The Powerhouse Is Clearly Super Strong, Yet Ridiculously Goofy [Showbiz]

[Updated at 9 p.m.] [Upcoming silly fantasy romance, The Empress Implements a Code of Conduct for Men in a Wealthy Family. The blurb is below. If you're interested, click into my author page and add it to your reading list!] Main Story Blurb Li Xin shot to fame thanks to a hit drama. With her beautiful face, she successfully broke into the ranks of the entertainment industry's top-tier stars and became one of its newest rising actresses. Jealous of her popularity, a rival fan anonymously posted on a Q&A site: What's it like to get by in the entertainment industry with nothing but your looks? Li Xin secretly replied behind her company's back: Thanks for asking. It's a kind of happiness you'll never understand. But then scandal suddenly engulfed her. Major marketing accounts joined forces to mock her, putting her at the center of a storm of public opinion. To repair her image and win back the public's favor, her company packed her off to a major outdoor livestreaming variety show. Company: Do your best! Li Xin: Oh, thank you so much! As soon as the show premiered, it became a sensation online. # During the puzzle-solving and box-opening segment of the first episode. Young heartthrob: There must be a clue to the box's code in the last segment. We need to think this through carefully. Actress: Let's all put our heads together! Li Xin, who had been coasting for ages, glanced at the code box everyone was discussing animatedly, raised her hand, and chopped it open with a smack. The supposedly indestructible alloy code box the production team had talked up popped open. Everyone: ??? Li Xin: Sorry, I used too much force. I'll be more careful next time. # In the third episode, the guests had to earn their living expenses on the streets of a tiny, backwater city. The male idol busked on the street, the Best Actor considered selling autographed photos, and the comedian hesitated over going to the construction site next door to haul bricks... Li Xin glanced at the elderly people's activity plaza nearby. Wasn't this easy money? With a seamless set of Tai Chi sword moves, Li Xin became the center of attention among the plaza's dance-loving regulars. The older men and women watched eagerly and all wanted to learn. Li Xin: Want to learn? Sure! Master it in half an hour, 50 yuan per person. Bring a group of three and one person gets in free. Limited-time deal, hurry over! Netizens: ? I think I must be watching a fake survival show. 1. The heroine can literally fly and really does dominate the entertainment industry. 2. There's a couple: a heroine who pretends to be fragile but is actually a martial arts expert and a drama queen, paired with a seemingly sickly, black-hearted man who is not your typical domineering CEO. 3. A feel-good entertainment-industry novel, with no real-life inspirations. My completed novel: The Tycoon's Guide to Winning Hearts [Quick Transmigration] My friend's ongoing novel: Reborn as the Treacherous Minister's Sister Who Dies Young, by Heart-Shaped Tonsils My friend's ongoing fantasy romance: The Fifth Prince's Boy Band [From Ancient Times to Modern Day], by Yun Mu Qing Feng ◇Blurb for The Empress Implements a Code of Conduct for Men in a Wealthy Family◇Please add it to your reading list Yin Xiu was the ruler of a matriarchal kingdom. After an accident sent her tumbling down a cliff, she opened her eyes in the body of the eldest daughter of the wealthy Yin family, who shared her name. To outsiders, the Yin family seemed loving and harmonious, but to her, nothing about them seemed right. Men were strong and women weak? The wife had no authority in the household? Yin Xiu: As the legitimate eldest daughter of this family, I'll shoulder its burdens. Yin's father favored sons over daughters. He would rather put an unfamiliar relative in a managerial position than give Yin Xiu anything but a minor post. Yin Xiu argued her case: "Women are the ones who can uphold a family. My journey lies among the stars and the sea." Yin's father scoffed. "If you can make this cheese business profitable, I'll take your surname." A month later, Yin's father was sprawled at home like a lazy celebrity. "I have a daughter now. I don't want to work anymore." * Her younger sister often used sugary, insincere words to compete for the family's affection. Unable to bear it any longer, Yin Xiu said, "As a woman, why are you wasting your efforts on petty household schemes? Your ambitions are too small. From today on, you'll work with me." Years later, at the Golden Elephant Awards ceremony, The newly crowned Best Actress gazed tenderly into the camera. "I owe it to my sister that I've made it this far." * The family's only younger son had been spoiled into a willful bully who liked to tease people. Li Xin picked him up and chided him with a frown. "As a man, how can you be so unruly and willful? Copy The Code of Conduct for Men three times." The little boy, only five and still unable to recognize the characters: ? Later, the aloof genius prodigy who was admired by everyone outside the family clung to Yin Xiu's leg with shining eyes. "Big sister is right!" Yin Xiu was surrounded by admirers, radiant and dazzling. Sons of prominent families got drunk over her late at night, the Best Actor fussed with her skirt hem, and the young heartthrob was all but ready to offer her his whole sincere heart. But he, who seemed unattainable as a flower on a lofty peak in front of others, tugged at her clothes with red-rimmed eyes like a pitiful little thing. "Your Majesty, I'd be happy if you just looked my way a little more." Across two lifetimes, a graceful, elegant man had always been by Yin Xiu's side. Fu Chen: "The only one my heart belongs to, the only one I scheme and strive for, is you, my beloved." Theme: Follow your heart. Even if thousands stand in your way, go where it leads.