The Dating Show Foil Tears Into Scumbags and Becomes a Sensation

Currently updating in my author profile: The Drama Queen Becomes a Beloved Favorite on a Desert Island Dating Show. Please add it to your collection! [Complete. The full novel costs only 7 yuan. Please support the official version~] Xia Xiaoxiao transmigrates into a melodramatic dating-show novel, as the foil to the original heroine. She's a cannon-fodder supporting actress, dumped by the male lead on the show and eventually driven to villainy, despised by the entire internet. Xia Xiaoxiao frowns. What kind of brain-dead He Shuhuan male lead is this? But after reading the whole novel, Xia Xiaoxiao realizes there's more to it than that: The first male contestant is a playboy, the second is an entitled know-it-all, the third is a manipulative gaslighter, and the fourth is gay. Xia Xiaoxiao: ? Her fists clench. Oh, she's ready to throw hands. So, during the show's filming, she takes them on one by one. On the first day of filming, the playboy first male contestant says over dinner that it's hard for him to fall for anyone. Xia Xiaoxiao drawls, "Who's farting? It reeks." On their first date, the entitled second male contestant lectures her with his classic line: "You don't wear makeup when you go out? You're that confident?" Xia Xiaoxiao rolls her eyes. "Why do you wear pants when you go out? Are you that insecure?" After a few days in the villa, the manipulative guy puts on a serious face and says, "You're great in every way, but your personality is a little... If only you could change it." Xia Xiaoxiao snorts. "Who do you think you are? Worry about yourself." During a random date, Xia Xiaoxiao is paired with the fourth male contestant, who's gay. The mood is a little awkward, and he tries to say something, but Xia Xiaoxiao cuts him off. "No need to say it. I get it, girl." By the end of filming, not a single couple has successfully matched up. Unexpectedly, though, the show becomes more popular than ever. The audience originally tuned in for the sweet couples on a dating show, but Xia Xiaoxiao's sharp-tongued sarcasm wins them over instead. Audience: This woman is ridiculously charming! After becoming an overnight sensation, Xia Xiaoxiao remains unfazed and even posts on Weibo: I only did what any woman would do. Bonus scene: Halfway through the show, a fifth male contestant who doesn't exist in the original novel suddenly arrives at the villa. Xia Xiaoxiao assumes he's appeared as a butterfly effect caused by her straying from the plot. She mistakenly thinks he's another walking collection of red flags, so she keeps a close eye on him and makes sure the original heroine doesn't spend too much time with him. On the final day, during the confession segment, Xia Xiaoxiao turns down the confession and gets into the car leaving the villa. Not long after filming wraps, one night beneath a dark and stormy sky, she finds the fifth male contestant blocking her doorway. With red-rimmed eyes and a hoarse voice, Lu Tan asks, "Is it fun to play with people's feelings?" Xia Xiaoxiao: "...?" #TurnsOutIWasTheRedFlagAllAlong# [Reading guide] 1. A dating show featuring ordinary people. 2. The male lead joins the dating show for the heroine. They don't get together during the show, only after it ends. 3. The heroine is a little slow to catch on, and the romance has a few twists, but overall it's sweet. Both leads are romantically inexperienced, and it's a one-on-one pairing. 4. A satisfying, feel-good story for light reading. Don't overthink the logic. 5. The dating-show setup is inspired by Heart Signal. [Synopsis written in September 2021] A related upcoming novel in the same collection: The Drama Queen Becomes a Beloved Favorite on a Desert Island Dating Show. Please add it to your collection! Synopsis: Li Lili, the daughter of a business tycoon, is reborn as a notorious drama queen celebrity who was blacklisted years ago because of scandals. Just before her contract expires, her agency books her on a dating show where single men and women live together on a deserted island. Only the contestant who wins the most popular votes can stay in the sole diamond suite. At the same time, she's bound to a Drama Queen System. System: As long as you make enough trouble and complete one hate-attracting drama queen task each day, you'll earn ten million yuan. Li Lili, who's never been this broke before: You want me to make a scene? I'm an expert! What's a diamond suite? What's a popularity vote? Can any of that beat ten million yuan? * As filming begins, Li Lili receives her first hate-attracting task from the Drama Queen System. Task one: Tell a male contestant to his face that he's useless. Task two: Kick a male contestant. Task three: Slap a male contestant. Task four... And so... At lunchtime, the aloof CEO cuts his finger while cooking. Li Lili tells him, "You're such a useless little thing." The CEO ignores her coldly. After she leaves, he spots the bandage left on the table and stares at it in a daze. During a physical challenge, the unruly rich young master slips and is about to fall. Li Lili raises her slender foot and kicks him. He hits the ground and is just about to curse when he looks up and sees a sharp stone on the ground nearby. A shiver of fear runs through him. At the evening party, the innocent esports player sits by the brightly lit bonfire, drinking. Li Lili raises a freshly manicured hand and slaps him across the face. His glass falls to the ground. When he sees the venomous insect still writhing there, his heart softens, and he completely forgets the sting on his cheek. - When Desert Island Romance begins airing, people hear that Li Lili, the drama queen once buried under a mountain of scandals, is on the show. A horde of gossip-hungry viewers tunes in right on time, expecting to watch her wail and fuss on the island. But instead... "Why are all the male contestants voting for her?" "She's won the diamond suite again?!!" "Good grief! The drama queen has become everyone's favorite?!!" At the end of the show, every male contestant chooses Li Lili when it's time to confess to the person they like. The viewers are dumbfounded. Please, teach us your ways! Li Lili, who's made a fortune: ...Bind yourself to a Drama Queen System and you can do it too? Theme: Women should be independent and strong