After Leaving the Entertainment Industry to Take the Civil Service Exam, I Went Viral

[Coming soon: *The Real Heiress Is Saved by Her Future Self* and *After Leaving Show Business, I Go Viral as an Entertainment Reporter Despite Being Hated Online*. Please add them to your favorites!] Blurb: Song Man transmigrated into a book, becoming the brainless, vicious supporting actress who was constantly used as a pawn in a hit female-led entertainment-industry power fantasy she'd stayed up all night reading. By then, the plot had already reached its middle-to-late stages. Everyone online hated her, and Weibo was full of people yelling for Song Man to get out of show business. The company that had once fawned over her when she was famous had also revealed its greedy, capitalist nature, exploiting every loophole in her contract to demand an astronomical termination fee. Faced with this nightmarish start, Song Man sat on her bed and thought for a moment. Then she pulled the original owner's college diploma out from under the bed and went off to take the civil service exam. The company waiting to force Song Man into a shady deal by threatening her with her contract: ??? * Song Man had thought that once she passed the civil service exam, the original plot would have nothing more to do with her. But... Not long after she started her new job, the department director showed up with a stack of documents and a beaming smile. “Xiao Song, our department happens to have a program promoting rural tourism in collaboration with some celebrities. The higher-ups want a permanent staff member on it. I heard you used to work in show business, so you can take this one.” Song Man: ??? Even after all that, could the plot still make her “return” to show business? Later... *Our Hometown*, a peaceful program showcasing tranquil rural life, aired and dominated the trending searches. Song Man, a “permanent guest” on the show, once again became a huge star across the internet. Her former haters flooded her Weibo with tearful apologies and begged her to return. #Apologies to Song Man: We Misjudged This Hidden Gem, Sister Song# #Begging Song Song to Return to Show Business: A Fairy-Sister Like Her Deserves to Be Famous!# Song Man: No, no, I'm sticking with a government job. A permanent position is just too good.jpg But... After Song Man turned down a series of brand endorsements, films from acclaimed directors, invitations to be a special guest at a superstar's concert, and offers from all the hottest variety shows, she settled in to wait for an assignment working on poverty alleviation and public service projects in the countryside. Then Song Man suddenly realized that she'd somehow... gone viral without even noticing. Reading Guide: 1. Lighthearted wish-fulfillment fiction. The entire story is made up, and everything serves the plot. The setting is an alternate modern world, not reality. It's just for fun, so please don't compare it to real life. If transmigrating into a book is possible, then this definitely isn't realistic! 2. None of the characters are based on real people, not a single one. We repeat, none of them are based on real people. Feel free to fall for these fictional characters! Coming Soon: *The Real Heiress Is Saved by Her Future Self* Blurb: Fifteen-year-old Chu Zhaodi was insecure, sensitive, and constantly anxious. She had once been optimistic and determined to get into college so she could escape her awful family. Then she was suddenly told she was the real daughter of a wealthy family, and that the hardships she'd endured for fifteen years were never supposed to be hers. Her birth parents said they wanted to make it up to her, yet refused to send the fake heiress, the girl switched with her at birth, back to her original family. Whenever Chu Zhaodi brought it up, they scolded her for being so selfish and vicious at such a young age. When she came first in an exam, she was thrilled to tell her parents, only to be met with a cold accusation: “How could you cheat?” She was just a country girl from a small town, so how could she possibly beat the daughter they'd raised in luxury? Everyone at her new school, teachers and students alike, accused her and defended the fake heiress. Alone against the world, Chu Zhaodi's new life was swallowed by malice. Twenty-five-year-old Chu Yuan was confident and dazzling, her brilliance impossible to ignore. In just ten years, she had made a name for herself and become one of the most promising rising stars in business. She had revolutionized every technology product on the market, and countless people tried to get close to her. Those who had once hurt Chu Yuan now begged her assistant for even the smallest chance to stay afloat in the market, weeping