An Open-Ended Summer [Entertainment Industry]

This is just an old, amateurish short story about mutual redemption. Read with caution.

Everyone knew that Du Zhimeng, a formally trained actress, had won Best Actress at the age of twenty-five. She had both talent and beauty, along with an elegant air. Every drama she appeared in was a masterpiece, and with such a promising future at a young age, she had a bright career ahead.

No one knew about all the darkness she'd endured before her debut, or that without the support of a little girl, she might never have escaped the abyss.

After winning an international Best Actress award, she was asked why she had succeeded in her career while keeping her personal life free of both scandals and rumors.

Du Zhimeng smiled. "I did have a rumored romance. Have you all forgotten that a few years ago I called Morisaki my wife?"

Reporter: "Everyone thought you were just expressing how much you liked her. After all, she's only a fictional virtual streamer from a 2D world."

"She may be a virtual streamer, but the way she saved me was real."

Years later, Du Zhimeng wrote, directed, and starred in the art-house film "An Unbounded Summer". It premiered overseas, grossed tens of billions at the box office, and won the Cannes Film Festival's Best Film award.

In the film, a taciturn but warm-hearted girl saved an older sister trapped in the hell of domestic abuse. During the summer she turned eighteen, she and the older girl crossed the line and fell in love.

But the girl had an avoidant personality. She didn't want to be lovers long-term and only wanted to be friends.

The older sister held the girl's hand as if she were a deity. "Don't leave me."

That same year, Morisaki released an original song called "Only One".

"I won't hide my love for you anymore. Be the one precious thing in my life, the only one."

Gentle, flirtatious older top x cool, awkward, devoted younger bottom

Reading Guide:

One-on-one, happy ending, both are virgins and each other's first love. The top is five years older than the bottom, and they save each other.

The bottom has an avoidant attachment style.

The virtual streamer is a real person with a 2D avatar. Look it up online for details. The entertainment industry characters are not based on real people. The author knows nothing about the real entertainment industry and made everything up.

Coming soon: "Transmigrating into a Book to Win Over the Beloved Supporting Girl"

When An Yang was gravely ill and near death, she signed up for the "Giant Plot Hole Repair Plan," thinking, "I'm not far from dying anyway, so signing this thing can't hurt." She thought transmigrating into a book was just a nice idea, but unexpectedly, it really happened.

What she expected: To transmigrate as a passerby, with the romance between the hero and heroine having nothing to do with her.

What actually happened: She transmigrated as the sweet, delicate heroine of the book, who was bullied by the rich kids at her elite school. And from the start, she was a chubby little girl who'd have to make a comeback later.

Transmigrating as the heroine was one thing, but the System wouldn't give her any spoilers. So, on top of completing her plot-hole-repair missions, An Yang followed her heart and pursued the book's beloved second female lead, accidentally stealing the hero, second male lead, and third male lead's storylines along the way.

Later, the System looked as if it had seen a ghost.

The reason was simple: An Yang had won over the original novel's cool-headed, career-minded second female lead.

The aloof, restrained, proud school beauty, who usually never admitted what she felt, suddenly became a shy girl who blushed and got flustered around An Yang.

Xiao Lanyan had been a student leader all her life. Countless people admired and pursued her, and to her, even her fiance, bound to her by a childhood engagement, was just a passing cloud.

She believed she could shoulder the family business alone. She had no interest in romance and liked no one. Who knew that idea would suddenly be overturned by a girl who looked like a little panda?

Besides competing for the position of heir, Xiao Lanyan suddenly had something else to look forward to: An Yang confessing to her.

#She clearly seems to like me so much. Why won't she confess?#

Sunny, healing sweetheart (An Yang) vs. cold, wealthy young lady who says one thing but means another (Xiao Lanyan)

Reading Guide:

This is the second story in the "Giant Plot Hole Repair Plan" series. The first is "Transmigrating into a Book and Stealing the Hero from the Girl Who Appeared Out of Nowhere", available in the author's collection.

It will definitely have a happy ending! They'll only have an ambiguous relationship in high school and won't officially get together.

Xiao is mixed Chinese and English and is one year older than An's body, but An's soul is seven years older than Xiao.

An starts out as a chubby girl and will have a makeover into a beauty, but Xiao doesn't fall for her because of her later beauty (Oops, spoiler!).

Theme: Be the best version of yourself.