I Accidentally Got the Veteran Actor's Comeback System on a Boy Band Survival Show

Jiang Mu was standing on the audition stage when a sudden ding rang in his ears. [You are now over fifty, washed up and retired from show business, making a living as a livestream shopping influencer. Watching a fan-edited video titled “The Uncles Were Once the Brightest Stars” makes you sigh with emotion. Time flies, and the years take their toll. Then a sudden idea occurs to you. You decide to make a comeback and act again, becoming a true veteran actor. The Veteran Actor Comeback System is now online.] Jiang Mu, who just turned eighteen: ??? Wait, who’s over fifty? I’m eighteen, man! And I’m on an idol survival show. I just want to become an idol on the strength of my face. I never said I wanted to act! Did this System get bound to the wrong person or what?! [Reader’s Guide: 1. The protagonist has a love interest, and they’ll start dating after the competition ends. 2. The competition format borrows elements from the Produce 101 series and various Chinese survival and reality competition shows, with plenty of mashups and original additions. 3. This is a fictional entertainment industry, and the characters aren’t based on real people. Please don’t associate them with real-life celebrities. 4. The protagonist dominates from the start, with an overpowered golden finger. Expect feel-good wish fulfillment with no regard for logic. 5. There will be lots of original lyrics and scripts. Please don’t read if that’s not your thing.] Coming soon: The Real Young Master Is from 1937. If you’re interested, please add it to your reading list! (づ￣3￣)づ╭❤~ Ye Congjun was born in the Republic of China and came of age in a world at war. As the country fell apart, he went to the front with the army and died amid the shellfire of 1937. Then he was reborn in the peaceful modern era. Though fate had dealt him a cruel hand, leaving him an orphan in this life, Ye Congjun was still grateful. Alone in the world, he lived freely and without restraint. That is, until his nineteenth birthday, when someone showed up with a paternity test and told him he was the true young master of a wealthy family. He had thought their reunion would be a tearful embrace. Instead, his biological parents took his hand and explained, “The boy who was raised as our son is innocent. The hospital staff mixed you up, and he didn’t know. Now his parents are both dead, and he has nowhere to go. We plan to let him stay with the Ye family, so you must get along.” His older and younger brothers were also wary of his ambition, scheming, ruthless methods, and complicated relationships. They warned him to stay away from the other young master. “To us, he’s the only one who’s truly our brother.” Watching the Ye family put on their picture-perfect family act, Ye Congjun smiled. So why had they gone to all that trouble to bring him back? Even better, on the night he returned to the family, Ye Congjun dreamed he was the villain in a story about two young masters switched at birth. Hating the other young master for taking his place and stealing his life, he would target and frame him at every turn, drive him out of the family, and then try to finish him off. Naturally, in the end, the true young master’s real nature would be exposed, while the other would be cleared of all wrongdoing but left brokenhearted. Everyone would regret what they’d done and beg for forgiveness in a grand, tearful reconciliation. Ye Congjun had no interest in the story’s clingy, angst-ridden plot, but he was curious about the bits of information it casually dropped about the future. * The wealthy Ye family had brought back their true young master. Orphaned and undisciplined, he was wild and full of fury. Yet he had a dangerously gorgeous, untamed, and alluring face that made everyone want to tame him with money and power. Too bad Ye Congjun had never been a puppet who could be molded and trained. He had seen the decadent glamour of the foreign concessions in a world torn by war, and the monuments built of flesh and blood on battlefields raked by artillery. To him, worldly wealth, power, and romance were little more than diversions to relieve his boredom. Following the fragments of the future from the book, he took a turn through the world of fame and fortune, and found that the power and wealth others worked themselves ragged to obtain were just as easy for him to claim. His blood relatives, who had once been so critical and wary of him, realized money and power couldn’t tame him and came calling in the name of family. The false young master’s admirers, who had once looked down on him and despised him, realized money and power couldn’t crush him and came clinging to him in the name of repentance. Even the false young master, whose relationship with him was complicated, used his own guilt as an excuse to promise to make it up to Ye Congjun for the rest of his life. Ye Congjun had lived a wild life, never short of friends to carouse with and get into trouble alongside. If they got along, they had fun; if they didn’t, they parted ways. He would never stay for anyone. The only person who gave him pause was Sheng Junhuai, the head of the Sheng family, who had offered him his sincere heart from the very beginning, quietly supporting, guiding, and accepting him. Sheng Junhuai, who had spent years carefully weaving a net for the one he loved, smiled faintly. “When an older man plans for love, he has to be thorough and play every move with care.” Theme: Traditional culture can become a hit overnight