After Becoming an Idol

New novel: I Debuted in a Boy Band and Became a Hit Actor:

One-line summary: A feel-good story about a boy band from a small company going from the bottom to the top, climbing from background actor to idol-drama prince to Oscar-winning Best Supporting Actor.

Blurb 1: Orphan Song Qixian happens to learn that the basement company closest to his home is recruiting trainees. They even provide room and board, and won't stop him from taking outside jobs.

Dreaming of getting rich and famous, he packs his things and heads to this tiny, run-down company, enthusiastically showing off the dance moves he learned over three days.

The company boss can just about make out his excellent features beneath his impossibly thick bangs and finally agrees to take him on.

A few months later, Song Qixian somehow makes his debut.

Their group gets a whopping 66 likes on the gossip charts, and sales reach an astonishing five thousand copies! But, unexpectedly, their song goes viral.

Just when Song Qixian thinks the best he can hope for is to be the "pride of a small company," the small company gets acquired by a big one.

Overnight, they move from a basement to the most scenic building in Seoul, and their colleagues become people in the top ten of the gossip charts.

At the same time, a supporting role in acclaimed director Kim Jeongmin's film Alien Species comes calling...

1. Set in a fictional Korean entertainment industry, with everything made up.

2. Acting is the main focus.

3. I'm a bad writer. Please don't make personal attacks.

Novel blurb: As a top-tier star and top member of a leading boy band working in Korea, Yuan Xi's first thought every morning is: Why am I even more handsome again?

Fans: ? That sounds a lot like bragging.

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A roundup of stunningly beautiful stars who've been famous for years

Passerby 1: I clicked in with one name in mind.

Passerby 2: Same.

Passerby 3: It definitely can't be the famous singer Mr. Yuan, who's worked in Korea for ten years and has a fresher face than the boy groups that debuted this year.

Passerby 4: And surely it can't be the global ambassador for luxury brand XX, whose looks were praised around the world after he attended a fashion show the other day.

Fans have always had the strange feeling that, even though they watched Yuan Xi debut with their own eyes, he looks more and more astonishingly beautiful on camera. Only when a world-class director invited him to make a cameo in a film and a top magazine called him "the most handsome man in the world" did they realize their idol's beauty had long since reached the next level.

Another blurb:

Yuan Xi debuted at sixteen after a survival show and went through a whole series of experiences: an obscure group, a popular member leaving, a slump, a sudden breakout, and more.

But he has always had just one goal: to be a good idol and repay his fans' love.

P.S. 1. The male lead is extremely, extremely, extremely beautiful. He has flaws, but will gradually change.

2. The male lead's beauty will keep evolving.

3. Set in a fictional Korean entertainment industry, with lots of original worldbuilding.

4. Some wish fulfillment, but not too much.

Theme: Striving and working hard.