That Top-Tier Star Is My Own Brother

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Chen Fan has two younger brothers, but she unexpectedly learns that they are both tragic, beautiful, and powerful supporting characters in a Mary Sue novel.

One is a top-tier star, a singer who found fame as a teenager and conquered half the music scene. But his sharp tongue and arrogance have sparked countless controversies, making fans love and hate him in equal measure.

The other is a popular actor whose reputation has been marred for years by rumors of publicity stunts and being kept by a rich patron. In the end, he is crushed by the industry's powerful players and leaves show business with depression.

Both are stepping stones on the protagonists' path to a happy ending, and neither gets a good one.

Chen Fan: Is this a horror novel? Does everyone who gets involved with the protagonists meet a bad end?

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The Long Journey is a slow-paced reality show about family life. Its harsh conditions and stingy budget are notorious in the industry. Online, people joke that it's "a vote to send the celebrity you hate most on a rehabilitation program."

After voting ends...

The controversial top-tier star Xia Wencheng wins by a landslide, followed by the scandal-ridden popular actor Shen Tingxu in second place.

The two are famously at odds in the industry, and their fans fight just as bitterly, determined to see one side destroy the other.

When the two appear on the same variety show, viewers settle in with snacks, ready to watch them tear into each other...

Sure enough, they do end up fighting.

But not because of some old blood feud. It's because of their older sister?

During the cooking segment, Chen Fan serves up a dish so black and unrecognizable that no one can tell what it is.

Netizens: Is that even edible? I'll bet Xia Wencheng flips the table on the spot!

But instead, Shen Tingxu tastes it without changing expression, then praises it in a ten-thousand-word essay and meekly asks for a pat on the head.

Netizens: Help, use your acting skills for something good, man!

The ever-combative Young Master Xia refuses to be outdone. With a sour expression, he mutters that it must taste awful, then clears the plate.

Netizens: That's wild. Didn't know you were such a two-faced guy.

Before the show aired...

Viewers: This family has three different surnames. Why do they look like they just swore brotherhood and are about to launch a group career in show business?

After it aired...

Viewers: Aaaaaah, let me join this family! Why am I not part of this family?!

Reader's guide:

1. A silly, family-focused story. The female lead has a love interest, but there won't be much romance early on. No real-life inspirations, so please don't draw comparisons.

2. Screenshot saved on 2023/6/21.

3. The writing may not be for everyone. Feel free to come and go without telling me.

----Upcoming novel blurb----

Wen Qi's best friend once promised that when she got rich one day, she'd come pick her up in a Cadillac.

And that day finally came. Wen Qi saw a Cadillac full of handsome men, driven by her now-wealthy best friend.

Everything would have been perfect if they hadn't transmigrated into a book.

When the two met up and compared notes, they realized their identities were far from simple.

Her best friend: a top-tier heiress from a wealthy family, an obsessive, love-addled villainess, and the original male lead's devoted lackey. She'd love him until she had nothing left.

Wen Qi: her best friend's lackey, a no-name celebrity who caused trouble at every turn. The original male and female leads would slap her in the face over and over, and she'd end up behind bars.

But all Wen Qi and her best friend heard was: Rich! Rich! More riches! Spend the money! Get the men!

The two, who had worked themselves to death in their past lives, had stars in their eyes. Nobody could stop them from lying flat and slacking off. If anyone tried, they'd go mad and wreck everyone!

The original male lead's younger sister came knocking, trying to stir up trouble and get Wen Qi's best friend to use her family's connections to secure an investment.

Wen Qi frowned. "You want to swindle money? Not a chance!"

Her best friend smacked the documents into the younger sister's face. "All you care about is money, money, money! You're just like your dead brother! Tell your brother to pay me back, and if he doesn't, I'll jump off the building where his company is based, slash my wrists, and write a ten-meter-long blood letter. His building will be haunted by me forever!"

The male lead's younger sister: "!!!" What kind of lunatic is this? What kind of vicious business rivalry is this?

For the next month, the original male lead's family went around them whenever they saw them, afraid the two crazy women would take offense and go berserk without warning.

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Wen Qi was invited to appear on a variety show about friendship between women. A rival star mocked her on the show, calling her a pretty face who did nothing but sleep with powerful men for work opportunities.

In front of the cameras, Wen Qi flipped over the dining table they were sharing and pressed a shard of broken porcelain to her neck. "You saw it, didn't you?! Why won't you testify for me? I've been slandered! I don't want to live anymore!"

The whole group fell into chaos. After that, no unscrupulous director dared to edit footage recklessly just to attract traffic. Everyone on the team treated these two women with the utmost care, worried they'd go crazy again and disrupt filming.

Later, Wen Qi was surprised to discover that the two of them had become wildly popular?! Their fans were everywhere online, and edits and imitations spread like wildfire. Offers for work and endorsements came pouring in...

The online comments were unanimous:

[This resentful worker checks in. I feel awful if I don't watch Wen Qi and her best friend go crazy every day.]

[After learning how these two sisters-in-crime go crazy, my exploitative parents don't dare provoke me anymore. I even walk around my workplace like I own the place.]

[Please open a class to teach us! Aaaaaah, I really want to learn T^T]

Theme: The comfort of family companionship