How Does Everyone's Crush Avoid the Debut Lineup?

Working hard to update! Hoping to finish in August! [The blurbs for my upcoming novels, My Childhood Friend Is the Top-Tier Star in the Entertainment Industry and The Tragic, Beautiful Nobody Becomes Everyone's Darling, are below. If you like them, please add them to your collection!] Liao Xi, a hard-done-by research scientist who died from overwork. He wakes up in the body of a nobody with the same name in an audition-show novel. The good news: he's bound to an everyone-loves-him System, and can get enough votes to debut in the center position in no time. The bad news: he has severe social anxiety, and he can't take one of the debut spots! Liao Xi: ... Fine, fine. So that's how we're playing this! The System tells him that if he wants to live, he must take the original character's place and fulfill his mission of advancing the plot. In this competition, where one hundred contestants are whittled down to nine, he has to get all nine members of the protagonist group into debut positions. If he succeeds, he gains control of his body. If he fails, he dies. Liao Xi, completely giving up: Then I'll just get eliminated early. System: No. To ensure the mission is carried out properly, the Main God requires you to stay until the end and watch them take their debut spots with your own eyes. Liao Xi, eyes wide with shock and struggling to breathe: You're trying to kill me! System: I can activate the instant-death protocol. Given a second chance at life, Liao Xi, who treasures his life: Fine, I'll grit my teeth and do the mission! And so... With the everyone-loves-him aura working against him, the severely socially anxious contestant begins a chaotic career on a survival show, making a scene at every turn and yet always being doted on. [The protagonist is a severely socially anxious, universally adored sickly beauty.] Note: The transmigration-into-a-book premise will be explained in the story. He does not take over the original character's body. A silly story, just for fun. (Comments are now open, come join in!) [Important]: This is the author's first book. After repeatedly revising the outline, the story's later direction has run off in a direction I could never have predicted. I've realized I can't make the protagonist truly fall in love with any of them, because all he wants in life is scientific research and to benefit the world and humanity. I genuinely admire scientists who selflessly devote themselves to humanity's future, the exploration of unknown science, and the rejuvenation of their country. I think people like them deserve the very best. That was the original reason I created the protagonist's character. I wanted a protagonist like this to be loved by the world, loved by everyone, while he also loves the world. So, after thinking it over again and again, I decided to let the entire protagonist group have a seat at the table. Every one of them will pursue Xi Xi on equal footing, and in the end one winner will take home the beauty. The winner will definitely be the one who treats Xi Xi the best, and will leave everyone else convinced and willing to concede defeat. I want to give my protagonist the very best of everything. The story will probably go on with everyone loving him, doting on him, and respecting him. The protagonist is a treasure of the world, and his career arc will be as satisfying as can be! Just think of it as a story written in a fit of shipping mania. There are plenty of rough spots, so if anything makes you uncomfortable, please leave in time and don't let it ruin your mood. But, just between us, if you're a protagonist stan, I think you'll enjoy it., Written 11/24, through Chapter 85. Reading Guide: 1. The everyone-loves-him aura is extremely powerful. Everyone has a one-sided affection for him, including motherly love, fatherly love, brotherly affection, and fanboy adoration. Plenty of bad dogs covet the protagonist. Open ending. 2. The protagonist can't sing or dance and remains a beautiful dead weight from beginning to end. He won't transform into someone else. As a research scientist, studying is the only thing he's good at. 3. Feel free to ask for updates, but there's no need to tell me if you're dropping the story. There are countless great novels on Jinjiang. If this one isn't for you, move on! The author's notes have occasional bonus skits, so please try not to hide them! Upcoming: My Childhood Friend Is the Top-Tier Star in the Entertainment Industry Blurb: Pu Sheng, a top-tier star who never appears on variety shows, suddenly announces that he's joining Season Two of A Trip with Friends. The news sets the internet abuzz, and everyone starts speculating about what kind of friend Pu Sheng will bring on the show. They wait eagerly until the day it airs. The moment the preview for the early screening goes live, fans swarm it. They're dying to know what kind of friend their favorite star will bring on the show. The video is only a minute and twenty seconds long, so they don't expect much. But the moment they click on it, everything they thought they knew is turned upside down. The ever aloof Actor Pu, who has always publicly claimed to dislike physical contact, gets out of the car and immediately circles around to open the passenger door. He braces one hand against the top of the door and eagerly reaches in with the other, naturally clasping a slender, long-fingered hand, so pale it seems to glow. He looks ready to personally help the passenger out. Pu Sheng opening the door himself is already unbelievable. Opening it and then personally helping someone out is completely unprecedented. Anyone in the entertainment industry would feel honored by this, but the person in the passenger seat seems annoyed. The hand in Pu Sheng's grasp struggles, and when it can't get free, a foot sticks out of the car and kicks Pu Sheng in the shin. "Will you stop bothering me? My legs are fine! I don't need you to help me. Instead of wasting time on this, can you go do something useful at the