I Survive by Playing the Villain [Book Transmigration]

[Complete] My new book, The Villain's Unconquerable White Moonlight [Book Transmigration], is now underway. Please add it to your reading list!

My upcoming book, Striving to Make My Country Strong Through the Entertainment Industry, is also available for pre-release collection. Blurb below.

--- Blurb for this book ---

Blacklisted celebrity Chen Xi has finally stopped causing trouble lately, and has started playing roles better suited to her stunning face: villains of every kind.

Her haters are delighted, sitting back to watch the villains Chen Xi plays meet cruel, painful, and bloody ends after all sorts of spectacularly bad decisions.

Among all the minor villains who are effortlessly crushed by the protagonists, Chen Xi's villains have a depth that takes your breath away. They are clearly sinister and ruthless, yet somehow you can still glimpse a conscience that has not been entirely extinguished in their expressions.

Casual fans keep tagging the screenwriter: This character still seems redeemable!

When the screenwriter is stuck between a rock and a hard place, Chen Xi posts: Wake up, everyone. The full weight of the law must be brought down on anyone guilty of half the crimes in the criminal code!

She becomes her own biggest hater, refuses to redeem her characters, and personally hammers each one to death.

Haters: Damn, why is that kind of adorable?

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No matter how weak the main plot or protagonists are, Chen Xi can single-handedly carry her own subplot.

If the main plot and protagonists can withstand the spotlight cast by Chen Xi's villainous roles, the show is sure to soar and become a hit.

Chen Xi, who became famous for playing villains, is now the industry's most sought-after star. As a supporting actress, she is a guarantee of box-office success, making the actors who work with her both love and resent her.

After sweeping up awards for supporting actresses, Chen Xi's fans have just one wish: Xi Bao, play a lead role! Or at least play a good person!

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Chen Xi has a secret.

After she transmigrated, she became bound to a life-extending System. To gain more time to live, she has to exchange the intense emotions she feels while playing villains.

Chen Xi, who spends every day teetering on the edge of getting killed off, says against her will: I will play the darkness forever, to set off the light in this world.

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Xu Yang, the young master of the Xu family, was born without emotions, cold and somber.

He could neither distinguish joy from anger nor feel sorrow or happiness. But one day, he was moved. He raised a finger and gently brushed the tear, still clinging to the corner of the villain's eye, on the screen.

Chen Xi was the first ray of light Xu Yang had ever seen in this world.

[No real-life celebrities are followed, and none of the characters are based on real people.]

--- Blurb for the upcoming book, Striving to Make My Country Strong Through the Entertainment Industry ---

This book is also known as: The Years I Racked My Brains Trying to Project My Country's Culture Through the Entertainment Industry

Qiao Zhi transmigrated into a book, becoming a supporting actress in a sweet romance about the entertainment industry. She was destined to be heavily promoted but never become popular, mocked by the entire internet, and eventually die by suicide after falling into depression.

Qiao Zhi checked the original character's profile: peerless beauty, heiress to a wealthy family, with family assets worth hundreds of billions.

Why the hell would she be so fixated on the entertainment industry? Wouldn't it be better to lie back, do nothing, and enjoy life?

Qiao Zhi decided to quit the industry!

But then...

System: Congratulations, you have been selected by the Strong Nation System! The world is on the verge of collapse. Do everything in your power to save the core plot by... making the country strong through the entertainment industry...

Qiao Zhi: ??? What did you say about the entertainment industry?!

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A month later, Qiao Zhi, the celebrity mocked as the shame of being heavily promoted, brought out her latest work: a tiny web drama that couldn't even be shown on television, where she had a bit part.

Before it premiered, the whole internet mocked her: Her opportunities have taken such a nosedive. Capital must have abandoned her!

After it premiered, the whole internet changed its tune: Oh my god! A script made with heart! The whole cast is amazing! Perfect effects! How did this tiny show get such a massive budget?

Producer: Many thanks to investor Qiao Zhi, who appeared without pay.

The whole internet: Damn, she actually became capital itself!

A year later...

The tiny web drama she had picked swept the internet. The niche film she had chosen raked in box-office records worldwide. The A-list drama she had selected became a global hit. Even online variety shows and boy and girl groups on the verge of fading into obscurity were transformed into gold in her hands and took the world by storm.

With her help, the entertainment industry of the Lan Kingdom became a global sensation, projecting the country's culture powerfully to the world and sparking a wave of admiration for Lan culture.

Qiao Zhi became famous. She was the actress audiences loved most, an investor officially recognized by state media as a positive role model, the number-one collaborator sought by the world's best-known screenwriters and directors, and the person whose offer of collaboration global stars and actors most hoped to receive.

Ten years later, the Lan Kingdom had finally become an undeniable powerhouse in film and entertainment.

Theme: Be a good person.