A Guide to Poverty Relief on a Dating Show

Pre-release: I Became Everyone's Favorite Through Card Draws. The blurb is at the very bottom. Please add it to your reading list!

The day before he transmigrated, Fu Xingyuan had just led his hometown out of poverty and into prosperity. His exceptional looks had even helped make the local specialties popular, and he thought life would only get better from there.

Who would have thought that when he woke up, he'd transmigrated into a rural dating-reality-show novel!

While others were getting jealous and fighting for attention, he was figuring out how to increase the village's crop yields so he could help the village escape poverty.

While others were livestreaming to shift the blame and win people's favor, he started livestreaming to sell local products.

While others talked endlessly about love and faced their challenges head-on, he went door to door, helping one family after another escape the grip of poverty.

When the dating show ended, Fu Xingyuan looked at the village growing richer by the day and gradually broke into a smile. He was just passionate about helping his hometown shake off poverty. Romance? No way!

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Fu Xingyuan kept trying to boost sales in the livestream while pulling Gu Weiming, who was trying to get into the spirit of things, along with him.

Watching the number of orders climb, Fu Xingyuan couldn't help smiling. If livestreaming like this could bring the fans closer together, pairing up with Gu Weiming wasn't out of the question. He could take a small hit so everyone could be happy.

Watching Fu Xingyuan gradually soften toward him, Gu Weiming felt his heart stir. He thought he might have figured out how to win the other man's heart!

It was Fu Xingyuan's first time chasing the setting sun with someone. He'd always thought you could watch the sunset anywhere, as long as it was pleasing to the eye.

But Gu Weiming drove him along the town's roads until they reached an open meadow.

There, he saw clouds tinted pink by the sunlight. The sight was breathtaking and dazzling. Fu Xingyuan smiled at Gu Weiming and said, "Thank you."

But Gu Weiming only smiled, took the guitar from the car, and led Fu Xingyuan by the hand to sit down in the meadow. Then he said, "Last time, I played 'The Bright Moon Sends My Longing Across a Thousand Miles' for Teacher Fu. How about I play 'Walking Together' for you this time?"

"I hope you don't fall asleep this time, Teacher Fu."

Fu Xingyuan gazed at Gu Weiming, stunned. He knew how Gu Weiming felt, but he didn't want to accept his feelings, and he was afraid to. Still, the other man's deep affection, never plainly spoken, was clear to him all the same.

He smiled and replied, "Then, Apprentice Gu, please play us a song, with the setting sun as our accompaniment."

Light scattered across the world, as if they were both shining brilliantly.

Content warnings and additional notes:

1. The love interest appears fairly late, and there isn't much about him in the early chapters.

2. This is a fictional world where same-sex marriage is legal.

3. Updates are irregular, but before the story goes premium, there will generally be three chapters a day.

4. I make corrections from time to time. If you've already read it, you can ignore them.

5. This is an ensemble cast story, so keep that in mind.

6. The story focuses on romance, not on poverty alleviation, which is a secondary plotline. Most of the story takes place on the dating show, with poverty alleviation and development projects in the remaining portions. If that's not your thing, please take note. Since the dating show is the main focus, it will make up most of the story. The poverty alleviation plot serves as a thread connecting the whole story, so there won't be a dozen chapters in a row devoted entirely to it.

Please add my pre-release, I Became Everyone's Favorite Through Card Draws, to your reading list!

Blurb: Before he was reborn, Ji Xiao was the laughingstock of Jiangcheng's high society.

His clothes were unfashionable, his looks were plain, and even his way of speaking was irritating, especially when compared to his younger brother, who had been mistakenly switched at birth and raised in the Ji family for eighteen years.

Whenever Ji Yu and Ji Xiao appeared together, people would compare and criticize them relentlessly.

The disdain of outsiders, his parents' rejection, and his adopted brother's contempt all trapped the inexperienced Ji Xiao in a cage of despair.

Only on the brink of death did Ji Xiao see through his dear younger brother's tricks.

Reborn, Ji Xiao decided to be kinder to himself.

At the Ji family's welcome-home banquet for their returned son, he activated the Male Lead Card Draw System.

[Brooding, Devoted Male Lead], [Male Lead Who Started from Nothing and Became Richer Than a Nation], [Cold, Aloof Male Lead], [Devoted, Lovesick Upstart Male Lead], plus [Obsessive], [Crybaby], [Chef Top], [Older Top], and [Younger Top]. So many cards, so many character types, so many male leads.

Ji Xiao knew that this time around, he was definitely going to win big.

Casually sprinkling around a little goodwill to win the cards' affection is one of the cardholder's most common tactics.

But no one told Ji Xiao that if all these cards met in real life, they'd get jealous!!!

Worse still, all his cards wanted to pair up with him!!!

That was something a cardholder just couldn't accept.

So Ji Xiao decided to have them all!!!

[Content Warnings]

1. This is an indulgent wish-fulfillment story with no logic. Don't overthink it. There are lots of author-created details, so just turn your brain off.

2. The whole story is already written. It's packed with content.

Theme: The road to prosperity starts in the countryside. If you have a dream, come along