[Transmigrated into the Present Day / Younger Love Interest / Rivals in Love / Reality Dating Show / Extra Sweet]
[Complete]
Wait! Juju would like to mention the advance notice for her next book, "The Max-Level Agent Reborn as a Sickly Fake Young Master". It's the third installment in the Real and Fake Young Masters series, a revenge story with a groveling romance. The blurb is at the very bottom, and everyone is welcome to visit the author's page and add it to their collection! (Gu Xiyang kicks Juju away.) Ahem, now, here's the blurb for this book!
Lu Jin, supreme commander of the Alliance Army, wakes up one day to discover that he has transmigrated into a melodramatic rich-family love triangle novel. The real and fake young masters of two top-tier wealthy families both fall for the Mary Sue protagonist in the same reality dating show.
The Gu family has been a major business dynasty for three generations and dominates the entertainment industry. Despite its vast empire, it has only one heir, a famously adopted son: the family's sole "fake young master."
The fake young master invests in and takes part in a wilderness survival livestream dating show, putting a group of celebrities and internet personalities through something like a battle royale. But during the show, he falls for a man: Yi Ran, a newly risen top-tier star who's sweet, adorable, and blessed with a group-favorite aura. His life seems to follow the plot of a Mary Sue heroine.
Unfortunately, this Mary Sue protagonist has always been secretly in love with his idol, a senior from school and top dance influencer: none other than Lu Jin, the commander who is now glaring darkly and can't dance at all.
And the most dramatic part? Lu Jin is the Gu family's biological son, the real young master. He's destined to become the protagonist's rival in love and fight him for the family fortune. The ending is easy to guess.
With his naturally cold expression, Lu Jin looks at this complicated love triangle and answers without hesitation, right in front of the livestream cameras:
"Sorry, can I ask if you like him? I can go sleep in the wilderness."
Nineteen-year-old Young Master Gu has never seen anything like this. This rival... is ruthless. Absolutely ruthless.
Livestream viewers: Shocking! Lu Jin is so direct! He's volunteering to go feed himself to the wolves! This is definitely a sympathy-seeking green-tea tactic!
An hour later, everyone watches Lu Jin kill a wolf with his bare hands on the dating show's livestream...
Livestream viewers: ...Sorry, I was a little too loud just now.
Everyone knows Gu Xiyang and Lu Jin are sworn rivals, bound to fight until the day they die.
Lu Jin's solo fans spring up like mushrooms after rain, and propel him straight to top-tier star status.
But negative stories keep surfacing about Lu Jin's tangled dealings with the Gu family and shady exchanges of power and sex. Just then, the Gu family's only adopted son, the young master who lucked into a golden spoon for twenty years, suddenly announces that he's leaving the Gu family to make it on his own from scratch. With the Gu family losing its only heir, the gossip columns are rife with speculation.
At the height of the media frenzy, one late night, Gu Xiyang suddenly reposts one of Lu Jin's casual posts on Weibo.
Caption: "Bro, don't be mad anymore. Come home... /sob"
The trending topics explode.
Lu Jin replies: "I'm waiting for you at the hotel."
Onlookers restrain their overloaded brains: "...After all these years, he's still so direct. Touching."
Gu Xiyang breaks down: "Bro, if you're waiting for me at the hotel to eat, why post it on Weibo!"
Lu Jin smiles calmly. "I'm not waiting for you to eat. I'm waiting for you to confess."
A love story between a cool, older, straight-to-the-point man and a younger, awkward puppy.
[Reading Guide]
1. Younger love interest, slightly comedic, with a kind of deadpan humor that doesn't care if it lives or dies (not really)... A real-and-fake-young-master pairing. If this type isn't for you, feel free to drop out without a fuss.
2. They're each other's first love. Happy ending.
3. The real and fake young masters in this book aren't the same age. After the real young master went missing, the Gu family adopted Gu Xuyang. Gu Xiyang is 19. Lu Jin appears to be 21, but is actually 26 from his past life.
