Chapter 1 If effort is useless, then what's the point of my effort...?
"Are you saying that this world is a melodramatic entertainment novel, and I'm just cannon fodder in this novel to highlight the main character?"
The bright overhead light, like a stage spotlight, poured down vertically, enveloping the boy in the clean space in front of the washbasin.
His facial features are clean and soft, and although he has not yet completely shed his youthful immaturity, he already has an amazing and exquisite beginning.
When he asked the question, his full pink lips unconsciously parted slightly, revealing a hint of his white teeth, forming a somewhat innocent and silly curve.
A mechanical, cold voice answered in my ear, referring to itself as the "Counterattack System": "Host, yes. In this novel called 'The Fake Young Master Who is Green Tea, Everyone Loves Him,' the protagonist is Lin Ke, the fake young master who was switched at birth by your biological parents. Although you are the real young master, your parents favor Lin Ke, and the audience also likes Lin Ke. You are constantly being cursed and despised. You are just a cannon fodder control group set up to increase the audience's enjoyment."
Lin Suxing pursed her lips and fell into a brief silence.
Seeing that he didn't believe it, the system immediately pulled out a long passage from the original story.
"Get out of here, you lip-syncing bastards!"
"Stop singing! Get out! Can't you understand human language?"
"Lip-syncing bastard! How dare he even go on stage?!"
Lin Suxing took a deep breath, forced himself to take a step, and walked under the spotlight.
As the music began, it was a song he had practiced countless times, every note and every breath etched into his very being.
A blinding silver arc flew from the stands, followed by a muffled thud as the crushed beverage can slammed into a spot less than a meter in front of him!
More debris began flying onto the stage—tissues, glow sticks… Security personnel rushed forward to stop them, but the insults came like a tidal wave, one wave higher than the next, almost drowning out the accompaniment from the speakers.
In the darkness below the stage, there were countless angry and disdainful faces.
Lin Suxing stood on the stage, isolated and helpless. The spotlight, like a searchlight interrogating a criminal, magnified all his embarrassment and humiliation.
Two days ago, the hashtag #LinKelipsingButWinsPerformanceSupportKing# dominated the trending topics on Weibo, but it quickly ended with a statement from the program team.
The statement was written in a grand and respectable manner, and the attached "original audio" clips seemed to be meant to show that everyone's live singing was also good. In reality, it was a malicious compilation of Lin Suxing's face and other people's off-key and off-key singing segments, spliced together with Lin Ke's smooth and beautiful singing to create a contrast.
In order to protect Lin Ke and the "reputation" of the production team, the production team blamed him for the need to lip-sync, portraying him as the culprit who "spoiled the whole pot of soup with one bad apple".
The malice was completely transferred to Lin Suxing.
But the truth is that Lin Ke complained that the practice was too hard and that the high notes were too difficult. He acted cute and charming, which made his parents, who felt sorry for him, put pressure on the production team, demanding that their group use a pre-recorded, perfect audio track to "ensure the stage effect".
And now, he has to stand here, bearing all the anger and malice caused by the lies.
He listened to the vile insults. A tremendous sense of injustice and anger churned in his chest like magma, threatening to burn him to ashes.
Lin Suxing wanted to throw away the microphone and shout the truth to everyone!
But he couldn't.
His parents were biased and deliberately dragged him out to take the blame for Lin Ke. They even threatened him with not being allowed to work in the entertainment industry in the future when he was unwilling. He couldn't say anything or do anything.
We can only endure it silently.
In an instant, the fragments of text transformed into several points of light and merged into Lin Suxing's body, becoming tangible memories that seemed to appear before his eyes and were truly experienced.
The system kept a close eye on Lin Suxing, somewhat worried that he might break down because of this.
It would be difficult for anyone to accept being told their future fate all at once.
But Lin Suxing's face revealed an emotion that was somewhere between "let's go" and "hehe, whatever," and he spoke as fast as a machine gun: "6, it's one thing for him to have distorted values and be the protagonist of a novel, but he also wants me to be his comparison?"
