The College Senior Who Joined an Audition Show as a Substitute Goes Viral Worldwide

My next novel is Coming Soon: My Struggling Idol Binds a Sister-in-Law System and Becomes Famous Overnight. Please add it to your collection~

Blurb:

[Born to be an idol * master of winning fans over * all-round ACE and visual]

After graduating from university, Yue Fangyi had finally managed to find a job at a well-established investment firm. Everything should have gone smoothly, but a survival show the company had invested in ran into trouble.

One contestant withdrew at the last minute, and Yue Fangyi, who had just been watching the drama unfold, was dragged in to fill the spot.

Her bosses promised her a bright future, and she was tempted by the bigger bonuses for staying later at work, so Yue Fangyi nodded without hesitation. But right after her official profile photos were released, one disaster after another struck!

The contestant who had withdrawn posted a long accusation that a favored contestant had stolen her spot, and accidentally implied that Yue Fangyi was the favored one;

A forum dug up that Yue Fangyi had only trained for twelve hours, and haters jeered that the favored contestant was a useless, pretty vase;

Her fan supertopic was reported by haters and shut down, and her fandom, still in its infancy, collapsed in an instant... Nearly everyone was waiting to laugh at her!

But Yue Fangyi firmly chose to carry on.

Accused of being a favored contestant?

JuYu really was her powerful backer, providing her with fashion opportunities and luxury brand endorsements!

Mocked as a useless, pretty vase?

Her debut-stage performance stunned everyone, her fancam stats were unrivaled, and she earned the only A on the show! The tide turned, and fans flocked to her!

Her supertopic shut down and the public opinion turned against her?

Her fans built a new supertopic, gaining countless followers, and her personal stats shot up to rival the biggest stars!

The haters who had been waiting to laugh at her were mercilessly proven wrong. The mastermind behind it all was furious, and fans of rival contestants were sorely disappointed.

One day, a new post shot to the top of a popular forum:

[Just became a Yue Fangyi fan. Rewatching Seek 2, the survival show that made Youyou famous, and suddenly I realize how hard Youyou had it...]

"I'm not a fan, but it's true. She was branded a favored contestant the moment she showed up. People dug up her personal info, cyberbullied her, and even targeted her offline, but Yue Fangyi pulled through. She's seriously strong."

"And looking back now, the contestants from her season were all incredibly strong, too:

1. Three returnees from overseas, with established fanbases and debut experience. They'd been on more stages than Yue Fangyi had seen gossip;

2. A three-year trainee, a comeback contestant who'd been through intense fan-vote manipulation, an all-round ACE and a final boss with a tragic, beautiful, strong-girl story that attracted fans;

3. A top influencer, with wealthy brothers and sisters who spent lavishly, and a fanbase full of big spenders who threw endless money at the voting;

She still made her debut in the center position by a landslide, without a hint of controversy. Now that's what you call a true powerhouse!"

"The most important thing is, how has no one mentioned that the rival survival show was airing at the same time and kept trying to sabotage Seek 2 and Yue Fangyi? Even when things were at their worst, Yue Fangyi never complained to her fans. When the organizers turned her away in the rain, she comforted her fans and told them it was okay. Ugh, just thinking about it makes my heart ache all over again..."

"No matter how hard things were, they're better now! Looking forward to Yue Fangyi's global solo tour!"

[Reader's Guide]

1. The heroine isn't perfect. She's an absolute magnet for chaos. She isn't based on a real person, so please don't connect her to real life.

2. There is a male lead, but he's just set dressing. The romance comes very late. The heroine has excellent idol ethics and won't date while she's an idol.

3. The heroine is extremely career-minded and great at winning fans over. She charms everyone, male or female, whenever there's a chance to turn them into fans.

4. The heroine is naturally talented and learns everything quickly. The logic is weak, and the story is mainly about wish fulfillment. Aside from that, the heroine has no golden finger. There is a female supporting character with a System.

5. The contestants compete for debut spots and resources. They're all focused on their careers, so I think this kind of competition is perfectly normal.

6. The story has a lot of forum posts and stage reports. I'll mark them in the table of contents, so feel free to skip them if you don't like that format.

7. The heroine really is a favored contestant at times, with a big company willing to provide resources behind her.

My next novel is Coming Soon: My Struggling Idol Binds a Sister-in-Law System and Becomes Famous Overnight. The blurb is below~

After nearly three years since her debut in Korea, Jiang Huyu was still so unknown that no one knew her name.

Her company did nothing, her teammates ganged up to bully her, she got no resources at all, and her styling was designed to keep her from standing out...

