Quick Transmigration: The Mad Beauty Refuses to Be the Scapegoat!-Chapter 172 - 1: The Variety Show Control Group Refuses to Be Cannon Fodder (Part 1)

Chapter 172: Chapter 1: The Variety Show Control Group Refuses to Be Cannon Fodder (Part 1)

Jiang Lai moved her head a little, frowning as she looked at the pure white space around her.

"Where’s Lin Yan? How is he?"

"What can I say, he continued living, but his vitality was too fragile. Not long after you died, he also died of illness."

Little Buding felt a bit guilty as she said this.

Because Lin Yan didn’t die of illness, he committed suicide.

In fact, she couldn’t believe that anyone would give up their life for love, especially someone like Lin Yan, a genius whose intellect always overshadowed his emotions. Logically, he should have been more accepting of the natural laws of life and death.

But after Jiang Lai’s death, Lin Yan’s condition deteriorated rapidly, as if an old man whose oil lamp had run out.

"Ah... In the end, I never even knew what he really looked like."

"What you saw was his true appearance. He never hid anything from you."

Jiang Lai sighed, shook her head, and detached herself from the ties of the previous world. 𝐟𝚛𝕖𝚎𝕨𝗲𝐛𝚗𝐨𝐯𝐞𝕝.𝐜𝗼𝗺

"Don’t waste time. How many tasks have we completed now?"

"Three, three or four maybe."

"You promised me that when I completed ten tasks you’d let me leave that place. You better keep your word!"

Little Buding nodded repeatedly, assuring her.

"Don’t worry, we’ve all signed a contract, no need to worry."

"Alright, what’s the next task? Let’s get started."

"Hmm, the world needs to load. You should prepare yourself first."

——

The new world is still a story from a novel, called "The Whole Entertainment Industry is Waiting for the Official Announcement," which tells the love story between the national superstar, male lead Ling Han, and the female lead Mo Wanwan, who just recently debuted.

In the book, there’s also a completely insignificant character, a controversial actress from a web celebrity background who entered the entertainment industry, Jiang Lai.

Jiang Lai is the cousin of the female lead Mo Wanwan. The two are of similar age and have somewhat similar looks, and from their debut, the whole internet has talked about how they look practically like real sisters.

Because Jiang Lai also liked Ling Han and even used all kinds of tactics to appear on a show with him, where she boldly confessed her love but was rejected by him in public.

Later, upon discovering the extraordinary relationship between Ling Han and Mo Wanwan, Jiang Lai began to despise her cousin. Combined with her existing jealousy of Mo Wanwan’s singing and acting talents, Jiang Lai frequently mocked and marginalized Mo Wanwan on a competition variety show they both participated in, with the sole intention of outshining her.

Of course, under the male lead’s secret protection, the female lead Mo Wanwan ended up debuting as the center, while Jiang Lai, for her difficulty in working with others and diva behavior, was blacklisted and trended on searches. Even now, her forums are filled with negative comments.

But negative fame is still fame, and capital sensed the heat from the conflict between Jiang Lai and Mo Wanwan, so they simply invited both to join a variety show called "Baby, Baby."

This is a slow-paced variety show involving female celebrities with no prior exposure to children, living as temporary mother-daughter or mother-son pairs with kids between the ages of five and seven, selected by the program staff, for half a month.

Seeing notoriously pampered female celebrities take care of children—particularly the ’troublemaker’ five- to six-year-olds—caused a massive wave of interest and discussion as soon as the show was officially announced.

And Jiang Lai was on the announced list, prompting many viewers to threaten to boycott the show due to her inclusion. This reaction was exactly what the producers wanted. Using Jiang Lai’s infamy to promote a female artist whom capital had already favored, the effect was bound to be great.

And the female artist set to be uplifted was Mo Wanwan.

The male lead Ling Han invested in this variety show and had informed the assistant director to give Mo Wanwan more screen time. He also intervened in Jiang Lai’s agency to get her a renowned personal makeup artist. Once Jiang Lai learned she scored this popular variety show and a personal makeup artist, she was overjoyed.

Thus, when the guests first met the camera and the kids, the other female celebrities dressed simply and neatly; Mo Wanwan notably in a simple white shirt and jeans. In contrast, Jiang Lai wore heavy makeup and a black short skirt, prompting the child assigned as her partner to point at her and shout, "Ugly monster."

The livestream audience mercilessly mocked and ridiculed Jiang Lai, while Mo Wanwan, in contrast, quickly bonded with her child partner, winning praise while on camera.

This was just the beginning. During the subsequent filming process, because the child partnered with Jiang Lai was a genuine troublemaker—a six-year-old boy, full of mischief, who made Jiang Lai grit her teeth in frustration—initially, she could endure it in front of the cameras, until the mischief-maker drew on her face with indelible marker while she was asleep, prompting her to finally explode and berate the child in front of the live broadcast.

Immediately after, the broadcast room was filled with insults, with Jiang Lai being thoroughly condemned, accused of being mentally unstable, shameless, and acting like a princess without the grace of one.

Meanwhile, Mo Wanwan, on the other hand, received great praise for risking personal safety to save her "son" up the mountain during the commotion, sending her and Jiang Lai onto hot searches time and again. The worse Jiang Lai was vilified, the more Mo Wanwan was praised.

In the end, Mo Wanwan garnered a wave of fans through this variety show and, with Ling Han’s help, her career flourished, eventually winning Best Actress and becoming one of the country’s most known female entertainers.

Meanwhile, after this variety show, Jiang Lai remained vilified, unable to recover, leading her agency to drop her and place her on indefinite hiatus.

On the night when the male and female stars finally announced their relationship, amid a wave of congratulations, Jiang Lai couldn’t bear the endless online attacks and insults anymore. She chose to end her tragic existence by slitting her wrists.

——

"Tsk tsk tsk, what a tragic character."

"Enough with the nonsense, what’s the task at hand?"

"Before the tragic character died, her greatest wish was to shine in the acting world. So, one of the tasks is to become an excellent actress.

The other task involves that troublemaker kid. The tragic character held a deep grudge against him, so after entering the variety show, your mission is to reform this bad boy into a reasonable, civilized, obedient, and sensible good baby."

"I don’t like kids."

"That’s perfect! Then go ahead and shape him into what you would like!"

Jiang Lai snapped back to reality, and in the makeup room, it was just her with the assistant and makeup artist present.

"Ms. Jiang, when the camera crew arrives, please make sure to perform well. This variety show is a hard-earned opportunity secured by your agent, so aim for more exposure with this."

In front of the vanity mirror, Jiang Lai saw the heavily made-up woman in the mirror and frowned, then pointed at the mirror, turning her gaze to the makeup artist beside her with a cold voice.

"Do you want to take a look at the mess you’ve created?"