"He's dreaming," the boy said dismissively, showing none of the sadness and confusion the system had anticipated.
Seeing that Lin Suxing believed him, the Counterattack System comforted him, "It's alright, host! Because the readers of this story have too much resentment towards the plot, I, as the Counterattack System, have been sent to be bound to you. You can definitely sweep away your cannon fodder fate and be yourself again! As long as you follow my instructions, you can gradually become the top idol in the entire country!"
The boy's pupils were clear light brown, like amber soaked in clear water, clean, bright, soft and beautiful.
In dim lighting, the skin has a cool, flawless, and delicate appearance, with an almost fragile delicacy, like a delicate BJD doll.
The pretty doll's eyelashes fluttered, making her look fragile and innocent. She spoke in a calm tone, uttering a startling statement: "I know my own personality. In the original text you described, I've probably already tried my best, but even that's useless. I still get scolded, and even my own parents don't like me. So what's the point of trying? Wouldn't it be better to just start over?"
"Suffering first may not guarantee happiness later, but if it's sweet first, then it's truly sweet. Why should I care about what happens after that?"
"Now that things have come to this, let's just start the business."
Lin Suxing, who had always longed to be a couch potato, calmly delivered a bombshell conclusion.
He was already a person with low energy levels, and being able to sleep only two or three hours a day on a talent show was already exhausting.
Then a system comes along and tells him that even if he tries his best, he won't get anything. So what's the point of trying?
He started.
He wants to be a happy salted fish.
The Counterattack System remained strangely silent for a few seconds, clearly not expecting things to develop in such a bizarre direction: "...Host, calm down!"
"I'm calm, I'm serious." Lin Suxing blinked her big eyes. "I'm going to find the election management officer right now."
The system followed Lin Suxing out of the restroom and asked anxiously, "What happened to the selection manager?"
"I'm taking leave and going back to sleep. Let whoever wants to participate in this stupid talent show participate; it's all over now, I'm going to sleep," Lin Suxing replied, a slight smile on her face.
This smile instantly brought his exquisitely doll-like face to life, dispelling all the coldness and aloofness in that moment with the sudden, innocent, and gentle light.
The system, however, began to scream in a shrill voice: "No! No! Host! I'm a first-time counterattack system, please don't give up on me so easily! Waaaaaah!"
It is a new employee who has just been assigned to the counterattack zone... The new system is a modified version of the gossip system, lacking experience, and is at a loss in this situation where the host decides to start the game right from the beginning.
Who would have thought that this internship system would encounter such a laid-back, unambitious host!
It was already midnight, but the entire training center building was still brightly lit.
The oppressive rhythm of drumbeats and soaring chorus fragments escaped from the tightly closed practice rooms on both sides, as different songs collided and tore each other apart, stirring up a chaotic mess in the corridor.
Occasionally, staff members would jog by, their walkie-talkies crackling with brief instructions, their voices revealing their exhaustion and urgency.
For the contestants and staff of Produce, it was just another ordinary night.
The contestants' days were filled with recordings, live broadcasts, and various fragmented activities. They could only sleep for two or three hours before being woken up by the selection staff to prepare for the next day's activities.
Lin Suxing pushed open the door to the training room marked "Group D" and squinted in the bright and dazzling lights of the dance studio.
"Xingxing, you're back just in time. We were just about to choose the center position in our group." The red-haired boy with heavy makeup looked at him and smiled in a rather intriguing way.
As the red-haired boy spoke, the other contestants in Group D all looked towards Lin Suxing's position near the door, their expressions varying.
Six boys sat loosely in an arc on the wooden floor of the practice room, with lyric sheets covered in notes scattered in front of them. The handwriting varied, and some parts were heavily marked with highlighter.
Under everyone's gaze, Lin Suxing frowned: "If you're going to choose, choose quickly."
