[Strong female lead | K-entertainment | Slow burn, realistic tone | Lifelike characters | Not mindless wish fulfillment | Business and political intrigue]
If you enjoy realistic K-entertainment stories and clear-headed, rebellious female idols, dive right in.
Ji Yue Bai was never an easy child to raise.
Her father said she was born to drive him mad. Ji Yue Bai thought so too.
At sixteen, she wanted to be an actress and insisted on applying to an arts academy. Later, after getting a System, she pursued her dream and, egged on by a friend, insisted on going to South Korea to become a trainee.
Being a trainee meant suffering, persevering, and following the company’s orders. But she was different.
A slow burn, but every step counts. Realistic, finding joy amid hardship. The characters feel like real people, not just props.
The stingy Superstar System can unlock cooking skills, talents, and physical enhancements, but it requires fan points. So she has to become famous.
But breaking into South Korea’s entertainment industry is no easy feat.
To get noticed, become famous, and earn fan points, she’s willing to “badmouth herself,” turning online abuse into fuel. She knows exactly how to stir up buzz.
From trainee to top-tier star, from idol to film actress.
She doesn’t play by the rules. She lives life on her own terms.
The System is her trump card, but “making trouble out of nothing” is her weapon.
This is the story of Ji Yue Bai carving her way through the K-entertainment world.
Author’s note: This story is entirely fictional.
