LWX has singing/dancing skills but it's not really developed on outside of a minor "wow MC is so talented!!" and a small part of the first variety show. It's because LWX doesn't really want to go the idol route, he just wants to act, but as someone who wants the MC to be a triple-threat superstar I was a little disappointed.

The only exception to this that I can remember right now would probably be the people (including the ML) around the MC restricting what foods he ate since the MC tended to overeat sweets. Some people might view this as problematic/controlling or like they're treating the MC as a child, but I personally didn't feel like it was disrespectful or controlling, but rather a show of love/care. The restriction wasn't out of a fear that he'd be fat, but that it would be too unhealthy.

Our MC, Lu Wenxing, has a dream that he's the cannon fodder of an entertainment novel. He decides to retire from the entertainment circle in order to avoid the death of his friends and family, but through a series of coincidences, ends up being picked by the ML, Gu Yanshen, to join him as GYS' guest on a variety show. He ends up becoming popular and our leads get closer over the course of the show. GYS ends up inviting him to audition for a movie that GYS is going to act in, and though LWX initially refuses due to his intention to retire, he ends up accepting and getting the part. GYS also helps him break off his contract with LWX's current entertainment company. As the story progresses, they continue to work together, either because GYS invites LWX, or because GYS accepts an invitation since he heard LWX was going to be there. As all of this is happening, LWX ends up coincidentally meeting members of the Wen family (who, as you would expect, owns a corporation with multiple subsidiaries, and is extremely rich and powerful), who discover he is actually their long-lost son. He had been kidnapped as a child, and the Wen family had always been investigating his disappearance. The active investigation into the kidnapping mostly occurs in the background, since LWX is filming, but occasionally the POV changes to Wen Zheng (MC's older brother) to give us more information on what is occurring. LWX is aware of events but is not actively helping. The novel ends with the couple getting engaged, though the extras go into the marriage and the variety show the couple joins together (the variety show is a game variety show where multiple married couples are competing against each other.)

It's hinted pretty early on, but the mastermind of LWX's kidnapping was actually Wen Yu, the MC in LWX's dream. He actually transmigrated into this world as a kid. It's a little unclear from MTL whether LWX was actually supposed to be kidnapped, but based on what I can interpret the LWX was supposed to just be scared, but something went wrong and LWX was brought away by a couple from the orphanage. WY's original plan was to make LWX be reliant on him so that he could be adopted into the Wen family. Instead, he is merely taken care of financially (not actually adopted) by the Wen family due to a separate incident. It is revealed that the orphanage is actually trafficking orphanages by having a fake couple come to "adopt" them and bring them elsewhere.

The dream that LWX has about the novel is fake. It was a result of his roommate/friend talking to him about a novel that he read, but LWX doesn't remember the conversation and thus thinks it's real. In actuality, the world IS one from a novel, and only WY knows the original novel because he transmigrated into it after having read it. In that original novel, LWX was the MC. The novel that his roommate/friend read was actually based on information that the author (a later friend of LWX, named Cheng Xuan) got from WY, who CX thought was his friend. WY had actually just befriended him because CX was a successful author/scriptwriter in the original world, but thanks to WY changing events, CX was traumatized as a child (he was present when LWX got kidnapped) and he wasn't great at writing initially. It's only after LWX helps him break out of his shell a little bit that CX becomes a successful author/scriptwriter. LWX (and WZ, since LWX tells him) later think that WY has rebirthed/transmigrated, though they are rightfully disbelieving. They don't ever confront WY about it though.

This is actually more of an Outside POV of a Transmigration story and is only a Second Chance story by technicality. To be clear, this isn't MC's second chance, the beginning of the story is actually hilariously misleading, made possible by a comedy of errors. MC didn't dream of the plot of the world, the dream he had was the result of him drowsily listening to the ramblings of his friend, who read the novel of a writer who only wrote the novel precisely because of the actual Transmigrator's machinations. It sounds convoluted in the silliest way possible. One of the greatest source of hilarity is how the MC stresses about whether he is or isn't a character in a book throughout the novel and how the plot seems to be teasing him about his conundrum.

To start from the beginning, the Transmigrator of the story, Wen Yu, read the original novel of the plot where the MC, Wenxing, is a beloved little prince of a rich family who had a smooth sailing showbiz career and romance with his ML. When Wen Yu was reading the novel, he wasn't jealous of Wenxing, but of Wenxing's adopted sister, Si Si who was also deeply loved by the Wen family and lived a similarly smooth sailing life. Wen Yu, who was also an orphan, was jealous of her and wanted to have the life that Si Si had.

When Wenxing was young, he wanted a sister so badly that after some serious discussions with the entire family, they decided to find a little girl to welcome into their family. Wen Yu decided to manipulate the plot so that instead of Si Si, he would be the one taken in by the Wen family. But the circumstances he arranged failed to give him the result he wanted and the Wen family only decided to foster him or ward him until his adulthood because they only felt sympathy for his situation. Angered by not getting what he wanted, Wen Yu decided to stage another incident that he thought would push the family into adopting him. He wanted to stage a kidnapping and rescue for the young Wenxing that would indebt the family to him and finally make them adopt him.