The red-haired boy with a futuristic, tech-savvy look was none other than Lin Ke, the protagonist of this world, as the system had just mentioned.
He was also living under the same roof as him, but was switched at birth by his biological parents and had been living under his identity in the wealthy Lin family for eighteen years.
At this moment, Lin Ke was surrounded by the other contestants from Group D, who looked like sycophants who followed his lead: "The selection manager is busy with other things, we can just choose the center position ourselves~" "Let's vote, since everyone is here!"
Lin Suxing knew from the beginning that these people were after Lin Ke's status as a young master, and after being won over by Lin Ke, they ostracized and targeted him throughout the variety show.
He didn't care because he felt his efforts would be recognized sooner or later.
But since the system told him that his efforts were useless because he was just cannon fodder in this world.
Then he has even less reason to care.
Unfortunately, the election official isn't here right now. As soon as he gets back, he'll immediately ask for leave and go back to sleep.
He stayed up all night for this lousy show, and that was considered a loss for him.
No, he's going to quit the competition and go home to sleep! He'll wake up, order two Mixue Ice Cream drinks (outside the Oriental Pearl Tower's attack range), and have a nice meal!
Lin Suxing's voice was clear and bright, but his words were anything but polite, instantly causing everyone in the training room to change their expressions.
Even with cameras recording, the atmosphere still plummeted to freezing point.
Looking at the handsome young man with refined features, who was still exquisite and handsome even without makeup, Lin Ke felt a surge of resentment that seemed about to burst out of her chest and spread into the air.
He had clearly bribed the makeup artists to give Lin Suxing "special attention" and make her look "beautiful"...
But Lin Suxing was still so exquisite and beautiful, like a fairy who had descended to the mortal world.
Lin Ke resented Lin Suxing's beauty, but he hated even more that Lin Suxing had taken away everything that belonged to him, the young master of the Lin family.
In his view, Lin Suxing owed him.
He was pampered and spoiled from childhood to adulthood, but now he is no longer his parents' child, and the love of his parents and brothers will no longer belong to him alone.
How could the narrow-minded Lin Ke tolerate someone who had taken away his resources living well?
What's more, Lin Suxing is now being completely rude to him, showing no remorse whatsoever for taking everything he should have had!
The red-haired boy suppressed his anger and restrained the urge to unleash a torrent of profanity.
His lips, plump from two injections of hyaluronic acid, curled up stiffly at one corner, a dark emotion flashing in his eyes.
Soon, Lin Suxing could no longer rely on his abilities to be so arrogant on the show.
At Lin Ke's prompting, Zhang Xiyi, Lin Ke's lackey, spoke up: "For our first performance, the center position was chosen by a vote within the group. I just asked other groups and they all did it this way."
Another sycophant, He Jiayang, immediately chimed in: "Alright, all the other groups have chosen their center positions, let's start choosing now!"
The blond boy, sitting alone in the corner away from Lin Ke's group, looked at Lin Ke with a cold and stern gaze, but ultimately said nothing.
He realized early on that Lin Ke was targeting Lin Suxing, but he didn't know what the grudge was between the two, so he didn't rashly intervene.
"Haha, it's normal that there isn't one, after all, we all have a common center in our hearts."
Lin Ke smiled, thinking herself elegant and composed, without feeling nervous at all.
He was determined to get the center position.
He would first try to get the center position in the group by forming a clique, and then marginalize Lin Suxing during the dance rehearsal process, guiding Lin Suxing to vent her dissatisfaction.
Lin Suxing's identity as a young master has not yet been revealed by his parents. The production team only knows that Lin Ke is the young master of the Lin family and does not know Lin Suxing's identity. Of course, they will not hide this conflict in order to protect Lin Suxing.
When the time comes, the production team, who love a good show, will definitely edit Lin Suxing's excited words into something that sounds like he's cursing his teammates and bullying them, all for the sake of generating buzz. Once the show airs, Lin Suxing will definitely be cyberbullied, and may even be asked to withdraw from the competition by the audience!
