Milk Orange Omega Becomes Popular Through a Dating Show [Entertainment Circle] - Chapter 1

“Ding-ding—”

“Ding-ding—”

The piercing sound of an alarm clock reached her ear. Zhong Lin lazily turned over. Waking up from the noise, her long, curled eyelashes trembled before she slowly opened her eyes. Her brown eyes were still hazy with sleep, and her fair, slender legs kicked the blanket away.

Zhong Lin slowly sat up and looked around. To her right was a window ledge with the curtain half-open, letting in sunlight that was a little harsh.

To her left was a white wardrobe, and on the bedside table were a half-finished glass of water and a phone.

The environment was completely unfamiliar. Zhong Lin tilted her head slightly. Perhaps the sudden movement of getting up was too abrupt, as she now felt a dull headache. Where exactly was this?!

Zhong Lin shook her small head. Her fragmented bangs, messed up from a poor sleeping posture, flopped around as she shook. Her memory was slowly returning, gradually recalling the previous events…

Her name was Zhong Lin, and she was the youngest cub of the Baize mythical beast clan, which had been sealed by the Celestial Master Zhong Kui. In the void, she was struck by a beam of white light, as if she were forcibly drawn into an illusion.

In the illusion, she was reading a book: I Became Popular After the Green Tea Male O Rose to Power. There was a character named Zhong Lin in this book, too.

This person shared her name and looked exactly like her human form.

However, her clan elders had said that Zhong Lin was the smallest and cutest cub of the Baize clan! The Zhong Lin in the book was just an ordinary human.

Zhong Lin carefully sorted out the plot of the book in her memory.

First, this was a novel about a female Alpha and male Omega. Humans were divided into male A, male B, male O, female A, female B, and female O.

In short, it was a highly free society with gender equality among six sexes.

Technology in this era was highly advanced. After fulfilling their basic material needs, people began to pursue spiritual life, giving rise to an ecosystem called the entertainment circle.

The Zhong Lin in the book was an obscure online influencer who wanted to break into the entertainment circle.

The company she signed with made her participate in an AO (Alpha-Omega) dating show, 31-Day Heartbeat Challenge, which included male A’s, female A’s, male O’s, and female O’s—a free-love dating show between Alphas and Omegas.

The Zhong Lin in the book was mindless, clearly naive and stupid, yet she loved to create drama, was self-centered, never did any chores, loved to ‘diss’ (criticize) others, and desperately clung to the female Alpha lead…

She single-handedly served to highlight the kindness and loveliness of the male protagonist Omega.

The male protagonist Omega was a delicate flower one longed to pity and cherish, while Zhong Lin was a weed one wished to uproot.

She recommended her good friend, the non-celebrity male Omega, to join the 31-Day Heartbeat Challenge crew. Every time she acted out and created a ruckus, the male protagonist Omega would do his utmost to excuse her, which made him appear pure, natural, kind, and beautiful.

Recalling the entire book’s plot, Zhong Lin felt a little sorry for the original character, but the original character was a complete troublemaker, practically trying to tear the dating show’s ceiling down—she was the ultimate villainous Drama Queen.

This male protagonist Omega was her high school classmate. He always indulged her and constantly made her believe she was right in everything she did, never correcting her behavior, which caused her emotional intelligence to become a total disaster.

A ‘drama queen’ in daily life is just a willful little princess.

However, in a dating show, every expression and action would be infinitely magnified and over-interpreted, making her look both terrible and foolish.

Of course, such a clumsy original character did not debut successfully. After the show aired, she was mocked by the entire internet, flooded with overwhelming hate comments. The original “Zhong Lin,” blacklisted by her company, consequently suffered from severe depression.

She then chose to jump from a tall building, ending the story with a big BE (Bad Ending).

After clarifying her thoughts, Zhong Lin picked up her phone and saw the time was 6:30 AM. It was still quite early, as the production team required them to gather at 7:30 AM.

Zhong Lin got out of bed and took out a white designer off-the-shoulder shirt and a pair of denim shorts from the wardrobe.

The denim shorts’ length was just slightly above the knee. The outfit was fresh and clean, making her legs look long and straight.

After changing, Zhong Lin went to the bathroom to wash up. She wet her messy bangs and neatly combed them. She looked at the bottles and jars on the counter below the mirror, opened them to sniff, and her expression turned slightly bewildered—

As a Baize mythical beast, she couldn’t tell how to use these things. Ancient cosmetics looked nothing like them.

…She simply didn’t know how to use them!

(╬◣д◢) So frustrating! She decided not to put on any makeup!

However, perhaps because Zhong Lin’s original body was that of a mythical beast, the naturally ethereal Zhong Lin was stunning even without makeup. Even barefaced, her small face was as white as porcelain with a perfect flush of color. Her eyebrows were delicate, and her eyelashes were thick, as if meticulously drawn.

Even her lips were a perfect light pink.

Zhong Lin walked straight out the door.

How could she change her BE (Bad Ending) fate?

Zhong Lin thought she needed to solve the problem fundamentally.

The “Zhong Lin” in the original book was self-centered, never did chores, loved to ‘diss’ others, and desperately clung to the female Alpha lead…

Zhong Lin figured, couldn’t she just do the exact opposite?

First, she had to do chores. She had heard her clan elders say that working cubs were the cutest (*^▽^*)~

“Excuse me, is there anything I can help with?” Zhong Lin walked up to a staff member who was setting up the scene.