But his plans went awry and instead, Wenxing disappeared, got his memories repressed by the trauma the incident caused, and was adopted by a poor but very loving family who cared for him like he was their own. Because of this, his birth family suffered great emotional loss and conflict and never even considered adopting Wen Yu after they lost their own biological child, and he never ended up getting the things that he wanted to steal from the Si Si in the story.

Wen Yu then spent effort throughout the years to try to avoid Wenxing from being found or crossing paths with his birth family because it could reveal his hand in the crime. During this time, he looked for the best friend of the MC in the original novel who became a writer and later wrote a story that catapulted the MC to stardom in the original plot. But because the character witnessed the kidnapping incident that Wen Yu plotted when he was a child, he grew up with unresolved trauma that completely changed his disposition to be antisocial, anxious, and lacking of self-esteem. Wen Yu then made him write the plot that Wenxing came to know while changing some details. One of the changes he made him write was making Lu Wenxing a separate character from the main character of the book, "Wen Chi". A friend of Wenxing ends up reading this novel and Wenxing spends one night drowsily listening to his friend's rants, causing him to "dream" about the novel and believe that he's just cannon fodder in someone else's story.

Because Wenxing thinks the plot of the world written with Wen Yu's influence was the true plot, he actually spends the early part of the novel worrying about getting punished by the World Consciousness™ from stepping outside of the plot, and decided that the best way to spare his and his loved ones' lives was to completely step away from the entertainment industry and keep his distance from who he thought was the MC of the world, Wen Yu. In an ironic twist of events, however, the World Consciousness™ was actually working against Wen Yu and helping Wenxing all along.

even though MC first rejected his marriage proposal, he was understanding and respected the MC's wishes and was prepared to be rejected the second time he proposed too (but ofc the MC accepted)

No. Wen Yu is not innocent (obviously). It is revealed that a transmigrator who was an orphan transmigrated into Wen Yu's body and he planned for Sisi to not get adopted and for MC to be kidnapped as he wanted to be loved by the Wen family and enjoy the same treatment a biological child would. He said that he wasn't jealous of MC and was jealous of Sisi. But its obvious that he's jealous of MC too.

Long story short, he was kidnapped by the owners of the orphanage (wen Yu's parents) so that they could replace MC with wen yu as the wen family's child. MC got thrown into a river but luckily he was saved by the Lu/Xie family and they raised him. (I'm not 100% clear about this info as I MTL'd it so take it with a grain of salt :p)

MCs adoptive parents aren't in it much, they are kind of forgotten about. MCs adoptive brother also gets forgotten about a lot of the time.

The real mom and dad are there but kind of only to spoil MC, there really isn't much to them. The brother is there to push the kidnapping/trafficking plot along and to disapprove of the ML in a jealous way.

its around 65-70 where ML finally realizes he likes MC romantically. MC finally figures some clues out around chapter 74 and by chapter 79 they are finally together. Chapter 92 ish is when they finally go public

My biggest complaint about their relationship is that it doesn't seem like MC actually loves the ML. Sure the author tells us he does but then his actions are meh. Meanwhile ML clearly loves the MC and spoils him. ML really respects MC.

MC didn't actually dream he was a cannon fodder in a novel. His trainee friend was explaining a book he read while MC was falling asleep and it happened to have stricking similarities to his life. There was no world consciousness or forced plot to be scared of in the first place.

It comes out later that Wen Yu is actually a transmigrator who comes to the book world of a sweet romance (novel of MC and ML falling in love in the entertainment industry).. WY messes with everything, gets MC lost as a child (on accident) and gets a writer to write a messy version of the story which is the story the MC initially heard.

I guess in a sense the plot is back on track, MC and ML still end up together even with WY jumping around like a clown.

Wen Yu s*upidly confesses everything to MC while MC is mic'd up for a TV show, except he doesn't confess he transmigrated.

WY is the illegitimate son of the orphanage director's husband and 1 of the staff there. The staff has him behind the husbands back and they just turn the kid over to the orphanage and say he is an orphan. When WY was 7 years old his dad tried to drown him, killing original WY and allowing the transmigrator.

New WY convinces the dad with the promise of money to go along with his plan to take SiSi's place in the adoption, so they send SiSi to the hospital and claim she was adopted. The Wen family didn't want to adopt another child though, so WY stages getting mistaken for MC, gets fake kidnapped and hurts his foot in the process. This guilts the Wen family into sponsoring him, but not full adoption.

Frustrated that he isn't getting the same treatment SiSi did in the original novel, WY hatches a new plan. He wants to have MC fake attacked where he will protect MC making the Wen family feel indebted to him and MC worship him allowing him to be fully adopted and thus getting inheritance rights.

This goes wrong, they actually seriously hurt MC so WY dad has his trafficking goons dump MC in the river, leaving him for dead.

So the crux of it all was Wen Yu transmigrated. He being the despicable person he was, plotted against the protagonist Wen Chi.

-he worked with traffickers to get rid of MC. Then kept targeting him as they grew

-he interfered with Sisi's adoption. I'm just glad she wasn't trafficked

-he used Cheng Xuan & crushed his personality & self esteem

Wen Yu was just written into a truly ugly character so I had no empathy for him.