Took a Wrong Turn

Everyone thought Lu Songnian was a delicate, useless little white flower.

After years in the industry, he came back to find himself still in an unpopular group, an invisible nobody whose main job every day was running errands and taking the blame.

Manager: Just give your scenes to your teammates and play an extra. Do you really think you can handle an important role?

Fan: When is Lu Songnian going to get kicked out of the group? He hogs resources and drags everyone down!

Netizen: Who even is this? Can he even carry a tune? What makes him think he can join a singing variety show? How embarrassing.

Then, during a racing variety show, Lu Songnian, who had been dozing in the stands, leaped with pinpoint accuracy onto a runaway motorcycle. He grabbed the handlebars with one hand and caught a guest who was about to be thrown off with the other. After performing a backflip, he brought the bike to a perfect stop.

Everyone: Holy crap!?

The crew members, who were already prepared to pay damages and lose their jobs: Is he a god or something?!

*

Lu Songnian knew he didn't have long to live.

His soul had been incomplete from birth, shattered into pieces scattered across different worlds.

System: Host, if you want to survive, you have to complete missions and gather all the pieces of your soul.

Lu Songnian: If I live, I live. If I don't, so be it.

System: An incomplete soul affects your fortune.

Lu Songnian: Where's the mission screen?

Every time he recovered a fragment of his soul, he also gained the other person's memories and skills.

Fragment One: One picky, capricious, arrogant alternate-world emperor (faintly, a tyrant) x1

Fragment Two: One shut-in tech engineer with a severe internet addiction in the interstellar era x1

Fragment Three: One drunken musician who had been dead for several hundred years x1

Lu Songnian: Yeah, that's so like me. Every single piece is useless in its own unique way.

*

As a wage slave, the System had only wanted Lu Songnian to hurry up and finish his missions. It never expected its Host to become a huge star.

A famous director couldn't find a leading man. He'd auditioned half the entertainment industry and still wasn't satisfied.

Director: The role of the tyrant is incredibly difficult. I don't think this little white flower surnamed Lu can

Lu Songnian: Tsk, this boxed meal should be patented. I bet if you poured it down the drain, it'd poison the rats.

Director: He's the one!

A rival secretly tampered with the stunt rigging: Just thinking about this loser crying in fear in a minute makes me want to laugh!

Meanwhile, Lu Songnian calmly fashioned gears with his bare hands in midair: This lousy job is more of a pain than repairing an aircraft carrier.

Music show judge: You sang that beautifully. The sorrow and fury in your voice were just like the original singer's! You must have been through a lot.

Lu Songnian: Not really, Teacher. It's just what working a regular job does to you.

System: What the heck, are you a pure-hatred warrior or something?

Theme: Be yourself and love yourself