1.
To keep the eldest son's position from being threatened, the family sent his younger brother, Dongfang He, away when he was very young. Afraid the eldest son would be lonely, they even handpicked a child around his age to take Dongfang He's place at his side.
The family did not remember Dongfang He until he had grown up, but by then, he had already been raised into a good-for-nothing.
Fortunately, he had a handsome face. Since he was family, they couldn't bear to let him go completely to waste, so they sent him to an entertainment-industry talent show to be a pretty face.
But he couldn't even manage that. He had a terrible temper, and during the talent show, #DongfangHeGlares# shot straight to the top of the trending searches. Everyone mocked him.
No one knew how he managed to debut as part of a group, but that didn't stop everyone from saying he was dragging the whole team down.
Later, a video of “Dongfang He acting like a diva” made him famous across the internet.
For a time, the whole internet demanded that he quit the entertainment industry.
2.
After Dongfang He left the entertainment industry, a livestream variety show called “Martial World Showdown” became a hit.
The guests went deep into the mountains to interview the great figures of various martial arts sects. No one expected to see Dongfang He there.
Someone angrily scolded Dongfang He for shamelessly forcing his way onto the show. The latter merely raised an eyebrow. “Forcing my way on? This whole mountain belongs to me.”
As the truth came to light, so did the truth behind the talent show that had made the whole internet turn against Dongfang He. Only then did people learn how much he had suffered.
To their growing amazement, they discovered that Dongfang He had beaten up every sect they interviewed.
Everyone: “...” Brother He was that wild back then?
Had he actually toned down his temper since then?
Later, after learning more about Dongfang He's past from the various sects, everyone wished they could kneel and beg him to go back to being as wild as before.
3.
After learning about Dongfang He's past, the Dongfang family angrily confronted the sects: “He's a child of our Dongfang family. How dare you bully him like that? He was only a little competitive. Was that really enough reason to kick him out of your sect?”
The sects were furious too. “That's Dongfang He! Such a proud, arrogant person. How dare you insult him like that? You even said he'd been raised into a good-for-nothing. He's a once-in-a-generation genius. Do you have eyes in your heads?”
[The setting is fictional, the logic is nonexistent, and there's plenty of melodrama. All the worldbuilding is made up, so don't scrutinize it. This story is fictional, so don't imitate it.]
One-on-one pairing.
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“My Parents Are Actually Big Shots in a Horror Game” [Infinite]
1.
Yin Liuyun, a popular young star, was invited to join a variety show. The guests would enter a device that sent them through time to their parents' era, livestreaming their time spent with their parents when they were young.
Yin Liuyun had been raised by his refined and gentle father and had never met his mother. Whenever he asked about her, his father always brushed the question aside.
This variety show would let him learn about his parents' past, so he agreed without a second thought.
But when he actually traveled back in time, he belatedly realized that something was wrong.
W-wait a second. Forget how poor everything was decades ago. Why are the corpses moving?!
Is this even scientific?
2.
It was the same kind of livestream variety show. Other people's children shared warm meals with their young parents, went to school together, or hugged and cried together. But no one else was chased and gnawed at by monsters like Yin Liuyun.
For everyone else, it was a heartwarming family show. For Yin Liuyun, it became a full-scale survival horror show.
Yin Liuyun: “...”
He was stubborn, too. The whole internet urged him to come back, but he insisted on finding his mother.
He never imagined that his mother would turn out to be a man, and one seriously formidable man at that.
Yin Liuyun: “? So how was I born?”
That day, #YinLiuyunWasPickedUpFromAGarbageHeap# shot to the top of the trending searches.
Yin Liuyun: “...Do you people have any manners?”
3.
Yin Liuyun had always thought his father was honest, dull, refined, and gentle. The viewers thought the same, until they saw with their own eyes as his father kicked the corpse that was chasing and gnawing at Yin Liuyun to pieces.
Viewers: “Has your dad always been this fierce?”
Yin Liuyun: “...”
Is this my dad? I'm not sure. Let's keep watching.
4.
An overly kind newcomer arrived in the horror game. He saved many people, and no one expected this newcomer to eventually become the guild leader with the most supporters.
Xiao Yegge had initially looked down on him, smiling as he said, “Kid, what makes you think you can boss me around?”
Later, after learning Yin Liuyun's true identity, Xiao Yegge was left speechless. “You said you're whose son?”
Plenty of people were so afraid of him that they begged for mercy. But Yin Liuyun was the first to get so frightened that he babbled and started calling people Dad.
Xiao Yegge thought that was the most embarrassing moment of his life, but something even more embarrassing was yet to come.
He even wondered if he had misheard. “Kid, who did you say your mother is?”
You can call someone your mother if you like, but I can't call my wife my wife!
The male lead does not take his father's surname.
Theme: Never forget your original purpose