The Superstar Begins as a Street Performer in the 90s

A novel from the 1990s goes like this:

The ordinary heroine runs away while pregnant, then reunites with the male lead five years later, bringing their daughter with her... The two embark on a wealthy-family romance full of angst that stretches across several books.

It has no shortage of melodramatic tropes piled on top of each other, like amnesia and stand-ins.

And stories like this are never complete without a supporting female character. She also marries into a wealthy family with a child, but she is the contrast to the heroine. In the second book, her daughter is the contrast too.

After a self-destructing, human-raised little zombie named Chu Yi dies, she transmigrates into the daughter of the supporting female character who serves as the heroine's foil.

She doesn't really understand human emotions, but she knows when she's hungry, she has to eat. Chu Yi also knows that now she's human, she has to pay for food.

Before this wealthy-family romance begins, the mother and daughter, who depend on each other, are very poor. Chu Yi sees someone singing and playing an instrument on the street to make money. She pats her stomach. She knows what this is called: street performing. So Chu Yi does a backflip too.

As she keeps performing, she gradually becomes a music superstar, a movie queen, and a television queen...

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Without the supporting female character serving as a foil, by the time the wealthy-family romance begins, Chu Yi has already become a standard-setter in the entertainment industry.

Theme: Work hard to stay true to yourself.