I Save the Ratings by Stirring Up Drama

Coming soon: The Big Shot Just Wants to Retire in Peace [Quick Transmigration]

Ji Huan is a third-rate short-video scriptwriter in the real world. By accident, he transmigrates into an old-school danmei novel as a substitute.

That’s right, he’s the character who, after the protagonist shou fakes his death and runs away while pregnant, gets mistaken for him because they look somewhat alike. The protagonist gong uses him as a substitute to soothe his heart, while he foolishly tries to come between the couple, heedless of the consequences. He poisons and harms the male lead’s three-year-old genius son several times. In the end, to prove his unwavering devotion to the protagonist shou, the protagonist gong personally has him locked away in a psychiatric hospital. A cannon-fodder character, through and through.

But these people seem to have no idea that they are living in a livestream. If the ratings fall below ten percent, the TV station will forcibly take the show off the air.

Now Ji Huan is about to be brought to justice as the final boss, and the ratings are plummeting.

Relying on his professional skills, Ji Huan steps up to save the ratings.

Facing the protagonist shou, who hates him to the core, Ji Huan weeps bitterly.

“How can we look so alike, and you still haven’t noticed that something is wrong?”

The livestream audience is thrilled.

“Actually, I’m your younger brother, born to the same father but a different mother!”

*

As a screenwriter, Ji Huan knows all too well that melodrama is the key to ratings. Luckily, there’s more than enough material around him to keep the drama going.

“You can never really raise someone else’s son as your own. From now on, my son will take care of you in your old age.”

Ji Huan happens to hear this as he comes home carrying things after visiting his adoptive parents.

“Your aunt isn’t necessarily right about everything!”

“Did your son tell you that his father has reunited with an old flame? Actually, you can’t blame him. If I found out my future father-in-law had a thing going on with my father, I wouldn’t know how to tell you either.”

The livestream audience: “I had no idea there was an obscure language so similar to Chinese characters.”

*

“It’s because you exist that my brother never accepted my love.”

Faced with a younger person who hates him intensely, Ji Huan says helplessly,

“My relationship with your brother is just that of ordinary schoolmates. Don’t you know that the person you call your brother is actually your father?”

The livestream audience: “This is so unhinged!”

“Back then, you abandoned my brother for a scumbag. This time, I’ll make you suffer the same pain.”

When his ex’s younger brother deliberately seeks revenge, Ji Huan, already seeing red, fires back with an even bigger scandal, securing the top spot in the ratings.

The TV audience secretly resolves to stop watching after this episode, but Ji Huan always reveals an even more outrageous scandal at just the right moment, keeping them hooked.

“This isn’t a villain. He’s clearly my internet mouthpiece.”

----- [I Just Want to Retire] -----

Shen Ji used to complete missions in an infinite-flow System.

Finally, one day, he couldn’t take the mutated monsters with all their tentacles anymore, and resolutely applied to the main System for early retirement.

The System didn’t want a worker with S-rank scores across the board to retire so soon, so it used reverse psychology. If he was tired of infinite-flow worlds, it would arrange a world where he could enjoy a peaceful retirement. All he would have to do each day was admire the flowers and walk the birds. It would let him enjoy life early, as they put it.

World One.

Shen Ji transmigrates into a novel about a domineering CEO as a friend of the CEO’s white moonlight.

“If you dare leave me again, your best friend will lose everything.”

Shen Ji: “...”

Is this guy insane? But the CEO’s white moonlight ignores his threats and runs away anyway. True to his word, the CEO sends several burly thugs to kidnap the white moonlight’s friend, Shen Ji, and make a video of it to force the white moonlight to return.

But when the CEO opens the video, he sees the bodyguards he sent kneeling on the ground, bruised and battered.

“Sorry, boss. We failed the mission. He said if you keep pestering him, he’ll beat you up too!”

The CEO: “...”

World Two.

Shen Ji transmigrates into a novel about a young stepmother as the elderly, terminally ill father and head of a powerful financial family.

“My dad’s old now. I’ll inherit everything he owns, including you, Stepmother!”

That very night, the son who said this dreams that his wheelchair-bound father leaps from the sixth floor, lands by his bedside, and starts throwing knives at him for fun.

World Three.

Shen Ji transmigrates as a rich second-generation heir’s lackey. At last, he finally gets a taste of the early retirement life he’s missed so much: eating, drinking, and having fun with the young heir every day, with money deposited into his account on a regular schedule.

Who would have thought that they would run over one of the retired killer’s chickens while speeding, and end up being hunted?

When the rich heir, his face covered in blood, cowers inside a cave, he unexpectedly sees another trembling figure in there.

“Hey, are you okay?”

At the sound of the rich heir’s voice, the person abruptly looks up.

It’s the very killer who’s been chasing him!

Just then, someone calls his name from the cave entrance. Shen Ji stands there, covered in blood, holding half of the killer’s lower leg in his hand.

For a moment, the rich heir can’t tell which of them is the real killer.

-[Title to be changed]

Theme: Work hard and give back to society.