Superstition Is Banned in the Entertainment Industry [Metaphysics]

(My tastes have changed a lot, so this blurb will be heavily revised. I'll remove the green-tea elements and so on. I'll leave this note here until I come up with a blurb I'm somewhat happy with.)

Jiang Wang is a nobody of an actress, a barely known face with no noteworthy work to her name. What people find most fascinating is how well her company treats her.

She gets the biggest dressing room on set. Whenever a scandalous trending topic about her appears, it is gone the next second. When she attends banquets, she gets picked up in limited-edition luxury cars.

Even the bigwigs in every field smile at her and treat her with the utmost care.

Everyone is wondering: Who is Jiang Wang's powerful sugar daddy?

*

As the head of a reclusive feng shui family, Jiang Wang was gifted from a young age. While still young, she became a towering figure in the world of the occult.

When you're too powerful, you start looking for ways to amuse yourself. Jiang Wang has a hobby that everyone in her family knows about: playing the role of a sweet, innocent green-tea girl.

A sweet little white flower needs three things: to be fair, to be weak, and to be a shameless flirt.

During a night shoot, Jiang Wang runs into an evil spirit. She covers her eyes and throws herself into the arms of the movie queen, using the moment to stick a talisman onto her arm.

Golden light flashes. The talisman turns to ash, and the evil spirit is driven back. Still nestled in the movie queen's arms, Jiang Wang gazes at her with shining eyes. "Wow, you're amazing, Sis!"

The movie queen, who knows who she really is: "..."

After she offends the director, he leads the entire crew in ostracizing her and forbids the other actors from associating with her.

Then the crew's hotel turns out to be haunted. A resentful ghost pounds on the doors, and the director is scared witless in the middle of the night. The next day, he sees Jiang Wang fiddling with occult paraphernalia by the elevator and storms over to confront her, face dark with anger.

But Jiang Wang only covers her mouth and gives a soft giggle. "I was just joking. Director Lin is such a nice person. You won't take it to heart, will you?"

A female star is innocently tormented by a male ghost. The ghost is powerful, and with no other options, she is referred to Jiang Wang.

Sensing danger, the male ghost appears in a flash and tells Jiang Wang, "She and I are bound by a love from a past life. You youngsters have no business interfering. Leave at once."

Jiang Wang shrinks back in fear and takes the star's arm, speaking softly. "Big brother... I mean, Grandpa, he has such a bad temper. Sis, how could you ever have fallen for someone like him? I'm different. I only know how to cherish you."

The male ghost: "..." Could you put away that magic sword pointed at me before you say that?

Jiang Wang is devoted to her sweet-little-white-flower act, playing her role with meticulous care. She has never made a single mistake in front of the cameras.

Even the bigwigs who know her true nature have been fooled by her act, sighing, "What a sweet white lotus, what a green tea, what a shameless flirt."

But what can they do? They can't afford to cross her, so they can only indulge her.

*

Yan Xingke holds a supreme position in the entertainment industry. One of his parents is a globally renowned director, the other a nationally celebrated singer. He inherited their good looks and, before turning thirty, had already won every major acting award available.

He is upright, meticulous, and serious about his work, and has always scoffed at talk of ghosts and gods. That is, until the day he works with Jiang Wang.

The young woman is beautiful, with fair skin and a soft voice. "Mr. Yan, there's a vicious ghost hiding beside you."

Yan Xingke assumes Jiang Wang is trying to scare him. He just gives a light nod, not taking her seriously.

Until that night.

He opens his eyes, half-asleep, and sees that the window to his balcony is open. In the bright moonlight, a woman in white has the same delicate, beautiful face, but with a ferocity completely at odds with her appearance, she slams a creature onto the ground. Its mouth is as wide as a bucket, its belly swollen as if it were ten months pregnant, and its whole body is festering.

The woman has no idea she's been found out. She counts the stones in her hand by moonlight and complains, "Why does the Occult Affairs Bureau keep paying less and less for jobs? They're so stingy."

*

After Jiang Wang and Yan Xingke's relationship is revealed to the public...

One day, a reporter stops Yan Xingke and asks him, "Your family is so traditional. Can they accept someone like Jiang Wang?"

The reporter's question has an implication, but Yan Xingke only chuckles and says slowly, "What I need to think about now is how to get through her family's door."

1. The female lead is a terrible actress. The only acting skill she has is for playing a sweet, innocent green-tea girl. She has almost no professional ability, and joined the entertainment industry purely for fun.

2. None of the characters are based on real people. Any events inspired by or quoted from real sources will be noted. Some of the green-tea lines are adapted from things found online. There are too many to list individually.

3. The female lead is physically invincible against ghosts, with top-tier combat strength.

4. There will be more supernatural and occult content than entertainment-industry content. The female lead is good at keeping her true nature hidden, forever young and forever not giving a damn. She acts one way in public and another in private, and she's always up to no good.

5. This isn't the final version of the blurb. Some details may change before the story begins, but the overall story won't change.

6. More detailed reading guidance can be found in the author's note at the end of Chapter One.

Revised 2023/11/26

Theme: Don't be fooled by appearances.