Front-Row Gossip [Entertainment Industry]

[Complete] [Fixing typos, please ignore the updates...] Yu Wen transmigrates into a novel about the entertainment industry as a background character bound to the story. Unlike cannon fodder, background characters have no names or clear faces, yet they are everywhere. When people are shocked or gossiping, they serve as the scenery in the background. When everyone holds their breath, gets nervous, or proceeds cautiously, they have to carry the reaction shots. #What background character? Just another wage slave# Yu Wen juggles several roles at once, and his daily routine is to lug around a little folding stool and watch the drama unfold. One day, when the top and bottom of a couple are arguing and trading barbs on a livestream, the tension is palpable. Then a sharp-eyed viewer spots a figure in the lower-right corner, happily watching while holding a watermelon. [So, about that guy...] [I'm dying, he's so seriously invested in his watermelon.] [Literally watching the drama unfold, lmao] [I just remembered, I saw him on Chu Han's variety show! Isn't he a production assistant?!] [Holy crap, I got a screenshot. He played an extra in my wife's drama!] Yu Wen becomes famous for no apparent reason. Netizens affectionately dub him the entertainment industry's “Gossip King.” A netizen asks about the details of an up-and-coming male star being pressured into sex. “Nothing happened. The director said he doesn't do guys.” “I'm a production assistant. I was there.” A netizen asks what was going on when a top actress climbed over a wall to meet her boyfriend at night. “She was hungry. She climbed out to meet a roast chicken.” “There's a shadow next to her in that photo of her climbing the wall... Yeah, that one. See me? That's me.” A netizen asks... Yu Wen: Setting the record straight. I was there. #Don't ask. I was there# #Firsthand gossip, straight from the scene# Later Netizen: [Don't rush. I've got some connections in the entertainment industry. Let me ask Yu Wen on his livestream.] Netizen: [Maybe he was there.] #Some connections# #Let's ask Yu Wen# 2023.2.22 (Reading guide revised; no record kept) Reading Guide (Very important!! Be sure to read!) 1. The signature scenes in the blurb are in chapters 28 and 29. The connections-related scenes are scattered throughout the later chapters, so it's hard to point you to them. I recommend trying the free chapters. If you aren't interested in the early content, you probably won't be interested in the later content either, so I suggest stopping at chapter 29. 2. CP: Xie Heyu. Xie Heyu (top) × Yu Wen (bottom). No switching or reversing roles. 3. The plot, career, and romance lines run in parallel, and all will be covered. Please don't rush me. 4. The career storyline contains a lot of stories within the story. Some appear in the free chapters, so please try those first. 5. The romance is my take on an immature, childish first love. 6. The entertainment industry is fictional, an ideal utopia, and the characters are not based on real people. 7. Please don't offer unsolicited writing advice. You don't need to tell me if you drop the novel. Next novel: Taming the Yandere When Xu Zhenchao was in his final year of high school, his parents brought home a boy two years younger than him. His father said, “Call him your little brother.” Xu Zhenchao: “...” Standing on the spiral staircase, he glanced down casually and met the eyes of the thin, uneasy boy. The boy's eyes were beautiful, deep, and dark, like slowly churning black fog, layered upon layered, bottomless. Luo Yi's parents died in an aviation accident, and overnight he became an orphan. Xu's father brought home the pitiful child who hadn't cried or fussed at the funeral, and cared for him as if he were his own son. Luo Yi had pale skin, soft black hair, a slender neck, and delicate features. When he smiled, dimples appeared in his cheeks. He looked gentle, soft, fragile, and harmless. Until the summer Xu Zhenchao came home during his sophomore year of college and accidentally opened the small study Luo Yi never allowed anyone to enter. The snow-white walls were covered in photographs, all capturing moments of Xu Zhenchao at school over the two years he'd been away. Some came from social media, while others had been taken secretly... At that moment, Xu Zhenchao realized Luo Yi was sick, and very sick indeed. He stood at the door for a while, pretended he hadn't seen anything, and closed the study door. He put on the watch Luo Yi had given him, engraved with “loyi.” He let Luo Yi put car air freshener that smelled like him in the car. He allowed Luo Yi to show up at his class reunions and use vague remarks to invite suggestive looks. How do you tame a yandere? First, tell him you belong to him. Then tell him... Be good. At last, one day, Luo Yi worked up the courage to see a therapist. Xu Zhenchao (top) × Luo Yi (bottom) Theme: Stay positive and make an ordinary life shine