A Ballerina Principal's Guide to Self-Reliance [Entertainment Industry]

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Yu Chan is a world-renowned prima ballerina with the Royal Ballet, an Eastern Black Diamond raised to the heavens. Her presence is ever-changing, and she's both beautiful and dazzling. A massive poster of her glittering like a galaxy hung outside the Royal Opera House for a full year.

Then her actor father suddenly got into trouble. At his advanced age, a scandal broke about his 50-plus-gigabyte collection of young men, ruining his reputation. Yu Chan had no choice but to return home and clean up the mess.

After paying her contract termination fee and medical bills, the Black Diamond fell tragically back to earth with only 800 yuan to her name.

Yu Chan happened to see an advertisement and said, "This variety show looks good. They cover meals, dance practice, and accommodation."

From then on, a world-class dancer entered the public eye and crushed the entertainment industry with her sheer superiority.

An entertainment weekly asked people, "What do you think of Ji Dan?"

The country's number-one director: "The best looks in the film industry, and acting without equal in the world."

Tanhua's fan club: "A divinely gifted son with beauty that dazzles the world, an aloof flower on a high peak who guards his reputation."

Yu Chan: I really can't trust actors. There's no way I'd ever have a good impression of one in this lifetime.

Later, Ji Dan, the youngest actor ever to achieve the grand slam, announced his first love.

In the photo, the aurora was deep and serene, the sea of trees clear and boundless, and the moonlit galaxy stretched endlessly overhead.

The man's hair was pale gold, his eyes a deep emerald, and his smile like a warm spring lake. A red mole on his luminous, cool-white collarbone burned like cinnabar, brilliant as blood.

He knelt on one knee before the girl, offering her a bouquet of pale peach Juliet roses.

"To my Yu beauty, my Chan moon. @Dancer Yu Chan"

A prima ballerina who excels in both performance and dance x a mixed-race, stunningly handsome, versatile actor

Building careers and falling in love in tandem, pursuing artistic ideals alongside like-minded dancers.

A note for readers:

The male lead's name, Dan, has multiple pronunciations. Read as dan (fourth tone), it means calm and serene, or describes slowly flowing water. Read as tan (second tone), it appears in the compound surname Dantai. Here, it means slowly flowing water, but is pronounced tan (second tone), since it sounds better this way, haha.

Upcoming novel 1: Stars Bite Candy

Tang Junqiao has been a well-behaved top student since childhood. Even after getting into a top-two university, she continues to study diligently, following the expected path. She can barely even apply makeup.

But she has the face of a sophisticated Hong Kong-style beauty.

Snow-white skin, red lips, and a gentle grace like a white cherry blossom at the treetop.

When she smiles, her warm eyes are like the misty willows of mid-spring.

She doesn't know that back in her first year of high school, every frown and smile of hers struck a chord in a certain boy's heart.

The note lingered, and years later, it still echoed in Rong Chen's heart, never fading away.

-

The Rong family is among Yunpo, the capital's most distinguished elite, and controls half the film and television industry.

As the Rong family's most pampered only son, Rong Chen is still young, yet already worth tens of billions.

He also inherited his award-winning actress mother's breathtaking beauty: aloof as jade, so handsome he seems almost otherworldly.

Every wealthy young woman in Yunpo City has fallen for him, doing everything she can to win his favor.

But all he thinks about is the white cherry blossom and mid-spring willow mist from his senior year of high school.

-

In her sophomore year of college, her mother falls ill, and Junqiao is worrying about money when a stranger suddenly asks her to become an internet celebrity.

"Qihua is an MCN agency under Qingding. Would you be interested in signing with us and expanding your presence across major video platforms? I'll send you a contract template to look over."

Junqiao sees all the zeroes after the fee and covers her mouth, tempted.

Twenty hours of livestreaming each week, on any topic; three videos filmed per week, each no longer than ten minutes. The company can help with makeup, filming, editing, and post-production...

No! Problem! At all!

Until she sees which video category they've assigned her to:

Dating, romance, and couples content.

Junqiao: ?

"Thank you for the offer, but I don't have a boyfriend yet."

After a while, the other person replies coolly:

"That's how it should be."

-

Three days later, Junqiao goes to Yunpo Airport to meet someone. Following the details she'd agreed on with the company, she waits at the arrivals gate holding a sign that says "Waiting for my boyfriend."

Out of embarrassment and confusion, she'd made the sign very small, just big enough to hide her petite face behind it.

But there is no large film crew and makeup team. There is only one person.

"Waiting for me?"

A voice falls over Junqiao, clear as jade and cold as ice, yet so lovely it makes her heart tingle.

She moves the sign aside and looks up. For an instant, she is too dazzled to speak.

Rong Chen's eyes, black as obsidian, gaze down at her. Fine strands of black hair fall over them, hiding the shifting light in his eyes.

"Let's go, girlfriend."

Two months later, their classmates discover that the two best-looking people at Yunpo No. 1 High School have suddenly appeared together in the most popular video across all platforms.

