The Mermaid Supporting Character Lies Flat With Her Actor Brother

Author's Note:

The main story is complete, and bonus chapters are being posted. I have to focus on moving soon, so I'll continue updating the bonus chapters in June.

Zhizhi is a mermaid. One day, she opens her eyes and discovers that she has become a human who walks on two legs: Yao Zhizhi.

What she doesn't know is that Yao Zhizhi is a resource-backed supporting actress in an entertainment-industry novel, who covets the original male lead and keeps digging herself into trouble.

Her older brother, an award-winning actor, defends her, ruining his reputation with the public, destroying his carefully cultivated image, and offending people throughout the industry. In the end, he can only take supporting roles opposite actors from the bottom ranks to repay his debts.

Her family's entertainment company pours countless resources into promoting her and takes on the female lead, only to lose everything and eventually go bankrupt and close its doors.

She also doesn't know that Tang Xi, the original heroine of the novel, has been reborn. She still wants to use the script from her previous life to get further ahead and make up for her regrets.

As a simple (apex predator) mermaid, Zhizhi thinks human society is far too complicated. She clutches herself and trembles, always remembering her manager's warning, "Don't cause trouble," and lies flat alongside her award-winning actor brother.

Onlookers: The vicious big shot is pretending to be innocent again...

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On a challenge variety show, each team has to earn money to pay off its debts.

Tang Xi, the original heroine, brings out her hit song and waits as she sings for Zhizhi to do what she did in her previous life: stop passersby and beg them for money by flashing her face, earning herself the nickname "little princess."

The laid-back Zhizhi leans against a tree and seems to hum a little tune.

Everyone: "!!!"

All the surrounding sounds gradually fade away, leaving only her singing.

In this little corner, the crowd slowly gathers.

When Zhizhi finishes singing, everyone recalls the briefest, most beautiful memory of their lives, tears streaming down their faces.

Her award-winning actor brother: I'm so relieved. My little sister has finally grown up.

Tang Xi, dubbed by her fans as having a mermaid's voice, versus Zhizhi, a real mermaid.

Fake mermaid versus real mermaid: the fake mermaid loses utterly.

As the story gradually begins to unfold differently, the little mermaid who doesn't want to cause trouble becomes the brightest star of all.

Ling Ran lost his sense of pitch in a car accident. By chance, he hears Zhizhi sing and feels as though he has found the only singer in his life. He recovers the music he lost, and from then on, he wants to compose only for her.

Male lead: a genius composer with trauma-induced aphasia / Female lead: strong but unaware of it, laid-back and content to lie flat

Preview: After the Socially Anxious Mushroom Is Reborn into the Foil Role

A socially anxious little mushroom, mutated in the apocalypse, transmigrates into a wealthy-family melodrama as the foil character.

In the novel, the main branch of the family shines brightly.

The eldest son is a gifted, world-class composing prodigy.

The heiress is clever and adorable, with the male lead and supporting male characters all orbiting around her.

As for the second branch, the foil family she belongs to, the parents died in a plane accident, leaving behind only a pair of fraternal twins.

The older brother is world-weary and cold. After getting injured, he gives up on himself and refuses to speak to anyone, eventually dying alone.

The younger sister is arrogant and domineering. The heiress of the main branch repeatedly humiliates her, everyone hates her, and in the end, she is swindled out of her inheritance and reduced to being a kept woman.

After closing the book, The Spoiled Heiress,

the mushroom looks at the world-weary face of the brother beside her and sheds bitter tears.

Because the socially anxious mushroom happens to feed on human affection.

To get a hot meal,

she decides to bring her brother onto a variety show and make their debut as celebrities.

The little mushroom doesn't know that:

In this real world, her world-weary brother is actually a musical genius. After injuring his hand, he gives up on himself. The main branch even steals his compositions, leaving him with nothing. Heartbroken and despairing, he dies in winter.

The domineering younger sister saw through the main branch's hypocrisy long ago. But her abilities are limited, so she can only be humiliated again and again, until she is framed, swindled out of her inheritance, and left to live a ruined life.

Her arrival sets everything on a different course.

The airhead and the grump are a team. Charge!

Theme: Be yourself, and you will succeed.