Office worker Huo Huai transmigrates into the body of an idol in a survival show group in a world of bizarre rules.
He stands at the center of the stage on debut night. Huo Huai watches his teammates embrace and weep with vacant eyes, while staff near the cameras remove featureless faces, and the audience below screams and contorts as they hold up blinding light sticks.
Huo Huai feels around in his pocket and pulls out a strange napkin, covered in densely packed, tiny writing.
[Welcome to Strange Tales Spring Youth Daobi Entertainment Company. To ensure your safety during your one-and-a-half-year limited contract, please follow the employee handbook below. You will be responsible for the consequences of any violations.]
[1. You must complete the assignments given to you by the company. You may use your free time as you wish after your assignments are finished. If you need to leave the company, a staff member must accompany you. Going out alone is prohibited.]
[2. Employee dormitories are safe. You may enter the dormitory and rest outside working hours. The company does not allow employees to work overtime. Please pay close attention to your working hours, and refuse if anyone asks you to work overtime.]
[3. When working outside the company, remember that you are a human employee hired by this company, not any other creature or object.]
[4. If you find any human body parts, such as fingers, eyeballs, or heads, during working hours, do not panic. This is normal during the company’s cleaning process. They will be cleared away soon.]
[5. Meeting fans alone is dangerous. Fans ■■■. You can always trust the fans.]
“Huo Huai! We’ll always support you! Let’s make it big in the entertainment industry together!”
At that moment, his teammate wraps slippery, shiny black tentacles around the bottom. Huo Huai sees a row of horrifying sharp teeth growing inside each sucker and is instantly terrified.
Compared to making it big in this strange world, he’d rather go home.
Scenarios: (Told in third person)
1. Group variety show: You’ve successfully debuted, and the group’s variety show is a little reward for you. You’ll gain the attention of all the fans who followed the survival show, and maybe even be paired up with a popular group member to stir up a CP and boost your popularity. Of course, that’s assuming you survive...
2. D-rank small music festival: Your company has secured you an opportunity to perform live. The reason a top-tier star and an underground band are sharing the stage with you is unclear, but something feels off. The dressing rooms and backstage are full of dangers. Can you complete your performance and escape alive?
3. Group concert: You debuted as a group for this very reason. Despite the huge gap in popularity between members, you’re still forced to perform together. Your teammates’ inexplicable enthusiasm, the fans’ frenzied excitement at the concert, and the malice lurking beneath the roar of the crowd make it seem unlikely you’ll get out unharmed...
4. C-rank lifestyle variety show: Your manager says you’ll get to relax on a variety show, but in the blink of an eye, you’re in a remote mountain village with few ways to get around. Luckily, the production crew and your fellow guests are with you, so you haven’t been kidnapped and brought to the village to be murdered. Wait, seeing the bizarre regular cast and the hostile surroundings is making you reconsider...
5. B-rank celebrity variety show: Your hard work running from one assignment to the next hasn’t been for nothing. A national-level strange-tales variety show has taken an interest in your recent rise to fame. With all kinds of games and extreme challenges, you don’t think you have the right to refuse when you see their creepy smiles. But you decide to go for it: will the hit show use your life as a stepping stone, or will you sacrifice the show to secure your own future?
6. A-rank music variety show: You’ve finally made it this far, taking the next step into the world of singing and dancing. But most people still doubt your professional abilities, and the senior singers are wary of you trying to claim a share of the pie. One mistake costs you a body part. Will this be the end of your entertainment career, leaving you a nonhuman creature, or will it be the battle that makes you a legend?
An oblivious workaholic, taciturn office worker bottom × a doting top who can turn into all kinds of things and likes to get freaky
[Blurb archived on 2025.5.1]
Theme: Live life earnestly