Video title: #TheInternet'sEverestOfBeauty! TheRomanceOfOurMillion-FollowerGeniusBeautyCouple#

The alumni group chat explodes: "OMG, didn't these two never even look at the opposite sex and barely speak in high school? Are they actually together???"

After a while, Nan Yinhua, Rong Chen's longtime friend and now general manager of Qihua, replies: "Don't panic. They're just a promotional couple from our company."

After replying, Nan Yinhua puts down his phone and looks at Rong Chen. "You're way too protective of her."

Rong Chen takes a sip of his Martini on the rocks. He looks at the heart-shaped white diamond at the bottom of the glass but says nothing.

"You're the ruler, and I'm your subject."

"Liar. The Chen in your name doesn't mean subject. It's the Chen of an emperor."

"I'm not lying. I'm the star in Qiao Qiao's sky."

Chen: refers to a palace, an emperor, or the North Star.

The male lead is the female lead's upperclassman, two years ahead of her.

A top student and influencer who cares only about their fake relationship and doesn't know she's beautiful, Tang Junqiao x a wealthy young master who has secretly loved her but can't bring himself to confess, and doesn't know how rich his family is

Upcoming novel 2: Rose and Ink Smoke

Wen Xuegui is an oil-painting prodigy, a rare talent. At nineteen, one of her practice paintings sells for a million, making her famous in the art world overnight.

On the canvas, a delicate rose rests languidly beside an ink-black rock, matching everyone's ideal of flowers blooming in a dream. The painting goes viral across the internet.

Then someone posts anonymously: [The artist herself is even more beautiful, with snow-white skin and a graceful, elegant figure. She's a thousand times more stunning than her paintings.]

[But she comes from an elite family, so don't bother trying to find her name or photo. I hear she's engaged to the Yu family, the most powerful family among the wealthy.]

Xuegui has grown up surrounded by love and pampering. Her biggest problem is being hounded by spoiled rich young men.

She has no interest in wealthy heirs. She never falls for them or longs for their attention.

But the elders have spoken, and an alliance between her and the Yu family is settled.

She's heard that he's stunningly handsome, aloof and refined, with a face as beautiful as a demon's.

But he's sinister by nature, and shows not the slightest mercy when making ruthless decisions.

Unwilling to give in, Xuegui flies back to her alma mater, the Florence Academy of Fine Arts, to clear her head.

Amid the bright lights and revelry, she meets a poor but handsome Chinese student studying abroad, Aaron.

Aaron is gentle and sincere, and falls in love with Xuegui at first sight. He takes her fox-trotting, gives her roses, and feeds her Cartellate drizzled with wine syrup.

Under a shower of fireworks, he confesses his love to Xuegui, treasuring her beyond measure. His Adam's apple trembles with nerves, and his eyes reflect the starry sky.

For the first time, Xuegui experiences the boundless joy of falling in love.

After several passionate, intoxicating nights together, she leaves without saying goodbye, forced by her family's urging.

Half a month later, Xuegui returns home and is escorted to meet the man she's engaged to.

When she sees the familiar face, she nearly forgets how to breathe.

The man is handsome, reserved, and refined, his features blurred by wisps of tea steam. Xuegui can only make out the eyes that once reflected the starry night.

"Miss Wen, it's been a long time."

His gaze is still, and he holds out a hand with long, distinct knuckles, returning the card she left behind when she departed.

"I'm Aaron, Yu Mohuai."

-

Wen Xuegui has never met a man so frightening. He lures her in and lets her drown in desire. In their day-to-day life together, she should be losing her head in love, yet he keeps his true identity hidden perfectly.

The day she realizes he is Yu Mohuai...

She no longer dares to trust him or love him.

She doesn't know that on the day she finally cuts him off completely, Yu Mohuai leaves the studio and spends the night sitting alone in a bar.

Later, at the entrance of the bustling Yu Group headquarters, everyone sees Yu Mohuai, who has always been cold and unfeeling and never involved with women, lift the girl holding an armful of white roses into his arms. His icy eyes glow with a flickering crimson reflected by the red rose centers.

"Meimei," he rasps, calling her by her childhood nickname.

"I was wrong about everything in the past. Can we call off the broken engagement?"

-

After they marry, Wen Xuegui stands outside the Florence Academy of Fine Arts. The Italian evening breeze gently billows her white dress like a rose.

"Nearly five hundred years ago, a painter named Giorgio Vasari founded this place."

"He was also the one who proposed the Renaissance."

"He used the word 'renascita' to describe everything that happened at the time."

"Renascita..." Yu Mohuai murmurs. "Rebirth?"

He draws Xuegui close, and they kiss in the evening breeze steeped in the scent of roses. His voice is tender, warm as jade against her ear.

"Meimei, you made me reborn, too."

A gentle yet strong oil-painting beauty x a sinister, brooding business tycoon

Theme: Young artists with integrity and talent stand on their own, and together they help set the entertainment industry straight.