Since Lin Suxing dared to apply to the same talent show as him, then he should just wait to be cyberbullied until he has to leave the entertainment industry!
With the voting for the center position about to begin, the system quickly reminded: "Host, you absolutely cannot let Lin Ke be the center! In the original story, Lin Ke was chosen as the center of Group D in the first performance, but because she wanted to get something for nothing, she asked the production team to lip-sync with you. Although you got first place in the first performance, after the lip-syncing was exposed, you will be sacrificed as the reason for the lip-syncing. At that time, they will edit the video to say that you are not good enough and the whole group was forced to lip-sync!"
Lin Suxing rolled her eyes: "I'm not going to stay here until the first round. I'm going to find the selection manager right now and tell him I want to withdraw from the competition."
He's not stupid. Since Lin Ke is ganging up to grab the center position, his efforts are useless. The production team and his cheapskate parents are biased towards Lin Ke. They even dare to frame him for something as outrageous as lip-syncing. So why should he stay on this show?
Rather than being blamed and criticized until he quits the competition after the first round, he might as well withdraw now and become a successful online influencer selling goods via live streaming.
He doesn't have to get up early every day, which is perfect for a lazy bum like him.
Seeing Lin Suxing fully open up, the system became extremely anxious: "Host, don't give up so easily! If you complete the mission, I'll tell you a big surprise! Okay!"
Before its transformation, the Counterattack System was a gossip-eating system. Upon arriving in this world, it developed a professional habit and began collecting all the gossip in the vicinity.
Having exhausted all other options, he finally thought of using a melon to lure Lin Suxing.
After all, human nature is to love gossip and watching the excitement, and it didn't believe that Lin Suxing could resist such temptation.
"I'm too tired, I don't have the energy to argue with them." Lin Suxing had already decided to start the event and didn't intend to change her mind easily.
"The gossip is about a very popular contestant on this variety show. After the show aired, several popular couples were associated with him! But he actually has a secret boyfriend, and he's even a live-in son-in-law. His boyfriend is the heir of a well-known entertainment company, and he's also a contestant on the show!"
Before Lin Suxing could speak, the blond boy suddenly sat up straight!
Meng Huaiwen looked at Lin Suxing in disbelief. He could see clearly that Lin Suxing hadn't opened her mouth, but he could hear her talking to someone else!
That person also said... there's a big scoop about her boyfriend!
Meng Huaiwen has a secret.
He is the son of the chairman of Xinghe Entertainment, a well-known entertainment company in China. With his own resources, he doesn't need to participate in such a difficult talent show to have a smooth career in the entertainment industry.
His secret is that he has a boyfriend who hasn't been publicly acknowledged yet.
She came to participate in this program because her boyfriend wanted to participate, so she came to "accompany" him.
This is why Meng Huaiwen doesn't care about being in the center position or getting screen time. He doesn't have much singing or dancing ability, and he only participated because he was afraid that his boyfriend would be lonely and bored inside.
Among the contestants with connections on the show, he's the only one who's the heir to a well-known entertainment company, so the big scoop Lin Suxing and the others were talking about... must be about his boyfriend!
Meng Huaiwen clenched his fists, staring nervously at Lin Suxing, waiting for their next conversation.
Seeing that Lin Suxing didn't respond, the system had no choice but to continue: "But, he also hid from his boyfriend and started dating someone else on the show!"
In an instant, as if struck by lightning, Meng Huaiwen's eyes widened, unable to believe what he was hearing.
Her boyfriend, Sun Xin, has always been obedient and gentle towards her. How could he possibly cheat on her and betray her? Especially on a TV show, openly being with someone else behind her back!
The system tempted, "Honey, don't you want to know at all? This time, as long as you complete the task assigned by this system to [obtain the center position in the first performance group], you can get a detailed juicy story, it's very dramatic and interesting!"
The system felt that such a bombshell cheating scandal happening around us was beyond the realm of humanity for those who didn't want to hear about it.
