I Became the Contrast Character on a Dating Show and Went Viral with My Cooking

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[Coming soon: The Lazy Concubine Goes Viral for Slacking Off on a Dating Show, and The Ghost Hunter Goes Viral on a Dating Show with Her Metaphysical Powers. Please add them to your reading list! ovo]

Su Xiaohe transmigrated into a book after dying alongside a horde of zombies in the apocalypse. She became the troublemaking villainess who served as a foil to the heroine in a dating-show novel.

The villainess was affected and pretentious, a foil to the heroine's success. In the end, she was mocked across the internet and forced to leave the entertainment industry.

Looking at all the fresh ingredients this world had to offer, Su Xiaohe decided that she could put romance aside, but she'd keep doing what she did best: cooking.

*

When word got out that the fussy, pretty-faced celebrity was going to cook, netizens waited eagerly for Su Xiaohe to make a fool of herself.

Who could have guessed?

Soup-filled xiaolongbao with delicate skins, tangy and spicy sauerkraut fish, and garlic-and-thirteen-spice crawfish.

#I'm watching a dating show, so why does it feel like I've switched to a late-night food program?

#Mom asked why I was on my knees ordering takeout.

A food critic famous for his scathing tongue chased after Su Xiaohe to learn her cooking secrets, then became her devoted fan, voting for her every day.

The male contestants who'd once looked down on Su Xiaohe sent her flirty messages: “Give me another chance, sis. Your garlic prawns are so good.”

*

Later, Su Xiaohe became famous.

Then everyone realized...

The usually composed and self-controlled Best Actor was posting late-night food temptations because he'd finally waited in line long enough to try Su Xiaohe's braised eggplant.

The hugely popular star openly admitted on the show that he'd learned to act so he could eat the piping-hot braised pork Su Xiaohe made with her own hands.

And the reclusive head of a wealthy family created a Weibo account just to announce his love: @Su Xiaohe, my fiancee.

Gossiping netizens: ???

Coming soon: The Lazy Concubine Goes Viral for Slacking Off on a Dating Show. If you're interested, please add it to your reading list!

Lin Wanshuang used to be a workaholic.

With her beauty and exceptional palace-intrigue skills, she finally became the Empress Dowager, a woman who stood above all others.

But when she opened her eyes again, she was an obscure actress centuries in the future, and her agency had tossed her into a dating show.

After working herself to the bone and ending up with nothing, Lin Wanshuang was done. She decided right then and there to lie flat.

Why bother with romance? She had no worldly desire for men.

But even lying flat required money. When she saw the enormous contract-termination fee in her manager's hands, Lin Wanshuang learned for the first time how painful it was to be broke.

It was just one little dating show.

She could lie flat and get through it all the same.

*

A Chinese-style dating show, Love in Traditional Style, was ridiculed as soon as its concept trailer came out.

The worst part was that it had invited Lin Wanshuang, the entertainment industry's famous airhead, whose career was a mess and whose scandals were endless.

[Traditional Chinese style? With Lin Wanshuang's plastic-surgery face? I've never seen such an ancient aesthetic.]

[Lin Wanshuang? The entertainment industry's famous dropout? I hear she's going to a museum to talk with experts. My toes are already curling in secondhand embarrassment.]

On the day the show premiered, the other female contestants dressed to impress, and their teams bought up press coverage claiming they were the most beautiful.

Lin Wanshuang simply twisted her hair up with a wooden hairpin and couldn't even be bothered to put on makeup.

Yet that only made her exquisite, bewitching face all the more striking.

Netizens: What kind of goddess is this?

Netizens: I must have been blind before. From today on, I'm declaring myself her most devoted beauty fan.

*

On the show, a male contestant who had always cultivated a top-student image held forth about the museum's artifacts, winning admiring glances from the other women.

Lin Wanshuang lounged in an ergonomic chair in the museum's rest area, enjoying the wonders of modern technology. She didn't even spare him a glance.