as they did. But they couldn't earn so much as a glance from Chu Yuan. She'd stopped caring about these insignificant people long ago. Taking the trouble to get revenge on them would only demean her. Besides, their companies had already been left behind by the times. Then fate played a cruel joke on her. On her way to a new product launch, Chu Yuan traveled back... ten years. Back to the time when she still went by “Chu Zhaodi,” when she had fallen from one hell into another, and the world had never once treated her kindly. The one piece of luck was that, at this point, her fifteen-year-old self hadn't completely broken down yet. She decided she had to save her fifteen-year-old self, even if doing so meant she would disappear. If she couldn't even make herself love herself, what kindness could Chu Zhaodi possibly hope to find in this world? * The fifteen-year-old heroine won't keep the name Zhaodi. She'll change it. Coming Soon: *After Leaving Show Business, I Go Viral as an Entertainment Reporter Despite Being Hated Online* Blurb: The System told Lin Tingxi that she'd transmigrated into an old-fashioned male-led entertainment-industry power fantasy, as a cannon-fodder supporting actress who looked down on the male lead at first, then clung desperately to him. Unfortunately, she'd arrived after the plot in which the supporting actress shamelessly attached herself to the male lead and used him for publicity. She was already hated across the internet, drowning in debt, and being subjected to the company's full-court press of threats and inducements. Her miserable death was just around the corner. Lin Tingxi: ...So? System: If you don't want to die, you need to clear your name. You can only survive if you turn around your reputation as someone everyone hates. Lin Tingxi: Okay, fine, got it. Don't worry, I'm great at this. Watching Lin Tingxi carefully study the original plot, the System finally relaxed, convinced it had found a reliable Host this time. Then it watched its reliable Host... · Crouch in the corner of an internet cafe and use her impressive computer skills to recover the chat logs showing that the male lead's company had approached her first to stage a dating rumor. · Use her contract and past business dealings to uncover her agency's tax evasion, then take the company that threatened her to court with a single lawsuit. · Take her diploma and exam prep books, earn a journalist's license, and switch to working behind the scenes as an entertainment reporter. Armed with the original novel's plot, she knows all the industry gossip and gathers evidence as she tears through the scene. System: ??? Host, what are you doing?! Lin Tingxi, busy writing her next explosive exposé for Weibo: I'm clearing my name very seriously so I can extend my life, of course. The System's idea of clearing her name: Start from scratch, work hard, keep your head down, climb to the top, and make everyone willing to hear your side. Lin Tingxi's idea of clearing her name: According to the principle that “the best way to forget one romance is to start another,” all she has to do is become an entertainment reporter and expose the fact that everyone in show business is rotten. Then her own tiny scandal will clear itself without her even lifting a finger. System: ...That's ridiculous! * Not long after Lin Tingxi became an entertainment reporter, as the storm was only just beginning to brew, countless former haters flooded her Weibo with tearful apologies: #Lin Tingxi, We're Sorry: We Were Wrong to Hate You Just Because Everyone Else Did#; #Please Stop Exposing Everyone, Sister, Leave a Couple of Houses for the Kids to Celebrate the New Year# Later... After one unbelievable scandal after another came to light, the internet was ready to swear off celebrities for good. The seemingly sweet and innocent popular idol had hit someone with his car years ago and fled the scene. The dazzling top-tier star had stolen someone else's identity. The gentle, refined Best Actor was a controlling kidnapper... The distraught netizens came crying to Lin Tingxi's Weibo, begging her to return. Her hashtags took over the trending searches: #Begging Lin Tingxi to Return: Young Fans Need an Idol Who Won't Have a Scandal, Please, We Beg You# Lin Tingxi: ...What? This is enough to make me famous? That's ridiculous. System: :) Reading Guide: 1. Lighthearted wish-fulfillment fiction. Don't take it too seriously; every detail serves the plot. The genre is fantasy modern romance, meaning it has nothing to do with reality and takes place in an alternate modern world. 2. All the scandals in the story are made up, and none of the characters are based on real people. Feel free to dive in. Happy reading! Theme: Live well.