Shen Lingyu is a top agent. One day, he awakens and discovers that he is actually a minor character in a melodramatic series of novels.
Shen Lingyu: Well, would you look at that.
He silently looks over the many beautiful, popular artists under his management:
Artist No. 1: the innocent stand-in in a scum-and-doormat romance.
Artist No. 2: the universally despised punching bag in a wealthy-family novel.
Artist No. 3: the ex-wife who runs away while pregnant in a pregnancy-and-childbirth novel.
Shen Lingyu: What does any of this have to do with me?
System: You're the hapless agent who, after your artists suffer one scandal after another, becomes a laughingstock in the industry and can only change careers.
Shen Lingyu: ?
*
Top agent Shen Lingyu has become a sensation.
Every artist under his management is top-notch and highly motivated.
They've all gone from being hated by the entire internet, unknowns, or washed-up has-beens to today's hugely popular Best Actors, top-tier stars, and kings of the entertainment world.
Reporter: Could you tell us your secret?
Shen Lingyun smiles faintly: With no love in your heart, you can draw your sword and become a god.
Shen Lingyu's career fans have taken this classic line as their guiding principle.
But they never expected that in the early hours of the next morning, that top-tier star who always looked down on everyone and acted as if nobody else mattered would post a message.
Ruan Wu: @Shen Lingyu, how will you know if you don't give it a try?
The entire internet exploded.
*
Ruan Wu, the entertainment industry's rising star of the age, became famous worldwide within two years of his debut. He's the undisputed ceiling of top-tier stars.
This guy has always had it in for Shen Lingyu.
He'll even scowl the moment he hears someone praise Shen Lingyu.
He also often criticizes Shen Lingyu's professional abilities in public.
In the past, netizens couldn't understand why Ruan Wu had picked a fight with Shen Lingyu, someone seemingly unrelated to him in every way.
Now they finally get it.
And so, online, the experts in deciphering Ruan Wu's words appeared.
Ruan Wu: Don't praise Shen Lingyu. Only I get to praise him.
Ruan Wu: Shen Lingyu's work skills aren't up to par. Make me your agent and I'll help you improve.
You little rascal. We thought you were a hater, but it turns out you're a lovesick guy who can't stand sharing Agent Shen with anyone.
Now that everyone had seen through Ruan Wu's feelings, he simply stopped pretending.
He took a screenshot of netizens making fun of him and tagged Shen Lingyu on Weibo again.
Ruan Wu: @Wife, say something, will you?
Shen Lingyu: ...You want a divorce?
Netizens: ?
Netizens were stunned.
#We thought you two were mortal enemies, but it turns out I'm the clown.jpg#
Meme preserved on 2023.7.28.
Blurb preserved on 2024.3.13 (the interactions between the pursuer and the pursued may be tweaked a little)
Reading Guide:
Sharp-tongued, refined scum of a bottom x chuunibyou, stubborn, childish top
1. The top and bottom are exclusive to each other, both physically and emotionally.
2. I made up the entertainment-industry setting and the original novel's plot.
Theme: But my wife is my whole life.
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I Just Want to Lie Flat and Slack Off, Your Majesty (Transmigrated into a Book)
A Showcase of Nonhuman Ailments
The Bystander Is Always Enjoying the Drama in the Love Triangle [Quick Transmigration]
After Going on a Dating Show with My Six Exes
A Survival Guide to Dating Games
The Beautiful but Wretched Villain Reborn
I Use a Dress-Up Game to Create a Secret Identity
I Become a Legend in Showbiz by Reading Minds
I Became an Agent and Launched Dungeon NPCs to Stardom [Infinite Flow]