The Drama Queen's Slacker Stand-In Goes Viral in the Entertainment Industry [Book Transmigration]

Please add my upcoming neighboring novel, After Saving the Paranoid Chancellor, the Stepmother Faked Her Death and Vanished, to your reading list. The blurb is at the very bottom~

Xin Yu is a mermaid with ten thousand years of cultivation. Just as she's about to ascend, she's struck by lightning and transmigrates into a feel-good entertainment-industry novel, becoming a cannon-fodder stand-in who was kicked aside by an award-winning actor.

The original owner was a troublemaker who made everyone's life miserable, was hated by all, and was mired in scandals. She even planned to make a comeback through a music competition.

Xin Yu looks down at her personal assets: a bank account with nine zeros at the end, plus ten marine farms.

Hello? Why bother building a career? Isn't inheriting billions so much better?

Xin Yu decides to lie flat, cherish her life by staying away from the award-winning actor, and quit the industry as soon as possible so she can go home and retire.

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The internet's haters wait to mock Xin Yu, but gradually realize that this troublemaking, insufferable beauty... seems to have a rather unusual style?

When the competition airs, everyone belts out opera and raps. Xin Yu casually sings a lullaby.

On set, the young actresses fight tooth and nail over billing, while Xin Yu happily takes a job as a dance double with no lines;

During the recording of a dating show, supermodels and big stars do everything they can to catch the attention of the hottest actor, while Xin Yu goes bare-faced and helps the village aunties and uncles knit sweaters.

The more she lies flat, the better life gets. Just as Xin Yu thinks she can quietly leave the industry and go home to inherit her fortune, she unexpectedly becomes a sensation.

The lullaby she sings is as heavenly as an angel's voice. It cures insomnia for countless young people and becomes an essential sleep song across the internet.

Her mermaid dance is as breathtaking as the reborn Goddess of the Luo River. Her underwater dance with mermaid silk floods the internet, and the world's largest dance theater invites her on an international tour.

The mermaid silk she weaves is soft and thin yet keeps out the cold. It's in such high demand that everyone is scrambling to buy it, and the world's leading luxury fashion brands reach out to her.

In just one year, Xin Yu transforms from a spoiled, fussy beauty into a serene and lovely woman who wins at life by doing nothing, and from the internet's most hated to the darling of the entire entertainment industry.

When a host asks how she did it, she gives it some serious thought:

Maybe it's... the instinct to lie flat?

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Kou Ze, the most powerful person in the Kou Group, built a business empire from scratch. The media describe him as ruthless, aloof, and abstinent.

When he first meets Xin Yu, he thinks she's a lazy, troublesome mermaid.

Soon afterward, he hears her heavenly voice. That night, the insomnia that has plagued him for years is cured.

He starts getting close to Xin Yu, watching her breathtaking mermaid dance and seeing her mermaid-silk photos astonish international society. He also sees his young nephew, Kou Zishen, fall hopelessly for her on a dating show.

Kou Ze develops a desire to keep Xin Yu all to himself.

?

In the end, Xin Yu wins Best Actress in two categories, and Kou Zishen, who once treated her like trash, presents her with the awards in person.

The whole internet wonders if the two of them will get back together.

At the celebration banquet, Kou Zishen asks her to reconcile, only to see his powerful uncle pin Xin Yu against the pool wall and kiss her.

Kou Ze gazes at her tenderly, twirling a lock of her hair: "This is your aunt-in-law."

Kou Zishen: "...????!!!!"

* A sharp-tongued, secretly passionate business tycoon who says one thing and means another VS a sweet-voiced, charming beauty who takes life easy and wins without trying

#When the cannon-fodder stand-in gets the script of the universally adored female lead#

#After transmigrating into a book, I got together with the male lead's uncle!#

◤A few things to know before you dive in◢

1. No real-life inspirations. Updates every day at noon!

2. The heroine pretends to lie flat but is secretly a powerhouse. A light, satisfying, sweet story!

3. Plenty of chapters in reserve, so you can count on the story being completed!

After Saving the Paranoid Chancellor, the Stepmother Faked Her Death and Vanished by Gu He. Blurb:

Song Zhenyu transmigrates into a book, becoming the concubine sent to bring good luck to a sickly earl. A few days later, the earl dies, turning a wedding into a funeral and leaving his new bride widowed in all but name.

