At seventeen, trainee Xu Ruiyu awakened memories from her past life.
She had once been a trainee struggling to make it in a foreign country. From the age of fourteen to twenty-two, she trained for eight years, only to hear, "You have plenty of talent and work hard, but your looks are just a little lacking."
She couldn't accept it. She had already had her nose done, her eyes widened, and her chin augmented, so why was she still being judged like that?
In the end, Xu Ruiyu went all in and went under the knife. She died at the age of twenty-three.
After a life of hardship, all she left behind was a news story: [Trainee Dies of Infection After Botched Plastic Surgery].
In this life, Xu Ruiyu stood in front of the mirror and looked at a face much like the one she had in her previous life. Despair washed over her.
Her eyes weren't as big, her nose wasn't as high, and her lips were a little thick... She might be a pretty girl by ordinary standards, but in the entertainment industry, where beauties were everywhere, she wouldn't even make the list.
Would she have to accept this frustrating reality all over again, even in a different world?
[Ding-dong! System online!]
Xu Ruiyu was overjoyed. Great, a system!
[Hello, Host. The World Beauty System is now online!]
Xu Ruiyu: Give me the marrow-cleansing pill and the plastic surgery pill, all of them!
System: There aren't any.
Xu Ruiyu: Then can you make my eyes a little bigger? And raise my nose a bit?
System: No.
Xu Ruiyu: ...Then why are you called the World Beauty System?
System: What do you think makes someone beautiful?
Xu Ruiyu: Big eyes, double eyelids, a high nose bridge, a swan neck, right-angle shoulders...
System: NO, NO, NO. Beauty is an attitude, a presence, a living thing in motion. It's the features, the shoulders, the waist. It's a smile with your head bowed, a glance back, tears in your eyes, fingers that linger. It's the wind, the rain, a flower in bloom, an unyielding tree...
Xu Ruiyu: ...TD
It all started when a photo went viral.
A group of idols posed together onstage. The child at the edge reached out, and through the swirling flurry of movement, her fingertips brushed a golden ribbon. Her eyes were lowered, yet the light in them spilled out of the frame like a galaxy.
---Give me three seconds. I need to know her name.
---She looks so beautiful in the group photo that everyone around her fades into the background.
---She looks pretty ordinary in her solo photo. Why does she stand out so much in a crowd?
---She's the epitome of grace and charm. A true beauty lies in her bones, not her skin.
Later, Xu Ruiyu was announced as the actress playing the beauty of the century.
Before the premiere:
---I don't get it. She looks like that, and she's playing the most beautiful woman of all time?
---She must have bought her way into the role.
---So ugly, so ugly, so ugly, so ugly, so ugly, so ugly.
---I wish I could live so shamelessly, just once.
After the premiere:
---Wifey, wifey, let me shower you with kisses!
---The most beautiful woman of all time, and well deserved.
---Why is she so beautiful? Every frown and smile has me so mesmerized I can't see anyone else.
---Wait, Han Xi is standing right next to her? I watched for five minutes and didn't even notice.
Content warnings:
1. The story is set in a parallel world. She starts out as an idol in Xiaohan, then becomes an actress. It has no connection to the real world.
2. The focus is on her career. The female lead is chaotic neutral. After being suppressed in her previous life, she acts brazenly in this one. She is professional only at work. In private, she brings plenty of drama and doesn't follow idol etiquette. Her boyfriends line up one after another.
3. The female lead's features won't change much. By current entertainment-industry beauty standards, she is an ordinary-looking girl, but the System chose her because she has strengths more important than perfect features, including a well-proportioned head and face, ideal muscle lines, strong intuition, and powerful presence... In her previous life, she was held back because she was judged by the standards for conventional idols.
4. Her buffs include, but aren't limited to: an unbeatable aura, cameras automatically focusing on her, a bewitching effect whenever she moves, appeal to both men and women, and the fact that you can call her ugly, but no one standing beside her will look better...
5. Wish fulfillment, wish fulfillment, wish fulfillment! Tired of reading about top-tier beauties? Here's a different kind of charm.
Theme: The beauty of the soul is greater than the beauty of the face