4. There is entertainment-industry content! There is business content! All places, cities, celebrities, and companies are fictional and not based on real-life counterparts. Please don't read anything into them. If any names happen to match, feel free to let the author know so they can be changed. Many thanks. After all, no cool beauty can crush rocks with his bare hands and climb cliffs unaided. The author knows nothing and is just writing for fun, so if you're an expert in the field, just assume the author is an idiot and let us both off the hook, orz.
5. Little Gu is a puppy, but he's a biting puppy, and he's fierce: a little devil type with a whole crowd of crazies in his head. Only Lu Jin thinks he's innocent and adorable (?). If you can't accept a protagonist with villainous, unhinged traits, please drop out now. The puppy's story is tied to a very important part of the main plot and to Lu Jin's past, and it will only be gradually revealed later. Please remember, he won't always be a bristling little puppy.
******Blurb for the next book, "The Max-Level Agent Reborn as a Sickly Fake Young Master":******
The third book in the Real and Fake Young Masters series: an agent's revenge story with a groveling romance. It will be published by August 7 at the latest. Add it to your collection if you're interested.
A max-level agent is reborn as a sickly, cannon-fodder fake young master. Amid the schemes of a wealthy family, he turns the tables, becomes a top-tier star, and gets his revenge.
The Ruan family is a traditional family of government officials. After retiring, Father Ruan went into business and made a fortune. Mother Ruan died of an illness years ago. Of their three sons, only the third is sickly, and before the poor boy has even graduated from university, the title of "Third Young Master" changes hands.
Father Ruan unexpectedly learns that a child named Li Feng is his biological third young master, while the sickly boy is the fake young master who was switched at the hospital years ago.
Li Feng looks a lot like the third son, but when he smiles, he has sweet dimples and a healthy complexion, the complete opposite of the third son's cold, sickly appearance.
Father Ruan changes his name to "Ruan Jifeng," matching the third son's name, "Ruan Jiyu." As for the fake young master Jiyu, Father Ruan marries him off to Lei Ting, a powerful entertainment-industry investor with business ties to the family.
Agent No. 2089, the top agent of Country X, code-named "Jiyu," jumps into the sea after a failed mission. When he wakes up again, he finds himself in the body of a fake young master, a cannon-fodder stand-in in a novel about wealthy-family power struggles. The boy is also a poor, sickly thing.
In the story, the real young master, Li Feng, is a high-level black lotus. He knew about his true identity long ago and had already seduced the Ruan family's stepmother. He successfully reclaims his place in the family, then conspires with the stepmother to kill Father Ruan and his two older brothers, claiming the entire family fortune for himself.
Lei Ting, the entertainment industry's biggest investor, is another pawn of Li Feng's. Li Feng pretends to be aloof and fragile as he gets close to Lei Ting, keeping him at arm's length while stringing him along. In the end, he becomes a top-tier star and kills both Lei Ting and his "stand-in," Ruan Jiyu. He and the stepmother emerge as the final winners.
Agent 2089: ...What kind of twisted values does this wealthy-family novel have?
He opens his eyes to find himself lying on a wedding bed.
The man before him has long blond hair, a build like a double-door refrigerator, and stands nearly two meters tall. When he smiles, he looks like a gloomy, younger version of the Godfather. Agent 2089 almost pulls out a gun and presses it to the man's forehead.
"Heh. Young Master Ruan, it's your honor to take Xiao Feng's place and marry me."
Ruan Jiyu (2089 edition): ...This "Blond Lion King" really doesn't seem too bright. No wonder he gets killed.
He smiles at the dangerous man. Rule number one for agents: even with a gun pointed at your temple, never let your panic show.
"Let's make a bet."
"Interesting. What kind of bet?"
"Bet I can escape your villa within half an hour. As for the stakes, if I lose, I'll do whatever you say. If I win, you have to do one thing for me."
