I Went Viral After Deciding to Lie Flat [Book Transmigration]

Reserved musical theater actor bottom × straightforward producer top

Coming soon: My Husband, My Responsibility. The blurb is at the bottom. Please add it to your reading list, thank you!

Blurb:

Xia Yu'an, the leading man of a musical theater company, transmigrates into a supporting character in a danmei novel set in the entertainment industry. His acting is bad, his singing is unbearable, and only his face is good-looking. In the end, he meets a miserable fate.

To avoid the tragic ending of the original story, Xia Yu'an immediately decides to lie flat and be a salted fish who never fights for anything.

He doesn't try to ride the coattails of popular shows. Instead, he joins a musical variety show that's already gone cold. After eliminating every other contestant, he gets flamed on trending topics, gaining hundreds of thousands of haters overnight while making the show a hit.

During the live broadcast, a fellow guest from his group says sarcastically, "Teacher Xia, since you're so amazing, why not give us a demonstration?"

Xia Yu'an calmly sings a few lines a cappella. The whole venue falls silent.

A dozen seconds later, the experts on site are beside themselves with excitement: "Perfect! A textbook example of coloratura!"

The haters with keyboards in hand are stunned: "Coloratura? Seriously? What happened to that voice that was supposed to sound like a saw scraping when he sang?"

Not long after, Xia Yu'an appears at a world-class musical theater awards ceremony. His haters sneer, waiting to watch him embarrass himself.

Instead, they watch Xia Yu'an walk onstage, pick up his trophy, and deliver his acceptance speech with composure.

The haters: "? He just won Best Actor?"

Everyone assumes Xia Yu'an will use this chance to turn his career around. Unexpectedly, he leaves the entertainment industry and disappears without a trace.

The haters: "???"

*

VTV Media is an industry leader, and its head, Lu Wenzhong, is handsome and rich. His only flaw: he's married.

One day, an entertainment gossip account breaks the news: The head of VTV was seen meeting a man late at night. Is he cheating? Photos attached.

In the pictures, the two men are holding hands, their fingers interlaced, looking very intimate.

The haters recognize the man as the long-vanished Xia Yu'an and immediately brand him a homewrecker, hurling abuse at him.

Not long after, Lu Wenzhong posts on Weibo: Allow me to introduce my spouse.

He attaches a photo of them both wearing white shirts and smiling at the camera.

The next moment, the trending topics crash the platform's servers.

#XiaYuanAndLuWenzhongAreMarried#

The haters: "? He disappeared for a year and came back married!"

Content warnings: Slow burn, elementary-school-level writing, an entirely fictional setting with no real-life inspiration, 1v1 mutual spoiling, happy ending.

Coming soon: My Husband, My Responsibility. Please add it to your reading list~~

Everyone in investment banking knows that Shen Yanchu is a wealthy playboy whose professional motto is, "The only stable relationship is one based on money and mutual benefit."

But one phone call is all it takes for someone to summon him home from a business dinner full of scheming and deal-making.

No one would guess that the call came from Shen Yu, the child he took in more than ten years ago.

He has raised him since he was eight, and they've been together ever since.

A close friend advises him that Shen Yu is calculating and ambitious, and warns him not to keep a heartless ingrate by his side.

Shen Yanchu doesn't take it seriously. "What ambition could he possibly have? He's a little brat who's afraid of even a caterpillar."

Men and women hoping to get close to Shen Yanchu hint that Shen Yu looks at him in a peculiar way.

Shen Yanchu just laughs it off. "I've raised him from a tiny little thing. I've spent so much on him that the money stacked up would be taller than he is. Of course he looks at me differently from how he looks at other people."

That is, until Shen Yu's teacher calls to report that his grades have slipped and he may be dating someone.

Shen Yanchu furrows his brows, convinced this is a serious problem. He hangs up and sternly scolds him: "No dating before you're an adult!"

Later, after Shen Yu's eighteenth birthday party, Shen Yanchu sits on the sofa and looks at him. For the first time, he realizes that the little brat he once saw as a tiny child has grown into a handsome, dashing adult, even half a head taller than him.

Shen Yu meets his gaze, eyes blazing. He slowly leans in, backing Shen Yanchu into the corner of the sofa. "I'm eighteen now, an adult. Can I date you?"

-

Shen Yu has always seen Shen Yanchu as the standard he measures his life against. From childhood to adolescence, every first lesson was connected to him. Even the first face Shen Yu imagined in his fantasies was his.

But Shen Yu knows that Shen Yanchu only sees him as a child.

On the eve of his birthday, Shen Yanchu asks what he wants as an adulthood gift.

Shen Yu gazes at him without blinking and replies with pointed meaning, "Anything money can buy is beneath you. I want something money can't buy."

Shen Yanchu assumes it's just a rebellious teenage phase, since he often says that anything money can solve isn't a problem. He waves a hand and gives him a bank card.

Then one day, after Shen Yu has finally gotten what he wanted through years of careful effort, he thinks he can at last confess his long-kept secret, but Shen Yanchu is nowhere to be found.

Shen Yu anxiously waits by his phone for days. All he gets is a bank notification saying his balance has multiplied several times over.

He opens WeChat and types, one character at a time: [Brother, I don't want money. I only want you.]

#TheExperiencedPlayboyFallsForHisYoungerBrotherAndMakesHimHisHusband#

#MyHusbandMyResponsibility#

Playboy bottom × scheming wolf-dog younger brother top

"You're eighteen, an adult now. Be an adult in the world, and your big brother's little sweetheart."

Theme: We live in a flourishing age of youth, where every flower blooms and turns toward the sun.