trunk? There's a ton of luggage!" A pleasant but unfamiliar young man's voice, full of exasperation, comes from the car. The camera doesn't give us a close-up, so they can't see the person, but no one's attention is on the voice. It's what he said that has everyone stunned. That was a downright commanding tone. They'd never seen anyone dare talk to Pu Sheng like that. And with that kick, he wasn't showing Pu Sheng the slightest respect. Everyone expects Pu Sheng to get angry, but then the camera cuts to an even more unbelievable scene. Actor Pu, having just been scolded, is grinning like an idiot, not the least bit angry. What's more, he even tries to soothe the person first, speaking gently to the one in the car: "My bad, my bad. Don't be mad." A dense swarm of question marks appears across the screen. Weren't you supposed to have a permanently expressionless face unless you were in character? Weren't you supposed to hate flattery, keep strangers away, and tell even your friends to get lost? How come you're the one sucking up now? Less than ten minutes after the preview is posted, the hashtag #WhoOnEarthIsPuShengsFriend?!# floods the trending topics. Right behind it comes #CantBelieveThisIsWhatActorPuIsLike#. Everyone is in disbelief, and the huge buzz draws some curious bystanders into subscribing to the variety show's livestream. On the day the A Trip with Friends livestream begins, countless viewers pour in. The much-hyped "Pu Sheng's good friend" finally appears on camera, with Actor Pu personally leading him by the hand. The moment the camera focuses on them, the entire livestream erupts. Pu Sheng's face is already stunning, but the beauty hiding behind him is even more so! That night, the hashtag #HolyCrapPuShengYouveBeenHidingABeauty!# takes the top spot on the trending list. As filming continues, the entire show seems to change its tune. A perfectly ordinary travel variety show somehow turns into a dating show, complete with live reactions from people shipping the couple. #TheAloofPersonaHasCollapsed# #OhNoBabyYourChildhoodFriendSeemsToLikeYou!# #PleaseLiliTakePuForYourself!# #GetTogetherPleaseDoItForMe# #PuWereFineWithLiliBeingOurOnlySisterInLaw# One hashtag after another appears in the trending topics. The ship fans are going wild, their eyes shining as the real couple feeds them one morsel after another. The "Birthday Present" ship becomes an unexpected hit, but the public response soon takes a bad turn. As an ordinary person, You Li is put on a pedestal, but that naturally brings plenty of haters. The first to attack him are Pu Sheng's extreme fans. They start loudly claiming You Li isn't good enough for their favorite star. Professional haters immediately buy posts to smear him, and public opinion becomes sharply divided. Then a hacker digs up You Li's academic credentials and achievements. The whole internet is stunned once again. All the achievements that had been kept under wraps by the authorities and never widely publicized, along with all the online safeguards put in place to protect him, are revealed at once. The state steps in personally to support You Li, firmly taking his side and refusing to let anyone slander him. The fans who had quietly shipped the couple are stunned, exclaiming that their future sister-in-law is incredible, then tearfully tagging Pu Sheng by name on his Weibo: Pu, I think you're not quite good enough for Lili. Character setup: Aloof and untouchable in public, but a clingy, devoted wife-servant with separation anxiety in front of his beloved, gong VS. A pure-hearted, universally adored shou who's clueless about romance and has nothing on his mind but academic research and his career. Upcoming: The Tragic, Beautiful Nobody Becomes Everyone's Darling Yu Xinnian is terminally ill and near death. One day, he suddenly transmigrates into a fantasy world from a novel he wrote himself and gains a tragic-beauty System. The System tells him that if he collects enough tragic-beauty points, he can return to the real world with a healthy body. Yu, who knows the entire plot and has a self-destructive streak: Heh, time to put my acting skills to the test. To earn a new life, Yu Xinnian forcibly attaches himself to the protagonist group, going from an utterly insignificant background character to one of their own. As a healer, he carefully calculates his remaining lifespan in advance. By day and night, he saves lives on a war-torn mechanical battlefield, while also risking everything to shield the protagonist group from one deadly blow after another whenever they find themselves in danger. Watching his tragic-beauty points, generated by intense guilt and worry, rise in the system's interface, Yu Xinnian smiles. In the days that follow, he saves the protagonist group from danger again and again. His acts of redemption almost cost him his life, and everything is planned out in Yu Xinnian's script, each step linked to the next. He soon becomes a regular at the hospital. Covered in injuries and illnesses, Yu Xinnian reclines half-upright in bed. His gentle smile is on a face drained of all color, and he coughs softly. His warmth envelops the protagonist group, whose faces are full of guilt and worry. He smiles and says slowly, "I'm fine. You don't need to worry. As a healer, saving you is my duty." Then he reaches out with the hand holding his IV line and gently strokes the person closest to him. Watching the protagonist group bow their heads, eyes red as they try to hold back their tears, the System says in despair: [Director Yu, that's enough. Stop! I feel sorry for them!] Yu Xinnian smiles gently. "This is nothing." The days pass according to Director Yu's script. Just as he gains all the tragic-beauty points and prepares to spend his last few days in this world in peace... The protagonist group goes completely crazy. They start searching everywhere for a cure, all to keep him alive. Oh, flower blooming toward the sun in the apocalypse, please let him live a hundred years! Theme: Cherish life, enjoy it, and leave no regrets