Waiting for His Starlight

[The neighboring novel, The Fairy Helps You Conquer the Entertainment Industry, is now updating. Please add it to your collection!] Hua Keng, a thirty-eighth-tier actor who was perpetually flopping, had spent six or seven years in the entertainment industry. He'd played more corpses than he'd eaten cloves of garlic.

One day, the fantasy series Sword and Fairy, in which he'd played a corpse, became a hit. As an extra, he'd played someone killed by the male lead with a single sword strike, and left behind a back view on camera. Hua Keng paused mid-bite of his spring pancake, pulled out his phone with its shattered screen, and posted a still from the show on his Weibo account, which had fewer than five hundred followers. The Great Wall of Hengdian was in the background. Caption: If I'd known this show was going to be a hit, I would've tried to get more screen time.

Hua Keng ambled along on his long legs toward the six-story old building he rented a room in. At the foot of the apartment building, a fluffy white kitten was curled up on the footboard of a rusty space-walker exercise machine, slowly swinging back and forth.

Hua Keng was puzzled. Maybe some elderly resident's children had bought it as a pet. Unable to resist, he walked over and stroked its fur. The kitten turned its head, and two long ears drooped down. Uh... maybe it wasn't a cat, but a rabbit?

Hua Keng picked off a tiny bit of the spring pancake and minced garlic he'd bought, and fed it to the rabbit.

Then he dusted off his hands and left.

"I want to swing with you, all the way to the world beyond the heavens."

Bing Ning let her legs dangle from the swing and gazed at the blue sea before her:

"Brother, do you want to go to the world beyond the heavens?"

"...No, I couldn't handle that."

"My powers aren't strong enough yet. Even if I wanted to take you, I couldn't."

P.S.: A satisfying, sweet story with a golden finger. Anything impossible can happen. The plot comes first.

Blurb: Qi Xiao, a short-haired girl who loves shipping couples, transmigrated into a book after commenting while reading a novel: "Why would the villainess get in anyone's way other than the male and female leads? She had to get between them? They're the official couple, okay? And that villainess isn't even good at being a green tea schemer."

Transmigrated into the body of a green tea villainess with the same name as her, Qi Xiao could only say: I've never shipped a couple from this close before. I'm so excited!!!

At least the villainess fit the standard for a rich and beautiful female antagonist. Otherwise, Qi Xiao was afraid she wouldn't be able to afford her life goal of buying billboards and chasing the stars in person.

But why did the villainess have so many haters? She'd already acted in two shows, so why was she so unpopular?

[Qi Xiao, who can only widen her eyes, is attending the awards ceremony too?]

[Since when are awards so easy to win?]

Qi Xiao scrolled through the comments under her Weibo in the dressing room, unable to bear looking at them for long. Sigh... Who could blame them? On and off screen, she was the green tea villainess who said, "Brother Zuo Yan, I learned to cook today and cut my hand. It really hurts. Brother Zuo Yan, could you come see me?"

That evening, when fans viciously criticized Qi Xiao for standing beside Zuo Yan with a fake smile, Qi Xiao gathered up her skirt, left the center spots for Shen Yuqi and Zuo Yan, and stood with the other supporting actors.

The foul-mouthed haters were stunned, their prepared lines stuck in their throats. But that evening, a cameraman caught Best Actor Zuo giving Qi Xiao an unreadable look.

The onlookers...

[Everyone in the entertainment industry knows Best Actor Zuo hates Qi Xiao.]

The haters disliked her too. She was just a pretty vase, taking up resources.

But when A Marriage Edict premiered, Zuo Yan mentioned @Qi Xiao, and the fans lost their composure. ◆: This paid novel has anti-piracy protection enabled. The protected portion is 70%, with a 48-hour delay. The full novel costs six yuan. Take the whole thing home in one bundle. Please support the official release, dear readers.

Theme: Being cherished