I Rose to Fame on Murder Mystery Variety Shows

Novel blurb:

Qi Ruokui is a wealthy woman backed by powerful investors who still works diligently on set. She and the award-winning actor Zhou Xianchuan were photographed entering the same residential complex one after the other. The very next day, their names were firmly at the top of the trending searches, and Weibo's servers crashed.

Netizens cried out, "Impossible! These two have nothing to do with each other! How do they even know each other?"

Qi Ruokui and her secretly married husband, Zhou Xianchuan, decided to deal with the incident by staying quiet and waiting for the buzz to die down. Once people stopped paying attention, it would all blow over.

But some of the actor's longtime fans refused to give up and kept searching for the truth. In the end, they concluded: "Girls, the agency hasn't denied this rumor, which means it's true! Whenever Old Zhou got caught up in a rumor before, his company always denied it right away!!!"

The actor's fans: Stunned into silence.

As a result, Qi Ruokui was viciously attacked online.

The investors sighed and quietly withdrew their funding for her new drama.

Qi Ruokui: "..." Do you all hate me that much?

Zhou Xianchuan felt terribly guilty about it, so he handed his wife the script for a new drama, soon to begin production at the agency where he held shares. She was lounging around at home, and he told her, "Pick whichever role you want. Think of it as compensation."

Qi Ruokui waved him off. "Oh, no need. I've got another way!"

Her roundabout way of getting what she wanted was to invest in herself. She funded an immersive online murder-mystery variety show called Who's the Killer and signed on as a regular cast member.

When the show was announced, the actor's fans said, "Isn't this that woman who stole our 'husband'? Not watching."

After it aired, the actor's fans said, "Okay, I'm sold. Hello, sis-in-law ^O^"

On the murder-mystery show, while others played an affectionate couple according to the romance plot, she whipped out a picture of the guy with his arms around two women and coldly exposed him: "He's a playboy."

When others furiously attacked someone else for their misdeeds, convinced they were on the side of justice, she produced the crucial evidence: "He's your long-lost son."

When others thought they'd voted for the real culprit, she smiled slyly. "Sorry, I win."

[Bonus scene]

After making a comeback through the online variety show Who's the Killer, Qi Ruokui invested in a celebrity dating show called You Are the One in My Heart.

Unexpectedly, her secretly married husband, Zhou Xianchuan, volunteered to appear on the show with her.

Qi Ruokui felt his forehead, puzzled. "You don't have a fever?"

Zhou Xianchuan: "..."

On the dating show, Zhou Xianchuan took her around campus, went on sweet trips with her, and tried all sorts of fun activities. At the end, he made a romantic confession: "My dear wife, it's an honor to know you. Everywhere I look, all I see is someone I love."

Qi Ruokui: So it turns out I'm not the only one who's been secretly in love anymore.

Reading guide:

1. Rising entertainment-industry starlet Qi Ruokui and old-school award-winning actor Zhou Xianchuan. One-on-one romance, a fluffy, no-brainer sweet story.

2. At first, the leads keep their secret marriage from the entertainment industry, but pretend to be married for show with family and friends. She has a crush on him, and they marry first, fall in love later.

3. Please add it to your favorites o3o

A quick recommendation for my currently updating novel, Waiting for the Light

Blurb:

Ding Xiayi thinks her life is a joke. She's been completely fooled by her idol, Shen Nanxi.

She thought Shen Nanxi was genuinely kind to her, but it turns out Shen Nanxi is her half-sister, sharing the same father. Shen Nanxi's kindness was nothing more than a charitable handout, meant to make her look magnanimous.

After learning how her mother was hurt by a mistress, Ding Xiayi begins plotting revenge against the Shen family and her biological father.

By chance, she meets the only son of the Zhou family, who has been engaged to Shen Nanxi since childhood. She uses Zhou Siyu to take Shen Nanxi's opportunities, seduces him, and insists that he break off his engagement to the Shen family before they'll be together.

She wants everyone who hurt her mother to suffer a thousand times over.

But little by little, as she spends time with Zhou Siyu, Ding Xiayi falls for him without realizing it.

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As the only son in his family, Zhou Siyu has been saddled with his family's expectations since childhood. They don't support his pursuit of music, so after clashing with them, he made a deal:

If he still isn't married with children ten years later, he'll give up music and return home to inherit the family business. He should get married and have children early, so the Zhou family can raise the next generation to take over.

Zhou Siyu has to choose between continuing to make music after getting married and returning home to inherit the family business.

In his final year before turning twenty-nine, he still hasn't met anyone he wants to marry, until Ding Xiayi appears.

Ding Xiayi enters his life, and from that moment on, she's everywhere.

Theme: We once loved so passionately for a dream, for a person. So don't give up. Keep going.