The story of Can Can, the idle-fish spirit [The supporting female character can't keep up with the rat race, so she chooses to lie flat]
Bai Guo was a thousand-year-old idle-fish spirit. After her salt levels exceeded the limit, the Heavenly Dao kicked her into the 1960s, where she became the villain family's youngest daughter, who had died young.
Well... she could just lie flat somewhere else!
The villain family had a baby girl, and the whole family worried themselves sick over her. Other babies could roll over at three months, sit up at six, and crawl at seven or eight, but theirs only knew how to lie flat like an idle fish.
The villains tried every which way to get their little fish to move more, leaving them no time to bother with the protagonist's group.
Villain Grandma: Take this bag of peanuts out to play. If you can't finish them, share them with your friends or feed them to the chickens, but don't come home with even one left!
The little idle fish hugged the huge bag of peanuts and got upset~
Villain Grandpa: Come up the mountain with Grandpa to gather herbs, sweetheart. I'll buy you some fabric for new clothes in a couple of days.
The little idle fish shouldered her little herb basket and got upset again~
Villain Dad: Know Wang the Lame at the village entrance? He got that way because he was too lazy to walk when he was little!
The little idle fish: QAQ Bad Dad is scaring me again~
Villain Mom: Deliver Grandpa's meals for a month, sweetheart, and I'll take you to the county seat!
The little idle fish: Can we trade the trip to town for lying flat like an idle fish?
Villain Sister: You can't be lazy with your body or your mind. Study hard with your big sister!
The little idle fish: Boohoo~ A fish only remembers things for seven seconds~
The protagonist's group, ignored, got upset: Hey! Are we not bouncing around enough? Come and pick a fight with us!
The little idle fish (# ` n? ): One swish of my tail and you're dead!
[Reading Guide]
1. A beloved child raised by the whole family. The female lead is the best-behaved little darling.
2. The female lead's whole family has a ruthless-villain script. None of them are good people.
3. A feel-good, satisfying story. Aside from the first two chapters, there's no angst or mistreatment.
Key point: The little darling shines on her own, with a whole group of adorable sisters growing up and growing old together (yes, really a whole group).
[Screenshot taken on September 6, 2020]
Can Can's story, The Idle-Fish Spirit Goes Viral in the Entertainment Industry
Can Can was an idle-fish spirit who worked so hard that she was considered a disgrace to her idle-fish clan. The clan leader tossed her into a novel to reform her.
Reborn as Bai Cancan, a notorious actress in an entertainment-industry novel, Can Can adjusted quickly. She resolved to become a model worker and reach the top of the entertainment world, so the idle fish of her clan would see her in a new light.
Then Can Can joined a variety show called Country Life.
All the guests had to be self-sufficient: cook their own meals, find their own ingredients, and complete tasks and farm chores every day.
For someone as hardworking as her, this was no problem.
She went up the mountain to pick wild vegetables, caught fish in the river, and made a delicious spread to share with the other guests.
Unfortunately, they weren't grateful: What kind of scheming bitch is she? Is she trying to ride our coattails, or use us to build her image?
Their fans: She just loves showing off. Who can't cook?
After she had finished turning over her own plot, she picked up a hoe and went to help the other guests, silently doing all their work for them.
The other guests: Is she trying to use us to build her image again? If you finish all the work, what are we supposed to do?
Their fans: Showing off again? Is she the only one with hands?
A group of viewers also camped in her livestream to yell at her: Life is already competitive enough. I watch a slow-paced variety show to relax, and there's still some try-hard working her ass off. What the hell!
After being scolded so much, Can Can finally got it. Doing your share is being diligent; doing more than your share is joining the rat race. No wonder the idle fish in her clan hated her!
Qaq, Clan Leader, Can Can knows she was wrong!
Can Can will turn over a new leaf, reform properly, and become a qualified idle fish. She'll never bring shame on the idle-fish clan again!
Soon, the guests and viewers realized that Can Can had changed. Her hard work was now only for herself. She no longer made everyone around her work harder too.
The other guests ate pickles with plain rice for every meal.
Can Can had three dishes and a soup, with a balanced diet.
The other guests drooled with envy and occasionally tried to get her attention, but she didn't react at all.
While the other guests splashed around in the water for ages without touching a single fish scale,
Can Can came ashore carrying a string of fish. Should she steam them, braise them, grill them, or make fish balls?
Forget it, she'd have them all!
While the other guests worked in the fields under the blazing sun,
Can Can had already finished for the day and gone home. She took the fish balls she'd made and went to sit under the big tree at the village entrance to listen to the elders' stories.
The other guests: Qaq, boss, we know we were wrong. Give us another chance. We'll make sure to cherish it!
Their fans: Please, we're already kneeling on keyboards. Help our brothers and sisters out. Give them something to eat!
Can Can, the former try-hard: Don't @ me. Food tastes better after I started lying flat, the air is sweeter, and I don't get yelled at anymore!
[Coming soon: Metaphysics Master, Getting Rich Online]
Bai Li, a prodigy of the mystic arts, is transported eight hundred years into the future. From the start, she's already reached the maximum level, and she even brought her inheritance from her previous life with her.
Before she turns eighteen, Bai Li has only one problem:
No one in her sect is reliable!
Her master can't tell fortunes accurately, yet he's terrible at it and addicted to doing it, so people chase him around and yell at him every day.
Her senior sister has a bottomless stomach and can eat three jin of meat in one sitting, yet she's always complaining that she's hungry.
Her senior brother goes to the underworld to play mahjong every day and loses his pants every few days. She has to bring ghost money down there to bail him out.
And then there are three little junior nephews who are always hungry.
With elders above her and children below, Bai Li took on the burden of supporting the family. At a young age, she became a famous little master far and wide.
She was an expert in medicine, divination, fate-reading, physiognomy, and fortune-telling. Selling a few talismans was enough to support the whole sect.
Bai Li's talismans became a sensation.
A top-tier starlet, a Golden Rooster-winning actress, let slip after a few drinks her secret to outshining everyone on the red carpet: