An Idol Career Plan

[Thanks to everyone for your support. Wishing you all a happy life! Coming soon: Reborn: I Want to Be a Top-Tier Star, a no-CP showbiz story] "So you want me to become an idol?" "Are you serious?" Mu Shasha never imagined that one day she'd be bound to a System, and an idol-growth System at that. But hasn't this System come a little too late? From what she knows, most people start in elementary or middle school. She's already a sophomore in college. Isn't it a bit late? [Host, please create a career plan for your idol career based on your current circumstances.] Mu Shasha thought for a moment. "A million a month." [Rejected. Host, please create a new career plan for your idol career based on your current circumstances.] Even that gets rejected? It shouldn't. Her ambition is clearly so grand. Is the System some kind of idealist? "Reach the pinnacle of life and marry a rich, beautiful woman?" Mu Shasha ventured. [Rejected…] "Debut as the center?" Mu Shasha remembered a survival show she'd watched recently. [Idol career plan successfully created. Mission duration: 2 years. Failure to complete the mission: termination.] "You've got to be kidding me!" Mu Shasha was stunned. She'd doomed herself. PS: This story is entirely fictional. The characters aren't based on real people. Any resemblance is purely coincidental. Warnings: 1. The System is only here to move the story forward and has very little presence. 2. Being an idol is a job, and everyone is competing for a limited number of positions. There will be workplace-style scheming and clashes. 3. The story is quite detailed, and some readers may find it slow. You can tell from the chapter titles and content, so if you don't like that, it's best to stop reading. Coming soon: Reborn: I Want to Be a Top-Tier Star, a no-CP showbiz story Blurb: In her previous life, Chen Si died at her desk. Her compensation, paid out during a real estate slump, was just enough to buy a home in a provincial capital. When she opened her eyes again in this life, Chen Si didn't rage against fate. Instead, she opened the notes app on her phone and typed a few lines: [Goal: Lie flat.] [Plan: Make money.] [Method: Enter the entertainment industry.] For no other reason, than the sake of the version of herself who dared to dream but never dared to act. At two in the morning, the white light reflected from the phone shone on Chen Si's face. She stared at The Top-Tier Star Plan 1.0 for a long time Until the light went out, the final period still hung in the air. Coming soon: [Showbiz: Fame Within Reach], no CP As a 108th-tier actress from a third-rate school, fame is an unattainable dream for Ling Ran. Her daily life consists of standing in the background at a film studio, delivering a single line. In the dazzling entertainment industry, she plays all kinds of insignificant roles. Day after day, year after year, Ling Ran is nearly forgetting why she wanted to enter the entertainment industry in the first place. Was it to stand under the spotlights and bask in cheers and adoration? Or to make a fortune every day and live a life of extravagant excess? It seems neither... As a child, Ling Ran loved wearing a bedsheet like a fairy's gown, and imitating the dialogue from TV dramas. She loved the profession that brought characters to life. Unfortunately, she doesn't have exceptional talent or outstanding looks. No matter how much she loves it, she still has to bow to reality. After being battered by the realities of society, her classmates all changed careers early and said goodbye to that sweet dream. Only Ling Ran kept going. But how much longer can she hold on? Looking at the A-list star surrounded by people in the distance, Ling Ran lowers her head and smiles bitterly. Perhaps her spring will never come. Coming soon: [I Just Want to Survive], no CP As an independent young woman of the new era, Yuan Lechen has no great ambitions. If she can avoid working overtime, she will. If she can discuss salary, she absolutely won't talk about dreams. A lazy fish, she never turns over unless she has to. If she can keep her head down, she won't go making a scene. She's the odd one out in her family. Well, more precisely, a spark in a sewer. As the saying goes, the sky has unexpected storms, and people can face sudden misfortune. Yuan Lechen has barely made it to the age of 24 when, in her zodiac year, she's bound to some unknown "System." Fortunately, completing the missions isn't mandatory, and failure carries no punishment. It's just that... the damn System seems to have seen through Yuan Lechen's plan to slack off. Staying alive should be easy, but somehow it cranks the difficulty up to hell. But who is Yuan Lechen? She's the poster child of the art of survival. How could she give up her lofty ambitions over a little trouble? (A Great Dao Begins with Simplicity - Xianxia) "Hey, can we talk? Give me a decent aptitude. How am I supposed to befriend the protagonist in my current state?" [Host, you don't need to befriend the protagonist. Your mission is to seize their opportunities.] Heh. Yuan Lechen pulls a long face. When the spirit-testing disc shows no response, she finally gives up hope. Just as expected of you, damn System. I leant on the heroine twice, and now you're not giving me a single spiritual root? If she can't cultivate immortality, Yuan Lechen doesn't know how she'll survive even two chapters in this world! But stealing someone else's opportunities is absolutely out of the question. Who says you can't live freely while keeping your head down? I mainly write no-CP stories. Nothing gross here. Theme: In everyday life, we face many choices. We may regret them or feel troubled afterward, but each stage of life brings different challenges. As long as you can be true to yourself and move forward bravely, that's enough!