The Earl of Guiyi's household loses its power overnight, and its internal strife is like a palace drama turned up to level ten. Song Zhenyu has only two choices: give herself to the wicked Second Master, or stop the young heir, a minor villain forced to become a eunuch, and raise him into a wise chancellor.

Without hesitation, Song Zhenyu braves a blizzard and charges into the torture chamber. Blocking the seal-bearing official's blade, she gathers the shivering, frail boy into her arms. "Don't be afraid. From now on, I'll protect you. No one can lay a hand on you. The men of the Pei family will live with their heads held high!"

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Everyone in Chang'an knows that the Earl's household has produced an iron-willed woman. In a year, she raises the young heir to become the top scholar in the imperial exams. In two years, he is appointed Tong Pingzhangshi, rising to the highest position in the court, where civil and military officials bow to him.

Later, rumors spread that the iron-willed woman is fierce-tempered and ugly as a demon. She takes the embroidered spring saber from the palace's chief eunuch and sends the cunning Second Master to the imperial prison. Everyone in the Pei household respects her as the mistress of the house.

Only at night does the young heir know that his stepmother, who is kept hidden in the inner chambers, has alluring eyes, a fragrant, slender frame, and a soft hollow at her waist. With one hard thrust, she bites her lip and cries, a beautiful and willful woman.

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At last, she helps the young villain rise to become a great chancellor. But Song Zhenyu understands that when the lips are gone, the teeth will be cold. The young villain is a docile lamb in front of her, but a bloodthirsty wolf toward his enemies. The Earl's household cannot escape impeachment, and as a Pei family wife, she knows her own fate won't be pretty.

Song Zhenyu: I'm out of here.

Song Zhenyu fakes her death by falling into a river, takes on a new secret identity, and travels through foreign lands, living a carefree life. She is skilled at teaching, and eventually establishes schools in the southern barbarian lands to enlighten the people.

But thousands of miles away in Chang'an, the white-robed chancellor, who has made countless noblewomen bend the knee, kneels in the chamber where his stepmother once slept, breathing in the lingering scent of her beauty. His eyes are full of ruin, and he is as violent as a demon, as wretched as a stray dog.

Another year passes, and spring snow falls like rain. Several of Song Zhenyu's students pass the imperial exams and invite her to Chang'an for a celebratory banquet. At the table, one student eagerly introduces her to a chancellor in crimson robes: "Chancellor, this is my teacher. I owe my success in the exams entirely to her!"

Song Zhenyu looks up and sees the great villain gazing at her with the burning eyes of a wolf.

Song Zhenyu feels like a lamb walking into a wolf's den. He advances step by step, leaving her nowhere to retreat.

By day, he is dignified and aloof, politely calling her "Madam Yu."

By night, he is crazed and obsessive, taking her again and again, indulging in reckless abandon.

[The male lead's story]

Pei Chengling's childhood is full of misfortune. His relatives covet his position as heir, harm his parents, and force him into the eunuch palace.

He suffers every humiliation, grits his teeth through the pain, and vows to slaughter the entire Earl's household once he has the power.

Except for the stepmother who once warmed him when he was at his lowest, no one stays by his side. From a nobody to the chancellor of the nation, she never abandons him and weathers every storm with him. Pei Chengling's heart takes root in delusion and greed, and he plans to make their relationship official and ask for her hand once he becomes chancellor.

He never expects his stepmother to fake her death and vanish.

For the first time in his life, the usually calculating Pei Chengling feels the agony of a thousand ants gnawing at his heart.

In the eyes of the world, an unbridgeable chasm lies between them. But he is a hopelessly ambitious wolf, and after all the hardship she endured to help him become chancellor, all he wants is to defy the world and take her for himself.

Couple: [A black-lotus, paranoid, gloomy, scheming, possessive villainous heir x a beautiful, bold, indulgent stepmother who knows how to use her charm and runs away after breaking his heart]

Reading guide:

[1] Set in an alternate Northern Song dynasty. The leads are not blood relatives. Happy ending, both leads are sexually inexperienced, one-on-one romance.

[2] Stepmother and stepson romance / faked-death story / redemption story / rekindled romance / powerful allies / forced possession... a glorious mix of every melodramatic trope.

Theme: Always keep a light in your heart. No matter what anyone says, keep striving. That's incredibly cool.