Playing the Drama Queen in a Period Drama [The Sixties]

Gu Xi was a child star who shot back to fame after saying, "I'm not a veteran actor, I'm a drama queen."

Who knew she would transmigrate into the period drama she was about to star in?

Even worse, she was the ultimate cannon-fodder villainess!

According to the plot, she tries to secretly abandon a child, but her stepson, the male lead, catches her in the act. After being cursed out and sent back to her hometown, she dies in a shipwreck.

Gu Xi, holding the baby: ... I'm doomed!

To stay alive, Gu Xi calls on her inner Oscar-winning actress and gives the performance of a lifetime.

"There, there, sweetie. I came all the way here alone, with no one to rely on. I don't even know if your dad likes me, or if your brother likes me. I... I can only tell you how I really feel..."

Her words could make anyone who heard them grieve and anyone who saw her weep.

[Ding! Congratulations on activating the Drama Queen System!

The more dramatic you are, the richer you'll get. Work hard, woman!]

Gu Xi's eyes lit up. Money! She needed money!

Gu Xi's modest goal: build up her strength, take good care of herself, save money to run away, then return to show business as a leading lady once her ten years are up.

But...

Her stern battalion-commander husband seems to have misunderstood: "What do I do? My wife loves me too much."

Her rebellious stepson, the male lead, seems to have genuinely warmed to her: "Here, I picked this flower on the way. Don't want it? Fine."

Her adorable stepdaughter, who's just learning to talk, treats her like her real mom: "Mom! Pretty!"

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Bonus scene:

One morning.

[Limited-time mission: The Tearful Woman (complete within five minutes)

Opponent: Male (one person)

Mission duration: One minute

Pay: One yuan]

Gu Xi: She's an actress who won Best Newcomer, and this is all the pay she gets?

I'll do it! No role is too small, and one yuan is still money!

Shen Qingsong: "I'm going on a mission. I don't know when I'll be back."

Gu Xi: "!"

There are currently four people in the household, two men and two women. Her husband is about to leave, and her stepson and stepdaughter aren't home.

So who can she use as her acting partner?

Gu Xi instantly burst into tears.

Shen Qingsong sighed and handed her a handkerchief, about to say something comforting.

The next second, his wife wiped her face and went right back to eating as if nothing had happened.

What they were thinking:

Gu Xi: Payment received. That wraps up the job.

Shen Qingsong: She must be pretending to be strong because she doesn't want me to worry.

Here's a preview of another parenting story about Gu Xi and Shen Qingsong. I hope you'll love our Teacher Gu and Big Brother Qingsong!

"A Guide to High-Quality Parents [Quick Transmigration]"

Gu Xi and Shen Qingsong are the first couple in the Quick Transmigration Bureau to receive parenting qualifications. No one there has much faith in them taking on a child-rearing mission, because they have hardly any parenting experience. But to everyone's surprise, the children they raise amaze them all!

Later, the awards "Quick Transmigration Bureau's Ten Outstanding Employees of the Year," "Model Partners of the Quick Transmigration Bureau," and "Best Parents in the Child-Rearing Department" all go to the couple!

Everyone else at the Quick Transmigration Bureau: I didn't expect to get face-slapped so quickly.

Gu Xi and Shen Qingsong: Our goal is to become high-quality parents!

World One: Shocking! A child was switched at birth in the 2000s, and the heartbroken parents did something like that?

World Two: Four lovely daughters in one family, each with a different father and mother. What did Mom and Dad say behind closed doors...

World Three: The child was reborn? Their amnesiac parents hug them excitedly: Child, this family is counting on you!

World Four: Can children grow up during an apocalyptic disaster? Calm parents: We've got a pocket dimension, so don't worry!

More worlds to unlock...

Years later, Gu Xi and Shen Qingsong wrote these words in the Quick Transmigration Parents' Guide:

Child, if you've suffered, we'll make up for it with happiness.

Child, if you have a wish, we'll make it come true.

