I really didn't intend to make a living based on my looks.

Changzhou Tourism and Commerce Higher Vocational Technical School.

This is a five-year vocational college located in Xinbei District, CZ City, focusing on modern service industries.

The school motto is "Strive for Excellence with Dedication," but students privately changed it to "Strive to Slack Off with Dedication and Aim for Passing."

In a four-person dormitory room for tourism English majors, a round-faced girl on the top bunk was sitting cross-legged on a straw mat, making faces at the phone screen held up by her roommate.

She had a bit of baby fat on her face, and her cheeks were plump with collagen.

Her round eyes blinked, her lips were slightly pouting, and she looked so tender and youthful.

"Hey, did you record it or not?"

"It's recording, it's recording, do it again."

"OK!"

The girl cleared her throat and spoke seriously to the camera, "I had a fight with my brother today, and I want to tell him, 'Get out!'"

"As a result, the speaking speed was too fast... and it turned into..."

She took a deep breath and shouted with exaggerated mouth movements, "Quack!"

The camera shook slightly.

"Croak!!"

"Croak!!!"

The three croaks, each with a higher pitch and a more abstract expression than the last.

My roommate, who was holding up his phone, was laughing so hard he couldn't stand up straight.

"Bai Mengyan, that's enough! If you posted this online, you'd definitely go viral!"

"Of course!"

"Are you really going to send it?"

"Is there a problem?"

"Mengyan, is there no one in this world you care about?"

Bai Mengyan tossed her chin up, not embarrassed at all, "Hey! Why care about that? Nothing's more important than being happy! Besides, I'm so cute and genuine, posting this will definitely attract people, and if it goes viral, you guys can even benefit from it!"

"What if you become a celebrity and people dig up your past? Won't you be mortified?"

Bai Mengyan: "Stop talking! SM Entertainment in Korea is truly blind! They eliminated me in the first round! Pah... No wonder they can't find anyone!"

"But let me tell you, it's SM's loss that they don't want me. When I become famous, I'll go eat jianbing (Chinese crepes) in front of their company and make them furious!"

"Bai Mengyan, you really dare to dream!"

"So what if I dare to think that? Lu Han was also discovered by a talent scout on the street. If a talent scout can discover him, why can't they discover me? I just need an opportunity!"

After she had made enough noise, she tossed the phone back to her roommate, sat cross-legged on the mat again, and skillfully opened QQ on her computer.

A group chat window popped up in the lower right corner of the desktop. The group name was "Changzhou Branch of EXO Fans". The group avatar was a composite of EXO's debut photos, and the QQ message notification sound kept beeping.

There are over 100 people online in the group right now, mostly K-pop fans from the Jiangsu area.

The group announcement had a string of Korean text, followed by a handwritten translation: "EXO-M's new album 'MAMA' - Korean and Chinese bilingual version. Sisters who have the resource, please share it in the group's shared files."

Right now, the Korean wave is at its peak in China.

In particular, South Korean idol groups, riding the wave of the internet, flooded in on a large scale, accurately capturing the idol-chasing enthusiasm of a large number of young girls in China.

The group chat was buzzing with excitement, with topics ranging from Kim Soo-hyun's "The Moon Embracing the Sun" to SBS's recently concluded "Rooftop Prince," and everyone was raving about Park Yoo-chun's looks.

Bai Mengyan was about to join the discussion when she suddenly noticed that someone had posted something different in the group chat.

"Sisters, the first episode of 'Swords of Legends' is airing tonight on Tencent Video. It stars Yang Mi and Jiang Chen. Anyone want to tune in together? I heard the costumes and props are amazing, and the male lead is incredibly handsome."

Bai Mengyan's face darkened instantly, and then she began typing at an astonishing speed.

Her online name is Bai Lu (White Deer), because she really likes a certain celebrity.

"You traitor! What's so good about domestically produced dramas?"

"Can't you watch 'The Moon Embracing the Sun' on PPTV? Isn't Kim Soo-hyun better?"

"Isn't Park Yoochun handsome enough?"

She sent several messages in quick succession, her tone so agitated that it sounded as if the other person had committed some unforgivable crime.

Soon after, the friend who had suggested watching the shows replied, "I've already watched all those shows you mentioned, and Jiang Chen, the male lead in 'Swords of Legends,' is seriously so handsome, he's totally my type!"

"What??? Handsome???"

"Hahahaha!"

"This is the funniest joke I've heard all year!"

The other person seemed a little unconvinced and replied: "What are you laughing at? Go watch the trailer yourself, he looks absolutely stunning in period costume, and he sings the song himself! You haven't seen the trailer, have you?"

Bai Mengyan snorted at the screen, then typed even faster: "Handsome? Sister, you must have some misunderstanding about the word 'handsome'!"

"Is my Lu Hanshuai in it?"

"Do you know what a true visual center is? EXO-M's visual center, main vocalist, and lead dancer are all handpicked by SM Entertainment!"

"Lu Han looks a hundred times more handsome in a school uniform than that Jiang Chen in ancient costume!"

EXO-M is the Chinese subunit of the South Korean boy group EXO, which was officially launched by SM Entertainment on April 8th of this year.

The initial members included Kim Minseok, Zhang Yixin, Kim Jongdae, and later Lu Han, Wu Moumou, and Huang Zitao, who became the first generation of "top Korean returnees" in the Chinese entertainment industry.

They debuted only three months ago, but their song "MAMA" has already become wildly popular in China, creating a brand new model of "Chinese members in Korean groups".

As the face of the group, Lu Han has gained countless fans in just a few months, and he is known in the industry as having a "proportional cartoon face".

In Bai Mengyan's heart, Lu Han's looks are sacred and inviolable.

Her online name was also chosen because she liked Lu Han.

She became obsessed with Korean dramas when she was thirteen or fourteen, which planted the seed of her dream to become a Korean trainee.

Just this year, she even had her mother accompany her as she traveled to Shanghai full of anticipation to participate in SM Entertainment's annual overseas trainee selection competition.

Unfortunately, it was eliminated...

But this did not diminish her fervent love for Lu Han in the slightest.

At this moment, facing that arrogant traitor in the group who dared to challenge Lu Han's ideals, Bai Mengyan's fighting spirit was completely ignited.

The girls in the QQ group were all K-pop fans, so they quickly started spamming her with comments.

"Bai Lu is right! How handsome can the male leads in domestic dramas really be?"

"Exactly, compared to EXO, they're just average."

"The male leads in domestic dramas are just so-so. Let's cleanse our eyes with Lu Han."

The person opposite was clearly unconvinced: "You're all talking nonsense without even reading it! Jiang Chen is truly different! He's very talented; he wrote Yang Mi's 'The Power of Love'!"

"You call that a song? It's so tacky!"

"Is 'The Power of Love' corny? That song is played everywhere. Can you even write one?"

"Why would I need to know how to write songs? I'm not a songwriter. Anyway, corny is corny, and all the songs produced by domestic dramas are corny!"

"You're hopeless."

"You're hopeless. If you want to watch Chinese dramas, go watch them yourself, don't try to drag people into this group."