[This is a short, inexpensive story. Please support the official release TvT] [Please add my upcoming novel, I Work as an Inspector in the Entertainment Industry, to your reading list!]
Lin Xi was twenty years old. As the biological daughter who had been taken back by her family, she had nothing except her family's disdain and a pile of scandals.
Just as she walked toward the rooftop, ready to end it all, a small, fair hand suddenly tugged at her sleeve:
"Mommy, I finally found you."
Lin Xi: ???
*++
Lin Xi couldn't figure it out. She'd been single for twenty years. Where had this five-year-old son come from?
Even more bizarrely, just as she was worrying about how to feed this little money pit, a video call suddenly came through on the Genius children's smartwatch on his wrist. The man on the screen was covered in blood.
"Today is the seventh day after my death, and my wife is about to give birth. Find a doctor for her, and I'll give you a million."
The next day, Lin Xi came out of the maternity ward, looked at the long string of new zeroes in her account, then at her bewildered son, and made up her mind: "Fine, I'll be your mom!"
After that, all kinds of calls from the underworld started coming in:
"Want to be famous? I died so unjustly! Dig up my body, and all my endorsements from when I was alive are yours."
"Want to send your kid to a good school? Mail my daughter a gift and tell her I love her. I'll give you a house in a top school district."
"Still worried because you don't know how to do elementary-school math olympiad problems? Burn these research data of mine and I'll tutor your son into becoming a genius inventor!"
The most generous of them all was a mysterious man with no face:
"Help me save someone, and I'll give you all my assets. Every last one."
*
Wen Ling was twenty-five, paralyzed from the waist down, cold and gloomy.
On the night he was ambushed, heavy snow blocked the mountain roads, and he was trapped beneath his car with no way to call for help.
He thought that at last, the crippled man would be able to die.
But he never expected a little white dumpling to tumble into his arms, clutching a warm hot-water bottle. "Daddy, I missed you so much!"
Then a woman's warm, beautiful hands brushed the snow from his shoulders and helped him up from the snow.
And then, after twenty-five years of loneliness, Mr. Wen Ling finally had a family.
*
Everyone was waiting to laugh at the biological daughter who'd been brought back and then stormed out in a huff.
That is, until wave after wave of wealthy celebrities showed up at her door in tears, all just to ask for Lin Xi's... phone number?!
Someone even caught the usually cold business magnate Wen Ling patiently doing... arts and crafts with Lin Xi and a child at kindergarten?!
How had things gone so wrong???
#Warm and healing x gloomy and lonely = a life raising kids and helping ghosts^
"The ghosts you want to avoid are the people someone else thinks about every day."
Upcoming Novel
I Work as an Inspector in the Entertainment Industry
Zhu Yu debuted at a young age and worked diligently to hone her acting skills in the entertainment industry. She was never late or absent, and she spent twenty years playing bit parts, but she never became famous.
Then one night, she discovered the truth: she was merely a miserable supporting actress in a showbiz novel, whose only purpose was to make the lazy male and female leads look good. In six months, she'd die of exhaustion from working overtime on set, with a tragic end.
Zhu Yu: "...Screw this rotten entertainment industry. Anyone who wants it can have it."
Just then, a voice rang out in Zhu Yu's mind:
[Beep! Congratulations, Host, you've been bound to the Inspector System. Please clean up the entertainment industry and bring a breath of fresh air to domestic entertainment!]
Recently, rumors have been circulating in the industry that Zhu Yu, an unknown for eighteen years, has gone crazy...
During an interview, a reporter asked, "Did you learn anything from working with the Best Actor this time?"
Zhu Yu smiled. "I learned a lot. He taught me how to draw up two contracts, one for the tax bureau and one for the investors..."
Reporter: ???!! What the hell, are we allowed to hear this?
During a livestream, a viewer asked, "People say my favorite star is dating a certain young actress. Is it true?"
Zhu Yu: "Of course not. Your favorite star isn't just dating that actress. He's also involved with another young actor, the action choreographer, the lighting technician, the cinematographer..."
Viewer: …
At first, everyone thought she was talking crazy.
Then, as lawbreaking Best Actors and scumbag celebrities started falling one after another, the entire domestic entertainment industry went mad.
Celebrities nervously feared having their scandals exposed, while fans shouted, "Sister Zhu is awesome!!"
The only downside was that half the entertainment industry had been taken down. What were they supposed to do now that no one was left?
Just then, an agency claiming to be "the most upright and respectable in the entertainment industry" released its first promotional video:
Unlike the singing, dancing, and rapping videos from other film and television companies, a whole lineup of handsome men and beautiful women solemnly made their pledges:
[I promise that I graduated with an undergraduate degree from a legitimate university after being officially admitted, and have never received any school disciplinary action.]
[I promise that I will do good and accumulate virtue my whole life, never break the law or violate regulations, and that my records are available for the Public Security Bureau to check at any time.]
[I promise that we'd rather remain unknown forever than ever let our fans down and break their hearts!]
The video went viral. The agency became famous, and a new half of the domestic entertainment industry rose to prominence.
The fans dug and dug until they finally found the legal representative behind the agency: Zhu Yu.
That's our Sister Zhu for you! Awesome!
Zhu Yu, who was counting money until her hands were sore, glanced at the Inspector System's new directive and smiled faintly. "This is just the beginning. Next, I'm going to propose to the government that artists be required to get professional licenses!!"
Theme: The joy of helping others
It's been more than a month. If it really doesn't work, why don't you solve v?
The emotions are well written, but other aspects cannot be taken seriously.
The ending was a bit rushed, but still quite enjoyable.
OK, fine, this rushed ending finally made me think about it. I paid the damn money to watch it again hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha
It's a nice plot and has a good rhythm, but the ending is too fast. It's better to have some extras.
When I replied to the plot of Chapter 43, I was told that it was a spoiler and my comment was deleted. The reason was that "please discuss it in the corresponding chapter to prevent spoilers." So where should I say it? I want to know.
It's such a short story, and the ending is so sloppy. Is there no extra chapter?
Very nice! The writing is very good and the structure is compact. She is really great.
I finished chasing TAT in one go. Please give me a sequel!
Ah ah ah, please write a side story, ah ah, I want to see a side story with Zaizai