Everyone Keeps Trying to Trick Me into Signing a Contract

In a matriarchal world where women outrank men, Wen Junyan was sold into a brothel by his mother. Fortunately, he was good-looking and talented at dance, so the madam trained him to become a pure performer who never received guests.

He became the famous Young Master Junyan, all the rage for a time.

While preparing for the annual Mirror Moon Banquet, Wen Junyan switched places with Wen Jing, a modern-day solo trainee about to compete on an audition show.

Before he could figure out what was happening, he was hurried onstage and made to perform a dance he'd learned at the brothel.

At first, Wen Junyan thought he'd been kidnapped by a monster and brought to its lair.

But nobody tried to take liberties with him, and he wasn't made to entertain guests. He simply obediently sang those strange-sounding songs and performed those odd dances.

Later, he learned that this wasn't a monster's lair, and this wasn't a matriarchal world. He was free to sing the songs he loved and dance however he wanted.

His dream seemed within reach.

Viewers all love the hit audition show Star-Making Action II.

That's because the show invited the group members who debuted in its first season, as well as Qin Sheng, a top-tier star and original singer-songwriter, to serve as the head mentor.

Don't get the wrong idea. They aren't watching to see Qin Sheng teach. They're there to watch him make sarcastic remarks.

But to their surprise, they witnessed the birth of a hypocrite who treated people differently. He had maximum snark for the other trainees, but was gentle and kind to Wen Junyan.

Wow, he's a famous double standard.

Little scene one:

Wen Junyan has been a little troubled lately. He thinks people keep trying to trick him into selling his body and conning him into signing so-called management contracts.

But Wen Junyan is clever. He absolutely won't sell his body. He'll only sell his art!

Agent: ???

The management contract doesn't ask you to sell your body either!!

Exceptionally talented and beautiful bottom x sharp-tongued, perceptive, talent-loving, dedicated top

Reader's Guide

1. Wen Jing has his own future~ He's the protagonist of his own life.

2. No children.

3. This is fundamentally a sweet romance. Don't overthink it!

4. All characters are original, with no real-life inspirations! The author doesn't follow celebrities and isn't familiar with the entertainment industry, so please point out any inaccuracies. No romance during the audition show; it starts after the characters change careers.

5. They transmigrate in their bodies! Wen Jing and Wen Junyan look exactly alike.

6. There are more detailed content warnings in the author's note in Chapter One. Be sure to read it.

Upcoming romance novel: After I Handed My Tycoon System Over to the State

996 office worker Yun Chuyue's lifelong wish was to get a tycoon System.

Finally, one day, the System came.

Spend money on beautiful people and you can get cash back or earn points, your choice, making it easy to reach the pinnacle of life.

But when Yun Chuyue looked at the planet-destroying cannon in the System's points shop, then at her country, she asked the System, "System Dad, would you be willing to help an entire country soar?"

Yun Chuyue found out where the System came from. It seemed to be a rich second-generation System, given ten billion to prove itself by starting a business.

Yun Chuyue coaxed it, "The most beautiful System in the universe, helping just one human reach the pinnacle of life is nothing. Other Systems can do that too, though they can't do it as well as you, of course. But helping an entire country soar is different! Only the most beautiful System in the universe, someone like you, could pull that off!"

The little System said it needed time to think.

The little System happily agreed.

The little System immediately sent a binding request to the national supercomputer.

Yun Chuyue: ???

Staff at the Supercomputing Center: ???

Upcoming modern danmei: I Transmigrated into a Wealthy Widower and Got a Happy Ending with My Brother-in-Law

Yun Jing transmigrated into a sweet danmei novel he'd just finished reading. He became a minor character who only appeared in the epilogue: the protagonist's childhood nightmare, the wicked wife his father had left behind.

The protagonist's stepfather had the same name as him, but only six thousand words of page time before he disappeared from the story.

Yun Jing recalled everything the protagonist had suffered as a child in the epilogue, and his fists clenched.

Then he remembered the minor character's fate: the male lead's uncle took him overseas, where he died on a cold winter's night, barely clothed, with each finger broken and crushed beyond recognition, and not a single uninjured spot on his body.

Yun Jing shuddered. It had been satisfying to read, but now that it was happening to him...

No thanks!

At the time, the two children hadn't been mistreated by him yet. They were still adorable, lively, cheerful, and devoted to their father, and they were curious about their new stepfather, with a hint of affection.

Yun Jing thought this was the best start he'd ever seen in a wealthy-family stepfather story!

After his convenient husband died, Yun Jing breathed a sigh of relief, thinking he could bow out now that his work was done. But his husband's will said that if Yun Jing raised the two children, he would receive fifty million and five houses. Otherwise, he would get only five million and one house.

Yun Jing tearfully patted the heads of the twins, a boy and a girl, who had thrown themselves into his arms, and solemnly promised not to abandon them.

The fifty million and the five houses weren't important. The main thing was that the kids were so adorable he couldn't leave them. He couldn't let them learn bad habits from their uncle and end up mixing with the mob overseas, either (not really).

Trembling with apprehension, Yun Jing welcomed Wen Sihan, the protagonist's mysterious uncle, who had rushed home after hearing that his older brother had died to handle the funeral and stabilize the company.

To avoid an awkward time at home with his brother-in-law, and to bring the protagonist and love interest together in childhood, Yun Jing took the children to the family variety show where, in the original story, the uncle first realized he was mistreating them.

Then he was forced to become famous thanks to trending topics like #MillennialParentingMethods# and #TheTemptationOfReturningHome: The Love-HateRelationshipBetweenAWealthyWidowerAndHisBrotherInLaw#.

Why would people online dare to make any old phrase a trending topic?!

Were they trying to get him killed? Yun Jing cried out in despair.

The other person involved in the trending topic calmly admitted to having an ulterior motive: "I paid for the trending topic."

Yun Jing: ???

What?!

Theme: Never give up hope in the face of adversity