After Rejecting the Rat Race, I Became a Laid-Back Slacker [Showbiz]

[Original title: I’m Just Lying Flat in the Entertainment Industry; Original pen name: Huli Huanhuan]

Blurb:

Qiao Xixi spent years as an invisible punching bag in the entertainment industry before discovering that she was the cannon-fodder female supporting character in an entertainment-industry power fantasy.

She was bound to a System meant to keep her on track with the plot. The System was a precision score-deduction machine: whenever Qiao Xixi tried to work hard and get ahead, it made her stats plummet.

When it detected her studying seriously, it deducted intelligence points.

When it detected her training all night, it deducted points from her figure.

When it detected her trying hard to get screen time, it deducted her luck.

As time went by,

Qiao Xixi: I’m numb.

After awakening to the plot, Qiao Xixi saw through everything and decided that life as a disposable stepping stone was just too boring.

She didn’t want to struggle anymore.

The plot could do whatever it wanted. Qiao Xixi was determined not to join the rat race everyone around her was caught up in.

Since she couldn’t turn her life around, she might as well go with the flow, lie flat, and embrace a completely laissez-faire attitude.

But once Qiao Xixi gave up on her dreams and became a couch potato, the plot could no longer control her. Her System started acting up too...

She snuck snacks in the middle of the night, yet her figure got slimmer.

She didn’t fight for attention on camera and let others take center stage, yet the trending searches were full of her.

She didn’t want to show off on variety shows, just wanted to finish her tasks and go home early, yet she ended up carrying the entire cast.

Qiao Xixi, who only wanted to lie flat and had no desire to work hard, became famous.

The netizens who once thought Qiao Xixi had no presence at all: How is she good at everything? What a hidden gem! How did we only just discover her?

Qiao Xixi: This world... is way too rebellious.

*Reader’s Guide:

1. Complete. Revision notes are for fixing typos. The official, corrected version is on Jinjiang Literature City.

2. A goofy, feel-good entertainment-industry novel. Feel free to stay or go, and to leave comments or flowers as you please~

Do You Have Two Faces?

[Weibo posts have been archived]

Jiang Qiao was an orphan who grew up in a mountain village.

At eighteen, she learned that her surname wasn’t Jiang but Ruan, and that she was the long-lost daughter of a wealthy family. Her biological parents said they would bring her home.

But on the day they were supposed to fetch her, they worried that Jiang Qiao, raised in humble circumstances, would embarrass them. They had second thoughts and shut her out.

Afraid Jiang Qiao would cling to them, they had people wait by the gate to hear what she would ask for, unwilling even to see her. Jiang Qiao merely glanced inside with cool eyes, then turned and walked away without looking back.

She had never wanted to see the parents who had been absent her whole life anyway.

She returned to H City to work her way through school. Next door lived a man even poorer than she was. He had the face of a star, yet lived like a destitute beggar.

The man was exceptionally handsome and seemed vaguely familiar, but Jiang Qiao couldn’t remember who he was. She just thought it would be a shame to let someone who could raise humanity’s average level of attractiveness starve to death, so she often helped him out.

The Ruan family never came looking for Jiang Qiao. They kept waiting for her to hit hard times and contact them herself, but as time passed, she never once came back.

Unable to resist, they went to see where Jiang Qiao lived, only to find the current head of the Meng family, Meng Er, Meng Yunlian, there. He was known for his ruthless methods and cold-hearted nature.

The man they had tried everything to get close to was apologizing profusely to their younger daughter Jiang Qiao, whom they looked down on, because he had broken one of her dishes.

The tall man held up a snapped spoon as he trailed after Jiang Qiao, head bowed in apology, like a big dog pleading for forgiveness after getting into trouble.

The Ruan family: “...”

#The Ruan family: At that moment, we all thought we had mistaken him for someone else. Who would have guessed he had two faces?

#Meng Yunlian: At that moment, my secret identity was hanging by a thread. The weather is getting cold. The Ruan family should go bankrupt.

#Jiang Qiao: At that moment, I finally realized that I was the only one who was actually poor :)

I fed him so much rice, and it was all for nothing., Jiang Qiao

A sweet little story, one true pairing, both leads’ first love

Theme: Life gets better after it gets bad enough, because it can’t get any worse