Becoming the Nation's Top-Tier Star in a Period Novel

After waking up, Gu Panpan, an eighteen-year-old college entrance exam candidate, finds herself in a sweet period romance novel as the character meant to contrast with the heroine.

She has just woken up in a miserable situation: sick and starving, she dropped out of school at fifteen and is about to start working in a factory. She is also destined to work herself to death in the future, never living past thirty, while sacrificing everything for her younger brother.

Oh, come on!

Gu Panpan, former heart attack victim who died suddenly, now fighter against feudal thinking: ...As a woman born in the new millennium, I'm not giving up!

Reborn with a healthy body, Gu Panpan has a learning-system golden finger. In an unfamiliar era, she picks up the dream she had in her previous life and is determined to become an excellent film actress!

Everyone agrees that Bai Xiaomei was born lucky. The apple of her family's eye since childhood, she came from the countryside but was successful enough to get into a university in the capital. Then she smoothly married a local man and became the wife of an official.

Bai Xiaomei had always looked down on Gu Panpan with pity.

When Gu Panpan, who was a better student than her, had no choice but to drop out of school, Bai Xiaomei secretly felt pleased, though she had to act sorry for her.

When Gu Panpan exposed human traffickers and received an award, then earned money on her own but refused to support her biological parents, Bai Xiaomei scolded her for being unfilial.

When Gu Panpan wanted to become a TV star, Bai Xiaomei laughed at her for having delusions of grandeur.

Later, Bai Xiaomei became Mrs. Ji and devoted herself to her husband and children... while Gu Panpan had become a nationally renowned people's artist!

Gu Panpan, sneering like a veteran grind: Hah, men! They only slow down how fast I can draw my sword!

Ji Ran, gloomy: Sigh, I just wrote another script. It's about a female lead who gets abandoned by an educated youth, goes to the city, works hard, and becomes a businesswoman. Why won't Panpan act in my dramas?

Gu Panpan: I-I told you! Don't come any closer!

Gu Panpan, later: Well, well, well... being kept is so nice!

For another quick transmigration novel by the same author, check out I Keep Getting Happy Endings with My Mission Targets.

This no-frills company is a nightmare. Aside from giving the Host a System whose main function seems to be acting cute, everything else is up to Chen Yi to handle himself.

The System says Chen Yi's mission is to travel through small worlds and save the doomed beauties whose stories are shaped by unfortunate twists of fate and bad timing.

Chen Yi, a laid-back, straight-laced man, wears his all-purpose easygoing persona and smiles faintly. "Good thing I'm easygoing. Anything works for me."

...Then he falls in love at first sight with his mission target in every quick transmigration world.

Chen Yi: The mission target really is my wife?! System, explain yourself!!!

Much later, Chen Yi finally realizes that these so-called quick transmigration worlds are both the unresolved knots from his and her previous lives, and their final chance to find each other and be saved. He, who once had a detached nature, ultimately holds on tight to the girl who accidentally flew away...

P.S. The female lead is the same person in every world.

Also known as: #I Fall in Love at First Sight with My Mission Target# #Every Time I Wake Up, I'm on My Way to Find My Wife#

Worlds:

1. Campus Love Song: A fallen girl suffering emotional neglect at home x the legitimate son of the original wife, who has nothing but money (practice run, can be skipped) (complete)

2. Palace Intrigue: A young palace maid, whose family was destroyed and who is desperate for revenge x a mad puppet emperor raised in the cold palace (complete)

3. Period Romance: A lucky contrast character, a beautiful burden to her family x a bold, domineering young man from a compound (ongoing)

4. Gallant Wanderers: A cute, clueless fiancee who should have been humiliated x a peerless martial artist, a grassroots protagonist who breaks off an engagement

5. Reborn in the Entertainment Industry: A skilled female action star suppressed by a reborn woman x a heaven-sent, younger wolf-dog star

...This is the tentative list for now.

Part 1:

Chen Yi turned his head. The breeze carried strands of Gu Yuxi's hair across his face. They tickled a little and brought with them a fresh, clean scent. "Next year, we'll be here. Let's take the entrance exams for schools in Beijing together someday."

Gu Yuxi paused and looked up, meeting Chen Yi's gentle, resolute expression.

She froze for a moment, then her face lit up with a huge smile. Without hesitation, she nodded. "Mm!"

Part 2:

She struggled to pull a hand out from under the covers. "Y-Your Majesty..."

Chen Yi frowned. "What is it? Is it still bitter? Then you'll just have to bear with it..."

"No..." Wang Youyi leaned out with difficulty, making sure what she'd just seen wasn't an illusion. "W-Why are there so many people gathered outside the door...?"

The emperor hummed, as if to say, "Is that all?" Then he frowned and pulled her back down into his arms. "It's only an assassination attempt. I thought the Liu family of Hedong would strike first. Who knew it would be the Zhou family tonight?"

He spoke so casually, with a hint of bafflement.

What?!

Wouldn't that make it even worse? Compared to the Zhou clan of Yixing, the Liu family of Hedong was at least only a second-rate clan... No, wait! No matter which one it was, an assassination attempt wasn't a trivial matter!

Part 3:

"Why are you always in such a miserable state whenever I run into you?" Chen Yi said, sounding more reflective than inquisitive. He didn't need an answer.

Zhang Xiaojing asked cautiously, confused. "Me? I'm not miserable."

"Then why..."

Why did she always have to appear before me looking so pitiful, making me want to clutch you in my hands the moment I saw you, wishing we could shatter together, as if that were the only way to make sure nothing could ever go wrong, forever and ever?

Theme: Independent striving.