I Went Viral on Variety Shows with My Word Magic

[Coming soon: Love-Brained People Never Get a Happy Ending [Quick Transmigration] and Pretending to Be Kind [System]. Please add them to your reading list! The blurbs are below this story's blurb, or click through to my author page.]

·This story went on hiatus for several months because I ran into difficulties in real life. After that, I couldn't find the inspiration to continue writing. I'll pick it up again if inspiration strikes. I'm very sorry, everyone.·

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Today's hot new gossip on a forum! Yun Miaomiao, the first person online to put out a press release claiming she can catch ghosts and stubbornly play up her fairy-maiden persona, is going on a livestream variety show!

[Going on a livestream variety show? Is this woman trying to get famous for being infamous? How confident is she in her appeal to the general public?]

Her haters sprang into action, waiting in the livestream room early so they could curse Yun Miaomiao out.

At first, they wanted to call her ugly, but then they realized Yun Miaomiao looked ethereal even without ancient-style clothes, and she still carried off her outdoor outfit perfectly.

So the haters changed tack and wanted to call her lazy and a liar. But then they found that even the most outrageous things could come true when Yun Miaomiao said them:

While everyone else struggled up a cliff to get eggs from a nest, she said, "If only some birds would lay eggs somewhere lower down."

The haters: Heh, why not say they should lay them right at your feet?

Before long, a nest of freshly laid, still-warm eggs appeared at Yun Miaomiao's feet.

While everyone else worked hard to climb trees and pick fruit, she said, "If only some monkeys would come help out."

The haters seized their chance: Do you think you're the king of all beasts? Get a grip, it's broad daylight

Before they could finish, a bunch of cheeky monkeys, normally known only for stealing from people, picked a whole pile of fruit for Yun Miaomiao.

All the haters: ...

Is your mouth blessed or something?

In the end, the haters could only cling to the original piece of dirt and curse her: You can't catch a damn ghost! Ghosts aren't going to be reincarnated just because of something you say!

But soon, Yun Miaomiao caught a vicious ghost right in front of them and performed a ritual on the spot to send it to its next life.

Yun Miaomiao: I'm no great talent. My word-spirit arts aren't especially good, but catching ghosts and drawing talismans are a piece of cake. This is nothing.

Everyone: ...

Holy crap, she really can catch ghosts.

Wait, hold on,

You call that level of word-spirit arts "not especially good"???

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Reading Guide:

1. One-on-one romance, with the plot as the main focus and romance as a secondary focus.

2. Urban fantasy with elements of the entertainment industry, and a feel-good, satisfying, sweet tone.

3. Set in a fictional world, with a mountain of original worldbuilding. Please keep discussion civil.

Coming soon: Love-Brained People Never Get a Happy Ending!!!

Ming Ruoshu had been the goddess of her social circle and everyone else's ideal child since she was young, until she met Yuan Lidong, who was even more aloof and proud than she was.

She fell head over heels for him and spent half a year pursuing him before finally winning the heart of this aloof beauty.

But reality taught her that love-brained people never get a happy ending.

After a car accident, Ming Ruoshu was chosen by a System. To return to the real world, she had to fulfill the wishes of female leads who should have dominated their worlds but had unexpectedly fallen from glory.

[World One: Princess of a Powerful Nation x Prince of a Fallen Kingdom]

A transmigrated woman developed her country into a powerful nation, turning what had once been the weakest and smallest country on the continent into the greatest. But before she could ascend the throne and become empress, she was assassinated by one of the male concubines she had kept, dying in front of the Golden Throne Hall.

Ming Ruoshu was reborn at the moment the female and male leads first met. Looking at the face in front of her, identical to her ex-boyfriend's, she curled her lip and told the guards, "Take him back and lock him in the dungeon."

[World Two: Super-A Mecha War Goddess x Omega Pretending to Be an Alpha, an Illegitimate Son of a Noble Family]

From the day the female lead presented as an Alpha and was tested as having an SSS-grade genetic level, she became a legend throughout the empire and its hope of defeating the aliens once and for all. After winning a major battle, the empire assigned her to teach at a mecha academy while she recovered. There she met the male lead, an Omega who had just enrolled. He was posing as an Alpha to study in the mecha department, hoping to overthrow the imperial family by himself.

When Ming Ruoshu arrived, the male lead had lost control because of his pheromones. Ming Ruoshu ignored him and walked right past.

The male lead grabbed the hem of her clothes and said, word by word, "Please, mark me."

[World Three: Immortal Sect Master x Demon Spy]

The female lead, an immortal sect master who cultivated the Heartless Dao, accidentally went into cultivation deviation and periodically needed a man to relieve her fire. Though desire burned within her, her heart was cold as iron, and her cultivation advanced by leaps and bounds. By all rights, she should one day have completely slain the Demon Lord.

But the young disciple chosen after careful selection to relieve her fire was a demon spy. He seduced her, made her fall in love with him, and completely destroyed her Heartless Dao discipline.

When Ming Ruoshu transmigrated into this world, the male lead, pretending to be an innocent little rabbit, was watching her from a corner. He had handsome features, disheveled clothes, and his beautiful body was just barely concealed.

Ming Ruoshu raised an eyebrow. "You're the gigolo they picked out after all that fuss? This is it?"

Coming soon: Pretending to Be Kind [System]

On a lifestyle variety show, Tao Ye, a singer who was famous for all the wrong reasons, was accused of wearing twenty-yuan Taobao street-stall clothes and carrying a shoddily made canvas bag without even a logo.

Haters and rival fans alike jumped in to mock her as a tacky loser with no fashion connections who was putting on an act.

Before long, however, everyone who had mocked her was humiliated by people calling them "ignorant illiterates."

Come on, you call a Huake Institute university T-shirt a Taobao street-stall item? And a limited-edition, never-for-sale souvenir from a popular museum a shoddily made canvas bag?

Then everyone discovered that she also had a thermos printed with the Qingbei University crest, a flashlight reserved for staff at the country's largest nature reserve, and a lunch box covered with logos from Hope Primary Schools around the country...

Netizens dubbed Tao Ye the God of Souvenirs.

Only later did they find out that all these souvenirs had been given to her for making donations.

Faced with the flood of praise online, Tao Ye felt she didn't deserve it.

She was an extreme egoist. If some lousy System hadn't threatened and bribed her, who would do all this thankless work?

What good was it to become more famous? She was forced to donate all the money she earned anyway!

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After graduating, Lin Guxing gave up a job in a big city and took the civil service exam to work at the grassroots level, all for the sake of his ideal of serving his country and its people.

One day, a female celebrity arrived in the town he was responsible for, saying she wanted to donate money to help alleviate poverty. Everyone was thrilled, but Lin Guxing could tell at a glance that the woman wasn't happy about it.

Still, the one paying the bills was the boss. He welcomed her with all due care and added her on WeChat at her request.

But...

At first:

Lin Guxing: Hello, Ms. Tao. Here are the results of the town's poverty-relief work this quarter. Also, thank you so much... and so on.

Tao Ye: Mm.

Later:

Lin Guxing: Hello, Ms. Tao. Here are the expenses for the county's cultural center built this quarter. Thank you for your help.

Tao Ye: Mm-hmm~ I'll come help with the ribbon-cutting once the cultural center is finished.

Lin Guxing: I'm sure you're very busy, but if you really have time, I, Lin, will welcome you with open arms.

Tao Ye: Really? Then send me your room number, thanks~

Lin Guxing: ?

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