After Leaving the Entertainment Industry, I Stunned the World

[Next novel: Embracing the Heavenly Beauty. A princess of noble birth X a brooding, devoted watchdog. In progress, with the blurb at the bottom. Feel free to add it to your collection~] Blurb: Online novelist Xia Zhenzhen is obsessed with chasing celebrities and leaving her stories unfinished. One day, she transmigrates into Xia Zhen, a pretty but talentless actress, and is thrilled to discover she'll be filming alongside her idol! Just as she's over the moon, her awful agent pressures her to throw herself at the male second lead, Bai Chen, and fake a romance to stir up gossip, taking her black-but-popular career to the extreme. What?! He's her idol's rival! She spent countless days and nights writing novels, and still made time to write essays ranting about him! Just as Xia Zhen decides to fight fate, she gets hit with more bad news: rumors say she bought her way into the cast, has a terrible personality, and is an ignorant dropout... After being cursed out and grilled by the entire internet, she decides to quit show business and write novels for a peaceful life. Xia Zhen's inner thoughts: Show business, goodbye! Online fiction, here I come! She quietly returns to her old career, writing diligently without going on hiatus again. A washed-up, C-list actress dons a secret identity, sells her copyrights for astronomical sums, and rises to become a web-novel superstar. Publishers fight to release her books, film companies scramble to buy her IP, and celebrities fight tooth and nail to play her characters. Even paparazzi shift their attention from showbiz's young stars to her... Unfortunately, the superstar's secrecy is so thorough that the paparazzi and entertainment reporters come up empty-handed. Xia Zhen: Don't fall for me. I'm just a legend. After five years away from the spotlight, popular young actor Bai Chen returns and stars in a film adapted from the superstar's work. The role makes him a Best Actor and completes his transformation as an actor. Then, after the awards ceremony, a bug on Weibo exposes the superstar's real identity, and the hot search explodes. Netizens are left dumbfounded: the dazzling new queen of online fiction is actually her! Then the superstar's old fan account, where she used to chase celebrities, is dug up. Her cringeworthy past shocks the entire internet, and Weibo crashes. Xia Zhen can only rub her forehead, unable to explain herself. That night, the superstar receives an ultimatum from a wealthy reader: You have two choices. Switch fandoms and become my fan, or announce that you're mine. Reading guide: 1. Couple: top-tier star X online-novel superstar 2. Secret identity reveal mayhem + an indulgent, sweet little romance 3. Entirely fictional, no real-life inspirations, one-on-one romance, both leads are each other's first love, happy ending Advance release: Embracing the Heavenly Beauty One day, a palace coup erupts, and a blood mist blankets the imperial city. The emperor and empress lie dead on the palace steps. The crown prince has been pierced through the heart by a hundred swords. Princess Mulong Jiao, the Pearl of Linlang, clutches her father's blood-written plea for help, but finds no one willing to aid her. In despair, she falls into the rebels' hands... Months later, the rebellion in the capital is quelled, and a new emperor takes the throne. The empire lies in ruins, awaiting renewal. Just as the officials are at their wits' end trying to restore order, Mu Rong Jiao, who should have been reduced to bones, suddenly appears, accompanied by a mysterious and handsome guard. The once carefree darling of the imperial family steps onto the political stage, entering a deadly game rife with undercurrents. Princess Linlang controls the court by holding her young brother hostage. Ruthless and autocratic, she is hated by every official, who wants her gone. But whether they try poison or assassination, every attempt ends in failure, all because of the enigmatic, godlike man at her side, powerful beyond measure. He clears every obstacle for her. Wherever his sword points, even mountains of blades and seas of fire turn to dust... Everyone says Princess Linlang is blessed with great fortune, protected by the gods and always escaping danger. But only Mu Rong Jiao knows that she has never been favored by Heaven. The creature she keeps by her side is, in truth, a tremendously dangerous monster that could tear her to pieces at any moment... Theme: Live toward the light