I Show Off on a Dating Variety Show

When Jiang Xu opened his eyes, he was in a parallel world, inhabiting the body of a good-for-nothing who shared his name. Before he could figure out why the original had been living off his parents and staying home, his mother shoved a signed contract for Heartbeats Within Reach into his hands. The penalty for breaking it was eight figures. He planned to halfheartedly stick it out for a few episodes and then leave, but the show's teaser turned his history of social anxiety into a punchline. The male contestants mocked him as a country bumpkin, the female contestants acted as if he didn't exist, and the production team had already written the script, waiting for him to crash and burn in the first round so they could use him as a stepping stone to fame. In the first mutual match-up, Jiang Xu got no votes and came in last. That same evening, he was assigned to be a background prop for a wealthy heiress. He casually pointed out that the watch on her wrist was a fake, and the livestream chat instantly exploded. Public opinion shifted from mockery to curiosity. Marketing accounts dug through his history all night but found nothing, while the directors caught a whiff of the buzz and quietly pushed their maliciously edited footage onto the trending list. Jiang Xu used the instincts he'd developed in his previous life to anticipate every trick, while being forced to reveal his first ace on camera. For the first time, he realized that the identities buried in his past were the real fuse behind this game of chess.