[Chinese BL novel] I became a hit after wearing a cannon fodder / 穿成炮灰明星后我爆红了

Title: I became a hit after wearing a cannon fodder / 穿成炮灰明星后我爆红了

Author: 惗肆

Year of release: 2020

# of chapters: 143 (+7)

Status: Complete

Tags: wearing a book, entertainment, face-slap

Synopsis: Ji Li wears a book and becomes a cannon fodder, his story is short and tragic. Being swindled to wine bureau he accidentally hurt his most valuable asset - his face. And in that instant became a discarded cannon fodder. It was supposed to be a career novel of a success life of a protagonist - Ji Yunqi, while Ji Li's story-time was shorter than 10 pages. When Ji Li wore the book, he was already an aged and pro grand slam actor in his previous life, but now he was back to being a trainee and his first assignment was supposed to be his last, but Ji Li's timely arrival turned the tides and opened doors to a steady path to success.

My personal opinion is very good. I must say from the beginning, this is a basic road to success with a lot of filming, a lot of face-slapping, there are A LOT of cliche face-slapping plots, there's really a lot of people seeking death, but I don't know what it is, but I still enjoyed it greatly. Maybe because not only the main characters were quite good, but also secondary characters, especially protag who became friends with Ji Li later on, they added a note of humor and also it was refreshing to have a circle of friends that appear here and there. And my second love goes to Yu Fuya, MC's agent, she became his mom fan and her protection level is immense. Although MC is described as beautiful and ML as a male hormone, but MC's beauty is often described not to be solely from the face, but his inner core and aura and ability to shape image. There's so much of rainbow farts throughout the novel about that :'D

There's really a bit of slow-burning, because career first and love second, but both MC and ML warmed up with time and loved each other sincerely till the end of the novel. ML especially was the first to fall in love. Although there were times when he used excuses just to rub in front of MC's eyes and increase their time together, but he was never forceful, even the movie they played together, he relied on fate and waiting for MC to agree on his own free will instead of promoting and forcing. He really let the fate decide for them. He later confessed to all his deeds, not knowing that MC actually started to have feelings for ML even before their filming, so them coming together came out naturally. To MC who lived his previosu life without a partner actually was happy that he found a soulmate and this world became his world because of ML. ML is the good type of accomodating and guiding, but they're also sensible to the point of filming separately to not be over-exposed and getting bad marks from the fans. Instead their slow drop of dog food here and there made a lot of fan feel for two and the acceptance rose very high before they finally disclosed their relationship at the very end.

Although load of routines are simple and repeat many of the same routines that were done before, this novel still has this positive vibe to it and some fresh parts here and there, especially plots of movies they shot. So it is great way to spend time and reading it once, if someone is into this.

RATE: 4,9/5.