I Went Viral in Showbiz Thanks to My Side Hustle

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Also known as: I Passed Through the Whole World on Camera, the Entire Entertainment Industry Is My Friend

After working diligently as an actress for four years, Ying Weiyan, a twenty-eighth-tier actress, suddenly makes the sad discovery that she earns less than animal actors.

I can't support myself like this, the foodie Ying Weiyan tells herself.

I've heard side hustles are really popular lately. I should give one a try.

So she opens a video app to look up some tips.

The first video she sees reads: College students wanted to walk dogs, 100 yuan an hour, meals included.

Ying Weiyan ignores the hundreds of thousands of comments and remembers the fresh acceptance letter for her master's degree from the Southern Film Academy. She sends the dog's owner a message: Would a master's student do?

Ying Weiyan looks at three Siberian home-destroying machines and grins just as foolishly as they do. "Can you pull a sled?"

Ying Weiyan acts quickly and takes the three huskies racing along the designated route.

The pet blogger looks on, lost in thought, as their normally destructive huskies collapse at home and don't destroy a thing.

After checking the security footage, they realize that next to Ying Weiyan, the dogs are actually holding back.

The pet blogger edits the security footage and posts it online. Netizens discover that the three goofy dogs, famous for wrecking homes, have been defeated by a skinny little woman, and they all give her a thumbs-up.

Good news: Ying Weiyan has become a little famous.

Bad news: She's famous for walking dogs.

Thanks to the traffic sent her way by the pet blogger, Ying Weiyan's private account gains more than a hundred thousand followers.

But she has no idea.

Of course she can't just pick side hustles she enjoys, so Ying Weiyan applies for a job shaking milk tea.

Other people shake milk tea the normal way.

Ying Weiyan shakes milk tea like this: "Your Majesty, do you still remember the sweet green milk tea by Daming Lake?"

Wearing a witch costume, Ying Weiyan draws a long line outside the milk tea shop.

Somehow, she becomes the shop's mascot.

After a few days, Ying Weiyan realizes something's wrong. She still hasn't learned how to make milk tea, so why has she started acting again?

She runs off to grill sausages outside an elementary school.

Three yuan for one, five yuan for two.

A domineering elementary schoolboy sees the promotional poster she drew. "I'll buy all your grilled sausages. Help me make the class bulletin board, too. I'll pay you five hundred for one."

Ying Weiyan, who has no ambition, happily goes off to paint the board. A landscape painting in ink happens to be captured by a reporter from the city, who's visiting the school to film a promotional video.

Standing before everyone, Ying Weiyan stammers, "Art is priceless. Art is priceless."

If her father finds out she sold the skill he taught her for five hundred yuan, she won't be allowed to come home for the New Year.

Ying Weiyan's painting goes viral, and so does her grilled sausage stand. Someone films her eating a sausage for every one she grills. She eats more than she sells.

Ying Weiyan then heads to Haidilao, hoping to sing someone a birthday song.

On her first day at work, Ying Weiyan makes a customer cry from laughter.

With her terrible singing, she goes viral on the video app.

Sharp-eyed netizens realize she's the one who went crazier than the dogs, ran away from the milk tea shop as its mascot, and became the grilled sausage artist.

The next second, someone spots Ying Weiyan leading a group of people in a square-dance session. The former girl group member, who once attended a training camp, is teaching a group of older men and women the hottest boy-band and girl-group dances.

She shines in the square.

Netizens: Holy crap, my internet idol can do everything.

The characters aren't based on real people. Any resemblance is purely coincidental.

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[One last note: All the jokes are just for fun! There's no complicated meaning behind them. The characters' opinions don't represent my own. I'll take every opinion seriously, but I won't accept baseless attacks. Hope you enjoy reading! Have a great day, every day!]

Theme: I told you, don't turn down money.