I Woke Up as the Most Hated Member of a Top-Tier Star Boy Band

(All 55 chapters have been completely rewritten)

Bai Junxian worked at a coffee shop. One day, after working overtime, he stayed up late binge-reading a danmei novel, and ended up passing out from lack of blood flow to his brain.

When he opened his eyes again, Bai Junxian had transmigrated into the novel he'd read the night before, as its vicious male supporting character, who shared his name.

It was a danmei novel about a boy band. The protagonist, the shou, was adored by everyone and hailed as a natural-born idol. He was astonishingly handsome, could sing, dance, and rap, and had a crowd of admirers.

But Bai Junxian had become a background member of the protagonist's group, a dead-last also-ran who hadn't even managed to snag a title or role like vocalist, dancer, rapper, leader, or youngest member.

In the original story, Bai Junxian couldn't sing or dance,

had been pushed into the group through nepotism,

bullied his bandmates,

and got into flame wars with internet users.

The entire internet hated him and wanted him dead as soon as possible.

And Bai Junxian knew that the original character really did die later, a miserable death at home, with no one to mourn him.

Being infamous was still being famous, but infamy could be deadly.

Bai Junxian let out a miserable sigh. In his previous life, he'd been worked to the bone; in this one, he'd become infamous, only to die in the dark all over again.

Even though he didn't want to repeat the original character's fate, he had arrived just 48 hours before the plot's four-year-long online harassment campaign against him began.

But he was just a poor working stiff. How was he supposed to sing and dance?

If he didn't want to be labeled a nepotism hire, he had to change the public's perception of the original character's inability to sing or dance within those 48 hours.

Otherwise, he was as good as dead.

What could he do?

...Forty-eight hours later, he had also completed the performance that had caused the original character to be cyberbullied on a massive scale.

The netizens, ready to tear into him, were all stunned. The live comments went wild:

Was Bai Junxian possessed? Wasn't he supposed to be terrible at singing and dancing?! How did he suddenly get so good at singing?

Bai Junxian, the least promising contestant, shot to first place in the stage voting!

Bai Junxian went on to get the chance to work with an aloof movie emperor, making everyone else green with envy.

And so, as the days went by, the abstinent movie emperor, the haughty lead vocalist, the rich family's twins... the love interests from the novel who were all up for grabs...

Even the beloved protagonist himself changed his mind about Bai Junxian, once the useless background member of the boy band he had looked down on most.

They all secretly became Bai Junxian's admirers.

----Love Interest Stock Market----

Love interests introduced so far:

The naturally gifted, stunningly handsome protagonist idol

The reserved, gentlemanly, abstinent movie emperor

The haughty, handsome star vocalist

The gloomy, energetic rich-family twins

(More will appear as the story progresses.)

Anyway, welcome, everyone! Pick your favorite love interest! You can't go wrong with any of them!

----Blurb Ends (Author's Note)----

This story includes elements from the entertainment industry. It is neither entirely based on reality nor completely fictional.

The setting can't be directly compared to the Chinese entertainment industry or Korean idol groups, but elements from both will appear.

The boy and girl group characters are not based on any real people!

The writing style is casual and internet slang may appear, so please steer clear if that's not your thing.

The first 55 published chapters have been rewritten. The original 170,000-plus words have been condensed into fewer than 50,000 words of essential plot, and everything else has been rewritten. It's all new!

However, the later chapters aren't available yet because I'm still stockpiling chapters and plan to finish the whole thing before releasing them. This story firmly rejects AI; every word is typed by me. I simply can't keep up with technology's speed, so it may be some time before updates resume.

If you're interested, please add this to your favorites. I'd be incredibly grateful! If you can't wait, you can start reading now, but I'm afraid there won't be any updates in the short term. My apologies!

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