After Being Cast as a Pretty Face, I Quietly Quit the Entertainment Industry and Became a Hit

[New novel: When a Black Hole Holds the Script of a Pitiful Little One [Interstellar], now live. Find it directly in my author profile, mwah]

Jiang Yi'an is the best actor among idols, and the best singer and dancer among award-winning actors.

Then he transmigrated into a book, becoming a useless pretty face who couldn't sing or dance, had a dull personality, and only ever got mentioned in lists of the industry's most stunning faces.

Jiang Yi'an: Then I'll just slack off.

He committed fully to his pretty-face persona, never turning on his mic onstage and always half-heartedly going through the dance moves.

Netizens: "Useless piece of trash, get out of showbiz!"

"You got it!" He promptly left.

Later...

A passerby happened to film the retired celebrity singing in private. His voice was clear and bright, and he effortlessly hit a high C.

Haters: "He's lip-syncing!"

Fans: "Nonsense!"

The top video creator who never showed his face accidentally had his identity exposed. A dance video he'd posted years earlier, saying he was "just messing around," had flawless timing.

Haters: "It's a body double!"

Fans: "Bullshit!"

Footage from an old drama leaked. The director ruefully revealed that he'd cut out Jiang Yi'an's astonishing acting scene, and a staff member exposed that Jiang Yi'an had threatened the director with pulling his investment to make him do it.

Haters: "...Are you insane?"

Fans: "...Is my former bias trying out some kind of totally new thing?"

Jiang Yi'an: I've retired. Don't mention me.

Later still, several big names in the industry publicly thanked Jiang Yi'an:

The music legend who successfully reinvented herself: "I wouldn't be where I am today without him."

The director who broke box office records: "There'd be no movie without him."

The actor who won the Best Actor award: "He lit up my acting career."

Then netizens discovered...

He was the film investor rumored to have made tens of billions.

He was the mysterious music producer whose annual copyright royalties alone reached tens of millions.

He was also the chairman of the talent agency known as the dream factory of showbiz. All those gorgeous, talented celebrities belonged to his company.

Haters: "How am I supposed to hate on you now?!"

Fans: "Liking Jiang Yi'an is the best thing I've ever done!"

Netizens: "Aaaah, come back already! Showbiz needs you!"

Jiang Yi'an: Thanks for asking, but I have no interest in being in the spotlight :)

- The CP is listed among the supporting characters. He's a pure-hearted, socially anxious CEO, and even though he's not in the blurb, he's really sweet!!!

- Career first, romance later. The author isn't a celebrity fan and isn't part of any fandom. The characters aren't based on real people; it's all made up, made up, made up, made up, made up. Please don't read real people into it.

- Anti-piracy: 50%. Updates around 6 p.m.

- Cover art used with permission from artist Veda Chuangu

Please add my new novel to your reading list: When a Black Hole Holds the Script of a Pitiful Little One [Interstellar]

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At eighteen, Zong Ye became the youngest scientist at the Star Alliance Research Institute.

He could also pilot a mecha alone into a swarm of insectoids and come back unharmed, making him one of the Star Alliance's top fighters.

Unfortunately, despite all his talent, he was a defective Omega carrying a genetic disease.

The powerful families of the Star Alliance worshipped genetic purity, and being defective was a sin.

His younger brother kept him under house arrest: "You're defective, brother. Where do you think you can run?"

His fiance smiled meaningfully: "Xiao Ye, there's no point keeping the gland of a defective. Why not cut it out?"

His adoptive parents looked down on his defective genes, yet coveted his unparalleled talent. They planned to erase his consciousness and turn him into a human weapon.

His eldest brother stroked his head. "It's time to repay the Zong family for raising you."

It wasn't just the Zong family. The powerful families across the whole Star Alliance were involved, and they all stood to profit.

But they didn't know.

The person inside Zong Ye's body had already changed.

He came from the depths of the universe. Before becoming Zong Ye, he was the mysterious and dangerous being humans called a black hole.

On his first day as Zong Ye, he told the System, "I can help you swallow them all."

The System asked, "How?"

"First tear them to pieces, then break them down into elementary particles. Stars shine before they die. I wonder if humans do, too?"

"Dust-like things, so tiny. They aren't even enough to get stuck in my teeth."

The System: ...?

It seemed to have gotten itself quite an extraordinary Host.

Theme: Don't let the difficulties in front of you defeat you. Build yourself a beautiful future with your own hands.