I'm Done Being a Backup

Completed.

It wasn't that great, so I wouldn't really recommend it...

When photos of Xie Yousi embracing another woman hit the trending charts, the whole internet erupted. Only then did Ming Zhan realize she was just a backup.

The day her dignity was trampled, she cried as she pieced it back together bit by bit, vowing never to be anyone's backup again.

Xie Yousi was born arrogant, adored by everyone. He only sneered, thinking it was just another game of playing hard to get.

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Her love life was a mess, but her career was thriving. An opportunity fell right into her lap. Becoming a star wasn't such a big deal. She could debut on her own!

With her superb acting and stunning beauty, Ming Zhan made it into the ranks of top actresses, winning countless fans and comments like, "Hehehe, my daughter is so cute."

She had plenty of backbone and never went back to him.

But Xie Yousi's expression grew gloomier by the day. He refused to believe she no longer liked him.

On the night of her new drama's wrap party, a sudden downpour began. Xie Yousi pinned Ming Zhan against the car door, his eyes bloodshot as he asked, "You really don't want me anymore?"

Faced with him like that, Ming Zhan was speechless for a moment. She only handed him a letter. "Everything I want to say is in here."

Xie Yousi smiled, sure that she couldn't let go of their relationship either.

But when he got home and unfolded the letter, it contained only three words: Go to hell.

The male lead is still Xie Yousi, a completely unhinged psycho.

Content warnings: a groveling arc, red-eyed angst, and all kinds of deliciously melodramatic heartbreak.

The entertainment-industry setting is all from the author's imagination. There is a lot of plot early on. As long as I'm not embarrassed, then the readers are the ones who should be embarrassed!!!

Next book, So I Choose the Green Tea Girl. Blurb:

Rising star Xia Si'er has superb acting skills and breathtaking beauty, and she's practically a walking traffic magnet. But just as she's reaching the top, a scheming white lotus appears.

The white lotus steals her dating reality show, breaks up her on-screen couple... She takes Xia Si'er's path and leaves her nowhere to go!

Her manager discovers that the white lotus has a powerful sugar daddy.

The good news: The sugar daddy and the white lotus aren't together yet.

The bad news: The sugar daddy is Shen Zheng, Xia Si'er's high school archenemy :)

Should she quietly disappear from the entertainment industry, or play the green tea girl and turn the tables?

Xia Si'er decisively chooses the latter.

That day, in ten-centimeter heels, with a slender waist and seductive curves, she knocks on Shen Zheng's office door.

Originally, she only wanted to win Shen Zheng over and make the white lotus furious.

But who could have guessed her archenemy would have broad shoulders and a narrow waist, with deep, captivating eyes and irresistible hormones? Damn, he's turned the tables on her!

A few months later, their relationship is exposed. Xia Si'er sits barefoot on the edge of the bed, thoroughly enjoying the gossip about herself, when Shen Zheng's phone rings. It's the white lotus!

Oh, so you want to compete? Bring it on! The call connects, and the white lotus speaks in a pitiful voice:

"Brother, your sister-in-law's hooked, right? Can I quit the industry? Waaah, playing the villain is exhausting!"

The bedroom door opens, and Shen Zheng walks in wearing a robe, frowning as he scolds her: "Can you put your shoes on?"

Xia Si'er: ...So I played the green tea girl for nothing?

Blurb Two

In her youth, Xia Si'er was bright and arrogant, a born darling, and she toyed with the school's most solitary boy.

She gave him the very best, then kicked him to the curb.

Everyone thought Shen Zheng hated Xia Si'er, including Shen Zheng himself.

But no one knew that during the years Shen Zheng studied abroad, whenever he saw Xia Si'er's bewitching face on Times Square, he would murmur, "Si'er, all I've ever wanted most was you."

Obsessive, scheming CEO x somewhat heartless, gorgeous actress

Theme: A girl rising up