I Retired from the Industry to Enjoy Life and Collect Rent Every Day

[The new novel next door, The Metaphysics Expert Takes the Internet by Storm with Food, is now open!] [Coming soon: The Divine-Pen Child Goes Viral for Her Art and Raising a Demon God in a School for Monsters. Please add them to your collection!] After completing 999 quick transmigration missions, Xu Yao retires with honors and becomes a cannon-fodder supporting female character in an entertainment-industry novel, one who misses out on a huge inheritance. In her original life, everyone in the entertainment industry hated her, with scandals following her everywhere. After she despairingly jumped from a high-rise, her billionaire older brother finally found her. Remembering the inheritance the book left for her, Xu Yao decisively packs her bags, quits show business, and becomes a landlord, inheriting over a hundred buildings. After Xu Yao makes a high-profile exit from show business, netizens excitedly spread the news. A hater mocks her sarcastically: "Xu Yao, life must be so hard after you quit, huh? I heard things got so bad you had to start livestreaming?" Xu Yao sighs: "It's so tiring livestreaming every day while I carry a snakeskin sack around collecting rent." Hater: Collecting rent? Rent from what? A top-tier star gets caught up in a scandal, and reporters crowd around his home. Xu Yao appears on camera. The haters are furious: She quit the industry and is still trying to mooch off a top-tier star?!!! Xu Yao opens her WeChat payment code and holds it out to the star. "Please pay me the six months of rent you owe." Haters: ?? The internet's most-watched island-retreat variety show is airing. The female lead wants to take pictures out at sea, so she calls the landlord and sweetly asks to borrow the villa's luxury yacht. Xu Yao refuses without hesitation. The haters scream: Why does the owner of the island villa sound like Xu Yao?? Xu Yao smiles: Because every villa on the island belongs to me. An IP-based blockbuster, praised for its beautiful sets, was reportedly filmed at a century-old private residence in the capital worth over a billion yuan. Netizens deliberately stir things up by asking on a Q&A site: No way, is this another one of Xu Yao's properties? The top-voted answer: It really is. She uses it for investment. Netizens are dumbfounded: Sister Yao is that rich? Gradually, netizens discover that Xu Yao seems to own an insane number of properties, and she's become a huge star after quitting the industry! * At a banquet, Ji Zhengqing, heir to the mysterious and powerful Ji family of the capital, catches a fleeting glimpse of a little actress hated by the entire internet. Later, Xu Yao inherits over a hundred buildings from the Xu family as stipulated in a will, and agrees to get engaged to Ji Zhengqing. Friend: Young Master Ji, your sister-in-law is a sure thing! Ji Zhengqing: Not necessarily. Xu Yao makes it onto the global rich list thanks to her hundred-plus buildings. Ji Zhengqing realizes his only real advantage might be his status as her fiance. [Blurb written on September 14, 2022, and screenshotted] Coming soon: The Divine-Pen Child Goes Viral for Her Art Before Bubble returns to a wealthy family with her mother, she finds a divine pen that can make dreams come true. The spirit inside the pen tells Bubble that she and her mother are cannon-fodder female characters in a story about a wealthy family. Her father has disappeared and abandoned them, her rich grandfather despises her, and her cousin calls her a little burden. In the end, they will be sent to the countryside to fend for themselves. The pen spirit is thrilled: Want to avoid that ending? Come on, kid, let's prove our way through art! Bubble: O.O Okay. A blogger called Little Artist appears on Weibo, sharing a new painting every day: The first painting is a fruit tree bearing strange fruit. Emergency calls come in from several places: magical fruit that can cure cancer is growing in their gardens! The second painting is a cute mushroom-shaped house. The suddenly appearing mushroom houses are made of special materials, making them the best shelters in the world! The third painting is a little car with tiny wings. The next day, cars grow wings and fill the skies, shocking the entire internet! Netizens: ??? Wait, you call that drawing? Bubble goes viral. The entire internet frantically searches for the mysterious little artist, and China secretly designates Bubble an S-rank mission. * To earn a little pocket money, Bubble joins a parent-child variety show with her mother. On the first day of