Nine Hundred Million, I Can Do This

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Blurb:

Xu Ying works in the entertainment industry. Through her own hard work, she climbed from the bottom of the industry to a slightly less obscure level, becoming the prettiest extra in the pool of specially invited extras.

Then she won a prize.

[Annual Best Melodrama Award]

It turned out she was the missing heiress of the Xu family, lost for eighteen years. Along with being welcomed back into the family, she got a bargain-bin husband thrown in for free.

She heard that her bargain-bin husband would die if he didn't get married before turning thirty.

Which unreliable fortune-teller came up with that?

As an upstanding young woman who embraces the core socialist values, she ought to firmly refuse this marriage of convenience that would leave her a widow.

But later she realized that spending her bargain-bin husband's money and using his connections to chase celebrities was incredibly satisfying.

Later, at a celebration banquet,

A guy waved a glass of wine in front of Fu Yao.

"Weren't you supposed to get divorced in a couple of years? What do you mean by giving her the script and making her the female lead?"

"Don't tell me you've changed your mind about getting divorced?"

"Yeah. We're not getting divorced." Fu Yao swirled his wine glass, sounding infuriatingly smug. "She loves me too much. I'm afraid she couldn't handle it if we split up."

His friend: … Are you sure you aren't the one who's fallen for her?

Before the banquet was over, Fu Yao drove back to the villa.

The lights were on inside, and the TV was playing.

But she wasn't there.

A stack of photos someone had left behind lay on the sofa. The man in them was impossible to miss.

He picked one up.

The man was devil-may-care and incredibly handsome. He was none other than a currently popular award-winning actor.

The signature on the photo was still wet, and the smell of ink was pungent.

Fu Yao: …

Bonus scene:

Breaking news!!!

After five years, a certain award-winning actor is holding another concert, and his special guest is the newly acclaimed Best Actress Xu Ying!!!

Everyone knew that Best Actress Xu was a loyal fan of this actor, but who knew it was actually true!

At the concert, the camera panned to a spot in the audience. Best Actress Xu was just as excited as the other fans, so excited she could barely speak. Then the camera swept to the left, and the whole crowd screamed. Wasn't the mysterious man beside Best Actress Xu the famous genius director Fu Yao?

But Director Fu was wearing a headband, holding up a fan sign with a blank expression and clear reluctance. It read, "Big Brother, love me!"

Next book, Can't Escape. Please add it to your collection!

1. When Ming Yao had just graduated, she hadn't yet been beaten down by the realities of society. She casually posted an original comic online, and it suddenly became a huge hit.

She made a little money.

Money went to her head, and she set her sights on the aloof campus heartthrob in her department.

The heartthrob had plenty of admirers. The queue for a number to see him already stretched into the year after next. To get his attention, Ming Yao arranged a rather clumsy scene in which she would rescue a beauty.

It worked exactly as she wanted: the heartthrob fell for her.

She heard the heartthrob's family was poor, and that his father had supported his university education by collecting recyclables. So during that period, Ming Yao and the young man each got what they wanted. Although he often had a cold expression, they got along reasonably well.

Then an accident turned her from a little rich girl into a poor university student in debt.

So the two of them had to end their relationship.

The day she came clean to the young man was the first time she saw his eyes turn red.

He was probably reluctant to let go of his rich but not particularly wealthy sugar mama. After all, no one else was as generous as she was.

To make a dignified exit, she deliberately moved out of their shared love nest on the day the young man returned to campus for exams. To show just how generous she was, she even paid three more months of rent for him.

2. When they met again, she had moved to a new company. The company had just landed a major project, and they held a celebration banquet.

At the banquet, she met the young boss, Cen Lizhou, whom her colleagues had been telling her about: cool and peerless, with a net worth of over a hundred million.

Ming Yao took one look. Wasn't that the man she had left in debt a few years ago?

The morning after the celebration banquet, Ming Yao woke up in bed.

There was someone beside her.

Ming Yao stared at the familiar face and blurted out:

"I don't have any money now!"

Theme: Work hard