"Third Young Master, with your body, out of breath after every few steps, you shouldn't joke around."
Half an hour later, Lei Ting stands in the middle of his empty villa, face dark.
A dagger is stuck in the middle of his liquor cabinet, its gleaming blade a blatant display of the other man's audacity.
A note is pinned to the dagger: "Mr. Lei, I want to join next month's mystery-solving variety show, just like your Xiao Feng. I want a spot too. A bet is a bet. You won't refuse, will you?"
"By the way, that dark red casual suit doesn't suit you. Try a black-and-gray double-breasted jacket with notch lapels. The old-school gentleman look suits you better."
Lei Ting: "..."
Being ditched on his wedding night and taunted in the process feels quite novel.
From the start, Ruan Jiyu has not a single cent to his name. Using his agent skills to swindle and bluff (not really), he goes from a frail university student to a mysterious big shot. Even the police have to work with him to find clues. He crushes the villains, turns the tables, and reaches the pinnacle of life.
Meanwhile, Lei Ting, the "poor sap" who bullies him every day, has no idea when he started acting so out of character. Now he sends Jiyu flowers every day and says he wants to pursue him.
Lei Ting: "Xiao Yu, it's all my fault. Take the flowers and forgive me."
Ruan Jiyu: "...Get lost."
[Bonus Scene]
Lei Ting looks at Ruan Jiyu, whom he had kidnapped. The pale face that's always been white as a sheet has finally taken on a flush of anger from his rapid breathing.
"Well, my fiancée? If you like this rope, you can spend the night with it."
"Heh."
"What are you laughing at? You don't know what I'm capable of. I..."
Smack!
The crisp sound of a slap echoes through the basement.
Sitting in his wheelchair, Ruan Jiyu looks at the man, who's a good deal bigger than him. That slap seems to have cleared the man's head.
"You hit me!"
"A beating is a show of affection, a scolding is a sign of love."
"...You!"
"I'm treating you this way because I love you."
"I..."
"Trust me, you'll enjoy it." Before he can finish speaking, Ruan Jiyu slaps him again.
Then he wheels himself away, and no one dares to stop him.
Lei Ting: He! He used my own lines against me! QAQ
Theme: Gold will shine wherever it is.
Damp Tide
The Blue Sparrow
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After the Top-Tier Star Drama Queen Transmigrated as the Fake Young Master in an Arranged Marriage
Born a Love Addict [Quick Transmigration]
The Human Map's Darling and the Great Villain [Infinite]
There's No Way I Could Fall for a Junior Uncle Like Him
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OMG that's awesome. When I first read the copy, I thought it was just the same old-fashioned tear-off article about the wealthy entertainment industry, but when I read it later, I realized its amazing charm. Mission, hatred, recklessness, conspiracy, despair, redemption, a vicious dog soaked in darkness, a selfish and tyrannical ruler, a victim transformed into a dragon, a dirty and lavish vanity fair, But there is also the dazzling persistence, the determination of moths to fly into the flames, the deep and burning love. In the end, the god and his most devout believers, the tired kiss under the fire and ruins, together with countless wronged souls and the most terrible sinners, all dissipated on the isolated island on the sea that no one can set foot on again... But all this is not the end, it is a new beginning. In another world, I will bring you and me full of unrepentant love to open a new chapter...
... Sister is really weird. I saw his love for the original owner, but his love felt like a shackles imposed on himself.
Help me, it's so cute, it turns out that only the extras can be sweet
Woohoo, so sweet, so sweet. It would be great if the people in the story are all good people. They must all want to be good people... By the way, can you write an article about the entertainment industry? I think you can do it.
Lu Nan's love for Lu Jin is twisted
Damn, I always thought this was the main article, but I realized it wasn't when I saw the stomachache.
What a disappointing note. . .
I like it. Why did it end so quickly? This setting can be expanded and written a lot more. It's not enough.
It's finished and I'm looking forward to the next one hehehe