The Villain Cub's Survival on a Parenting Variety Show

Next Book: The Socially Anxious Straight Shooter Is a Voice-Acting Big Shot. The blurb is at the end.

Three-and-a-half-year-old Youyou awakens to the truth, learning in bewilderment that he is the hated villain everyone wants to see punished in a book. The plotlines awaiting him are: letting jealousy turn to hatred and harming the protagonist's kid, pushing his older brother down the stairs and playing the victim, getting caught after doing every imaginable bad thing and being thrown out of the house, then becoming a pitiful little beggar who starves to death on the street.

The story even helpfully plays out the scenes to explain them. Youyou: Ah!

As soon as he comes to, he sees the protagonist's kid enjoying a happy family life with his parents. He really is an outsider. Youyou packs his little backpack, picks up his pink piggy bank, sniffs, and makes an excuse to run away from home.

Youyou believes the story completely. He decides to support himself, and luckily, he's always loved saving money.

So Youyou buys a little apartment, but someone photographs him from behind and he goes viral online. The headline reads: #Shocking! Little Kid Buys a Small Apartment in Cash!#

[He's still too young to live alone, but he already owns a home!]

[Are we sure he doesn't have a System? He doesn't look like he's just starting out, more like he's living off his savings!]

Youyou has all sorts of hobbies. Apart from saving money, he loves watching anime and livestreams. Realizing he can't live long on his savings alone, he starts streaming.

At the streamer hub, other streamers show off their talents, dancing, singing, selling products, chatting, and telling fortunes. But one livestream, called "Little Kid," has a style all its own.

Taking ten minutes to fold a blanket, spending half a day figuring out how to do chores...

Viewers who clicked in, thinking the description was just nonsense: "??"

[Holy crap! Someone really takes ten minutes just to fold a blanket? He's faking it, right?]

[He's really just a little kid? Why isn't he talking, is he mute?]

Just as the comments flooded the screen, Youyou waved his chubby little hand. "Big sisters and brothers, uncles and aunties~ I'm not faking it. I'm really a little kid!"

The comments went wild, begging to cuddle him:

[Enough, my heart aches for you.]

[You're so little and living alone. From now on, I'll be your mom!]

[Baby, Auntie's giving you all her money! (Youyou's Cat tipped three Luxury Jets.)]

The livestream suddenly blew up, and a variety show featuring kids came knocking.

When the show aired, all his fans flooded the comments to cheer Youyou on. The never-before-seen Youyou finally appeared on screen: round, sparkling eyes like black agate, a delicate little pink mouth, and a stylish, adorable outfit that made him look just like a pretty little fox.

The viewers' and fans' hearts nearly melted.

But the next second, when asked about his daddy and mommy, Youyou looked embarrassed, seeming on the verge of tears. "I... I'm an orphan."

The influential charity-minded Qin Group immediately posted on Weibo: "Little Crown Prince, the chairman has been searching for you like crazy!"

The award-winning actress, who'd been out of the limelight for four years, suddenly posted: @Xu Qingshu: "I carried him for ten months. I gave birth to him."

The whole internet erupted!

#In the blink of an eye, my kid became a celebrity and doesn't even recognize me?#

#Well, well, well. Young Master, you're my only relative from both a wealthy family and the entertainment industry!#

- Male lead's perspective:

Shang Luoheng has terrible luck. He's been frail since birth, choking when he drinks, biting his tongue when he eats, and falling down stairs, until he moves in with an annoying, clingy little pest.

The little clingy pest gives him all kinds of tonics and supplements, insisting he'll protect him and won't let anyone bully him. Little by little, the pest nurses him back to health, even overdoing the supplements.

He hides the fact that he's now perfectly healthy and enjoys the pest's affection and dependence. He doesn't want to stop at being brothers. One day, the beloved older brother also wants to be the innocent younger brother's lover.

[His life used to be a dried-up river, its end visible at a glance. Then one day, the rain came. A boat sailed across bitter waters, and there was a sweet spring, endlessly pouring out romance.]

An adorable kid with zero life skills x a mixed-race childhood friend who lives with him for ten years and dotes on his younger brother like his life depends on it

Content warning: The main story will explain details mentioned in the blurb, such as the kid buying a house. This is a lighthearted, stress-relieving story. The logic may be a little shaky, but I'll do my best to make it work.

Coming soon: The Socially Anxious Straight Shooter Is a Voice-Acting Big Shot

An Mi is a university lecturer: gentle, refined, and extremely socially anxious. He never attends group dinners and rushes straight back to his cozy little home after class. His colleagues think he's aloof.

He can't help it. Socializing makes An Mi blush, so he wears a mask and becomes his students' favorite kind of teacher: the ideal instructor for an easy-credit class, regardless of attendance.

He also has a secret: he's the famous voice actor Youhe.

The kind who specializes in voicing the submissive male lead in male-male romances.

It's a secret so mortifying that if his colleagues and students found out, he'd genuinely want to die!

Then one day, he gets a business offer to attend an in-person signing at an anime convention. The organizers announce it in advance, and his fans squeal with excitement at the prospect of meeting him for the first time.

An Mi puts on his mask and slowly buries his head in his blanket. Save me, save me, save me...

On the day itself, An Mi is fully decked out. He wishes he could wear three masks, and an eye mask too, if that were possible.

