The Evolution of a Slacker Idol

[This is not a choose-your-favorite story! The pairing is Wen Xi and the actress Wen.]

Everyone in Yang Yanxi's family is exceptionally talented. Her grandfather is a renowned calligrapher whose works are in great demand, her father chairs a company ranked among China's top 100, her mother is an internationally acclaimed surgeon, and her older brother is a genius scientist at a research institute...

As the family's biggest good-for-nothing, Yang Yanxi's ultimate goal is to coast through life and wait for the end.

Then, before she knew it, she was dragged into a talent competition.

Even as an idol, a slacker is still a slacker.

During a post-show interview:

Question: Do you think you can debut?

Yang Yanxi: Maybe.

Question: What will you do if you don't debut?

Yang Yanxi: Find a stable nine-to-five job. It'd be even better if it paid 8,000 a month.

Question: Aren't your expectations a little low?

Yang Yanxi: With my abilities... are they really that low?

Comments:

- At least she knows exactly where she stands.

- That's just what idols from talent competitions are like. You'll get used to it.

- She's just given up, lol.

Later, a netizen dug up Yang Yanxi's alma mater: Jiang University, one of the top three universities in the country.

Comments:

- Come on, let's hear a joke: Yang Yanxi says she's only average.

- We're getting a live demonstration from the humblebrag master.

- I'm dying. I couldn't even get into an ordinary university, but did you hear me complain?

Later still, netizens dug up Yang Yanxi's family background.

Comments:

- Turns out I'm the clown.

- Turns out I'm the clown.

- Turns out I'm the clown (everyone else, get in formation)

[Important warnings]

1. The main focus is her career. No dating while she's an idol; she'll change careers later.

2. Very little romance.

3. Pairing: straightforward pursuer X flirtatious, teasing love interest.

[A relaxing side project, updating simultaneously]

The Extra Wakes Up: Saving the Aloof Beauty

Jiang Shuyuan woke up to the truth and discovered that she was an extra in a coercive romance novel. Lin Buyi, the academic genius who would reject her in the future, was the novel's female lead and the one who would be forced into a relationship!

She had thought her failed confession was simply the inevitable result of foolishly reaching for an untouchable beauty. But she never imagined that during all those years when she was nursing her heartbreak, Lin Buyi was the one truly trapped in a living hell. Her resistance was crushed, her attempts to escape punished, and the one chance she had to be saved slipped away because Jiang Shuyuan had looked the other way.

Now that she was awake to the truth, Jiang Shuyuan made up her mind: this time, she would protect Lin Buyi!

[Notes]

1. This came from a sudden idea, so it probably won't be very long.

2. Don't ask whether anyone is pure. Let's just say their hearts are all pure.

3. All the coercive scenes belong to the original story. None of them happen in the main text.

Theme: In the wear and tear of life, those who feel lost keep searching for its true meaning and eventually grow.