Chà Chà Novel

He’d meant to use public opinion to drag Su Nuo down, but instead he’d shot himself in the foot. Su Yujin was so furious he smashed a pile of things.

He stared at his face in the mirror, twisted and ugly with rage, and took a deep breath. “System, are you sure I’m the protagonist of this world?”

The system’s emotionless electronic voice sounded. “Yes. You are the protagonist chosen by the transmigration plot.”

“Then why give me this setup, where I’m worse than Su Nuo at everything?!” If he was the protagonist, shouldn’t he be enjoying all the luck in the world? As things stood, compared to Su Nuo, he had no advantage whatsoever.

“Because you have not yet obtained the protagonist halo,” the system replied coldly. “Please accelerate mission progress. Otherwise the mission will be judged a failure, and the host’s soul will be unable to return to the real world for revival and will be destroyed outright.”

Su Yujin nearly started cursing out loud. All the system did was rush him to complete the mission, yet it gave him no cheat. How was he supposed to steal Su Nuo’s halo?

Only when Su Nuo was judged to be low on luck, living in misery, could he swap their destinies. But the system did nothing, leaving it to him to ruin Su Nuo by himself. Wasn’t the difficulty a bit excessive?

You drag someone here to do a mission and then give them zero support?

Su Yujin tried to convince himself that every protagonist had to go through trials before succeeding. Something as wild as transmigrating had happened to him, so he must be the chosen one.

But thinking of Su Nuo’s life of winning without trying, he was consumed with envy.

So what if he’d suffered as a kid? He got thrown away and was picked up by the orphanage. Grew up in the orphanage and got sponsored by the Fu family. And then, of all things, the Fu family raised him like their own son.

The Fu family, of all people!

And him? His birth mother was the mastermind behind stealing a child. Now that his identity was exposed, he was awkwardly scraping by in the cracks, relying on playing the victim and throwing tantrums to stay in the Su family.

All the system did was dangle empty promises. Once he got the protagonist halo, it said, he’d reach the top of show business. Wei Sinian would gladly play supporting roles for him. Chu Boyan would become even more powerful than Fu Baihan and be desperate to marry him. Even Yu Ning, Su Nuo’s childhood friend, would approach him at school and fall for him.

But he hadn’t felt a shred of favor from any of these men. At his current level of web dramas, meeting Wei Sinian was a pipe dream, yet Su Nuo had already done a film with Wei Sinian and formed the hottest CP of the moment with him.

As for Chu Boyan and Yu Ning, they’d never even glanced at him. They hadn’t even met, never mind being hopelessly in love with him.

Besides, Fu Baihan was alive and well and the Fu Group was at its peak. For Chu Boyan to surpass him, the world would probably have to reboot.

Su Yujin was insanely jealous, and he had plenty of complaints about the system too. The system had told him the mission would be easy, that he’d live a happy, fulfilling life in the spotlight here, and then could choose to return to his original world and be revived.

But from the very beginning, the system hadn’t delivered on its promises. It had told him it would give him a big gift: Fu Baihan’s plane would crash and the entire Fu family would collapse. Then he could naturally take Su Nuo’s destiny, leaving Su Nuo without protection, sinking lower and lower.

In this world, the Fu family was the hardest boss to beat, practically bug-level. Without the system’s help, how was he supposed to take down the Fu family on his own?

Apart from the legendary experience of transmigrating, he was basically an ordinary person. If he could take on the Fu family, he’d have started his own company long ago. Why would he be clinging to the Su family?

As for Chu Boyan, there was no chance he’d surpass anyone. Even if Su Yujin married him, he wouldn’t get any of what the system had described. He couldn’t count on it.

The system could go offline at any moment. Su Yujin wanted more information but couldn’t get anything out of it. Beyond the basic plot setup, the system couldn’t answer him.

He wanted to buy something like the “acting halo” from last time from the system store. He knew exactly how good his acting was. It was enough to scrape by in a web drama with an everyday character, but to go further in show business, he’d need cheats.

“Are there any other support items? Exchange one for me,” Su Yujin told the system.

The system’s mechanical voice stated, “Host has insufficient points. Unable to open store. Please obtain the halo as soon as possible.”

Su Yujin swore and shouted, “Can’t you give credit? How am I supposed to do the mission without items?”

“The host did not complete the previous mission.” The system twisted the knife. “Points are negative. Penalty incoming.”

The system beeped twice. “Host, system energy insufficient. Please earn points as soon as possible.”

“Penalty? What penalty?” Hearing this, Su Yujin panicked.

“Acting halo backlash.” Having answered, the system went silent.

Su Yujin raged helplessly. “That one-time halo you gave me, and you have the nerve to make it backfire?!”

