After Going on a Supernatural Variety Show with My Deadbeat Stepbrother, I Gave Up Trying

1. Hua Yunyun is a famously pampered rich heiress in business circles.

She never imagined that her own grandfather would name her as the next sect leader of the Taiyi Sect.

The sect she is about to inherit has been in decline for years, with not a single pilgrim.

Her grandfather's dying wish is for her to restore its former glory and become the leader of the mystic sects.

As Hua Yunyun clutched the will and wondered if her life was even real, she suddenly awakened to the fact that she was the foil character in a family-variety-show novel.

She was the spoiled troublemaker, while her stepbrother was an arrogant hotshot. They disagreed about everything, constantly sabotaging each other and dragging each other down, all to highlight the lucky female lead and her loving relationship with her younger brother.

Hua Yunyun: "???"

After completely questioning her reality, she simply grabbed the hotshot and headed straight for a supernatural variety show, Have You Seen a Ghost Tonight?!, hoping to kill two birds with one stone.

Who would have thought the lucky female lead would show up with her younger brother too!

Not one of the mystic practitioners there thought there was anything wrong with the lucky female lead's fate.

Hua Yunyun: "…"

Hua Yunyun gave up trying. At least the hotshot could argue with them.

2. A supposedly low-class variety show, looked down on by the entertainment industry, about playing at the supernatural, unexpectedly brought in idol Zhang Wuwu and his older sister, Hua Yunyun.

The haters came running, sneering: [Zhang Wuwu, the arrogant guy who can't even sweep the floor, has a sister? Did she come to cling to him because she knows he's useless?]

[They're even trying to use my fave as a foil? If the supernatural stuff is real, can Zhang Wuwu just die already?]

The first night of the livestream

The original novel's female lead witnessed all kinds of "feudal superstition" and lamented in a sugary voice that her agency was being unreasonable and using their contract to threaten them.

Hua Yunyun appeared in a designer outfit and glanced at the siblings.

The hotshot Zhang Wuwu stepped forward and handed over a check. "I understand how hard it is to work for a living."

"But this is a supernatural variety show. Your lousy lucky-charm persona won't help you here! Take this money and cancel your contract!"

"Don't come crying later and make snide remarks while trying to rope me in, making me take on this so-called karmic debt and interrupting my quest to dominate the mystic world!"

The original novel's female lead went livid.

The whole internet: "???"

A clingy freeloader? Isn't this a rich-family reality show?

The second night of the livestream

The viewers had tuned in for a bit of excitement, but instead they saw the ghost bride take physical form and provoke them. The lucky-charm siblings fled in a panic, while all kinds of bigwigs with fancy titles brought every trick in the book to bear, only to end up battered and bruised.

Only Hua Yunyun remained strangely calm, still doing her skincare. As the ghost bride drew near, she said, "Zhang Wuwu can be the groom."

Zhang Wuwu, knocked flat on the ground, exploded: "Hua Yunyun, my fangirls will tear you apart!"

Everyone else exploded too.

Hua Yunyun watched the fan devotion rushing through the air and calmly gathered it into a talisman, tying up the ghost bride tight as could be.

Then she urged him on: "Idol Zhang, your professional conduct is impressive, and even the ghost verified that your fan numbers are real. So keep up the good work!"

Looking at the ghost bride kneeling and begging, Zhang Wuwu clutched his wound and gloated. "As if I need you to tell me! You're so pampered and difficult, and I still spoil you, don't I?!"

Everyone: "???"

#Maybe learn about the family's pecking order first#

3.

The show became a huge hit. The siblings were invited by the underworld to be spokespeople and by a special supernatural affairs unit to serve as promotional ambassadors.

The Taiyi Sect became famous across all three realms. People respected them, and ghosts knelt before them.

Hua Yunyun: "…"

Having built a successful business without even meaning to, Hua Yunyun was bored, so she flipped through the so-called plot she'd long since forgotten.

That's when she realized she had already charcoal-grilled the female lead's lucky-charm golden finger.

[Bonus scene]

Grand opening ceremony for the new Taiyi Sect

Hua Yunyun couldn't be bothered with worldly affairs.

Second Sect Leader Zhang Wuwu was overjoyed, gloating to a few industry insiders who had once looked down on Hua Yunyun: "When my sister goes from a lazy fish to a dragon, she really transforms. Get it? Forget the Ghost King, even the King of Hell would have to kneel..."

His throat suddenly tightened, and Zhang Wuwu smoothly changed his tune: "I'll call you my wife! I'm sorry!"

Hua Yunyun: "???"

The King of Hell nodded with satisfaction.

This brother-in-law is a keeper. He can really be useful when there's trouble, and you can even milk him for favors!

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