The Whole Team Works Part-Time, and the Top-Tier Star Starts Out as a Mechanic!

[Cold and Caustic Former Top-Tier Star Top x Straight Mechanic Bottom with More Enthusiasm Than Skill]

Everyone has something they love. Jiang Runian loves fixing cars.

While his peers were still stressing about the college entrance exams, he had already welded his life’s ambition to a repair shop: he was determined to become the youngest master mechanic.

The problem was, he was terrible at fixing cars.

After yet another complaint from a customer, his exasperated master kicked him straight into a school:

“Just get promoted to S-rank, and you can take apart any luxury car in the garage!”

Jiang Runian was thrilled. How hard could that be... Wait?

An idol academy? Me?!

He thought he could scrape by with late-night lyric memorization, but when it was time to form teams, he was the one left over. The people who formed a new boy band with him were an even more eccentric bunch:

[Teammate No. 1: Cabbage Warrior]

Red long johns with a green padded coat, carrying two sacks of cabbage and sweeping through campus. He worked twenty part-time jobs to support his family. His reason for joining the audition was simple and sincere: “Ma says being an idol means free food and lodging.”

[Teammate No. 2: Fishing-Rod Assassin]

A former Wall Street wolf and financial big shot, but actually a level-ten scholar of fishing forums. He’d climbed the wall into the campus lake to fish so many times that he’d been caught red-handed more than once. “If they won’t let me fish, I’ll debut instead.”

[Teammate No. 3: Poor Young Master]

He wore a T-shirt that cost 9.9 yuan with free shipping, and his belt was fraying at the seams. He went viral after being secretly photographed for being “so genuinely poor.” His fans tearfully pooled money to buy him a belt. Then, at one performance, the audience discovered that his watch alone could buy the entire studio...

[Teammate No. 4: Chef Wang from the Cafeteria]

A hidden gem discovered in the school kitchen. He seemed better suited to being a chef than an idol. “I’ll follow our captain forever, until he admits he’s been conquered by my cooking!”

And the most outrageous of all was Pei Yuqing, a former top-tier star.

At the height of his career three years ago, he was exposed in an internet-wide scandal and left the industry. Now he had suddenly enrolled and joined the team. He was sarcastic from the moment he opened his mouth, yet he kept showing up in front of Jiang Runian every few days.

The variety show “Extreme Challenge! Idols” invited them to participate.

Before the show even aired, the comments were already in hysterics:

“A mechanic, a cook, a vegetable seller, a fisherman, and someone with a scandal all over the internet. Are you filming ‘The Countryside Stage’ or what?”

Just as the whole internet waited to see them make fools of themselves, an accident struck on set.

The buses of every competing team broke down at once. While the other contestants burned anxiously under the blazing sun, Jiang Runian was already under a bus, wrench in hand:

“Three minutes to modify the engine, two minutes to remove the seats and reduce weight, forty-five seconds to bridge the fuel line. Chef Wang! Help me hold down this transmission!”

Three minutes later, the modified bus, belching black smoke, shot off into the distance as everyone stared in horror.

By the time the production crew caught up to the filming location, the fishing guy was casting his line by the lake, the Cabbage Warrior was haggling at the vegetable market, and Chef Wang had already set up a wok to stir-fry crayfish.

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[Bonus Scene]

Pei Yuqing passed the garage and saw Jiang Runian grunting away under the production van, fixing it.

“I heard you took apart the production crew’s broadcast truck yesterday?”

“That was an upgrade! It’s thirty percent faster now and can even wash itself!”

The keys to the top-tier star’s Bugatti Veyron glittered in his hand.

“My globally limited-edition supercar...”

“You’re really letting me fix it?!”

Jiang Runian’s eyes lit up at once.

Before he could finish speaking, he was pulled into the driver’s seat. A damp breath brushed his earlobe.

“For every part you break, you owe me one date.”

The next day, a surreptitiously taken photo went viral online.

Shocking! Top-tier star suspected of cheating with a mechanic?!!!!!

[Reading Guide]

1. A light comedy, with plenty of ridiculous everyday moments. The romance is slow-burn but sincere.

2. One trick for leaving the industry every day.

Theme: Strive forward for your dreams!