DANMEI Reading List (RAW) Pt. 2

380. The Villain Just Wants to be a Salted Fish

Translator: Arie.Shima

Chapters: 134 + 3 Extras

Tags: entertainment cirlce, OP MC

Synopsis:

Ye Zexi transmigrated as the big villain in a danmei novel, who shares the same name as him. Then, he found out that everyone regards him as an imaginary enemy.

In this regard, he adheres to only one principle: Don't want to fight, take everything you want.

In the boy group's audition show:
The team member wanted to take the C [Center] position from Ye Zexi.
Ye Zexi took the initiative to withdraw for the sake of being lazy.
The team member was complacent and thought that Ye Zexi had stage fright and the team member was determined to win.
After the performance, Ye Zexi took first place.
Team member: ?

The instructor asked everyone about their purpose to join the competition.
Other contestants: Dreams, because we love the stage!
Ye Zexi: In order to go home and inherit the family property.
Other contestants: ???

Unexpectedly, not only did Ye Zexi fail to be lazy, he also became more popular.

Impressions: ​Just finished reading this, it took quite a while cos I was always putting this on/off while I go reread my fave arcs on other novels :P

So our MC transm​​igrates into a BL novel. In the real world, he was an actor who just became a Film Emperor after many years of hard work. Cause of death: Overworking. So in this life, he just wants to be a salted fish.

MC's identity is the villain or love rival in the novel. He was inlove with the protagonist shou and pestered him endlessly. After the protagonist gong and shou got together, he was cleaned up. When MC transmigrated, the OG has already joined an Idol Trainee Show to chase the protagonist shou. Because he went thru the backdoor, his singing/dancing skills aren't on par with the other trainees.

Of course, after MC came over, with his many years of experience in showbiz, he immediately became the top trainee. He also apologized to the shou, saying that he would no longer chase him. ML/the protagonist gong was one of the show's mentor. In the novel, the shou and gong was supposed to get closer during the Idol Trainee show but because MC was so brilliant, ML was attracted to him instead.

He also became the one to participate in ML's movie. And the shou and gong became love rivals vying for MC instead. Laters, the shou confessed but MC rejected him. ML continues to hint his love and everyone else already knew except MC. Then MC realizes his feelings but comes into a problem that he (or so he thinks) is also a seme/gong/top/1 (lol) and since ML is obviously a gong, they can't be together (hahaha). After being confessed to by ML, he decided to try with him since it might work...and in the end, MC learned the truth that he is an uke/shou/bottom/0.

Then PDA/feeding dogfood to the netizens while MC and ML continue to work together. Anyways, in the end they got married with the blessings of everyone.

It took awhile to finish this cos it felt just like any other entertainment circle novels, and I would sometimes lose interest. Aside from being a salted fish, MC didn't really have other distinctive characteristics for me. ML as well is just like other generic gongs (sorry!). If anything, I feel bad for MC's agent cos his artist just doesn't want to work! (lol) and it feels disrespectful when MC throws the scripts he got on the trash without even glancing at them cos.. I dunno, it feels like he is wasting his agent's effort to filter those scripts to show him.

Also, kind of sad that it was the stepmother who noticed that OG is gone/replaced by MC but OG's real Dad didn't notice it.

Overall, this is an experienced actor, debuting again from the bottom and being 'forced' to work (even though he just wants to be a salted fish), surprising everyone with his skills~