[My tendonitis has flared up, and even holding chopsticks hurts. I need to rest for a while. I'll update the bonus chapters once I'm better.]
One day, Jiang Linyi is reborn as a marginal member of a dance group and a streamer on the verge of being fired.
The original owner of her body had no money or education. After finally landing a contract with her current MCN company on the strength of her looks, she joined a group livestream. But in the five-member girl group, even after a whole month of streaming, only the lead dancer in the center had managed to attract a wealthy fan who gifted her tokens.
Just as the company was pointing fingers and cursing them out, threatening to disband the group and fire her if they failed to bring in more gifts, Jiang Linyi arrived.
On Jiang Linyi's very first day, the group livestream account received more than a hundred thousand yuan in gifts in a single day for the first time.
In her first month, Jiang Linyi alone scored ten million points in the company's guild competition.
With her exceptional skills and irresistible personality, Jiang Linyi rakes in money, rising step by step from the girl group's center to the guild's top streamer, and then to the platform's top streamer!
Jiang Linyi's name becomes synonymous with the internet's most powerful female streamer!
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As more and more big spenders joined her livestream, its atmosphere began to take a turn.
Other streamers' rooms were filled with gift effects as viewers watched the hosts compete against each other. In Jiang Linyi's room, though, it became a daily competition to see who could claim the top spot on Yiyi's leaderboard.
While other streamers were still trying to squeeze gifts out of their wealthy fans, the big spenders in Jiang Linyi's room were showering themselves with gift effects until they filled the screen.
Big-spending fan: “Unlock the whole exhibition! If other people have it, you need to have it too!”
Big-spending fan: “You haven't seen this new effect, little sis? Let me broaden your horizons!”
Fan: “I don't know what's going on. Our little sis hasn't even said a word, and these big spenders suddenly started going all out by themselves.”
Reader's Guide:
1. No real-life inspiration for anything. Chapter 15 has a long comment reply. The heroine's name comes from the line “Clear stones scatter in the shallow water, and ripples move through the forest light.” I thought the image was beautiful. Her stage name is a homophone of her given name: 01.
2. The streaming platform and gifts aren't based on anything real. I made them up based on all the platforms I've watched.
3. Everything in this novel is fictional, from beginning to end. All place names and task apps mentioned are invented by the author. Please don't associate them with real life! Nothing in the novel encourages minors to spend money, and it contains no harmful content involving minors!
Two upcoming novels:
Upcoming Novel 1: The Best Actress [Entertainment Industry]
In her previous life, Jiang Chen had two great regrets. First, when she was just starting out, she felt insecure about her looks and chose to get plastic surgery. Second, because of the surgery, she never became a leading actress, even by the time she died.
After being reborn as Jiang Cheng, she looks at her youthful face in the mirror, imperfect but still fresh and full of collagen. Gently, Jiang Cheng runs her fingers over the young features in the reflection:
She doesn't need plastic surgery, because her acting is a complete makeover!
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Someone once traced the path Jiang Cheng took to become a leading actress, only to discover it was impossible to replicate.
In an entertainment industry full of beautiful women, she didn't have the sort of beauty that took everyone's breath away.
In a world of fame and fortune ruled by power and money, she had no connections whatsoever.
All she had was her superb acting.
When she played a stereotypical, malicious female supporting character, she turned the role's sinister madness into a textbook performance, leaving viewers bombarding the official account with questions: “Are you sure you shouldn't investigate? That doesn't look like acting!”
When she played a little beggar, she crouched beside a bucket of slop and gnawed on a moldy bun. Her eyes shone with a chilling light through her filthy, tangled hair. The director watched the monitor, horrified: “A hungry ghost that eats people could crawl right out of that girl's eyes!”
When she played a mysterious swordswoman in a wuxia drama, she stood with sword in hand among a sea of bamboo, gracefully twirling her sword until the blade rang out in a clear, metallic note. The night behind-the-scenes footage of her dancing with the sword in the bamboo forest leaked, the original author posted late into the night: “That's Xie Lingshuang straight out of the book!”
At the time, she was still just an ordinary extra. At a cast dinner, a newly popular young star swirled his glass of red wine and sneered, “Audiences these days only care about looks.”
She smiled and raised her glass toward him. “A pretty face is just an entry ticket. Acting is the foundation that takes an actor to the highest podium!”
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Later, on the night she won the Academy Award for Best Actress and completed the grand slam of the world's four major acting awards, a reporter asked her in front of the cameras, “Some people say you've won so many awards because of that perfect face that God gave you for the screen. What do you think?”
Jiang Cheng held up her trophy and looked into the camera, winking playfully. “That's wrong. This isn't a rice bowl God gave me. It took me forty years to make it with my own hands.”
Reader's Guide:
1. A traditional entertainment-industry story about working one's way up, starting out as a supporting actor and extra. Her golden finger is being reborn, giving her decades more acting experience than everyone else.
2. A Mary Sue story, with a heroine whose acting is unbelievably good.
3. Lots of stories-within-the-story, including cheesy scenes of the heroine's incredible acting and her outshining her scene partners.
4. Not a mindless wish-fulfillment story. There will be plenty of setbacks early on, such as losing roles to actors with powerful connections despite her acting skills, and being suppressed by industry bigwigs. But she'll overcome these challenges quickly through her own ability, working her way from the bottom to the top.
Upcoming Novel 2
Jiang Die is an unsuccessful author who prefers writing obscure xianxia novels. One day, she transmigrates into an interstellar sentinel-guide novel as an unnamed background character.
