Every Role I Play Is a Hidden Big Shot

Note: The story mainly follows quick transmigration worlds, which make up a large portion of the novel. You can read it as a quick transmigration story. The real-world sections are brief. This isn’t a typical entertainment-industry novel. There will be a little acting and variety-show content, but most of it focuses on the protagonist himself and the audience’s reactions in the on-screen comments after the dramas air. Yi Mang is a fine young man raised under the red flag in Blue Star. By chance, he landed a minor role as a monk, with only two lines: “Amitabha” and “I give this to you.” But when the show aired, Yi Mang was so good-looking that viewers all suspected his character had a hidden identity and was secretly a big shot. Comments: “With a face like that, he can’t be a minor character.” “Someone who looks like that could be a big shot.” “That monk has to be an important character, like a Buddha’s chosen one.” Because of those comments, that very night Yi Mang was taken into the TV drama by a System that made people’s wild imaginings come true. Whatever people imagined about him would become real. He encountered a whole crowd of overactive imaginations, and because of what they imagined, his utterly ordinary monk character became a Buddha’s chosen one. When he returned from the TV drama, the script in the real world had changed too. Everything that had happened to him after he transmigrated had been written into the script, and his character really had become a hidden big shot. Yi Mang’s character was promoted to the third male lead, and he carried on acting. By the end of the series, his character had become the audience’s beloved white moonlight. So the director cast Yi Mang in his next show too. This time, he played a pretty-boy second male lead, an innocent young prince who lived and died for the heroine. But the viewers thought, “Something’s off about this character. No one could be that stupid. He must be pretending.” “Right, he must have an ulterior motive.” So Yi Mang transmigrated into the TV drama again. He obediently played his young prince, but the people around him went searching for clues and letting their imaginations run wild. As a result, the young prince became the villain plotting to restore the previous dynasty. P.S. The TV series follow the Korean drama format: two episodes air each week, while the script is written, filmed, and broadcast at the same time. The story alternates between quick transmigration worlds and reality, but the quick transmigration worlds are the main focus. This is a fictional world with fictional characters. Please don’t try to match them to real people. The overactive-imagination premise: When a supporting character firmly believes that the protagonist has a certain ability or identity, and thinks they have evidence to support a reasonable conclusion, their entire imagined scenario becomes real. Shallow guesses, like a passing thought, or cases where they believe something but feel they don’t have enough evidence to prove it, won’t come true. Theme: Never give up on your dreams, even in difficult circumstances. Time rewards those who persevere, and hard work pays off.