The Drama Queen Heard the System Prompt

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Gu Qinzhi, the entertainment industry's famous pretty face, hit her peak as soon as she debuted. Burdened with plenty of scandals, she became the target of online mockery.

Then her shippers paired her with the award-winning actor Duan Queying, and rumors spread that she was trying to leech off a genuinely talented star. As a result...

She was cyberbullied.

Gu Qinzhi took to her keyboard to argue with the haters. Afraid she'd get herself into trouble, her manager sent her off to a dating reality show overnight, where she'd be cut off from the outside world.

But... the dating show had a talented young actress who'd been unjustly accused of trying to ride on someone else's coattails, as well as the award-winning actor the fans had paired her with.

As soon as Gu Qinzhi arrived at the filming location, she heard two strange voices.

"Beep. The heroine has arrived. Host, please get ready."

"Beep. The mission target has appeared. Host, greet the target warmly and get a friendly response! Failure will bring the Host three minutes of bad luck."

Gu Qinzhi: ?

The young actress was determined to succeed: This time, Gu Qinzhi was going to be driven out of show business.

The award-winning actor himself sat calmly, clinging to a sliver of hope.

After Gu Qinzhi introduced herself, no one there responded.

As silence filled the room, the chandelier came crashing down from the ceiling, straight toward the award-winning actor's seat.

The actor: !

Gu Qinzhi: !

The usually stern and unsmiling actor immediately spoke up with studied reserve. "It's a pleasure to see you again, Teacher Gu."

Gu Qinzhi: ...

Gu Qinzhi replied, "Not much of a pleasure. Your fans were just insulting me yesterday."

As soon as she finished speaking, a crystal ball hit the leg of the coffee table and burst apart.

A shard sliced the back of the actor's lowered hand.

Exactly three minutes.

Gu Qinzhi understood.

Duan Queying was famous for being aloof and self-possessed.

Yet on the dating show, he spoke gently and fussed over the spoiled little princess who was always making a scene.

Their ship, Yingqin, became a hit overnight.

Viewers: I don't want to ship them, but this double standard is just too good.

[Bonus Scene]

When the female supporting character's System used an allergy card on Gu Qinzhi, causing red welts to break out all over her body, she heard the actor's System say that completing a mission would cure the allergy.

Gu Qinzhi looked up in delight and met the man's dark eyes.

He curled his lips and asked tentatively, "Teacher Gu, would you like to sing a duet?"

Gu Qinzhi nodded quickly, ready to oblige.

But she didn't see the man's inscrutable gaze.

Good.

She really does know what my mission is.

A tsundere little queen and a steady, secretly flirtatious award-winning actor

P.S. The leads have a history. The female supporting character has done plenty of bad things. Sweet romance, one-on-one, happy ending.

Details to be determined.

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Interstellar competition

The Seventh Interstellar Academy is poor and has ranked last in the league for years.

When it first joined the Interstellar League, it was mocked by everyone for not having enough energy crystals.

Chen Suigeng, the Seventh Academy's analyst, was petite, gentle, and kind-faced. She drove the academy's support rate on the Star Network straight into the ground, turning herself into a laughingstock.

Just as everyone on the Star Network was saying, "The Seventh Academy is an easy win. There's no point wasting time on them,"...

During the knockout rounds, the Seventh Academy stirred up the ocean, creating a gigantic waterspout that drowned half the competition.

Watching a group of gifted young competitors trapped in the vortex while the culprit leisurely looked on, viewers on the Star Network had complicated feelings.

"An S-rank energy creature, a deep-sea shark, just happened to pass by and got slapped around by a waterspout. Who else gets it, folks?"

"A bunch of military academy students are swirling around inside that waterspout. Which one of them doesn't have an S-rank spirit form?"

"Even the Jade Emperor would have to ride the Seventh Academy's waterslide coaster. :)"

Even so, more people were convinced:

"This is all the Seventh Academy has, a few clever tricks. Against the other military academies, they'll be wiped out."

"So what if the Seventh Academy has strong firepower? Their analyst is still completely ordinary, and would go down with one punch."

But when the league began...

The frail, unremarkable analyst donned an exoskeleton. She moved like the wind, throwing powerful punches, and never missed a shot amid the flying bullets and cannon fire. She smashed a high-level energy creature to pieces.

The spirit form everyone had mocked as a useless wooden stake manifested as a colossal tree that blotted out the sky. Its massive roots stretched across the entire forest, and countless vines burst from the ground, piercing every energy creature.

Not a single creature survived within a ten-mile radius of the Misty Forest.

Energy crystals littered the ground.

The other military academy competitors stared, stunned. Then one by one, they raised their energy crystals in reverent offering: We don't dare move or pick them up. They're all yours.

For three seconds, every voice on the Star Network fell silent.

#We are all gifted young elites. Could you at least stand up when you offer tribute?

#Other military academies: She's a weakling. Can't she go down with one punch?

#Aren't we the ones who should be going down...

*Interstellar setting with original worldbuilding

*Purely focused on competition

Theme: Face hardships without fear, and shine for your dreams and love.