filming, the show holds a parent-child art activity. Bubble painstakingly recreates a banknote and gives it to her mother. "I'm going to draw lots of money for Mommy!" Mother: ... Netizens stare in shock: ...Kid, that's seriously illegal. Later, Bubble paints mountains and rivers to improve the environment. Netizens discover that she's the little artist who took the internet by storm. At the same time, Bubble livestreams her painting to the whole world... Foreign netizens: Holy crap, she's drawing our aircraft carrier?? Stop her! Chinese netizens are thrilled: Let her draw! Let her draw! Nobody stop her! * Later, Bubble is doted on by her entire wealthy family. Seeing how lonely her mother is, Bubble decides to draw herself a perfect new dad. A handsome man steps out of the painting, puts an arm around her teary-eyed mother, and picks up the bewildered Bubble. Smiling, he asks her, "Want to draw a little green on your dad's head?" Coming soon 2: Raising a Demon God in a School for Monsters Sang Man discovers that she's the only human in a school story about monster nobility. She tries to seduce the male supporting character, a golden-haired dog demon, secretly plucks all the feathers from the peacock spirit heroine, and eventually gets thrown to a wolf demon by the male lead to have her blood drained. Sang Man: ... They really don't do a single human thing, literally. Fortunately, no one has yet realized that their monster bloodlines are slowly awakening. To save her own life, Sang Man goes to the Dragon God's temple to get a talisman and makes an important decision: Cling to the leg of the powerful guy she just met. Sang Man: Everyone else is still awakening, but he can already send messages by telepathy. He must be a big shot! Later, Sang Man discovers that this big shot is great in every way, except he's a particularly chuuni lunatic. Sang Man: "The peacock heroine insists on holding a school beauty pageant and wants me to come in last." The big shot, arrogantly: "She's just an ugly bird. I'll capture a phoenix for you." Sang Man: "The ribs in the cafeteria were amazing today, but a bunch of dog-demon juniors ate every last bone. QAQ" The big shot, coldly: "They dare to steal your food? When I emerge from seclusion, I'll kill them for you." Sang Man: "The fox-demon heartthrob confessed to me and told me to think about it." The big shot, sneering: "It's freezing under this mountain, and I could use a fox-fur cloak." Sang Man and the big shot agree to meet in person after the college entrance exams. But on exam day, a little monster locks Sang Man inside her home, with only ten minutes left before the test! A black-haired man with flowing hair drops from the sky, transforms into a gigantic silver-white dragon that glitters with icy light, smashes the iron window with his tail, and lands beside Sang Man, brushing her ankle with it. He says casually, "Get on. I'll take you to the exam." Sang Man: ??? Wait, is this how you're meeting me in person? That day, Weibo's trending topics explode: #DragonGodMayHaveDescendedToEarth# #ShareThisDragonAndYouCanGetIntoTopUniversities# #DragonAppearsAtCollegeEntranceExamSitePossiblyPhotoshopped# After the college entrance exams, monsters run rampant across China, and the authorities urgently establish a Monster Management Bureau. The original male and female leads are forced to go to the bureau to get their monster ID cards. The moment they walk in, they see Sang Man, the former school demon queen, sitting in the arms of a silver-white dragon. "Get in line if you want your IDs." The original leads are dumbfounded: ...This is the only human director of the Monster Management Bureau? * The Taiji Sect urgently summons the leaders of the various immortal sects to discuss the Demon God, sealed beneath Wugou Mountain for five hundred years, violently attacking his seal. If Cang Lin, the Demon God, emerges, he will raze the Six Realms to the ground. The day Cang Lin breaks out, countless elders from the immortal sects block his way, shouting: "Demon God, even if we must sacrifice ourselves for the Dao, we swear to defend the Six Realms to the death!" Cang Lin: "Get lost. I'm going to meet my partner in person!" The elders of the immortal sects: ?? Wait, the Demon God broke out of his seal just to find a partner? - Cang Lin was sealed beneath the filthiest mountain, spending a thousand years with not a glimmer of light in his endless life. Until one day, a girl's excited voice rings through the silent mountain: "Big shot, want to be online sweethearts?" Theme: Even in adversity, you can still find sunshine.