Su Yueyao was famous as a pretty face with no talent. With her strikingly beautiful face, she would give everyone a sidelong glance through her narrow fox eyes, her gaze brimming with seductive charm and laughter.
As a scandal-plagued top-tier star, the whole internet was full of rumors about her love life.
People said she had dinner with a famous director and got an audition for an award-winning film in return: pure casting-couch behavior.
They said she kissed a popular young actor on the street, then kept trending for half a month thanks to an ambiguous photo: whose fame was she leeching off this time?
They said she called a singer after drinking at a bar, her cheeks flushed. Just a week later, the singer sang passionately about her clouded, drunken eyes at a concert: shameless.
Just as Su Yueyao joined the cast of a recently popular dating show, an industry gossip account suddenly announced that it would expose the real Su Yueyao during the livestream.
Countless people flocked to the livestream, waiting to watch the undeserving pretty face crash and burn.
On the livestream, she threw ice water at an assistant in a show of temper, deliberately tripped a fellow actress from her company as part of a scheme, hinted that the director had edited the footage maliciously, and, finally, the gossip account even found compromising photos in her room.
Only then did the crew realize someone had been secretly livestreaming. They had no choice but to stop filming. The news spread everywhere, the whole internet erupted, and insults and contempt poured in.
Then the obituaries started pouring in, too. Su Yueyao had killed herself. The viewers applauded and celebrated her death.
After the celebrations ended, a new day began. But people discovered that they had gone back to the previous day, sitting in front of the livestream again. Panic, madness, helplessness... Su Yueyao's true nature was exposed early, and news of her suicide arrived early, too.
Then they returned to that day again. Time kept repeating in a loop, and the only way to break it was to keep Su Yueyao alive.
They tried to stop the livestream, but that night, news came that Su Yueyao had jumped from a building. They defended her online, but the next day she slit her wrists. They went after the agency that had been leeching off her, but Su Yueyao drowned in a bathtub. They tried to mend her relationship with the other actress at her company, but Su Yueyao took sleeping pills and killed herself again.
They tried countless ways to save her. Following the trail of her deaths was like grabbing a thread and gradually pulling out the tangled secrets behind her, searching for the truth about her death and the scumbags who drove her to it.
Death was a swamp, but Su Yueyao was willing to sink into it again and again. They were all trapped in that one day, the day she died.
No matter what they did, she would die on that day. A day they could never get past.
Content warnings:
1. The entire story is about a dating show caught in an endless loop and the repeated attempts to save someone.
2. This is about what happens after her public downfall. The female lead dies right at the start. She is cruel and manipulative, a fraud who cheats people out of love and money and has done countless terrible things. She is not redeemed, and deserves to die thousands of times.
Purpose: Love and cherish life