One day, Tang Zhile, a super-popular, top-tier beauty of a writer, is reborn in 2008, back in third grade.
The Olympic spirit sweeps through every street and alley, while Bubble Tea shops and Aiyaya accessory stores bustle with smiling faces from a booming economy.
She slides down an elephant-shaped slide and looks up at the blue sky, not yet swallowed by smog.
Good news: She doesn’t have to rush to meet her update schedule every day anymore!
Bad news: The tens of millions of words she painstakingly wrote are gone!
A grade-schooler’s daily life is so simple:
Go to class, take tests, tease classmates, play with kids.
Then score perfect marks every time and make a whole crowd of parents cry with frustration.
Sitting on her bed with A Shuai in her hands, she glances at the new computer her family bought.
Even after getting another chance, she still can’t keep her hands off the keyboard.
"I’ll just rewrite them. What’s the big deal?"
The future’s biggest novel website, Lulu Literature City, has only just launched. Its editors are still privately messaging writers everywhere, begging them to sign contracts.
She opens the same old website she used for twenty years and feels right at home. She quickly posts a new opening:
[I ran into my ex-boyfriend at a karaoke bar. He stared at the little duckling in my arms with bloodshot eyes...]
A reader passing by: This is weird. I’ll take another look.
Then they can’t sleep a wink.
"What happens in the next chapter?!"
That night, countless people click into this mysterious author’s profile.
From then on, they begin living with bowls in hand, waiting for the next serving.
Meanwhile, Tang Zhile looks at the private messages from four editors that have arrived at once and wonders which one to pick.
Lulu Literature City explodes overnight:
The mysterious writer "Fun Seeker" appears out of nowhere, bringing a stunning new chapter to online literature!
Every word she writes keeps readers on tenterhooks, unable to put the story down. Some hackers even try to break into her drafts to find out what happens next.
Too bad the folder is empty.
"Fun Seeker" keeps putting out new series, and every book becomes a hit. Her fanbase swells by over a million, while fan art, flipbook animations, character voice acting, and live-action edits sweep across the internet!
Too bad she updates whenever she feels like it, and even her hiatus notices are bizarre:
"School field trip today. No update."
"My pencil broke, so I’m not in the mood to write."
"The Pleasant Goat movie was great. On the schedule."
Readers pound their desks in frustration while crying and showering her with reward tickets.
A publishing-house president, who has showered her with rewards until she reached the top of the rankings overnight: "At least put some effort into making up an excuse!"
A film company executive who stays up until dawn following her updates: "What an act! This sly old fox must be preparing something big!"
Until the day of her book signing, when camera flashes go off everywhere.
The host bends down and offers her the microphone. "Could you share the secret to your writing?"
The camera sweeps over the red scarf around her neck.
In the dead silence, she rises on tiptoe and grabs the microphone:
"Everyone waiting for updates, line up!"
"Finish your homework, and I’ll post extra chapters!"
Theme: Successful women are irresistibly charming