Time Makes You Beautiful (Showbiz)

[New story "Winning Over a Younger, Beautiful, Strong, and Tragic Love Interest" is coming soon! Please add it to your collection! Blurb at the end.] [Sweet-but-fierce, aloof young actress x Gentle, refined high school teacher] [School life in the first half, entertainment industry in the second] On the day Zhu Yao won the title of International Best Actress, many people inside and outside the industry were unconvinced. She used to be just a popular actress who broke out on looks alone. How could a single film make her a legend? The film was about a barmaid and her former teacher. It wasn't made for domestic release, but for international film festivals. Later, many people went to great lengths to track down the film and watched it, their faces burning with embarrassment. She acted so well! It was as if she'd lived through it herself! After Zhu Yao finished making that film, it was as if something had clicked. She took on another film, this one about a female mountaineer, and swept the major domestic acting awards. At the awards ceremony, Zhu Yao wore a black velvet gown with a plunging neckline. With her starry eyes and red lips, her already cool beauty seemed even more unapproachable. The host knew Zhu Yao was famous for being an icy beauty, so he tried to joke around. "I'm sure you don't have anyone you like, Best Actress Zhu? When you retire, will you wander the world and become a recluse?" Zhu Yao glanced at him. "Who says I don't have someone I like?" After the celebration banquet that night, paparazzi photographed Zhu Yao being helped home by an elegant beauty wearing gold-rimmed glasses. When the photo came out, Zhu Yao's former high school classmates were stunned. "Wait... isn't that our Chinese teacher from high school?" [My damp, dewy youth blooms into the rest of my life.] Reader's guide: 1. Couple: Zhu Yao x Qu Qingcheng. Younger top, six-year age gap, they save each other, HE. 2. The story begins when they're both in high school. There are no romantic feelings while they're in a teacher-student relationship, and everything is completely wholesome. 3. So the romance develops slowly, slowly, slowly! If that's not your thing, read at your own risk! New story "Winning Over a Younger, Beautiful, Strong, and Tragic Love Interest": [Wild, mature woman who just wants to take it easy x Despondent, aloof younger beauty, strong yet tragic] "I call it love at first sight based on looks, not love at first sight.", Sang Tian There's a famous saying about Lin Xue at the bar where she dances: "No one will ever manage to win Lin Xue over." With an exquisite face and silver-gray, medium-length hair that somehow wasn't the least bit chuunibyou, she was beautiful and despondent. A crowd of women howled "puppy boy!" and pursued her with reckless abandon, but she never even lifted an eyelid. Then one day at the bar, she met a woman in a white shirt and tight skirt, with long curls and a bewitching face. Everything about her screamed seductive, mature woman. "Would it be okay if I pursued you? No strings attached." Love at first sight was too exhausting. Falling for someone's looks was just right. Anyway, Lin Xue had no intention of showing her true self again for the rest of her life. She never expected what came later. On one side, the rumor continued: "Why is anyone still trying to pursue Lin Xue? Dream on!" On the other, Lin Xue cornered the woman by the riverside on a snowy night, pulled out a diamond ring box, and said, "Do you want it? If you don't, I'll throw it in the river." Reader's guide: 1. A reborn reporter who just wants to take it easy x a figure skating star living under an assumed name, one-on-one, HE. 2. The figure skating details are almost entirely author-invented, all for the sake of the plot. If you're a real-life skating fan, read at your own risk. 3. The writing is lighthearted, but the plot has ups and downs. If you don't like any chapter, stop reading in time. Theme: Don't sell yourself short