An Awakened Supporting Actress Builds a Career [The 1980s]

[The next book is “Reforming the Entertainment Industry on a Wilderness Survival Show.” The blurb is below. Feel free to add it to your favorites~~]

Blurb One:

Jiang Lanlan awakened and suddenly realized that she was a character in a book.

In the story, she was a stubborn, lovesick simp devoted to the male lead, a gloomy villainess who served as a foil to her younger female cousin, the heroine, and a hardworking cannon-fodder character in the leads' romance and a comparison point in their careers.

When the male lead got into a fight, she rushed over and brained someone with a brick, landing herself in prison.

While the heroine's family lived happily together, Jiang Lanlan's parents died one after the other. From then on, she was all alone, completely reduced to a comparison point.

The leads started a business in college, while she washed dishes, waited tables, and took odd jobs wherever she could.

The leads opened a thriving company, while she went to work in a factory, bucket in hand.

The leads' careers soared, while she finally saved enough to open a little restaurant.

The leads founded a massive conglomerate, while she was stabbed more than a dozen times by a thug on a quiet night, dying just before dawn.

A fatal start, followed by a hellish ending.

Jiang Lanlan looked at the brick in her hand, the one that would determine the course of her life, and almost wanted to smack herself over the head with it. What a garbage character setting! She refused to live like that!

Blurb Two:

Awakening in the business-booming 1980s, Jiang Lanlan had excellent cooking skills and inside information from the book, but not a penny to her name.

Luckily, the ponds and irrigation ditches were full of snails. The very next day, she was selling spicy stir-fried snails in town.

The young woman smiled sweetly, her eyes curving into crescents. Her stir-fried snails were savory, fragrant, and deliciously spicy, drawing crowds of eager food lovers.

Business was good, but trouble soon came knocking too. Grandma Jiang swiftly split up the family and kicked the three of them out.

Not long after, word spread through the village that the Jiang family's eldest son had opened a little restaurant in the county town. Plenty of people sneaked off to see them make a fool of themselves.

But who could have guessed that the Jiang family's little restaurant would be packed, with a line stretching far outside?

The aroma of the food wafted through the entire alley, making everyone who passed by swallow hard.

Inside, Jiang Lanlan was at the stove, her father was helping out, and her mother was serving customers. The family of three cheerfully counted their money.

Everyone stared in disbelief. They just couldn't understand how the honest, down-to-earth eldest son of the Jiang family had actually managed to open a restaurant!

Blurb Three:

Gu Jiashen, the top student in his senior year at County No. 3 High School, had excellent grades and a handsome face, but he was cold and distant, difficult to approach.

Until one day, Gu Jiashen suddenly discovered that he could hear the thoughts of Jiang Lanlan, his former classmate!

From then on, things grew more and more ridiculous.

[Poor Gu Jiashen. He's all alone, and he's such a terrible cook. It's a miracle he managed to grow up. I heard he never even got into college, which explains why he became the hardest-to-kill villain in the book!]

What? Then he absolutely had to go to college!

[The book says there's a box of gold bars hidden beneath the outhouse at Gu Jiashen's house. He made his fortune with those later! Sigh, why doesn't our Jiang family ever get lucky like that? Our ancestors really let us down!]

Gold? Not long afterward, someone took the money he'd gotten by selling the gold and offered to invest in Jiang Lanlan's little restaurant.

[Gu Jiashen's been acting weird lately. Does he like me? No, no, how could he possibly like anyone! But he's so handsome. Should I try flirting with him?]

What? Jiang Lanlan wanted to flirt with him? He'd wait patiently.

But Jiang Lanlan had plenty of lustful thoughts and no guts to act on them. Her inner monologue got bolder and bolder, but she never did a thing. Gu Jiashen waited and waited, but she never came to flirt with him.

Late at night, beneath a dark and windy sky, Gu Jiashen frowned and blocked Jiang Lanlan's way inside the little restaurant. Impatiently, he asked, “What happened to flirting with me?”

Jiang Lanlan tilted her head up and pecked him on the chin, then touched his rigid chest. “Don't rush me. I'm flirting right now!”

The upcoming book in my collection, “Reforming the Entertainment Industry on a Wilderness Survival Show,” has the following blurb

After struggling to survive in the apocalypse for five years, only to die in the end, Su Yang transmigrated into the body of someone with the same name.

