I Stumbled into the Entertainment Industry's Gossip Mill

Upcoming novels in my collection: Become the Cannon-Fodder Beauty in a Horror Game and Those Years I Spent as an Extra in a Strange World. Please add them to your collections, dear readers! Sisi would be very grateful! Their blurbs are below! [This novel has 50% piracy protection, okay? Muah!] [Novel Blurb] I. After graduating from university and just before signing an exploitative contract, Shen Tingxing awakens a gossip System and learns that, having grown up in an orphanage, he is actually the long-lost son of national sweetheart Lin Zhiyun and the chairman of the Shen Group. Shen Tingxing: ? After thinking it over for one second, Shen Tingxing makes his decision: To hell with that exploitative contract! I'm going to find my mom! On his first day sneaking onto a film set as an extra, Shen Tingxing passes a lake and spots a man talking with the director. System: This guy has it pretty rough. Before long, his good friend will steal his music and frame him for plagiarism. In the end, he won't be able to take the pressure and will kill himself. Shen Tingxing: His friend is actually that kind of person?! Tell me more. Bian Lin came to the set to discuss the music with the director. Hearing that, he immediately flared up in anger, only to turn around and realize that the young man hadn't said a word. Bian Lin: !? On his second day on set, Shen Tingxing passes a young actress standing in the rain, filming the same scene over and over. System: She's pretty pitiful too. The assistant director is a lapdog for the second female lead, and he's targeting her at the second female lead's behest! Shen Tingxing: They haven't even turned on the camera. They're all just pretending to film her so she has to stand in the rain longer? Chen Wanwan: !? Does that old hag really think she can push me around! On the third day, the fourth day... The film set grows more and more chaotic, and gossip keeps cropping up. Amid the mayhem, Shen Tingxing gets promoted from extra to the third male lead. One day, Shen Tingxing musters up his courage and knocks on the door of Lin Zhiyun's dressing room. Her assistant gives him a scrutinizing look. System: She's not a good person. She's staying close to your mother to get revenge on her, and your disappearance all those years ago had something to do with her uncle... Shen Tingxing: Hah! So that's how I disappeared back then. Lin Zhiyun, who had been resting, stands up. With tears in her eyes, she can't help walking toward Shen Tingxing. "This child seems so familiar!" II. Later, the famous actress Lin Zhiyun makes headlines by bringing her son to a parent-child reality show. On the show, the goddess's newly revealed son frequently interacts with the aloof Film Emperor Qi Yanzhi, who usually dislikes socializing. Film Emperor Fan No. 1: Does he even know what he's capable of? He thinks he can cling to our Brother Qi just because of his face! Dream on! Film Emperor Fan No. 2: Stop using our Brother Qi for publicity! Leave him out of it! Not long after, a renowned songwriter publicly declares while accepting an award: "Shen Tingxing is my benefactor. He's one of a kind, and he's the best." A rising starlet, eyes red, accepts the Best Actress award: "I also want to thank Shen Tingxing. He changed my life." A top-tier star, a famous director, and an accomplished screenwriter all step forward to support Shen Tingxing. Netizens are astonished to discover that these people have all joined the same company, and their boss is Shen Tingxing. Netizens: So he helped our idol when they were at their lowest! Young Master Shen, I won't let anyone defy you. III. Shen Tingxing: "How come I don't know I've done so much?" Qi Yanzhi tenderly brushes his fingers over Shen Tingxing's brows. "You changed me, too." [Version dated 2025.3.11] [Upcoming Novel: Those Years I Spent as an Extra in a Strange World] Yu Chu unexpectedly learns that a relative who won a house-drawing lottery has left him an apartment in the city center. As soon as he graduates from high school, he eagerly goes to check it out. When he presses the elevator button and reaches the sixth floor, everything starts to get strange. In the hallway, a man in a suit wears a crazed grin as he raises a red chainsaw to chase the person in front of him. After seeing Yu Chu, he even greets him. "New neighbor? Hello." Yu Chu: "? Are you filming a video?" Neighbor: "Haha, what a joke! Want to come to my place for a cup of tea?" "No, thanks." Yu Chu steps out of the elevator. Out of the corner of his eye, he sees a person covered in blood leap into the elevator, a look of relief on his face at having escaped. "Too bad he got away." The neighbor shrugs and carries his chainsaw home. Yu Chu: "?" After spending a night resting in his new apartment, Yu Chu goes downstairs to find breakfast. At the breakfast shop, the customers tremble as they stare at the delicious-looking food on the table as if it were deadly poison. The owner smiles, wipes the ketchup from the corner of his mouth, and says slowly, "Dear customers, please choose whatever you like! Choose carefully." Yu Chu calmly places his order. The owner starts preparing it, when suddenly every customer but Yu Chu bolts out the door and stands outside, yelling and laughing hysterically. Yu Chu: "!" After settling into his new apartment for two days, Yu Chu decides to reward himself with a graduation trip. On the bus, the passengers tremble. Yu Chu arrives late and calmly takes his seat. In an instant, every passenger looks at him with gleaming eyes. Only the man in black seated in the back row lifts the brim of his hat. "Here for the tour? What a coincidence. So am I." Yu Chu: Do I know you? * Yu Chu gradually begins to feel that something about this world is strange. One day, several people show up at his door, claiming to be distant relatives. He watches the group warily and ultimately refuses to let them in. To his surprise, they all look overjoyed. "Thank goodness! We don't have to enter this instance!" Yu Chu: What a strange group of people. The neighbor opens his door and sees what's happening. A playful smile curls his lips. "Little Yu, is someone bullying you? Want me to take care of them?" Yu Chu's "distant relatives" look as if they've seen the most terrifying thing in the world. Yu Chu hurries forward and grabs the neighbor's hand, whispering, "Please don't. They're so weird, and there are more of them than us. There are only two of us! Let's just let them leave for now." The neighbor readily agrees. "Whatever you say." * As time passes, a legend spreads among the players: If an NPC named Yu Chu appears beside the strange bosses, count yourself lucky, because the survival rate for that instance will rise dramatically. Theme: See through confusion and become a better version of yourself