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My name is Jiang Xinsheng, and I'm a C-list actress. Tomorrow, I'm going on a business trip to be a popular star's stand-in.
Bad news: I get hit by a car on the way.
Good news: After getting hit, I transmigrate.
Bad news: I transmigrate into a three-year-old whose parents are divorced.
Good news: Each parent pays a million in child support every month.
Bad news: As a three-year-old, I'm not allowed any freedom.
Good news: I get another chance, and I can take everything back. (Not really.)
Good news: I get another chance. If I start training young, I can get closer to my dream!
So I start pushing myself from a young age, getting my grandparents to sign me up for dance, violin, calligraphy, painting, singing, English, and all sorts of other extracurricular classes.
"Ding! Actor Growth System binding in progress!"
Luckily, I also get bound to an Actor System, so I have even more reason to work hard!
There are... days until the arts entrance exam. I've got ten thousand days to work hard. I'm going to be a superstar!
At three, while the other kids are playing on the slide, she's starting violin.
At four, while the other kids are on the seesaw, she's learning a foreign language with a native accent.
At five, while the other kids are watching cartoons, she's watching Cannes films.
At twelve, she wins the National Youth Violin Championship.
At thirteen, she earns the highest-level certificate in Chinese folk dance.
At sixteen, she passes the audition and lands the female second lead in a new film by a renowned director.
Later, the film catapults her to fame. She becomes a huge sensation, and countless marketing accounts call her "a sixteen-year-old acting prodigy" and "the youngest leading lady."
When the media interview this acting prodigy, they're all amazed by her discipline, hard work, and talent.
Her fans are proud of her: Our girl is one of a kind in the entertainment industry. Her college entrance exam results could get her into a top university, she has a national first-class dance certificate, and her violin skills are good enough for the opera house... Most importantly, no one can match her acting or her looks!
Directors admire her: It's been a long time since we've seen an actress in the entertainment industry with such astonishing acting and looks. She has incredible acting skills, as well as the ambition and ability to match.
Even passersby adore her: My favorite, most promising, most likable, most anticipated actress is still Jiang Xinsheng, of course~
When Jiang Xinsheng becomes the youngest recipient of the Best Actress award, she says in her acceptance speech: Thank you to everyone who has helped me along the way. But the person I'm most grateful to is myself. Thank you for never giving up and working hard all this time. That's my greatest asset.
tips:
1. The female lead is serious about her career.
2. Modern setting in a fictional world, no real-life inspirations. Please don't draw comparisons to reality.
3. Third-person narration.
4. The female lead has a System and a golden finger, and she also works incredibly hard.
5. A feel-good coming-of-age story, no angst.
6. Added on 2024.1.31.
Theme: Opportunity favors the prepared.