Translated by Eve

　　Edited by Celtic, Juurensha, Sora, Serefina

　　Hi. Two things. One, I’m an idiot and kept saying GMT-6….I am apparently currently in GMT-4 hahaha….the novel page has been updated to reflect that. Two, since I know some readers like to wait until the arc is over, I’ll let you guys know how many chapters are in each arc at the beginning of each one. For arc 9, there will be 14 chapters.

　　When Sui Yuan woke up again, he was lying on a soft bed. Looking up at the ceiling, he felt as if a lifetime had pa.s.sed while he was cut off from the world.

　　Since it was late at night, everything was extremely quiet around him. Only the sound of the clock's 'tick tock' could be heard, each tick reverberating inside Sui Yuan's head.

　　Evidently, based on what 5237 had said, not much time had pa.s.sed. However, Sui Yuan suddenly felt that everything was extremely strange; so strange, he felt at a loss.

　　Not long ago he had made the choice to go calmly to his death, was brought back to the Origin from which he had been born, and ‘met’ his creator. While there, he learned a lot of ambiguous but seemingly vital information. Finally, instead of his destruction, he was thrown out of the Origin. Inexplicably, he had returned to his original path of transmigration.

　　Everything felt like listening to an old worn out vinyl record. At first, the music played smoothly, and then a scratch on the record caused it to skip in the middle disrupting the melody with a loud shriek that made people's hearts shake. In the end, after this jarring section was crossed, it would once again return to playing the proper melody.

　　——More importantly, in the midst of this cacophony, he seemed to have lost the man who had always been chasing him.

　　And, without the other man's familiar presence, Sui Yuan felt like the worlds that should be familiar instead felt foreign; making him feel anxious and uneasy.

　　Sui Yuan shook his head, flinging the wild thoughts that had soured his mood to one side. He didn't feel even an inkling of sleepiness, so he began to browse over this world's settings. Afterwards, he couldn't help his automatic sigh of regret.

　　This world was really too ordinary. It was so ordinary that Sui Yuan felt it was a bit incredible. After having experienced a countless number of weird worlds, to suddenly be faced with this kind of ‘pure and refres.h.i.+ng’ (?) world, he felt a bit unaccustomed to it.

　　Not only was this an ordinary modern world, but the plot was set in the entertainment industry. The role that Sui Yuan would be playing was that of Li Kun, a keyboardist in a band. Aside from him, the band also had a lead singer named Eason, and a drummer named Huo Ke—who was this world's protagonist.

　　It's a pity, that their band Fas.h.i.+on Mix really wasn't any good and was already on the verge of breaking up. Their low exposure, combined with their recent alb.u.m not being well-received, had caused the band members to become divided and look for a way out—except for Huo Ke. Huo Ke felt a strong sense of belonging to the group and was secretly in a relations.h.i.+p with Eason. He alone tried to stop the band's dissolution.

　　It was just a pity that Huo Ke only had the strength of one person; furthermore, the other two members were not willing to cooperate at all. They even repeatedly blocked his efforts. Eventually, all his work came to naught, and the band broke up. The three of them each went their own separate ways.

　　After the band broke up, Eason and Li Kun both found new homes fairly early on and lived their lives rather well. Unfortunately, Huo Ke, who had always given his all for the band, now had nowhere to go, nor did he have members to rely on in times of need. To make matters worse, he was unlucky in love. When he was at his lowest point, he discovered that his lover, Eason, had actually been carrying on a long-standing affair with Li Kun.

　　Huo Ke was in despair and drifted along, heart broken. A freak combination of factors led him to become an actor. Although his acting wasn't bad, and he was always noticed by others, his prospects remained just as dismal as before—until he met that person, the film emperor, Le Sen.

　　Under Le Sen's guidance, Huo Ke gradually revealed his outstanding talents. Huo Ke also gradually developed secret feelings towards Le Sen. However, because the gap between their statuses was too wide and because he was a man, he kept his lips sealed.

　　After that, Huo Ke, whose career had just taken off, was involved in a traffic accident and was reborn, finding himself at the moment in time just before the band was about to disband.

　　…Yes, that's right, if you were to sum up the story with one genre, it'd be a rebirth story. It also contained elements of a revenge plot against that sc.u.m gong and his love rival. When Sui Yuan finished looking over the plot, his whole person was thrown into a mess—This kind of dogblood drama rendered him completely dumbstruck.

　　According to his character introduction, he was already in an ambiguous relations.h.i.+p with Eason. Although it had yet to develop into a s.e.xual relations.h.i.+p, the two people had fooled around for a long time already. Everything was about to "come to fruition". On the other hand, Huo Ke had already been reborn and was getting ready to deal with this ungrateful, backstabbing pair of "cheaters".

　　——This was simply great malice being directed towards him from the universe! Even if he had a【Protagonist's Bestie】halo on him, there was still no way for Sui Yuan to be saved from the protagonist, whose goodwill value towards him had already become such a high negative number that it had already broken through the heavens, was there?!

　　Sui Yuan made a sad face and stood in silent tribute for 3 minutes for his own gloomy future.