The good news: this was a peaceful, safe era, with no starvation, cold, or zombies.

The bad news: the original owner was a celebrity whose scandals were all over the internet, the sort who'd have rotten eggs thrown at her just for walking down the street.

Su Yang pinched her fair, clean cheek and thought happily: For the rest of her life, she'd eat well, drink well, sleep well, and live a gloriously happy life!

*

Her contract had three months left, but her company didn't care about her at all. It forced Su Yang to accept an all-day livestreamed wilderness survival show, hoping to wring the last bit of value out of her and blacklist her from the entertainment industry for good.

Su Yang looked at the show, famous for its fights and backstabbing, then at the exorbitant breach-of-contract fee. She figured she couldn't get out of appearing on it, but she could at least keep her beautiful state of mind.

And so

Guest A looked at her hopefully. “Su Yang, you're amazing. Could you help me?”

Su Yang swung her hatchet with impressive force. “No, I'm so delicate.”

Guest A, who had secretly watched her chop down trees, build a shelter, and dive into the water to catch fish: “...Do you think I'm going to believe that?”

Guest B rubbed their hands together. “Su Yang, whatever you're roasting smells amazing. Could you share some with me?”

Su Yang took a huge bite of her beggar's chicken and cheerfully refused. “No, I have a big appetite.”

Guest B watched Su Yang polish off all the food in one go. “...Okay, I believe you. Could you stop eating? You're scaring me!”

Guest C spoke sarcastically. “Su Yang, are you really going to be this stingy and refuse to fit in?”

Su Yang blinked and answered with complete honesty. “Yes, I am.”

Guest C, blindsided by such a blunt, unvarnished reply: “...What should I say to make it look like I'm not mad at all? I'm waiting, and it's urgent!”

The fake heiress, her younger sister who joined the show midway through, teared up. “Sis, are you still mad at me? It was all my fault. I shouldn't have hoped that Dad and Mom would, ”

Su Yang frowned, wanting nothing more than to shine on her own. “Who are you? Why are you so dramatic?”

Her younger sister, so flustered she hiccupped: “Why isn't this going the way I imagined...?”

Director: “Su Yang, you know, we really ought to be a little more united on this show. Could you make your remarks just a little more tactful...?”

Su Yang: “Sure. That'll cost extra.”

The director blinked. Maybe keeping things as they were wasn't so bad after all...

At first, the livestream audience had only two goals: gaze at their favorite stars with hearts in their eyes, and spare no effort in hating on Su Yang.

But as they watched Su Yang shine on the show while going toe to toe with everyone online, relentlessly reforming the entertainment industry, the audience couldn't help but wonder:

Su Yang actually seems pretty impressive. How come I'm starting to like her...?

*

Among the scandals about Su Yang circulating online was the claim that she'd tried unsuccessfully to cling to Shenghe Group's young boss, Yu He, and had used misleading photos to stir up publicity.

Su Yang responded forcefully: “This so-called big boss you're talking about might just be a useless pretty boy who can't get it up. He's not worthy of someone as gorgeous as me.”

The internet was flooded with question marks: This woman really dares to say anything...

Soon, someone noticed that an account bearing the name of President Yu had reposted her response and tagged Su Yang: So that's what you think? @Su Yang

That night, in a state of utter confusion, Su Yang had the rumor debunked through someone's actions. The next day, she angrily posted a new message: “False! He can get it up!”

Viewer A: Those four characters mean two different things depending on how you read them, but I think I get it, hehe.

Viewer B: Oh my, she only posted a statement now because she went to put him through quality inspection all night, right?

Viewer C: Oh, oh, President Yu is really something. Got it, got it.

Not wanting to miss out on the fun, the official Shenghe Group account posted a picture of the two of them walking side by side, seen from behind, with the caption: “Our boss and lady boss @Yu He @Su Yang.”

The whole internet erupted. What? Are they really a couple?

Su Yang had something to say about that too: She hadn't expected that, after transmigrating here for quite a while, she'd discover she had a legal husband she barely knew...

Possible wilderness survival locations include:

Vast forests, remote deserted islands, tropical jungles, and more.

Note:

1. In real life, please do not capture, harm, eat, or trade wild animals.

2. The wilderness survival information in this novel may come from search engines, wilderness survival shows and documentaries, or from the author's own unprofessional imagination.

Theme: Work hard and diligently, and show the spirit of the times.