Factory Beauty from the 1990s Makes a Comeback as a Film Queen

At eighteen, Gu Qingman was as beautiful as a celestial maiden.

Her parents lived comfortably by draining her dry, yet still wanted to "sell" her off for a bride price.

Whoever wanted to be that sucker could do it. She certainly wouldn't!

She took a bus south overnight and got a job at a factory.

As soon as she started working there, Gu Qingman became the talk of the factory, thanks to her mesmerizing beauty. Countless young men slipped her love letters, and everyone watched and talked about her.

But it brought her no benefits. Instead, it made enemies for her, and she was bullied every day.

Rumors flew around the factory that she was promiscuous and juggling countless men.

Her life seemed to be hurtling down the road to "a beauty's tragic fate."

With no other choice, she used her beauty to start dating the chairman's son.

Overnight, she went from an ordinary girl to a princess. Her boyfriend protected her and transferred her from the assembly line, where she'd been bullied and targeted, to an easy office job. Her coworkers were friendly, and her salary doubled. From then on, work was a delight.

Best of all, her boyfriend was rich, handsome, and a highly educated university student. He showered her with gifts, took her to all kinds of upscale venues, and even moved her into a luxurious hilltop mansion.

Those who had bullied her were green with envy.

But later, when a woman showed up claiming to be his mistress, Gu Qingman learned that her rich second-generation boyfriend thought she was uneducated and embarrassing. He'd been cheating on her with a little star who was trying to get into film school.

Her bullies gloated, waiting for him to dump her so she would fall from the office back to the assembly line, where they could torment her again.

But no one expected an admission letter from the film academy to arrive at the factory. At the all-hands meeting, the factory director read it aloud, beaming with excitement: "Congratulations to Comrade Gu Qingman on getting into the Shanghai Film Academy! She's the first university student our factory has ever produced, and she's the pride of Hongsheng Shoes!"

As everyone stared in shock, Gu Qingman collected her admission letter, said goodbye to her scumbag ex-boyfriend, and continued making the most of her beauty.

She became a sensation in the industry, with one invitation after another pouring in, and made a fortune.

One by one, those who had looked down on her and called her a gold-digger fell silent.

With her beauty, Gu Qingman carved out a dazzling path through life and escaped the curse that beautiful women were doomed to tragic fates.

From a factory girl to an international movie queen, she earned fame and fortune and became a queen who could control every aspect of her own life.

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Su Qianci transmigrated into the cheesy Hong Kong Island novel Beauty of Hong Kong Island in the Sixties. She became a minor cannon-fodder character in the story.

In the novel, the original character had no legal status. She could only marry an old man to obtain legal status, then died in childbirth after carrying a baby for ten months.

When Su Qianci transmigrated, the original character had just arrived on Hong Kong Island with her friends. They had no legal status and were living in a chaotic shantytown. To get food and a bed to sleep in, many of the girls who had come with her were forced to sacrifice their dignity.

And now, a middleman was about to introduce her to an old man as his wife.

Su Qianci ran away without hesitation. She found a way to join TVB's acting class and enter a beauty pageant, hoping to establish herself in Hong Kong Island's entertainment industry and escape the fate of being preyed upon.

But Hong Kong Island's entertainment industry was just as ruthless. As an outsider, how could she get anywhere? After having roles taken away and being discriminated against and targeted, she decided to become her own backing, go into business, and become a tycoon and a force to be reckoned with.

Using her knowledge of Hong Kong Island's development from the book, she launched all kinds of businesses, starting small and growing steadily. She even entered the booming real estate market and was on the verge of becoming a tycoon when the original male lead ruined her in one fell swoop, leaving her bankrupt and right back where she started.

The original male lead loved the heroine, yet also wanted to make Su Qianci his captive.

She couldn't beat Song Xiangheng, so she married Mo Shaoru, a man who seemed like a true gentleman. He married her to obtain an inheritance legally, so they were simply getting what they each wanted.

Once they had both gotten what they wanted, they could go their separate ways.

But unexpectedly, they couldn't separate. Mo Shaoru was no harmless gentleman. He was cunning and devious, with one scheme after another, and he was good at playing the victim too. His machinations left her with nowhere to run.

Even their marriage was the result of Mo Shaoru's scheming. He had tricked her into willingly walking into his trap.

But nothing could stop Su Qianci from gaining control over her own life!

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