The Female Lead Rose to Fame on Her Acting Skills

[This novel will go premium on Saturday. I’ll make sure to update regularly then! The blurb for my new novel, Transmigrating into a Book Made Me Career-Driven, is below. Take a look if you’re interested.] Before she was reborn, the thing that made overworked Yu Yueyue angriest was that not a single TV drama was any good. Seriously, what the hell? Imagine being an overworked 996 employee, finally getting one day off, turning on the TV to watch an episode, and after flipping through the channels for ages, discovering that every single show is terrible. How horrifying is that? At long last, she found a drama with a sensible plot, only to discover that the female lead’s acting was so awful that any random middle-aged woman on the street could do a better job. After Yu Yueyue complained about it online, the star’s fans descended on her and tore her to shreds. As she went to sleep, all she could think about was their taunt: “If you can do better, then go do it yourself!” When she woke up, Yu Yueyue had gone straight back to her childhood. Seriously? Fine, if you want me to do it, I’ll do it. I can act way better than her! She diligently practiced her acting and carefully studied her scripts, determined to approach her career as a female star with the same attitude as a 996 employee. So, even though Yu Yueyue didn’t do anything in particular, her attitude made a mockery of many stars who relied solely on their public image and marketing, with no acting skills at all. Before long, the other side’s marketing accounts ganged up on her. Marketing Account No. 1: “That Yu Yueyue is such a poser, isn’t she? She carries a script around and reads it everywhere, but her acting hasn’t improved at all.” Her fans angrily posted more than 99 screencaps of her acting alongside other performers, letting the pictures speak for themselves. Only after they’d finished posting did they reply sarcastically. “Oh, looks like she’s only two whole levels better than so-and-so. Our Yue Bao still has room to improve!” Marketing Account No. 2: “Yu Yueyue spends seven or eight months of every year on set. Isn’t it a problem that she doesn’t study?” Her fans posted Yu Yueyue’s report cards, showing she’d ranked first in her grade every year from elementary through middle school. “Aw, we weren’t going to call you out, but she still ranked first even while spending seven or eight months on set. Our Yue Bao is just that smart. There’s nothing her fans can do about it.” After going back and forth several times, the marketing accounts finally had nothing left to say. Yu Yueyue, who made one drama a year and saw every one of them become a hit, had already become the hottest female child star of the moment, long before she would grow up to be a famous actress. Yu Yueyue, still an elementary school student, paid no attention to the storms raging online. The only thing troubling her now was this: Help! Why do I have to wait another ten years before I grow up? Yu Yueyue, who desperately wanted to act in romance dramas but could only take roles in children's shows for now, was losing it. ----------Advertisement Break---------- Recommendations for My Friends’ Upcoming Novels I’m Losing Money on My Game Until I Become the Richest Person in the Galaxy by Xu Ci. One-line summary: Why do I keep losing more and more money? The Tattooed Arm by Tang Su Lijiu. One-line summary: A sweet, healing campus romance. My Upcoming Novel: The Washed-Up Actress Makes a Comeback My Next Novel: Transmigrating into a Book Made Me Career-Driven On Jinjiang, everyone has a book they are destined to transmigrate into. Qiao Louwei, who loved melodramatic fiction, had been terrified of that prospect for a long time. If a book didn’t have a groveling ex trying to win back his wife, heart-wrenching and physically painful abuse, or a scene where someone was pinned against a wall and kissed, what was the point of reading it? Of course, that was what Qiao Louwei used to think. On the first day she tried to quit melodramatic fiction, she opened a popular novel about a world where everyone was career-driven, either fighting monsters or serving their country. It was a spiritual qi revival story, or, in other words, modern cultivation. Sure enough, she’d barely read the opening when she ran into the transmigration she was destined for. With years of reading experience behind her, Qiao Louwei readily accepted the existence of the System. Sabotage the relationship between the male and female leads? Sure. What a joke. They had no relationship to sabotage in the first place. They were just the two characters who appeared most often. Tempt the male lead and the other male characters? Qiao Louwei realized that the System was the only other person present who loved melodramatic fiction. But she liked reading melodramatic fiction. She didn’t want to create drama herself! People say a triangle is the most stable shape, so on the very first day of the spiritual qi revival, another old man who taught cultivation appeared in Qiao Louwei’s mind. She meets the male lead. System: Rush over and wipe his sweat. Make his heart flutter. Master: Rush over and beat him up! You’re the top student at this school! Qiao Louwei chooses to beat him up, then crouch down and wipe his sweat. She meets the second male lead. System: Be gentle and considerate. Bring him food and congee. Master: Beat him up, then visit his grave to pay your respects. Qiao Louwei: That really won’t work. Murder is illegal. So, as a compromise, she breaks his leg and then brings him food. After all that, why are all the career-driven characters looking at her differently? Why are they all confessing to her one after another? Qiao Louwei, suspecting some kind of revenge: I don’t understand. Theme: Work hard and do your job well.