The Long Road to Leaving the Entertainment Industry

[Upcoming: Willow Hues That Bewitch / A Fierce Kiss at Dusk, blurb below~]

After dying a heroic death, the celebrated Republican-era socialite Shen Xiaoqing became Shen Xiaoqing, a B-list rock star, and found herself carrying around a novel titled The Road to Stardom.

In the novel, Shen Xiaoqing is a walk-on character who gets mocked as ignorant by an award-winning actor, framed by her rivals, and plagued by scandals about lip-syncing and buying awards.

#ShenXiaoqingGetOutOfShowbiz# soon became a trending topic. After Shen Xiaoqing took her own life, Shen Xiaoqing arrived in her body.

Quit the entertainment industry? Just what she wanted.

It didn't matter that she couldn't sing. She could perform opera.

It didn't matter that her straightforward public image had crumbled. She was a celebrated chameleon of Huaxia.

Shen Xiaoqing soon found an opera house, but just before she could officially retire from showbiz...

On a variety show, she recited Republican-era literature by heart and rattled off differential geometry without missing a beat.

As a guest star in a film, her first note stunned the entire room, and her farewell concert made her an overnight sensation.

Offers for advertisements, scripts, and variety shows came pouring in, and her haters and casual onlookers all had to eat their words.

Shen Xiaoqing: I just wanted to leave showbiz and focus on performing opera. Why is it so hard?

An easygoing opera star VS a perfectionist award-winning actor

Please note:

1. There are no real-life inspirations. Please don't discuss them~

2. Don't overanalyze. Read or drop it as you please, but no need to say goodbye~

Blurb for Willow Hues That Bewitch

At sixteen, Liu Yue became the stepdaughter of the Yan family's Seventh Young Master in Dingcheng, adopted by his maternal uncle.

At nineteen, Liu Yue was set up and ended up in the Seventh Young Master's bed. He kicked her right off it, leaving her sickly and frail.

At twenty, Liu Yue's mother and stepfather died in a car accident.

The Seventh Young Master ended the infighting within the Yan family of Dingcheng and became the untouchable Seventh Master Yan.

She was brought into the Yan household and became Seventh Master Yan's well-known mistress. Ten years later, when he was about to marry, she was sent away.

She never got to enjoy the comfortable, prosperous life Seventh Master Yan had arranged for her. She died of illness one week before his wedding of the century.

Then, as if waking from a dream, the thirty-year-old Liu Yue was reborn at sixteen.

This time, when she visited the Yan household, Liu Yue no longer foolishly hovered around her "cousin."

She remembered that before her father died, he had held her hand and said, "I hope you can live up to your name: resilient and steady."

She should never have forgotten that in her previous life.

Theme: Work hard and strive while you're at an age when you should be working hard