Xia Ruan transmigrates to another world and spends fifteen years as the leader of a beggars’ gang, maxing out more than a hundred skills. Then she opens her eyes and transmigrates back.
Back in the modern world, she’s a nobody with a bad reputation all over the internet, saddled with 1.2 million yuan in breach-of-contract fees. Her bank account has just 400 yuan, not even enough to buy a boxed meal.
To survive, she joins a reality show called “Shelter for Washed-Up Celebrities.” The contestants get 100 yuan a day and have to work around the city to earn their meals.
The production crew thinks they’ve hired a pretty face with no useful skills. Then she hauls a ton of steel at a construction site without breaking a sweat, picks a lock in three seconds to rescue a child trapped in a fire, takes on eight rabid dogs in the wilderness with nothing but a bamboo pole, and uses vocal mimicry to recreate an entire vanished alley on an old street’s opera stage.
The comments go wild: “She’s not a washed-up celebrity, she’s the leader of the Beggars’ Gang!”
Xia Ruan: “...How did you know?”
Later, she becomes famous. Reality show offers are booked three years in advance, Hollywood invites her to play Hua Mulan, and the national security department asks her to help solve cases.
Her biggest headache, though, is the man she once fished out of a swimming pool as a child. He’s now the son of China’s richest man and a three-time Best Actor, and he’s publicly pursuing her all over the internet.
“I’m the one pursuing her, and I haven’t won her over yet. Please don’t make things harder for me.”
Fans: “Best Actor, get a grip! She subdued eight criminals with her bare hands last time. Do you think you can take her?”
Fu Tingchen: “No. But I can make posters for her. I’ve been learning Photoshop for three months.”