When Jiang Die can't find a job or pay her rent and is about to be thrown out by her landlord to wander the streets, she discovers that this world, with its scarce mental energy and barren entertainment industry, has had its civilization cut off. As a result, all online novels are limited to the topic of interstellar warfare.
What a stroke of luck! She's found her old line of work. Give her a pen and she'll write!
And so a strange novel titled My Aloof Master Loves Me Passionately appears in the entertainment section of the galactic web.
At first, everyone who saw it scoffed: “What kind of nonsense is this?”
Later, everyone went wild for it: “Even if we put everything else aside, couldn't you write another three thousand words during your break, Author Xiang Nidie?”
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As the population's mental energy declines, fewer guides awaken across the world, and sentinels, unable to soothe their minds, begin to go berserk more often.
Then, a web novel appears out of nowhere on the galactic web!
The mental forms of every sentinel who reads it can enter the inner world created by the novel!
In that world, the substance that clings to their mental forms, causing sentinels to go berserk and eventually lose their minds and turn into beasts, can somehow be eliminated!
In no time, Xiang Nidie's name becomes famous throughout the galaxy!
*
The public's enthusiasm for new chapters gives Jiang Die, an obscure author known for her flops, plenty of motivation to keep writing.
There's just one thing she's unhappy about: some hacker from this world seems to break into her computer all the time.
But this hacker is strange. They don't do anything except give her “writing advice” on her manuscripts.
For instance: add a strange mutation to this beast today, give that demon a tragic backstory tomorrow.
Seriously, have you taken your fan obsession all the way into the author's drafts? Jiang Die has to carefully revise her manuscripts before every update because of it.
Finally, when she discovers that her draft has been altered yet again, Jiang Die can't take it anymore. She picks up her pen and writes a line before the latest chapter: “Mind your own business when it comes to the princess. I'll write what I want!”
And so, when the new chapter is published, every sentinel entering the inner world to soothe their mental energy receives a divine decree:
“Mind your own business when it comes to the princess. I'll write what I want!”
That day, everyone loses it.
Theme: Shine in the field you love!
I'm really convinced. You're so disgusting. It's been more than a month since the last episode. During this period, you haven't said a word. What do you think of the readers who have been waiting for you? We have been caring about you before and said that we can rest, but we have been waiting for more than a month without any news [Joker]
[Cracked] [Cracked] I'm tired. I just want a side story about Brother Kid. I've been waiting for more than a month...
It's been a month, and there's been no update. Not a word has been said, not a single explanation. You said before that your hand hurt and everyone was concerned about you, but you haven't given an explanation for a month. Isn't it too much?
Is it a trap? Refreshing every day is a disappointment. Didn't it mean that we would get to the next if line as soon as possible? [Crack][crack][crack]
Can you give me a definite update time? I can't just stop updating it for a week just because it's a side story. I really like the main text, but now I feel like my enthusiasm has been lost.
I'm really convinced. Is there any meal replacement with this kind of article? Please recommend [crying]
Alas, the author is so awesome. I really want to be uncivilized and use bad words to hurt people. But don't what you do hurt the hearts of our readers? I'm so tired. I feel chilled every time I refresh the page. I know what to say. Let's end it quickly. Let each other go.
Is your tenosynovitis healed? Regardless of whether it's good or bad, I've been waiting for three months and I've almost forgotten the plot. I plan to update the extras, but I'll give it up if I really want to give it up, so that everyone can give up. It's too tiring to not get up or down.
Should I still write or not? ? ? Three months without an explanation? Why do you keep pretending that the update is obviously not finished? We understand that you said you wanted to rest before. Even if you have surgery in three months, you still have time to talk about the situation of Chevenemant, right? Could it be that he has been under general anesthesia for three months and is unconscious?
I'm really convinced. The extra episodes have been disconnected little by little. I almost forgot about the plot. It hasn't been updated yet, and there's not even an explanation.
I'm really convinced. You're so disgusting. It's been more than a month since the last episode. During this period, you haven't said a word. What do you think of the readers who have been waiting for you? We have been caring about you before and said that we can rest, but we have been waiting for more than a month without any news [Joker]
[Cracked] [Cracked] I'm tired. I just want a side story about Brother Kid. I've been waiting for more than a month...
It's been a month, and there's been no update. Not a word has been said, not a single explanation. You said before that your hand hurt and everyone was concerned about you, but you haven't given an explanation for a month. Isn't it too much?
Is it a trap? Refreshing every day is a disappointment. Didn't it mean that we would get to the next if line as soon as possible? [Crack][crack][crack]
Can you give me a definite update time? I can't just stop updating it for a week just because it's a side story. I really like the main text, but now I feel like my enthusiasm has been lost.
I'm really convinced. Is there any meal replacement with this kind of article? Please recommend [crying]
Alas, the author is so awesome. I really want to be uncivilized and use bad words to hurt people. But don't what you do hurt the hearts of our readers? I'm so tired. I feel chilled every time I refresh the page. I know what to say. Let's end it quickly. Let each other go.
Is your tenosynovitis healed? Regardless of whether it's good or bad, I've been waiting for three months and I've almost forgotten the plot. I plan to update the extras, but I'll give it up if I really want to give it up, so that everyone can give up. It's too tiring to not get up or down.
Should I still write or not? ? ? Three months without an explanation? Why do you keep pretending that the update is obviously not finished? We understand that you said you wanted to rest before. Even if you have surgery in three months, you still have time to talk about the situation of Chevenemant, right? Could it be that he has been under general anesthesia for three months and is unconscious?
I'm really convinced. The extra episodes have been disconnected little by little. I almost forgot about the plot. It hasn't been updated yet, and there's not even an explanation.