[The glamorous, aloof superstar Su Wanxing, who shines in film, television, and music VS the cool, proud commander Lu Zhanjun]
[Reborn + 1970s setting + military marriage + raising a child + capable heroine + showbiz + devoted love + a touch of the System]
When “The Era’s Starlight Never Sets” received the Lifetime Achievement Award, the entire audience rose to applaud the veteran artist, whose career spanned film, television, and music.
Born in the 1970s, this legendary woman shaped the brilliance of Chinese-language cinema throughout the 1980s and 1990s.
Though she had retired years ago, the film studio she founded, Starlight Pictures, still held the reins of the domestic film and television industry.
In her youth, people marveled at her bone structure, hailed as “a miracle of human beauty,” and were even more astonished by her record of sweeping Best Actress awards at all four of the world’s major film festivals. To this day, she remains the only Asian actor to achieve this feat.
What people loved to gossip about most was that several powerful tycoons who had once been romantically involved with her still had stills from her 1998 film Flowers of Shanghai pinned to the top of their social media profiles.
What no one knew was that when Su Wanxing accidentally transmigrated to a rainy night in the 1980s, the girl who would one day be called “the Muse of the East” by Time magazine was anxiously clutching an audition notice for the provincial arts troupe, trying to figure out how to support her family on a monthly wage of just over ten yuan.
*Reader’s Guide:
1. Includes a pursuit-and-reconciliation romance. Both leads are devoted to each other, and it has a happy ending.
2. Some scenes feature extensive Cantonese dialogue. Translations are provided in the author’s notes.
3. Locations in China are replaced with flower names. Please bear that in mind as you read.
4. The male lead appears infrequently at first, only becoming more prominent in the middle and later parts. The heroine spends most of the early story thriving on her own.
5. The heroine gets a little help from a System golden finger. Please go easy on the author!
