"Jiang Mingxi, I'm warning you. If you dare bully Lele on tomorrow's variety show, I'll cut off all your resources!"
He looked at the grim-faced man across from him.
Jiang Mingxi sighed.
Hey!
At that very second, he had transmigrated into a novel.
He had become the cannon-fodder true young master in The Overbearing CEO Dotes Every Night.
And the man before him, Jiang Ke, was his eldest brother.
In The Overbearing CEO Dotes Every Night, the true young master, Jiang Mingxi, was found and brought home by the wealthy Jiang family at the age of twenty-two.
But the Jiang family hadn't kicked out the fake young master, Lele.
Because-
Jiang Ke and the fake young master, who wasn't related to him by blood, were desperately in love, locked in an endless push and pull.
Meanwhile, the book's cannon-fodder true young master, Jiang Mingxi, stirred up trouble at every turn.
Through his constant antics, the leads finally got their happily ever after, while he died in a sea of flames.
Fuck!
What kind of cannon-fodder-torturing plot was this?
Cannon fodder's lives mattered too.
Cherish life. Stay away from the plot.
Jiang Mingxi looked at Jiang Ke and said with utter sincerity, "Big Brother, I don't want to go on that show tomorrow. Can I withdraw?"
Jiang Ke's face instantly blazed with fury. He shot to his feet and slammed the table. "Are you threatening me? Jiang Mingxi, you're as despicable as ever! Will you really stoop to anything just to bully Lele?"
Jiang Mingxi looked exactly like that old man squinting at his phone on the subway.
Huh?
Afraid this overbearing CEO male lead hadn't understood him, Jiang Mingxi repeated, "I mean, let Lele go on tomorrow's variety show. I won't go. Just have the company arrange for another artist to replace me..."
Before Jiang Mingxi could finish, Jiang Ke grabbed the glass beside him and flung the entire glass of water into Jiang Mingxi's face. "Enough! If you scheme against Lele in front of me again, I won't let you off!"
With that said.
Jiang Ke stormed off.
Leaving Jiang Mingxi, his face drenched: ???
So you couldn't understand human speech, huh?
Fuck you!
He grabbed the empty glass and hurled it straight at Jiang Ke's head.
Let it all burn!
Thud!
The glass lived up to its four-digit price tag, hitting Jiang Ke hard enough to leave him dizzy and sprawled on the floor.
Jiang Mingxi seized the chance to kick him twice, fleeing the scene as he called, "Auntie Wang, Auntie Wang, oh no~ Big Brother's fainted~"
The moment he left the Jiang family villa, his phone started buzzing~
As soon as he answered, Jiang Mingxi's manager roared from the other end.
"Xiaoxi!" His manager was going out of his mind with anger. "Someone spliced together a video of you and Best Actor Song! The whole internet is tearing you apart!"
Before the Jiang family found him, Jiang Mingxi had been a flop who had debuted just a year earlier.
Though he was obscure, his reputation had been passable.
But after the Jiang family brought him home, all sorts of dirt on him kept appearing online.
[Fuck, Jiang Mingxi is such a bitch. He's actually harassing Song Lan now. Can this asshole fuck off?!]
[Last month he was harassing Jiang Ke, and now he's leeching off Song Lan. No work to his name, just a bitch who loves clout-chasing!]
[What rotten luck. Taking Brother Song away from this!]
[Can we get this trashy flop out of showbiz?! He has no fucking shame when it comes to chasing traffic! He was leeching off Jiang Mingle before, too! Is he some kind of clout-leech spirit?!]
[The thought of this scumbag being on a show with Song Lan tomorrow seriously makes me want to unalive someone!]
Jiang Mingxi scrolled through the comments.
His manager ranted over the phone.
"That's so vile! After this, any interaction you have with Song Lan on the show will get blown out of proportion. And because of this, Song Lan won't initiate any interaction with you at all."
Who would willingly get dragged into a mess for no reason?
His manager was so angry he was nearly crying.
"The Jiang family are absolute bastards! It's bad enough that they won't acknowledge who you are, but they're screwing you over like this, too. What good does ruining your reputation do them?!"
According to the original novel's plot, Jiang Ke had had a gossip account post this video.
The goal was simple: set up a foil for the fake young master on the variety show, using Jiang Mingxi to make the fake young master's image perfect by comparison.
And when Jiang Ke hired gossip accounts to smear the original owner, he hadn't even hidden it from him.
So both the original owner and his manager knew the Jiang family was behind it.
In the original plot, the original owner had been furious and aggrieved, but unable to fight the Jiang family's financial power, he had kept making trouble for the fake young master on the show.
The result was obvious.
The original owner became trash everyone despised.
Meanwhile, the fake young master gained a huge number of fans through the show, and his celebrity status skyrocketed.
After the show ended, he even co-starred in a film with Best Actor Song Lan.
What kind of fucking stupid plot was this?
"This show, I..."
Jiang Mingxi was just about to say he wouldn't be doing the show anymore.
But!
As he scrolled through the comments, his finger accidentally swiped a little too far upward, opening the video at the very top.
In the video.
In a dim alley.
Best Actor Song Lan looked disgusted. "Can you fuck off?!"
Jiang Mingxi looked aggrieved. "But I really do like you."
It was a very short video.
Jiang Mingxi didn't know where Song Lan's segment had been clipped from.
But Jiang Mingxi's own segment had been taken from a flop drama he had acted in last year.
That wasn't the point.
The point was-
Song Lan's face was way too gorgeous!
He was exactly his type.
Pant, pant~
As a little pervert, Jiang Mingxi immediately changed his unspoken words to, "I absolutely have to go on this show."
After hanging up, Jiang Mingxi didn't think twice. With a few taps, he reposted the video from the gossip account with the caption-
#Man, you've successfully caught my attention~~~#
Within five minutes, the post shot straight to number one on the trending list.
[Holy shit! Fuck, I'm losing my mind! I've never seen anyone as low and shameless as Jiang Mingxi. Can he just die?!]
[He's not even pretending anymore? Just openly leeching?]
[Can the Chinese entertainment industry blacklist this piece of trash? He's way too likely to corrupt kids!]
[My nephew is a Jiang Mingxi fan. Now he spends every day at internet cafés, skips school, talks back to his parents, and refuses to listen. So please, @Education Bureau @Association for the Protection of Minors, blacklist Jiang Mingxi.]
Amid the fans' furious abuse, Jiang Mingxi rode the wave of attention and tapped out another post-
#@Tianli Group Jiang Ke~ Big Brother, I'm your biological little brother! People are saying I'm leeching off you. Aren't you going to say anything?#
Heeheehee.
You want to mess with me, huh?!
Bring it on!