The Nation's Treasure, the Supporting Actress Who Coasts to Success in Showbiz

[Super Sweet and Satisfying Story Coming Soon →]

Xia Ailian is the heroine of a period novel. She has been honored as a March 8th Red Banner Holder, served as a director of the Women's Federation, and ultimately earned the distinction of becoming an intangible cultural heritage administrator. She is a master of every traditional Chinese art imaginable, and is beloved by everyone her entire life.

Who could have guessed that after she died, she would end up inside a melodramatic, feel-good entertainment-industry novel, back in the body of a fresh-faced twenty-year-old?

The plot: claw your way to the top and win over the male lead within three years.

Fail, and she'll be sent back to the materially deprived 1960s.

Xia Ailian's eyes lit up: Send me back!

So while everyone else schemed and fought over roles, she stayed calm and devoted what was left of her energy to traditional Chinese arts.

The entertainment industry took a sudden turn:

Fans gave up mindless idol worship and fell in love with martial arts, shadow puppetry, Peking opera, embroidery... and studying!

Sociologists dubbed it the Ailian Effect!

Powerful older men treated her like the woman of their dreams, and even the vicious heroine became her fangirl.

She also accidentally saved the male lead, Gu He.

At first, when asked about her in an interview, Gu He gave a scornful smile and clarified, "If I ever like her, I'll take her surname."

Later, he started calling himself "Xia" He.

[Shocking! Tianyu's CEO tries to win over an actress surnamed Xia with a million-yuan ranking blitz, tens of millions poured into box-office returns, and insider corruption! Is this a collapse of morals or a distortion of human nature?]

Xia Ailian thought this would surely ruin her career.

The next day.

Netizens who had split a hundred-million-yuan red envelope from the CEO: Ship this couple like your lives depend on it!!

When the three years were up, Xia Ailian, aching from head to toe, fled Gu He's house in the middle of the night. She put on her factory work clothes from the 1960s and stood in the middle of the square, waiting for the organization to send her back.

The legendary "organization" looked at Xia Ailian, who had over a hundred million fans, had the male lead completely enchanted, and had exceeded her mission requirements...

Now that's a real pro!

Coming soon: Story 1, "A Little Sweetness in Our Secret Marriage." Please add it to your favorites!

When Zhou Zhou was eighteen, she was part of the non-mainstream scene and had a small but devoted following who visited her QQ Space every day.

All her die-hard fans knew she had a boyfriend. He was always in the frame in her internet cafe photos, with beautiful hands and a Sanskrit tattoo on his wrist. He dyed his hair to match Zhou Zhou's, but never showed his face.

Then Zhou Zhou disappeared for five years. When she reappeared at twenty-three, she signed with Tianyu Entertainment and officially entered the entertainment industry.

"The Next Diva" was a reality show following five newcomers as they embarked on their careers.

Other agencies' artists were filmed putting on makeup, attending auditions, and running to appointments every day.

Zhou Zhou was filmed arguing and bickering with her boss, then being made to sit on the bench!

Everyone thought the company would soon put her on ice, until one episode showed her sharing a bottle of water with her boss...

A washed-up non-mainstream girl seduces Tianyu's heir and gets torn to shreds online!

Her haters first spotted a child's rocking horse, a Barbie doll dress, and a nanny holding a bowl of baby food in the background of Zhou Zhou's livestream. Then they dug up photos of her at an amusement park with a mysterious man and a little kid with pigtails.

#Tianyu's rising star exposed for secretly marrying and having a child! The father is suspected to be her non-mainstream boyfriend from five years ago!#

#Poll! Did Tianyu's heir know his new girlfriend had been dating since eighteen and already had a child at twenty-three?#

That night, one of the heirs himself replied to the poll.

[Gu Chen: I know. The child is mine.

P.S. That's not non-mainstream, it's called emo literature.

Attached: a wrist selfie. The Sanskrit tattoo translates to a name: Zhou Zhou.]

Actually, every young heir in City A knew there was only one person in the world who could drive Gu Chen crazy with a single sentence: Zhou Zhou.