The point was, even after using that halo, he still hadn’t gotten the role in He Yun. Could the system do one useful thing?!

Su Yujin refused to consider that this was because his acting was terrible. He blamed everything on Su Nuo, and the resentment born of envy was aimed squarely at him.

He’d never seen this world as real. To him it was all a dating-sim game. After all, the system had told him every major character’s profile, and following those profiles, he’d won over the Su parents and Su Yuchen with no trouble at all. But whenever it came to Su Nuo, even without meeting him face to face, he’d stumble. That sense of defeat infuriated Su Yujin.

The conversation with the system ended badly. Su Yujin was still a little anxious, not knowing what the “backlash” would be.

He already felt miserable enough. Besides Mother Su, who was easy to fool, everyone else was getting harder and harder to win over. Now a backlash on top of that? How was he supposed to keep playing this game?

Su Nuo heard about the uproar stirred by the marketing accounts and treated it as a complete joke.

His manager made a point of telling him not to worry, that it was all paid trolls steering the comments. Su Nuo nodded. “Brother Chen, I’m fine. Don’t worry.”

Chen Wenyu hadn’t expected the young master to be so mentally tough. Though it was all baseless mudslinging, enough filth would always affect a person’s mood. He’d seen stars become depressed over netizens’ comments, so he’d been very worried about how the young master would react.

Su Nuo sounded a little smug. “They all must be blind, saying I’m not as good-looking as that guy. I’m way better-looking than him!”

Chen Wenyu: “……”

Who knew? A little narcissist.

Su Nuo’s face resembled the Su family’s, but he’d inherited only their best features. The boy’s features were refined, pretty without being effeminate, the kind of beauty that slayed every age group. If everyone else had been flicked off Nüwa’s brush, he must have been carefully sculpted.

When he’d first been reborn, seeing Su Yujin had made Su Nuo feel insecure and even doubt himself. But over this time, he’d stopped being so sensitive. Under Fu Baihan’s doting, Su Nuo had found his confidence again.

What he’d been through before wasn’t his fault. He hadn’t done anything wrong. If he’d done anything wrong at all, it was being too dignified to tear into the Su family and make a scene.

Now he had nothing to fear. If anyone should be afraid, it was them.

If he wanted revenge, it would be easy.

Simply keeping his cold distance, as he was now, was already incredibly merciful and soft-hearted.

If he were a little more ruthless, he could have Yu Ning expelled right now, bankrupt the Chu and Su families, have Wei Sinian blacklisted… none of it would be very hard.

If he wanted revenge, even without any reason at all, Fu Baihan would help him.

He was a modern-day Su Daji.

He hoped these people appreciated his tolerance and didn’t try to test his limits.

A little kid who’s doted on will go tattle when he’s bullied, you know.

Fu Baihan had never cared about show business. But once Su Nuo stepped into that world, he’d set up an entertainment company. At first he just wanted a professional team to serve his kid in the industry, but the company had grown bigger and more legitimate, and now he set aside time to listen to its reports.

Not only so the Fu Group could profit from this new industry, but also to keep up with the latest so he’d never run out of things to talk about with the kid.

This incident had trended several times, but all of it was bought, and there wasn’t much discussion. It was only later, when passersby couldn’t stand it and started roasting the marketing accounts’ taste, that the topic gained traction.

“Find out who’s behind this.” Fu Baihan was displeased. Claiming his kid wasn’t as good-looking as that thing? Even if they’d been paid to write nonsense, that was a bit too unconscionable.

The moment President Fu gave the order, his people moved fast and traced everything clearly. As for this Su Yujin, he wasn’t exactly clever. He hadn’t even known to change his IP address to hide his identity, thinking a burner account was enough. He might as well have been begging to be caught.

With this, Su Yujin had truly enraged Fu Baihan.

Fu Baihan had never had any goodwill toward this person whose mother had committed a crime, and who had enjoyed the rich, happy childhood that should have been his kid’s. Even when the Su family earnestly said the child was innocent, that it was fate they’d met, and they only wanted to see him settled with a family of his own.

What fate? The fate that nearly killed his little treasure?

If he’d behaved himself, fine. The kid had no feelings for the Su family anyway and wouldn’t go back. He’d live with Fu Baihan in the Fu family. Whether this person existed or not wouldn’t affect anything.

But of all things, Su Yujin had to go and hire trolls to drag Su Nuo down and smear him.

The Su family played favorites. So did the Fu family.

Everyone thinks the child they raised is the most precious. If the Su family wouldn’t discipline Su Yujin, then he’d do it for them.

Anyone can hire trolls. If it came down to spending money, would they lose?

Su Yujin soon discovered that public opinion had turned entirely against him.