The Taoist Priest Has a Peerless Face (Entertainment Industry)

A new superstar has recently emerged in the Chinese entertainment industry: Su Chen.

He has breathtaking looks, a beautiful figure, crisp delivery, and mastery of music, chess, calligraphy, and painting. Best of all, his fight scenes are especially graceful and sharp. Even the short dramas he filmed when he first debuted put today's endless slow-motion twirling to shame.

The only thing people criticize is how ridiculous his public persona is.

He's clearly an eighteen-year-old boy, yet insists on acting like a retired cadre. He carries a thermos in his left hand and a notebook in his right, loves listening to revolutionary songs, and even uses "My Motherland and Me" as his ringtone.

When a variety show host once asked why he'd kept his hair long when he first debuted, Su Chen calmly replied, "I'm a Taoist priest."

The gossip-hungry public was stunned: What a bizarre persona!

The entertainment industry is already full of people faking their public personas, and no one believes someone as obviously fake as Su Chen.

Even when Su Chen tells fortunes on livestream several times, and gets them pretty accurate, everyone assumes they're plants and scripted acts.

And yet...

He's genuinely an old-fashioned relic, and he really is a Taoist priest.

After an accident, Su Chen's Taoist ordination certificate was exposed. Clear as day, it stated that he'd entered the faith in 1963.

As voices of doubt filled the air, the president of the Taoist Association posted on Weibo: "Meet my grandmaster's uncle, @Su Chen."

Su Zixing, president of Xinghua Group and the richest man in Huaguo, followed right after: "Meet my great-uncle, @Su Chen."

Top-tier star Su Yu'an reposted it: "Meet my great-granduncle, @Su Chen."

Even the famous writer Cang Lang reposted it: "Meet my fourth older brother, @Su Chen..."

That day, influential figures from every walk of life across the country came out in support of Su Chen. The topic stayed at the top of the trending lists for three days and nights.

Netizens: So he's a real master! And one who never ages... Master! Please tell my fortune!

No one ever got their fortune told.

The next day, a thunderclap of heavenly tribulation rang out, and Su Chen ascended to heaven in broad daylight!

P.S. The blurb is exaggerated, but this is actually a traditional entertainment-industry novel with lots of stories-within-stories. The protagonist really is a Taoist priest, stunningly beautiful, a super hard worker, and focused on his career. No CP.

---- Forthcoming Novel ----

A sweet little transmigration-to-ancient-times romance!

"Ah, I'm the Empress? (Switched at Birth Twice)"

In her previous life, Su Lan worked herself to death from overwork. After finally getting a chance to start over, she decided to live differently after transmigrating: she would lie flat for good.

She was very happy with her family in this life. Her father was a Taoist priest, her mother loving and gentle, and she could breathe fresh mountain air at their temple every day, study medicine and practice swordsmanship in her spare time. It was practically a life among the immortals.

She'd already planned out her future. Since she had no interest in marriage, once she was a little older, she'd become a female Taoist priest and inherit her father's temple.

But before she could take vows, people from the Marquis's residence showed up and told her she was their real daughter, switched at birth!

She'd expected the usual melodrama of a real and fake heiress after returning to the Marquis's residence. Instead, her family treated her well, and even the sister who'd been switched with her looked after her.

So Su Lan happily moved somewhere new and kept lying flat.

But her happy days didn't last long. Before many days had passed, the emperor granted her in marriage to an idiot.

Su Lan looked at her foster sister, who was willing to take her place, her father, who'd rather die than obey the imperial decree, and her mother, who was pleading with everyone she could. She decided to go ahead and marry him.

She had a huge dowry and plenty of skills, so she could live well wherever she ended up.

Besides, the heir of the Duke's residence might be an idiot, but he was handsome!

She could just keep him at home like a beautiful vase and admire him. That sounded pretty nice.

But who could have imagined that in less than three years, the vase wouldn't just stop being an idiot, but would become the crown prince...

Even later, when Su Lan stood beside the emperor in her empress's ceremonial robes and phoenix crown, it still felt unreal.

Ah, how did I become the empress?

On the night of his enthronement, Xiao Xuan massaged Su Lan's sore neck, which had been weighed down by her phoenix crown, then kissed her earlobe and chuckled beside her ear. "My dear, now you can finally lie flat for good."

P.S. 1. Both were switched at birth: [Free-spirited and clever real daughter] x [Scheming, deep-minded real crown prince]

2. Everyone in both families is decent. They all get along, with no infighting.

Theme: Kind, hardworking people can have everything. Everyone is the protagonist of their own life.