We're Dating, and You're a Fan of My Rival

[This novel is expected to go premium on March 22. A quick transmigration novel on my profile is currently being serialized...]

Wen Shu's roommate has gone crazy.

It started when Wen Shu's roommate watched a costume romance drama and fell for the second male lead. She got so obsessed that she bought a separate phone to boost his stats and fight online. One day she argued with the female lead's fans over who had sacrificed more; the next, she fought the male lead's fans over whose popularity was higher. Half the pictures on her phone were handsome photos of the second male lead, and the other half were hate posts about his rivals.

Later, the second male lead announced a magazine release: 20% off for 500 copies, 40% off for 1,000. After carefully doing the math, the roommate figured that 500 copies would cost 21,000 yuan, while 1,000 would cost 34,000, saving her 10,000 yuan outright.

The price was that their dorm room was soon buried in magazines. During National Day, Wen Shu took fifty of them home to roast potatoes over a fire, helping her roommate deal with the problem.

The magazines were printed on decent paper, and they caught fire incredibly fast. While Wen Shu was busy with them, Old Chen's younger son from next door stood by in a hoodie, showing no sense at all. He didn't even offer to help tear up the magazines.

Wen Shu was a little annoyed. Was he still planning to eat those potatoes or not? But when she turned to look, she realized the guy was pretty good-looking.

Wen Shu was a woman of action. Before returning to school, she successfully won him over. She was about to post a few coy, romantic lines on her social media, but when she opened it, she saw her roommate's comparison post, dragging another celebrity.

Why did the male star being dragged look so much like her new boyfriend?

But her roommate had enemies everywhere in the entertainment industry, and had spent the past few months fighting with pretty much everyone. Wen Shu didn't think much of it and decided to block her roommate when she officially announced their relationship.

Wen Shu soon paid the price for being so careless. Editing her boyfriend into a hate post was only the beginning. Since he was so obscure, her roommate seemed to have gotten a thrill from the online fights, and posted about their victories for seven days straight.

A guy can put up with it, but his girlfriend can't!

Wen Shu rolled up her sleeves, ready for a fight. But after downloading Weibo, she discovered her boyfriend hadn't posted anything in three years.

Wen Shu: "..."

Her boyfriend was so obscure that only two hundred people signed in to his fan forum each day. Since the forum's moderator did nothing, it had turned into a minor fan page for his former bandmate, full of posts promoting the former bandmate.

Wen Shu was furious. "Where's your team?"

Her boyfriend explained quietly, "I left the agency a long time ago."

No wonder he was so obscure. He relied entirely on his face to get work. Wen Shu changed her username to "Chen Pei's Overpowered Protagonist System" and decided to carefully plan her boyfriend's career.

First step... Get him to star in a movie about fighting the Japanese, just because she wanted to watch one!

Two years later, Wen Shu was about to graduate. The dorm head suggested they go to the all-you-can-eat frog restaurant at the school's north gate for one last meal together and reminisce about the youth they were about to leave behind.

Wen Shu put on her boyfriend's fan cap and headed over with her head held high. By then, her roommate had stopped being a fan of that second male lead and fallen for another male star.

Wen Shu knew that star, too. That very morning, she had been arguing with her boyfriend over which of them was the "heaven-chosen male lead of a military general novel."

Damn it, after all that, her roommate had become a fan of her boyfriend's rival again!

Short Extra

When Chen Pei heard his girlfriend complain about how terribly her roommate was treating her, he invited Wen Shu out to discuss moving dorms. They picked a rice noodle shop.

Wen Shu ordered beef rice noodles and a chicken leg. Chen Pei casually asked, "Want to add a braised egg? The ones here are pretty good."

Wen Shu: "No. You're not an endorser for their whole product line. The beef and chicken leg count toward your sales, but the egg doesn't."

Chen Pei: "..." If you don't want a braised egg, just say so.

The interruption made Chen Pei forget to tell the owner not to add cilantro. Fortunately, the cilantro at this shop wasn't chopped too finely, so Chen Pei picked all of it out of his bowl and gave it to Wen Shu.

Wen Shu asked knowingly, "Why don't you eat cilantro?"

Chen Pei also picked a few pieces of beef out for his girlfriend. "I don't like it."

Wen Shu: "Have you even tried it? How can you say you don't like it?"

Chen Pei sounded a little aggrieved. "It smells awful to me. You know that."

Wen Shu: "How can you judge it if you've never tried it? Besides, cilantro tastes good once you get used to it."

Chen Pei understood. His girlfriend was being unreasonable on purpose, so he played along. "I've tried it, and I still don't think cilantro tastes good."

Wen Shu immediately replied, "Then you just don't understand cilantro. You're a cilantro hater, deliberately badmouthing our cilantro!"

A classic question, answered with ease!

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1. I'm terrible at writing blurbs, sob. 3,000 characters a day.

2. A silly, sweet little story. It won't be very long. There are some liberties taken. For example, normally even if you bought 10,000 magazines, you'd only get a discount on shipping, not 40% off. But this is the world I'm writing, so if I say the discount exists, it exists.

3. I'm just having fun and writing whatever I want. Don't take it too seriously, and don't assume this is about real people. The story pokes fun at the fandom of the second male lead, but the character himself has no actual scandals. Most annoying fandoms are pretty much alike. Don't assume it's about anyone; I'll delete any names mentioned in the comments.

4. The male lead is a talented actor, socially anxious, and a little slow on the uptake.

The female lead is a photographer and a bit of a chuuni.

For example: Who says a talented actor can't play a world-destroying demon king?

#If my wife wants to watch it, I'll do it#

Content warning: The female lead holds grudges and is very vengeful.

The male lead has no idea: "You should be a little less kind. People will bully you."

The author just loves this setup. Heart.

Theme: Love is a gift in life, not a lifeline