Looking at the huge line of fans, An Mi thinks: Professional... professionalism.

Letting fans cuddle up to him, touch his hand, ask for autographs and photos, and request birthday wishes is all part of the job!

But the next second, An Mi's enthusiasm wilts.

Wait, why does the next fan in line look so familiar? Isn't that his student, Qin Ze?

The two stare at each other in silence. The other man coolly hands over his merchandise and says calmly, "Teacher Chu He, could you record a message wishing my little sister luck on her college entrance exams?"

An Mi: Oh, thank goodness he's not a fan of mine.

After the recording, Qin Ze suddenly holds out his hand, brows knitted. "Teacher, shake my hand. I'll tell my sister I shook your hand."

An Mi: "..."

As An Mi pulls his hand back, his hat accidentally falls off. Without his elaborate disguise, he and Qin Ze meet eyes again: ! It's over.

-

Qin Ze is a first-year fashion design student, cold and arrogant, forced to study fashion design because his mother did too. He strongly resents the major, especially since people assume all the men in fashion design are gay.

He's not. He's a pure straight man.

But he has a high school-aged little sister who loves BL novels, shipping couples, and audio dramas, with every kind of otaku interest. One day, she begs him to go to an anime convention and meet her favorite submissive-character voice actor, Youhe, promising to give him all her New Year's money.

His sister gets at least a hundred thousand yuan in New Year's money. She spends all day teaching him about BL, and now she's lost the money she uses to buy otaku goods and fill her merchandise room. Qin Ze agrees at once.

But now the voice actor Chu He, sitting across from him with flushed cheeks and a voice as gentle as water, is actually his university lecturer!

The lecturer who moves through slides with a laser pointer, records his lectures, never calls on anyone, assigns no homework, and stays bundled up from head to toe: An Mi!

Interesting.

After that, Qin Ze attends the easy-credit class more enthusiastically than anyone, arriving early and leaving last. He even takes the initiative to add his teacher on WeChat to discuss academics, career prospects, and credits.

An Mi: ...How annoying!

What do you mean, cold, homophobic, straight man? What do you mean, discussing academics and career prospects? You're pinning me down to listen to me pant, forcing me to role-play, making me wear all kinds of strange clothes and dresses, and treating me like a fashion design mannequin. You... you pervert!

(Grips his sword and clenches his fist.)

Next Book: Going Wild and Slacking Off on a Travel Variety Show After Becoming Everyone's Least Favorite

Xie Li is the fake young master of a wealthy family. After the real young master returns, his friends form a clique and ostracize him, his childhood friend no longer favors him, his fiance dotes on the real young master, and even the parents who always spoiled him change their hearts.

Xie Li puts up with it again and again, until he faints after donating blood just before joining a travel show and is told he has less than a year to live.

Xie Li: Damn it all! He's had enough!

With his spoiled rich-kid attitude, Xie Li has offended plenty of people. He's a universally disliked pretty face. Before, he could rely on his family's money and no one dared to mess with him. Now that his background has been exposed, everyone takes a shot at him.

But once the travel variety show begins airing:

His childhood friend chases him to the filming location just to make the real young master smile, claiming he only befriended Xie Li because their families forced him to.

Xie Li eats watermelon. "Back when a dog bit you and you hid behind my butt, begging me to protect you, why didn't you say you were being forced then? Who's the one who's scared of even a teacup dog now?"

Childhood friend: ?

Netizens: ?

Real young master: ?

His fiance announces online that he wants to break off their engagement and compete fairly with his childhood friend for the real young master. He also claims Xie Li was the one who wouldn't leave him alone back then.

Xie Li sneers. "What era do you think this is, a cheesy romance novel? I had a minor car accident back then, and my grandfather dragged you over to bring me good luck. Without me, would your company have gone public? After I woke up and refused, who was the one pouring his heart out? I have the video!"

Viewers: Spicy... so spicy. Wipes nosebleed.jpg

Fiance: **

Real young master: ?

An actor he'd worked with insinuates that Xie Li is stupid, has no acting skills, and relies entirely on eye drops.

Xie Li laughs. "You're the most amazing actor I've ever met. You can spend the whole night discussing a script with a director just to get into character. No one's more dedicated than you, the entertainment industry's living legend."

A certain director: **

A certain actor: The sky is falling...

Netizens: A... a huge scandal! Bro, do you want to die?!

After going wild every day, Xie Li sighs: "I really wasted my life before!"

It's supposed to be a travel variety show, but Xie Li has turned it into a feast of gossip:

Viewers:

"Bro, the only bro in the entertainment industry, got anything good for us today?"

"I'm numb. I sit around grinning at my phone all day, and my mom says I'm crazy. Yellow face covering its ears.jpg"

"Welcome to Crazy Town! Extroverts and socially anxious introverts, come lose it together!"

After several episodes have been filmed, Xie Li suddenly faints.

Then the audience in the livestream hears a doctor say sternly, "You're really something, taking a two-month-old baby up mountains and down into the sea..."

Viewers: Gossip! The real deal!

Xie Li: lets out a piercing shriek!

What happened to his terminal illness?! What happened to his innocence?! Whose kid is this little brat anyway?!

The guest star, actor Lu Junian, is standing outside the door. He opens the hospital room door and hears everything. "..."

If he goes in, will his image survive?

Theme: Happiness must be created with your own hands