The Vicious Cannon Fodder Despised by Everyone Really Doesn’t Want to Go Viral

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[My ongoing novel, The Sickly Beauty Decides to Take It All Back!, has its blurb at the end. Please add it to your reading list!]

Office worker Lin Zhiyu trips and finds himself inside an old-school Green River novel about a real and fake young master. He's become the universally despised foil to the kind, righteous protagonist.

The bad news: His secret has already come out, and he'll soon face the consequences. He's being forced to marry a disabled tycoon with unusual tastes, who'll torment him mercilessly every minute of the day.

The good news: His future husband has broad shoulders, a slim waist, fair skin, and a beautiful face. In a wheelchair, he's the hottest thing in the gay community.

On their wedding day, Lin Zhiyu inherits a mansion and a thousand acres of land, gets a monthly allowance of 300,000 yuan, is chauffeured around in luxury cars, and has a state-banquet chef waiting at home whenever he wants.

His husband in name only stands before him in a perfectly tailored suit, looking down at him with a cold, menacing gaze.

"We'll get divorced in a year."

Lin Zhiyu: What? That's an option?!

He immediately decided to lie flat and enjoy his comfortable life.

Until, not long afterward, he wakes to his manager's relentless phone calls.

Lin Zhiyu feels his world collapse: What? I have to go to work too?

After the cast of Bluebird is announced, investors' landlines nearly get overwhelmed with complaints. People denounce the vicious bootlicker, whose scandals are everywhere, and demand he get out of China. Lin Zhiyu's haters could circle the globe three times.

Then behind-the-scenes footage from the set accidentally leaks...

An award-winning screenwriter chases him around with a stack of new pages, begging to give him more scenes. A rebellious director points at him and scolds him for wasting his talent, while veteran actors line up one after another to take photos with him and add him to their contacts.

But Lin Zhiyu, looking stunning in his perfect costume and makeup, is utterly despairing.

Going to work feels like going to a funeral. He waves his hands frantically, trying to refuse three times over:

[No, no, no. That would cost extra.]

[I really don't have any more scenes!]

[I appreciate the offer, but I'm really retiring.]

When Bluebird airs, Lin Zhiyu becomes an overnight sensation. Fans calling him their wife line up overnight on Weibo, stretching all the way from the capital to France.

His haters have found an even more vicious way to get back at him. They start flooding official media accounts with recommendations for the positive role model Lin Zhiyu, hoping to work him to death just after he's publicly announced his retirement.

Lin Zhiyu: What?! No! I really don't want to work!

And what about his rich boyfriend, who talks tough but has a soft heart?

Well... the story's leading man and woman are currently fighting over who gets to invite him to dinner first.

His darling boyfriend is passionately rehabilitating, swinging a barbell weighing dozens of kilos so he can win him over :)

#WhyDidThisLethargicMeSuddenlyBecomeAnEntertainmentIndustrySensation

#MoralDecayOrHumanNatureGoneAwry?!

#SaveMakkaPakka, HeReallyDoesn'tWantToWork!!!

One-on-one happy ending. A reserved, cold tycoon as the top, with a laid-back, sunny sweetheart as the bottom.

① The top's legs will recover!

② The previous blurb was too wordy, so I revised it. I saved a screenshot for the record (8.7).

③ Ongoing novel: The Sickly Beauty Decides to Take It All Back!

Blurb: A flirtatious, sickly beauty as the bottom x a scheming daddy tycoon as the top

His boyfriend is stolen, his adoptive parents despise him, his father doesn't care for him, and his mother doesn't love him.

Only when death comes does Shen Yizhou learn that he's the real young master and a mere foil in a Green River novel about a wealthy family's beloved child.

He tries to endure his illness and learn how to please people, but gets nothing in return. He dies alone at twenty-three.

All the tenderness and affection go to the lively, dazzling fake young master.

Reborn, he finally sees things clearly.

If he's going to die sooner or later, he might as well live without holding back.

The second male lead in the hit drama the fake young master longs for, the awards he's been striving for,

and the "Uncle" he's secretly loved since childhood but could never have...

Only children have to choose.

He wants them all.

As for the irredeemable trash, who cares? Stay away from him.

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Later, a video of the Chang'an audition unexpectedly leaks.

The fake young master is furious, but that can't stop the entire internet from searching for the unknown young man who "stole" his role.

Shen Yizhou becomes an overnight sensation.

Then a set of portraits in white, taken in costume, appears out of nowhere, and his popularity explodes even further.

A certain entertainment forum spends the whole night building a thousand-story thread, and reservations hit ten million within 24 hours.

He shoots straight to the top of the trending list.

After that,

marketing accounts that once attacked Shen Yizhou lead the charge in defending him. Actors who mocked him show up at his door to apologize publicly.

Luxury brands compete to sign him, and a steady stream of S+ blockbuster scripts comes his way.

Even that lofty, unattainable man personally paves his road ahead and stands beside him as he reaches the summit.

On the night of the awards ceremony, Shen Yizhou stands beneath the dazzling lights, holding his trophy.

The people who once treated him like trash, his "family," sit below with shock, regret, and disbelief written all over their faces.

He simply lifts his chin and gives them a beautiful, distant smile.

-

Backstage, Lu Yuchuan pins him against the wall.

Shen Yizhou tilts his head back, letting the man's kiss fall on his lashes.

"What else do you want?"

Shen Yizhou winds the man's tie around his fingers twice, then gives it a little tug and pulls him down. Raising an eyebrow, he says, "What, Mr. Lu? Are you trying to seduce me with your good looks?"

"My going rate is pretty high now..."

Shen Yizhou grins and makes a gesture. "If you want to renew our contract... it's going to take at least this much, you know?"

Theme: Nothing is impossible if you're willing to strive for it.