Child, if you want to soar, we'll be here waiting for you to come home.

As parents, we still have a lot to learn.

We hope we'll bring you happiness and joy.

We hope your world will be better because of us.

Child, we love you!

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"Transmigrated as the Foil to the Runaway Pregnant Heroine [1980s Cuisine]"

Food blogger Gu Xi falls in a tenement building while gathering material and becomes the foil to the heroine.

In the period novel "The 1980s Darling Wife," the heroine is the quintessential runaway pregnant woman: a stubborn, innocent little white flower who is adored by the male lead and his rival, both of whom compete to be the child's father. In the end, she successfully marries into a wealthy family.

By contrast, the supporting female character is a total copycat. She also runs away while pregnant, but competes with the heroine over everything and trips her up with schemes. Everyone hates her, and she eventually ends up scavenging for scraps.

Gu Xi says: Of course I'll take advantage of the child's deadbeat father, of course I'll build a fortune with food, and of course I'll raise the child well. As for being the foil, someone else can do it.

Next door, the heroine sobs hysterically: "Don't come looking for me again! I'll raise my child with my own two hands."

Gu Xi ties on an apron, rolls up her sleeves, and decides to start with a food stall at the night market to test the waters.

Next door, the heroine hands out the male lead's gifts to win people over: "It's just a little something. I made them myself."

Gu Xi is sizing up which neighbors she can hire. Giving someone a fishing rod is better than giving them a fish. Mutual benefit is the true spirit of business.

The neighbors, munching on sunflower seeds, notice that the lives of the two single mothers are getting stranger and stranger.

One stays home all day, and people keep showing up with money for her. The other leaves early and comes back late, her pockets stuffed with cash.

One keeps her child cooped up at home until he grows into a spoiled young master. The other lets her child run everywhere until he looks like a mud monkey. Wait, doesn't that teenage Olympic champion on TV look familiar?

Currently updating:

"Going Viral After Breaking Couples Up on a Dating Show"

A breakup expert, clear-eyed about love, with a radar for scumbags.

Shen Qi, a noblewoman from a marquis's household, transmigrates into the role of an ordinary female contestant on "New Love, Old Flame."

This dating show, where former lovers reunite, goes viral across the country as soon as it airs.

Because...

After a ten-year age-gap relationship, Female Contestant A proposes marriage. When he refuses, she breaks up with him, but the scumbag says he still has feelings for her.

Shen Qi recites from "The Oath": "A man's love can be excused, but a woman's love cannot."

Scumbag, get lost!

Female Contestant B is torn over whether to get back together. The clingy rich heir says he'll support her for the rest of her life, but she misses work meetings because of him and loses business to her competitors.

Shen Qi recites "To the Oak": "If I love you, I will never be like the trumpet creeper, flaunting myself by climbing your lofty branches..."

Men are reliable? Sure, when pigs fly!

Female Contestant C has a whole sea of fish and chooses one man to appear on the show, hoping to use the opportunity to observe him and settle down.

Shen Qi sighs in exasperation: "You are the sea, so you must know the sea's joy!"

I know the joy of the sea!

The production crew: Quick! Cover her mouth!

The audience: Don't! If you've got more to say, say it!

In her previous life, Shen Qi called off eighteen engagements and became "notorious" among the noblewomen.

But nothing is more important than having your own happiness in your hands.

The men she doesn't care for? Bye-bye. The next one's even sweeter.

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Bonus scene

During the pre-interview.

Production crew: "Why did you break up with your ex?"

Lu Sheng, stone-faced: "She said she had amnesia and didn't remember me."

At the same time, in the next room.

The production crew asks nervously: "Why did you break up with your ex?" (Everyone's thinking: Please, Your Highness, don't say anything outrageous again!)

Shen Qi says breezily: "A car accident. Amnesia."

She secretly rejoices: In this world, you don't have to get married, you can date as many men as you like, and people are open-minded and accepting about relationships. Why would she be stupid enough to fall for a man she doesn't even know?

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