This novel is also known as "Ten Thousand and One Ways to Escape Nonsensical Mary Sue Tropes"
Qu Qiubai is a top-level women's singles figure skater, a once-in-a-generation talent in China. She was the first Chinese women's singles skater to win gold, and single-handedly ushered in a golden age for women's singles skating in Asia. She truly deserves to be called the "Queen of Figure Skating."
Qu Qiubai never imagined that one lost competition would leave her inhabiting the body of a bullied young skater with the same name.
The girl had devoted four-fifths of her life to figure skating, but chose to end her life because of jealousy and bullying.
Just a moment after Qu Qiubai decided to carry on the girl's dream, her phone pushed a notification for a Mary Sue romance novel, "The Fatal Charm of the Entertainment Industry's Darling."
The heroine's adored-by-all aura was so exaggerated it blotted out the sky. She was a frail, delicate darling who saved people and was loved by everyone.
A world-famous boy band's lead singer was devoted to her, a top movie star silently protected her, and even casually picking up a bottle of soy sauce won her the favor of a major investor.
She was as aloof as a chrysanthemum, hypocritical and timid, yet always managed to outperform everyone and win gold. Without fighting or competing, she got everything she wanted.
According to the book, Qu Qiubai was the foil who existed to get face-slapped and show up the heroine.
No matter how hard she tried, she couldn't win a competition, but the heroine could enter and take first place with ease.
She silently treasured the person she loved, but all the heroine had to do was glance at him, and he'd come right over to her.
She couldn't land a 3A no matter what, while the heroine could manage one after barely practicing.
In the end, even the Olympic spot she'd dreamed of had to be handed over to the "strong and unyielding" heroine.
According to the plot, in three days, the heroine's 3A would crush her confidence. She'd lose the Winter Olympics qualification competition she'd spent a year preparing for, dazed and confused. A year later, consumed by resentment and jealousy, she'd be rejected by the person she'd secretly loved for ten years, then leap off the Han River Bridge.
She'd give up her life to make the heroine suddenly realize her feelings for the male lead, delivering one last assist as a tool character.
Qu Qiubai stretched her somewhat stiff body and stepped onto the bus headed for the Olympic selection competition.
Throughout her twenty-year career in women's singles, her name had shone among the stars, leaving all the others dim by comparison. Even if fate didn't favor her, she'd fight to the very end.
This moment, like every moment before it.
Theme: Love yourself, love life