A sweet, innocent-looking female contestant approached with an affectedly coy voice to ask her about it.

Lin Wanshuang: “If you can't even get the dates right, you should stop trying to keep up that image. I'm embarrassed for you.”

The male contestant flushed with rage, and his fans started throwing a fit in the comments.

Not long afterward, the museum's official website posted a notice saying that someone with inside knowledge had provided valuable clues, and the artifact's era had now been confirmed.

The male contestant's top-student image was in pieces. It was also exposed that he'd bought his degree.

Later, fans were shocked to discover that the embroidery pattern Lin Wanshuang had casually drawn to complete a show task was a long-lost design for a restored piece.

With a casual glance, she could pick out the only genuine item among countless fakes.

A casual remark from her gave experts a new direction for restoring cultural artifacts.

Verified influencers by the thousands weighed in, setting off a sensation.

Wait, Lin Wanshuang was the person with inside knowledge?

Fans: ??? I thought I was following a lazy, pretty-faced airhead!

Thanks to her unique persona, Lin Wanshuang became an overnight sensation.

How could this even work?

She'd only wanted to lie flat, but had been forced to do a few tasks along the way.

*

Life without an emperor to serve was so wonderful that Lin Wanshuang declared, “I could lie flat for another five hundred years.”

But why was a certain Best Actor surnamed Su looking at her in such an increasingly strange way?

No one knew that he'd loved her for two lifetimes.

Coming soon: The Ghost Hunter Goes Viral on a Dating Show with Her Metaphysical Powers

Sang Luo, a genius ghost hunter from another world, made one careless mistake and transmigrated into a book, becoming a background-character villainess in a dating-show novel.

The villainess had a pretty face but no talent, and served as a foil to the talented heroine.

Sang Luo: “The word ‘background character’ has never existed in my dictionary.”

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Traveling Hearts is the country's first travel-themed dating show, and it attracted a lot of attention from the very first concept trailer.

But as soon as the cast was announced, it shot to the top of the trending searches and was met with a wave of boycotts.

[The production team will do anything for publicity. They even invited Sang Luo. Aren't they afraid the show will flop spectacularly?]

[Doesn't Sang Luo always pretend to be a princess? Why would a real princess go on a dating show?]

[Could any male contestant actually be interested in Sang, the pretty-faced airhead?]

After the show aired,

Netizens: Seems pretty fun. I'll watch a little.

A business tycoon chased after Sang Luo, scattering money everywhere, just to ask her for a fortune reading.

Even the original heroine declared that she wasn't interested in keeping a harem of men. She only wanted to cling to her big sister. “Sis, you're amazing!”

*

First stop: Maoshan

During filming, the group happened to come across Taoist priests setting up an array and performing a ritual. The contestants watched in amazement.

Only Sang Luo stood in the back with her arms crossed, speaking in a calm voice. “You drew the talismans wrong. What are you trying to exorcise? You'll attract ghosts instead.”

[Do you even know what an array is? Every field has its own expertise. Why don't you stick to your own job?]

That night, the wind howled and thunder roared. An old Taoist priest from Maoshan clutched Sang Luo's sleeve. “Master, what are we supposed to do?”

Second stop: The world's number one haunted house.

The contestants ran into a headless female corpse.

[So realistic.]

[Oh no, oh no. Sang the pretty-faced airhead is terrified of ghosts. It's so realistic, she's probably going to whimper and cling to our idol's arms.]

But instead, they saw their idol hiding behind Sang Luo, too scared to even open his eyes. “Sang, save me!”

Sang Luo: “She was murdered. Why haven't you called the police?”

Comments: ???

Three days later, the police released a statement: “We thank Ms. Sang for providing valuable clues in solving the case.”

#I'm watching a dating show, so why are there ghosts everywhere?

#Damn it, this woman turned a dating show into a horror show again.

#Let our queen shine on her own. All you stinking men, stay away.

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