The Sweet Days of Dating My Childhood Friend in Showbiz

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Ye Jian, an all-around champion at the national martial arts level, transmigrates and becomes Ye Xidi, who has just graduated from elementary school in 1990.

She also gains a Food System.

Ignoring the System's endless boasting about how amazing it is, the first thing Ye Jian does is find her new body's mother and ask to change her name.

Mrs. Ye: You've had that name for more than ten years. We're used to it. Why change it?

Ye Jian: Your husband has been dead for seven or eight years, and you can't have a son. What reason do you have to stop me from changing it?

Mrs. Ye: ...

The lunatic from the Chen family next door chopped his own father to death in the middle of the night, then accidentally fell into the river and drowned, leaving behind a boy as pretty as a doll.

Ye Jian: From now on, make an extra portion at dinner and let him come eat with us.

Mrs. Ye cursed and grumbled: We can barely feed ourselves. Where are we supposed to find extra food to raise that little bastard?

Ye Jian kicked a wooden stool in half. Say one more word, and let's see who'll look after you when you're old!

Mrs. Ye: ...

As they set off to change her name, Ye Jian caught sight of the boy hiding behind the door next door, secretly watching her. She stopped, pointed at him, and said to Mrs. Ye, "Let's change his name too."

And so Chen Zhaocai became Chen Zhaozhao.

Mrs. Ye: ...That's not much better than his old name.

The day before he was due to see Ye Jian during the holidays, Chen Zhaozhao stopped studying. He shaved, put on a face mask, and did his skincare before bed. His roommates watched the whole routine in stunned silence.

They really wanted to call him a sissy, a narcissist.

But when they looked at that face, which had become famous across the whole school in just one day, they couldn't bring themselves to say it.

At ten o'clock sharp, the lights went out in Dorm Room 302.

It was the same every day, no exceptions. If they had something to do, they had to do it in another dorm. Nobody was allowed to disturb Chen Zhaozhao's beauty sleep.

Ye Jian loved his soft, delicate looks most of all.

Reader's Guide:

1. The female lead isn't truly short-tempered or rough. Mrs. Ye just needs someone to keep her in line, and the female lead is still reasonable.

2. The dialogue where she argues with Mrs. Ye about changing her name is required by the plot. In real life, girls have the right to change their names, regardless of whether their parents have a son. This is a period piece, and the plot reflects the limits of its time. Please don't overthink it.

3. One-on-one romance, both leads are sexually inexperienced. Tough girl x delicate husband. "Tough" refers to her strength and way of doing things; "delicate" refers to his appearance and how they get along.

Novel blurb:

Blacklisted and suppressed from the start, with no connections and nothing but bit parts to her name, Qiao Xiaomeng is dealt a terrible hand.

Her assistant looks down on her, her agent is dissatisfied, and her rival steals her luck.

Qiao Xiaomeng smiles faintly and awakens a mysterious constitution within herself:

Those who treat me well are guaranteed to win prizes and land acting jobs one after another.

Those who treat me badly will choke on water, twist an ankle while walking, and spontaneously combust!

And so, everything takes a sudden turn:

A hater posts a smear, and their computer immediately crashes.

A scheming green tea tries to frame her and suffers the backlash, losing everything and becoming infamous.

Meanwhile, Qiao Xiaomeng holds an acting award in one hand and a marriage contract with a wealthy family in the other, becoming the entertainment industry's one and only "genuine lucky star."

A charming little lucky-star actress heroine x a top-tier male lead who only wants to earn money to support her

Reader's Guide:

1. A sweet romance with mutual devotion.

2. One-on-one romance, both leads are sexually inexperienced.

3. Lighthearted writing.

4. The leads have depended on each other since childhood, and only have eyes for each other.

Theme: See through life's hardships, yet continue to love life