Judging from Lin Suxing's decent appearance, it probably still enjoys gossip.
But Lin Suxing [Non-human Version] remained unmoved: "If you had a cheat, maybe I could try. But now no one is helping me, and I'm a low-energy human, so I can't grab anything at all. Forget it, it's too blue."
The boy's Zen-like demeanor was like that of a capybara that remained unmoved even after being kicked.
If you mess with me, I'll just turn into a furry mess and run away!
It was Lin Ke's turn to vote, and the system, unsure how to persuade her, could only sigh.
Lin Ke couldn't help but reveal a smug smile, while those players who didn't team up with Lin Ke had serious expressions.
At this critical moment, someone spoke up: "Wait, before choosing the center position, I have a few things to say."
His voice wasn't loud, it was a little hoarse, but every word was firm and resounding, as if it had materialized and was very powerful!
A note from the author:
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[Please add "Transmigrated as the Cubs of a Cleaning Cloth in an ABO Novel" to your collection for pre-order!]
Jiang Xiaomian transmigrated to a world that was a multi-dominant restricted ABO novel serialized on the Huatang website. The protagonist of this novel was a single father who had given birth to his own child.
He transmigrated into the body of the protagonist's nine-year-old child, serving as a background character for erotic scenes in the original story.
[Wedding Bed]
"This is my wife's and my wedding bed, you can't..."
"The baby is watching us, please don't do this, sob sob..."
Jiang Xiaomian: ?
[Women's Clothing]
"If I go out like this, people will know I'm a man..."
"No, wear your rabbit tail. And if you bring Little Cotton along, don't make any strange noises outside, okay?"
Jiang Xiaomian: ? ?
The censorship system he was bound to told him that because the novel website had been banned, the entire world would also be censored.
His mission is to use his cheat ability to rewrite the script to prevent R-rated content from happening, otherwise the world will be wiped out immediately.
[A distant nephew, staying at the protagonist's house, develops evil intentions.]
The original script reads: "Every time he saw Jiang Ding bend over, revealing her slender, fair waistline, he would get incredibly excited."
Jiang Xiaomian changed "hard" to "soft," and her nephew, who was far away, made an excuse to leave a few days later, supposedly to see urologists everywhere to treat his erectile dysfunction.
[The neighbor, eyeing the protagonist, came over specifically to freeload a meal.]
Jiang Xiaomian changed the "cucumber" in the script to "mushroom" in the line "[the neighbor devoured the cucumber salad]". The neighbor was immediately sent to the hospital after the meal due to mushroom poisoning. It is said that during his hospitalization, he kept complaining that he saw ten old men riding on trees every day.
[The protagonist is forced by her boss to use her sexuality to please a business partner]
The original script reads: [The boss looked at Jiang Ding, a calculating smile on his face: "Our business partner likes good-looking men, so why don't you go?"]
Jiang Xiaomian changed "you" to "I", so the boss went to the banquet by himself because Kayan was kicked out and fired because the contract was not negotiated.
[The aloof CEO accidentally discovers the protagonist's physical secret]
Jiang Xiaomian threw the script down: "What's the point of changing this?! I recognized him at a glance as my old Qian's father... oh no, my biological father!"
Lu Kaifeng was still lost in thought when suddenly a chubby-faced little boy grabbed his leg.
The little dumpling, barely reaching his thigh, had clear eyes and chubby cheeks, and called out in a sweet, childish voice, "Daddy~"
【Eating Guide】
1. Pairing: Father generation - resilient and gentle beauty (uke) × cunning and wealthy tycoon (seme); Son generation - intelligent but manipulative (uke) × reborn aloof and domineering CEO (seme);
2. The main character, Xiao Tuanzi, has a childhood sweetheart relationship that runs throughout the entire story, with intimate scenes only occurring after they grow up;
3.1V1, HE, SC, continuing the lighthearted and cheerful writing style, with occasional explicit content.
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