After a College Student Transmigrates Into a Vase in Showbiz

[Complete. Thank you, darlings, for supporting the official release. Coming soon: The Poor Little Landlord Keeps Getting Bullied by His Tenants. Blurb below~] Lu Lanting is an unremarkable new graduate, except for his pretty face. His grades? Whether in his marketing major or his Spanish minor, he was only slightly above average. His certificates? Like most college students, he had basic qualifications such as CET-6 and the Computer Rank Examination Level 2. His internship experience? Three months doing odd jobs in the marketing department of a private company, plus organizing a few campus club events... In short, he was so utterly ordinary that his resume was instantly lost in the crowd during fall recruitment. He couldn't compare with those top students and academic geniuses at all. After he transmigrates into a book, Lu Lanting becomes a pretty face in showbiz, a little actor hailed as a “foolish beauty.” In the original story, he envies the protagonist shou, but his schemes backfire, and he gets blacklisted across the internet. But Lu Lanting has no interest in scheming against anyone. Instead, he advises the other villains in the original story to cherish their time in showbiz and make as much money as they can! After all, being a fool doesn't count as a good thing just anywhere! * However, Lu Lanting gradually discovers something. In showbiz, maybe he isn't all that stupid? According to the plot, he joins four other guests on an overseas travel reality show. Why does putting together a simple PowerPoint to share his travel plans earn him admiring looks from every guest? Why does casually chatting with the locals in Spanish land him on the trending list with #LuLantingSpeaksSpanishSoFluently, and even get him an endorsement deal with a Spanish clothing brand? Why does tossing out a couple of advertising slogans during a street-stall challenge earn him the titles #CopywritingGenius and #MarketingWhiz from netizens? These are things every ordinary college student should know how to do! Is showbiz really this easy to get by in? And most absurd of all, why does organizing a beach concert make an influencer say: [If I were as good at everything as Lu Lanting, would I ever have trouble finding a job?] Lu Lanting smiles. Of course not. Not even a little! * Before heading off to the travel show, Best Actor Ren Shuyu had assumed it would be nothing more than a relaxing vacation between two film projects. He never expected to be captivated from the very first day by a foolish beauty. Nor did he expect this beauty to look so pitiful as he begged Ren to teach him how to act, claiming he had no special talents and couldn't make it in showbiz; when in reality, he could do everything, spoke several languages, knew marketing strategies inside out, and organized events with impeccable efficiency. He was so different from all those people in showbiz who spent every day scheming against one another. Of course, Ren least of all expected that once the vacation ended, he would successfully bring this dazzling, capable beauty home as his wife. From then on, the aloof Best Actor becomes a devoted husband, cuddling his wife every day and cooing, “My wife is amazing! My wife is incredible!” Little does he know that his wife is thinking proudly and coldly to himself: “I'm just an ordinary college student!” * Note: 1. Shou: a clear-eyed, delicate college student, but independent, brave, and gorgeous. Gong: a refined, cultured senior, but an older, secretly pervy, scheming oddball. 2. My own take on showbiz, with a lighthearted, goofy tone. Please don't compare it to real life. 3. To avoid breaking immersion, all cities featured in the travel show are fictional. Please don't compare them to real life. Coming soon: The Poor Little Landlord Keeps Getting Bullied by His Tenants. If you're interested, add it to your collection from my author page: Blurb: On Song Zhiyao's eighteenth birthday, his parents happily pulled out a ring of keys. “Congratulations on becoming an adult! Here's a secret: our family actually lives off rental income! We're handing over the keys to all our tenants to you!” Song Zhiyao glanced at the rundown rental apartment he'd lived in for eighteen years: ...? The next day, both his parents had vanished, leaving behind only a note. It listed the addresses where he was supposed to collect rent. And one reminder in bold red letters: [Be sure to collect the rent before midnight on the first of every month!] The first of the following month. With seven keys in hand, Song Zhiyao took a bus to the address his parents had left him and started collecting rent right on time. Wow. The whole building belonged to his family. Too bad it was going to waste, with only one tenant on each floor. He knocked on the door of apartment 101. A silver-haired vampire in a black robe opened it. “I'm starving to death. If I die, I won't be able to pay rent. Let me have a bite first.” Song Zhiyao: “Just one bite, okay?” For the money! He leaned his pale neck toward the vampire. The vampire narrowed his eyes, bared his sharp fangs, and pulled him into his arms, savoring him to his heart's content. It had been so, so long since he'd tasted blood this delicious... 201. A cat-eared boy opened the door. His soft tail curled around Song Zhiyao's leg and dragged him onto the sofa. “Since I gained human form, nobody's petted me... Make me happy, and I'll pay the rent.” The cat-eared boy flopped into Song Zhiyao's arms, so he had no choice but to rub his ears and stroke his belly. He petted him until he was panting, and the boy began to purr happily in his arms. Then, all of a sudden, a fierce look flashed in the boy's eyes. He pinned Song Zhiyao to the sofa, licking and biting him! 301. A newly made android lived here. “No human is willing to love me. I have no reason to keep living.” The android looked gloomy. “Could you call me Baby? It would make me feel loved.” “Baby.” For the money, Song Zhiyao was happy to oblige. “Can you pay the rent?” “That sounds so nice. Could you say it again?” The android seemed to switch into overdrive, pinning Song Zhiyao to the wall with one hand. “Say it a few more times... Call me Baby, sweetheart...” Collecting rent was way too hard! Sore all over and parched, Song Zhiyao finally made it to 701. The door opened. Finally! Someone normal lived here! But... It was his mortal enemy from school, the roommate who had shared the bunk below his and made his life miserable at every turn! His nemesis looked like he'd been waiting for ages. He was practically fuming! “Can you get rid of those annoying things downstairs?” His nemesis shoved a bank card into his arms. “Come straight to me from now on. I'll pay the rent for all seven tenants.” Song Zhiyao hated this guy more than anyone at school. He tossed the card back disdainfully. “Hmph, what if I kick you out first?” The two started arguing, and Song Zhiyao lost track of time. Before he knew it, midnight had arrived. The moment the clock struck twelve, countless horrifying tentacles suddenly burst out of his nemesis's body! They coiled around Song Zhiyao and dragged him into the room! After that... later that night, the tentacles wrapped around him, toyed with him, and took him. Not only did he fail to kick his nemesis out, he couldn't leave either. When he left the rental building, Song Zhiyao was carried to the car. He was devastated. Would he have to go through this torment on the first of every month from now on? Song Zhiyao soon found out. Once a month? Heh, he was still far too naive... Probably an everyday-life, unhinged harem story? Theme: The harder you work, the luckier you get.