The Actress Starts Out One Hundred Million in Debt

Gu Qingyuan made her debut ten years ago. At thirty, she won the Best Actress award and planned to retire in triumph, ready to live an easygoing life of retirement.

Who could have guessed that, just as she was accepting her award, a stage rig would suddenly come crashing down and hit her squarely?

When she woke up, she discovered she had become an infamous, talentless pretty face in the entertainment industry, and was one hundred million in debt.

Gu Qingyuan: ...A whole herd of damn mud horses galloped through her mind.

Fine, fine. One hundred million in debt from the start, huh?

To pay off her debt, Gu Qingyuan had no choice but to go back to work, even though she'd already been ready to retire.

The original owner had only one job left: an acting competition show that hadn't terminated her contract. She'd been cast in the sacrificial role, and even made a mentor. Gu Qingyuan saw right away that the production team wanted to use the original owner's current buzz to get rid of her while making the show a hit.

The only thing Gu Qingyuan liked about it was that it was livestreamed. She curled her lips into a smile. A sacrificial role, huh? Fine!

From then on, Gu Qingyuan let loose, unlocking her ability to clap back at everyone and everything, with no cooldown.

The production team's favorite traffic stars kept setting traps for Gu Qingyuan. She told them bluntly, "Give it a rest with these pathetic tricks. Do you really think the audience is stupid?"

The viewers, who hadn't noticed until she pointed it out: ...Damn it, I supported him so much!

A traffic star kept making snide remarks about an accomplished actor whose popularity had faded. Gu Qingyuan went straight for the jugular: "If you put as much effort into acting as you do into sniping at people, you'd already be at the level of a Best Actor."

The viewers joined in: Exactly! What a joke. That person's a real actor. Their acting blows yours out of the water.

A popular young actress took it upon herself to add scenes and change the script. Gu Qingyuan immediately called her out: "Your acting is terrible, but you've sure got a lot of ideas."

The viewers burst out laughing: I love Gu Qingyuan's mouth so much. If you've got more to say, say it!

Unable to take Gu Qingyuan's verbal takedowns, a traffic star said, "If you're so good, why don't you act?"

Viewers: Oh, wow. I love Sister Gu's mouth, but her acting really is painful to watch.

Gu Qingyuan took the challenge, and the whole set was stunned by her performance.

The other mentors: "You've been hiding your talent pretty well!"

The viewers were full of questions: Is that Gu Qingyuan? Has someone possessed her? Did she secretly take acting classes behind our backs?

Later, the viewers went wild for Gu Qingyuan, went crazy for Gu Qingyuan, and repeatedly slammed into walls for Gu Qingyuan: Sister, kill me! Sister, do you need a cute little maid to warm your bed? Sister, I'm available!

[Sharp-tongued Best Actress with maxed-out clapback skills x scheming, tea-drinking Best Actor]

[Reading Guide]

The career storyline runs throughout the novel, with romance as a side plot. The male lead appears rather late.

This story has nothing to do with real life. Any resemblance is purely coincidental.

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Host's Daily Meltdowns

Li Qingwan offended her boss and was transferred to the high-risk quick transmigration division.

The quick transmigration division was considered high-risk because the male and female leads in these small worlds weren't paragons of virtue. Sometimes they were even worse than the villains. Quick transmigration mission-takers had to reform them and turn them into genuinely virtuous protagonists. The danger wasn't to their lives, but to their mental health.

The only senior agent who had stayed sane and successfully reformed her targets had poured her heart and soul into the protagonists in every world, and used her own life as a stepping stone to move them.

Exiled to the division, Li Qingwan was furious. How could a lousy mission be enough to make you lose your mind?

Li Qingwan decided to lie flat. Faced with deranged male and female leads, she would simply go crazy on the spot. No one could out-crazy her.

And so...

In the first world, she was the real heiress, often bullied and shunned until she turned evil, while the male and female leads were lunatics who cared only about their love and couldn't care less whether anyone else lived or died.

System: If she were the senior agent, she'd always treat the leads well, eventually even dying for the female lead and becoming the white moonlight in their hearts, which would inspire them to mend their ways.

Li Qingwan: Oh, so the protagonists can torment me a thousand times, and I still have to treat them like my first love?

When the fake heiress framed her and her parents blamed her, Li Qingwan went crazy on the spot. If they said she was bullying the girl, then she'd really bully her. She raised a hand and punched her, and there was no stopping her.

System: !!! Host, calm down!

In the second world, she was an unloved little princess in the cold palace, whose prince consort had been stolen by the female lead. The male leads and male supporting characters wrecked the country for the female lead, without caring whether the people lived or died.

System: If she were the senior agent, she'd take the female lead's place and avoid every danger for her, then teach her to care for the people. That would indirectly make the male leads and male supporting characters love her by association.

Li Qingwan: Whoever wants that prince consort can have him! You don't want the throne? I'll take it!

System: ??!!!

World Three: ...

Looking at Li Qingwan's state of mind, the System was very worried that she'd soon lose it. It was also sure she'd fail the mission, so it decided to lie flat and stop caring.

To its surprise, she completed the mission, and even got a high rating.

The System's eyes lit up as it clung to Li Qingwan's leg. "Host, please carry me to victory!"

*

Across one world after another, his life had already been given an ending, doomed to finish in tragedy.

In the endless abyss, a ray of light appeared. It illuminated him, and he refused to let go even if it meant death.

You are the light I would never let go of, even in death.

[Violent, hot-tempered foodie heroine who throws hands at the slightest provocation vs. pitiful villain hero with maxed-out cooking skills]

Theme: Never give up on yourself!