Lin You, an all-around stunt double who spent ten years making her mark in the film and television industry, excelled at both action and dialogue doubles. After a wire-rigging accident, she transmigrated into an entertainment-industry novel.
The original owner was a pretty but talentless actress, a mere beauty with no acting skills. She had been forced into a production by powerful backers, was cursed by the entire internet to get out of showbiz, and was ultimately set up by a supporting female character, disfigured, and forced to leave the industry in misery.
When Lin You opened her eyes, the director was berating her for her terrible acting and threatening to kick her off the production.
Lin You: “Fine. I’ll do it myself.”
She did her own fight scenes, her fluid moves leaving the action choreographer stunned.
She could cry on cue in a second, delivering a performance so nuanced it put the formally trained female lead to shame.
Even in difficult equestrian scenes and underwater scenes, she did everything herself, with no stunt doubles and no digital compositing.
The netizens who had been waiting to laugh at her:
“Holy crap! Are her fight scenes even more professional than a fight double’s?”
“Weren’t you supposed to be just a pretty face? Your acting is leagues better than the female lead’s!”
Later, someone dug up footage of Lin You’s incredible stunt work from her early days, and the whole internet went wild.
Meanwhile, the top-tier star, an award-winning actor, openly admitted in an interview, “I’ve been pursuing her for ten years, ever since the very first day she worked as a stunt double.”
