(I'll fill this in later or replace it with a short story)
Blurb:
Song Nian transmigrates into a book as a rich but useless villain.
In the original story, he causes trouble and courts death while pursuing the protagonist, only to be crushed by the protagonist gong and meet a tragic end.
Song Nian arrives just as the protagonist shou meets him for the first time.
He's being beaten up, and the protagonist shou rescues him.
Staring at the radiant man before him, Song Nian clenches his fists. "I'm going to be a villain, no matter what!"
No one can resist the protagonist shou. Neither can he.
Song Nian stays up all night drawing up The Villain's Training Manual.
(1) Keep his beauty all to yourself: imprison him and cut off his ties with the protagonist gong.
(2) Make sure he notices you: take the road less traveled. Give the protagonist shou the things he dislikes, and once you give them to him, make him accept them.
(3) Make sure you interact: the protagonist shou doesn't have the money to take dance lessons, so Song Nian, despite having no talent, spends a fortune to learn.
After all that, Song Nian gets a report from a subordinate he'd sent to keep watch: the protagonist shou has returned to the country!
Song Nian is confused. "Isn't the protagonist shou right here with me?"
Jin Yizhou smiles. "So I'm still just a substitute..."
Song Nian is shocked. "I actually mistook you for someone else!"
Jin Yizhou crooks a finger. "Come here. Let's keep practicing dancing."
Song Nian: "I have no talent..."
Jin Yizhou: "You've got plenty of talent. Your splits and backbends last night were great..."
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The whole entertainment industry knows Song Nian, a nobody of an actor, loves to piggyback on other people's fame.
Whenever "piggybacking on fame" appears in the trending topics, everyone immediately thinks of him.
But for some reason, people notice that this kind of trending topic seems to have disappeared.
Then, half a year later, Song Nian makes his comeback, and the words "piggybacking on fame" appear in the trending topics again.
Netizens sigh. "As expected, the same old formula."
But a minute later...
Netizens gawk. "Wait, why is the Best Actor piggybacking on Song Nian's fame?"
Half a month later, Jin Yizhou and Song Nian appear on a couples' reality show.
Antis arrive in a fury, keyboards at the ready.
But after watching the show, they realize Song Nian isn't that bad after all. He can cook, sing, and play five instruments. Most importantly, he's rich and will send money at the drop of a hat!
Antis: "The biggest scandal of Jin Yizhou's life is Song Nian!"
Song Nian: "Jin Yizhou and Song Nian are made for each other! (This line gets ten thousand. Delete the part in parentheses.)"
Antis: We're sorry, you really did offer too much!
1v1, both are each other's first
A shou who thinks he's wicked but is actually kind, adorable, rich, and adored by everyone x a Best Actor gong who's sweet on the outside but ruthless underneath, treats his lover and everyone else by different standards, and has no shame
(Jin Yizhou is the protagonist shou; Jin Yizhou is Jin Yizhou's uncle. The name issue will be explained in the story.)
(2021.08.26)
[Danmei Preview] Soft and Sweet, But Career-Driven [Quick Transmigration]
(Soft, timid, universally adored shou x gong fragments from different worlds)
Song Mingyu is timid but extremely career-driven. After accidentally binding himself to the Villain System, he stays remarkably optimistic.
Isn't it just putting down and insulting the protagonist and causing them all kinds of trouble? He can do that!
But...
Song Mingyu is pinned in a corner, crying. "Are the people bullying me really the protagonists? How are they more like villains than I am?"
The useless System is confused too. "Why is the villainy meter full, but the protagonists are confessing to the Host?!"
[World One: I Marry into a Wealthy Family and Become the Stepfather of Three Adopted Sons]
The year the youngest son of the Pei family turns eighteen, the head of the family becomes infatuated and insists on marrying a man the same age as his youngest son.
Everyone laughs, expecting the wealthy stepfather and stepsons to fight to the death over the family fortune. Then one of the stepsons sneaks into the villainous stepfather's room in the middle of the night.
He covers Song Mingyu's mouth and whispers, "Stepfather, keep your voice down. You don't want Father and your younger brother to find out about us, do you..."
[World Two: A Lazy, Greedy, Lying Widower x Gong Fragments Who Gladly Offer Him Everything]
He's a lazy, greedy villain from an ancient farming novel. His husband has only just died, and he's already started seducing men everywhere.
With the money a young scholar saved for his examination trip, he goes to the hunter's house for a meal of meat today, the fisherman's house to try some fish tomorrow, and now and then spends the night at the home of an acquaintance in the government service, deceiving them all.
Song Mingyu follows the plot exactly, but why are the people he deceives all smiling and saying that if he takes or eats their things, he has to marry them?
And that husband of his: weren't you already dead?
[World Three: A Snobbish, Fickle, Womanizing Scumbag Beta x His Abandoned Alpha Exes]
[World Four: A Scheming Tofu Seller x The Marquis's Heir]
[World Five: Everyone Loves the Fake Young Master, and So Does the Real Young Master]
[World Six: A Mad, Cowardly Researcher x All Kinds of Strange Undersea Creatures]
[...]
Theme: The fruits of success must be earned through honest effort