A girl wearing a pink and white striped shirt paused. She hadn’t noticed who was speaking, assuming it was temporary staff. Holding a wooden crate in her arms, she raised her chin and gestured to Zhong Lin:

“You can move that box over there. Take it to the first room on the left side of the ground-floor lobby.”

If the staff member had looked up at Zhong Lin’s face at that moment, they would have been utterly shocked. This person, who had joined the crew two days ago, couldn’t lift anything heavy and had never done a day of labor…

The staff member suddenly called out a reminder: “Be careful, it’s very heavy…”

“Okay.” Zhong Lin bent down, then lifted the wooden crate filled with props with a single hand.

The staff member: “…” My jaw just dropped.

By the time Zhong Lin was moving the third box, she vaguely heard someone in the lobby calling her name.

A tall girl, wearing a trendy T-shirt that nearly covered her thighs and paired with ultra-short hot pants, stood beside the sofa.

This cool girl, exuding Alpha energy, frowned and asked, “Why isn’t Zhong Lin here yet?”

Her tone was clearly a little impatient.

The girl in the white dress looked worried: “I don’t know… She lives next door to me, and her door is still closed. How about you, Xiao Duo, go check on her?”

A boy dressed in a Japanese style, with light khaki shorts that reached his knees and slender calves beneath, looked past everyone towards Zhong Lin’s room. He blinked innocently and said, “I knocked on her door for a long, long time this morning, but I didn’t hear her answer.”

“It’s my fault for not waking Zhong Lin up on time. How about I go call her again?”

Another tall and handsome boy in casual wear, who stood straight as a pine, subtly curled his lip: “Xiao Duo, you’re the only one who indulges her all the time!!”

…

In short, the male Omega named “Xiao Duo” was actually the male protagonist O, Zhou Xiaoduo. He was subtly implying that Zhong Lin was “deliberately” late, and everyone else was mocking her.

Zhong Lin was practically covered in question marks. No one had knocked on her door, though?

“Hi…” Zhong Lin, holding the box with one hand, turned her head and waved her other arm to greet the group.

At the same time, the camera on the coffee table in the lobby zoomed in. The live stream had quietly begun,

On the video app, the bullet comments were flooding the screen—

【How is Zhong Lin awake? The thousand-year-lazy-bed-monster, the latecomer, is actually awake?!】

【Seriously? I don’t believe it. That can’t be Zhong Lin, the one who looks so awkward, with eyes so big they’re deformed, and eyelashes flying off her eyelids!】

【How did she suddenly change like this? Did she get plastic surgery? Why does she look so cute???】

【Shocking my whole family! Let’s watch as the Dating Show’s number one Drama Queen, Zhong Lin, continues to stir up trouble…】

【Zhong Lin get out of the entertainment circle】

【Zhong Lin get out of the entertainment circle +1】

【Zhong Lin get out of the entertainment circle +10086】

…

Zhou Xiaoduo waved to Zhong Lin, sounding a little guilty as he spoke softly, “Xiao Lin, why didn’t you put on any makeup today?”

“This is going to be filmed for the show. Going barefaced… isn’t that a bit unprofessional?” Zhou Xiaoduo was implying that Zhong Lin’s bare face showed a lack of respect for the program.

Zhou Xiaoduo had a lot on his mind. He was Zhong Lin’s high school classmate and knew that Zhong Lin was stunning without makeup, practically a campus belle.

She was voted “the Omega most desired to be embraced” by the Alpha boys in high school, and she was even featured in a tieba (forum) post—Exposing the Most Pure Omegas in Campuses Nationwide…

But ever since Zhong Lin wanted to enter the entertainment circle, she started wearing heavy smoky eye makeup, with eyeliner and false eyelashes that reached the sky, making her lose all her charm.

It was finally his turn to shine!

Zhou Xiaoduo, wearing his ‘effortlessly natural’ makeup, felt deeply resentful.

Zhong Lin lowered her eyes and thought for a moment. She didn’t know how to do makeup, but the original character obviously did, so it was probably better to skip this question?

“I’ll deliver this box first.” Zhong Lin shook her head and continued walking.

【66666, she’s barefaced?!!】

【Why is this Drama Queen suddenly so cute?】

【Cute, makes me want to breed…】

【Stop right there! Haven’t you all forgotten how much of a Drama Queen Zhong Lin is?!!】

【Zhong Lin is a Drama Queen, I’ll forever be a hater. No matter how cute, bad character is useless!!】

Zhong Lin was carrying the box with one hand and hadn’t been paying attention to the road while talking to Zhou Xiaoduo. Just as she was about to reach a corner, a figure rushed towards her from the opposite direction.

The girl was wearing a Hepburn-style little black dress with a short white blazer over it. She had just come out of the restroom and was leisurely drying the water drops from her hands.

Unfortunately, no one realized that the two were walking towards each other and were about to collide head-on!

“You!” The girl, who wasn’t looking at the path, was hit by the wooden box and stumbled back half a step.

Her shoulder-length hair, which had been tucked behind her ear, completely fell loose. The two carnelian earrings in the shape of reddish-orange four-leaf clovers at her ears swung, looking like two drops of fresh blood about to fall.

“Ah—” Zhong Lin’s shoulder was hit heavily. Her arm, which was carrying the wooden box, became unsteady, and the heavy box was about to crash down onto the girl.

The edges of the wooden box were not sanded and were quite rough.

If the box were allowed to crash, it would surely injure the girl’s delicate profile.

【Oh no!!】

【Quick, save our Yi Yi!】

【Someone needs to kick this troublemaker Zhong Lin away!】

Even the staff members were stunned, about to rush towards the two of them.