I Picked Up a Mermaid Movie Star [Reborn]

* Bottom, draft completed; blurb may still change

CP: A mild, wooden-hearted reborn patron x a sharp-tongued, flirtatious mermaid actress

Also known as: A bottom whose obsession after being reborn is to make the actress a star vs. an aggressive top who waits and waits for a confession until she is practically a resentful ghost

1.

Fei Yin, the only daughter of the Fei family, was beautiful, timid, quiet, and obedient, a camellia flower easy to manipulate and crush. Yet her family was rich, and plenty of people on the capital planet had their eyes on this heiress with no siblings, eager to make a move.

After carefully searching for a long time, Fei Yin's mother unexpectedly received an olive branch from the richest family, the Gu family, at a banquet.

But Fei Yin fled the banquet and vanished without a trace.

2.

Fei Yin was reborn. There was no plot and no System; she had simply returned to the entrance of that banquet.

She didn't have the courage to change her fate. All she dared to do was run away. She chose a nearby beach, hoping to make it her final resting place and avoid being reborn again.

However, after taking only a couple of steps along the quiet beach, she accidentally... stepped on a mermaid's tail.

The mermaid had been stranded behind some rocks, her fair skin covered in scrapes. In the faint moonlight, her appearance bore an uncanny resemblance to Cen Nanxing, the actress, nearly eight parts out of ten.

Her voice was similar, too, cool and clear. Her azure eyes fixed on Fei Yin, then she suddenly spoke as if whining coquettishly: "It hurts."

Fei Yin: "..."

Under the night sky, her face turned bright red.

H-her dream girl was acting cute with her!

3.

As a die-hard fan, Fei Yin could recognize Cen Nanxing with her eyes closed. In her past life, Cen had been an actress famous throughout the galaxy, aloof and distant, sparing few words off-screen. She was known as the coldest iceberg in show business.

But the future actress was currently just a mermaid with a princess complex. After Fei Yin brought her home, she brazenly took over Fei Yin's bathtub, ate her cooking, used her StarNet, and even tried to pull Fei Yin into the tub when her nesting period arrived.

Fei Yin had assumed that Cen Nanxing would enter the entertainment industry on schedule and continue on the path to stardom she had followed in her previous life.

Instead, Cen Nanxing settled down comfortably in her home.

Something wasn't right...

After agonizing over it for days, Fei Yin took Cen Nanxing to an upscale restaurant.

Candlelight flickered, music flowed from the piano, and flowers bloomed.

Fei Yin hesitated, unable to speak, while Cen Nanxing seemed a little reserved, too.

After a long while, they spoke almost at the same time.

"I will..."

"Would you like to enter show business?"

Cen Nanxing's proud expression faltered in an instant: "..."

Fei Yin: "I'm so glad you will ^^*. I'll take you to sign with Starlight Entertainment tomorrow."

Starlight Entertainment was her family's company, the number-one entertainment firm on the capital planet. It was sure to take Cen Nanxing to even greater heights than in her previous life.

But maybe the candlelight was too dazzling. Fei Yin wondered, why did Cen Nanxing look so strange?

4.

After Cen Nanxing entered the industry, she won award after award, but never attended any drinking parties or banquets, disappearing on schedule every night.

People in the industry all said her wealthy patron kept a tight leash on her. With Cen Nanxing's looks and figure, who knew what she got up to at home?

Nobody knew that the "patron" would only stand stiffly beside the bathtub, too afraid to look at the beauty inside, whose fish tail was exposed.

Cen Nanxing appeared to soak in the water with an aloof air. Her translucent, snow-white profile glimmered with scales, droplets of water clung to her collarbone, and a red mole like a beautiful cinnabar mark rose and fell with the water.

Tempted until her face flushed and her heart raced, Fei Yin tried to escape the intimate atmosphere by changing the subject. "Have you... entered your nesting period again? I-I'll go get you something to eat."

Before she could take a step, she was suddenly dragged into the water.

Water splashed everywhere. Behind her, the mermaid wrapped both arms tightly around her. A damp, chilly breath brushed her ear, and her cool voice carried a hint of resentment.

"Fei Yin, are you made of wood?"

All night, Cen Nanxing put Fei Yin to the test, to find out whether she really was a wooden block or soft as water in her hands.

Theme: Growing up means learning to be strong, as well as learning to be gentle.