May I dig it out?" Everyone screams in terror: "??? Dig, dig what out?" (VII) You become a safe haven on this show. Everyone wants to cling to you like a little bird. Everyone: We'll bow down to you. Please protect us. Before, you didn't even need to check the news to know how badly people were trashing you. Later, the production team wants to make a permanent horror survival show centered on you. The haters outside the show have already become fans, waiting for you to make another spectacular appearance. Someone on the show wants to teach you to sing, dance, and act, and bring you into the industry afterward. Before you even have a chance to get angry, your brother blows up first. Your brother fumes: "What kind of nobodies are they! They want to date you? They should take a good look at themselves first!" (VIII) When you receive a paper airplane with a love note, you finally understand. This isn't just an adventure show. It's a dating show too. 1. The younger sister is a lovable airhead who could pull a willow tree out of the ground like Lin Daiyu; the older brother is a narcissist who thinks he's the center of the universe and is afraid of everything. When it comes to intelligence, the two of them are the perfect pair of hopeless idiots. 2. In this fictional entertainment industry, people who don't meet the ability requirements can't get work, no matter what. There is no such thing as pulling strings. 3. Everyone is SSR-rank. A temporary slump just means your strengths are different from other people's, and you haven't found the right direction yet. 4. As usual, cheesy Mary Sue stuff. 5. After getting COVID for the second time, my brain's been a bit fuzzy. I'm writing something under doctor's orders to get back into shape. 2022.8.4 Theme: Stay true to your goals and remain true to yourself