Starting from Zero: Reborn with an Idol System
The cheerful, yellow demon on his shoulder had one rule: “Suffering is data. Let’s collect.”
Reborn with a second chance, Bai Xingyue thought his new System would be his golden ticket—instant stats, easy mastery, a shortcut to the idol stage he’d always dreamed of.
He was catastrophically wrong.
Xiao Zhu, a fragment of cosmic error from a shattered timeline, didn’t grant power.
It auctioned it.
Its library was infinite, a digital pantheon holding the breath control of a legendary diva, the razor-sharp isolation of a debut-era main dancer, the emotional timbre of a broken-hearted soloist.
Every technique, every secret, had a price. Not in points, but in payment upfront: raw, human suffering.
“Your first purchase,” Xiao Zhu chirped as Xingyue stared at the glittering interface.
“Foundational Breath Support: Level 1. Cost: One (1) hour of sustained, full-body plank. Failure to maintain perfect form resets the timer. The skill unlocks after successful payment. Do you accept?”
This was the deal.
The contract.
The System was a merciless merchant, and Xingyue’s pain was the only currency. To learn a dance, he’d pay in muscle failure.
To master a language, he’d pay in mental exhaustion. To carry the ghost of a dead girl’s dream, he’d pay in pieces of his old, naive self.
Armed with nothing but a vicious digital coach and an infinite tab of owed agony, Xingyue must infiltrate the glittering, cutthroat world he loves.
He will be the rich “art school transfer” by day, grinding his body and mind to dust in a secret sunroom studio by night.
He must outmaneuver prodigies born with silver spoons and sharper claws, like Zhao Chen, who views Xingyue’s modern ambition as a stain on tradition’s pristine canvas.
He must build his stage one bloody brick at a time: converting online curiosity into a loyal following, turning classroom rivals into steadfast allies, and synthesizing the stolen techniques of idols past into a style that is uniquely, devastatingly his own.
This is not a fast track to fame. This is a manual climb up a cliff face of his own making. The System provides the blueprint. The price is everything he is.
Welcome to the grind. The only cheat code is endurance.
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