Jiang Huyu endured it year after year. At last, on the final day of her contract, she couldn't take it anymore. She threw off the ugly outfit her stylist had made and went onstage in her own clownfish-themed outfit.

After the performance, as she was coming offstage, a teammate shoved her. Just before she fainted, she clearly heard a mechanical voice in her head: [Congratulations, you've bound the Sister-in-Law System!]

When she woke up, her clownfish stage fancam had gone viral, and the group was called back for music shows.

In the backstage area at Music Bank, Jiang Huyu stared at the enormous, bright-red arrow above the handsome male host's head and fell into deep thought...

[How can you be a sister-in-law if no one knows about it? Our motto is: The more your brothers-in-law love you, the more exposure you get!]

Attend a get-together with a popular boy group: exposure +600!

Go on a date with Korea's top visual: exposure +1,000!

Get photographed being wooed late at night by the top member of a top-tier star group: exposure +8,000!

Get a famous top-tier actor to fly all the way to see you: exposure +10,000!

Jiang Huyu hesitated, Jiang Huyu tested the waters, Jiang Huyu was delighted, Jiang Huyu took the initiative!

*

The first time photos revealed that she had been in the same background as a Red Group performer, and the public suspected they were dating:

[Huyu didn't mean to! It was just the same cafe. Please be understanding, sisters!]

The second time she was spotted entering the same apartment complex just before the guy, and the media questioned whether they were living together:

[Our little nobody has a little bit of attention and made a little money, that's all. She was just looking at apartments. Please stop dragging our little Huyu into this.]

The third time she was caught taking a riverside stroll with the top member of a top-tier boy group, and his fans started a rumor that she was throwing herself at him:

[Hello? Our Huyu's stats beat your oppa in every category. Who's jealous of the one who lost by tens of millions? This washed-up old idol can keep his distance. That jacket your oppa gave Huyu didn't smell like an old man, did it?]

The Nth time a photo showed a handsome actor flying to Korea to beg her to take him back, and a fortune teller declared without evidence that she was pregnant:

[Fighting superstition is everyone's responsibility. Report this account and get lost! We're only here to follow the global rise of our luxury-brand queen!]

*

One day, a post on a well-known forum rapidly gained traction:

[Do Jiang Huyu's fans even know how many people she's dated? Your own sis loves dating this much, and you really don't mind?]

[Huyu's just a young woman in her early twenties. What's wrong with dating? Is it illegal?]

[We support the investigation! Why are all these men always trying to seduce our Huyu?]

[Huyu's fans have already accepted it. She took us along for the ride, so what more could we ask for?]

[To give a serious answer! First, Huyu's work skills are absolutely solid. She's amazing at singing live and dancing, with 42 fancams in the tens of millions of views and 109 in the millions;

She's a natural at acting. She won Best Actress for her first role, and a Hollywood blockbuster made for her specifically is about to come out;

She's also incredibly good to her fans. She's held free birthday events for eight years straight, never forgets fans she's met, and always spots the fans filming her.

Even if she dates someone, she never shows off the relationship in front of her fans. If those men weren't so pushy, always trying to force her to give them a title, her fans wouldn't even know about them.

Bottom line, it's all those pushy men's fault!]

[First, I support the sister above! Second, another fandom is de-fanning and there's more drama to watch! Nosay fans are dropping the third member because he dated Huyu for less time than the first member did, and they think the first member isn't good enough!]

#HowManyPeopleHasJiangHuyuDated

#IsMyBiasReallyTheOtherWoman

#JiangHuyuCanYouStopDating

[Reader's Guide and Warnings]

1. As the blurb says, the heroine is an idol who has bound the Sister-in-Law System. She has to date people to gain exposure, and is irresistible to everyone, but the men are just diversions and won't affect her career. If anyone's career is affected, it'll be theirs.

2. The heroine is very talented, but her company held her back in the early stages, so she couldn't show it. The story starts with her ending her contract and letting her talent shine. She won't be kept down.

3. Her fans are extremely doting, and she knows how to win them over. Apart from loving to date, she has no shortcomings.

4. She's an absolute magnet for chaos, not a perfect idol! She has some idol ethics, but she saves what little she has for her fans!

5. There is no group spirit in the heroine's group! Even when she has to rely on the group in the first half, they don't try to sell group unity. Later, when she goes solo, that idea is completely gone.

6. She's in the group early on, goes solo later, then expands into several countries and becomes famous worldwide.

6. Don't connect this to real life! Don't connect this to real life! Don't connect this to real life!

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