Gu Chen and Zhou Zhou had been together since high school. They broke up and got back together, growing from naive teenagers into adults. The only person either of them could never let go of was the other.

The first time they broke up, Gu Chen got into a fight and ended up in the hospital. When his childhood friend asked what he had been thinking, he calmly said, "I was drunk and mistook her for someone else. I thought she was being bullied."

The second time they broke up, they argued from morning till night, and ended up with a little flower of their own.

The business world's youngest married father × the entertainment industry's youngest married top-tier star and mother

Everyone tried to figure out how old their little flower was, then calculate how old the two of them had been when they got together.

One reckless reporter asked outright, "Mr. Gu, how old were you the first time you... you know?"

Gu Chen: "I can't answer that. Even if I did, they couldn't air it."

Netizens: Aaaah! I'm shipping them so hard!!!

#One day, you realize the things you used to dream about have long since become as inevitable as a whale returning to the sea, and settled like dust falling to the ground#

She always called him so tenderly, her lingering voice sending a delicious shiver through him.

Gu Chen, this is really good.

Gu Chen, I'm going to get ugly when I'm pregnant.

Gu Chen...

Their little flower, who had grown up on their lovey-dovey antics: I can grow up on dog food, so you two carry on!

Coming soon: Story 2, "Raising Kids with an Old-School Rocker in the 1980s"

The 1980s, when China's first generation of rock veterans were just starting to make their mark.

In the little courtyard of a run-down alley sat a low card table and four wooden stools.

Two men in leather jackets held their guitars. "Brother Bian, listen to this bit I wrote yesterday."

The other two, holding battered notebooks, crunched some numbers. "Brother Bian, after deducting food and lodging from the last gig's pay, we've got five yuan and two jiao left."

Children could be heard running around and crying nearby.

Compared to respectable intellectuals, they were the most useless, most out-of-place bunch in other people's eyes.

When Lu Beibei realized she was the second female lead in a period novel, she was in the middle of asking Bian Chu for a divorce.

According to the original story, she was about to abandon her husband and children, then use her beauty to relentlessly seduce a professor from the neighboring alley who had just returned from abroad. Unfortunately, the professor only had eyes for her cousin, who would eventually marry Bian Chu.

Bian Chu would go on to become a rock icon known across the country, and her cousin would join him on tour and enjoy a life of luxury. But because no one looked after Lu Beibei's children, the two of them would sleep in a coal-burning room and die in an accidental poisoning.

Lu Beibei quickly pulled her two children close. They were as dirty as little mud monkeys, but they were alive and well. Even if the king of heaven himself had written this book, she couldn't play it out like that!

They might not be the prettiest kids, but they were hers. Maybe they'd turn adorable if she raised them right?

Bian Chu asked, "Why do you want a divorce? Do you think I'm going nowhere?"

Clutching the children, Lu Beibei cried so hard her tears fell like pear blossoms in the rain. "No, it's because you're going places! You'll become famous across the country! And you'll find my children a stepmother! After the divorce, I get the kids, and you get my cousin!"

The eyes that had been cold ever since Bian Chu married her suddenly turned deep and warm. He had thought she looked down on him, but he never expected...

What did she mean, he got her cousin?

He patted her head, his voice gentle. "How about we don't get divorced? I'll work hard to become famous, and I'll always be good to you and the children."

Lu Beibei: ?

**

A professor reborn from a later era, swept up in the tides of a new age, finally came to understand that a woman like Lu Beibei, who dared to pursue happiness, was exceptionally lovable. She was the one who truly loved him. He swore that this time, he would never let her down!

He carried a copy of "Selected Lyrics of Shelley" and wandered around the alley entrance every day.

But...

Why wouldn't she come and seduce him already?!!

A rock veteran, tough on the outside and tender within × a sweet, delicate, lucky charm of a woman who excels at making old Beijing cuisine

Blurb screenshotted in 2021

Theme: Promoting traditional Chinese arts while also falling into a sweet romance