Popularity Above All: But Why Am I the Protagonist?

As a transmigrator in an anime world with a popularity-boosting System, Lin Jing thought he should play the supporting character and ruthlessly steal the protagonist group's popularity. At least, that's what he believed for the first 16 years of his life. Then his supernatural ability awakened, and the story officially began. 【You have been selected by the production team to be the protagonist.】 【Maintain your peak popularity, or you'll be written out of the story.】 From that moment on, the roles of wolf and lamb were completely reversed. Lin Jing became the lamb whose popularity would be stolen. It seemed the production team had long since decided he would follow the tired old trope of a good-for-nothing rising to greatness. But... So what if his ability is only C-rank? With the System's power, Lin Jing upgrades his talent, breaks out of his assigned character, and outshines the true geniuses. Everyone is waiting for him to fall from the heights, unaware that he'll only climb higher by stepping on everyone else's popularity.