At twelve, Bi Jiangying followed her grandfather from village to village, performing rituals to drive out spirits.
Her grandfather was a Huoduan Gong, and she was the Red Child who climbed the blade mountain.
The rules of their trade forbade girls from performing onstage.
After graduating from junior high, she joined a traveling song-and-dance troupe that performed on makeshift stages to make ends meet. All she wanted was to stand somewhere brighter.
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At eighteen, she spent a year and a half pursuing Luo Shi, a stagehand, and slept with him in a leaking tent.
At twenty, she met Li Shuo, a C-list actor, on the last shuttle bus from a film set. The day they broke up, he slapped her.
Before joining a talent show, she changed her name to Bi Dan.
Jiangying and Dan were both scorching, dazzling reds, but they meant different things to her.
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When she found Li Zhibai, he was a grown boy who had run away from home.
When Chen Jianghai married her, he said, "From now on, I'll give you a home."
From then on was a long time.
But not that long.
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After the divorce, old stories about Bi Dan, the award-winning talent agent, suddenly surfaced online.
Some said she had gone under the knife and changed her face, and that she had a violent temper.
Others said she was vain and would stop at nothing to get what she wanted.
The whole social media world waited for her response.
But what came first was a confession from a veteran singer and a top-tier star at the same time:
Singer Luo Shi: "I'm here to claim my place as Bi Jiangying's first love. Jiangying, get back together with me..."
Top-tier star Li Zhibai: "Dandan, you're finally divorced. Let me take care of you and your son for the rest of your lives, okay?"
After a long silence, Bi Jiangying finally spoke:
Get lost.
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Bi Jiangying doesn't consider herself a good person, and all those revelations are true.
Someone like her couldn't even count on her parents to say a kind word about her.
In the first half of her life, she hurt others and was hurt by many people.
She was ignorant and selfish, vain and money-hungry.
She was sharp-tongued, hot-tempered, and calculating...
She could never seem to make the right choice, and she didn't ask the world to forgive her.
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One night, the wind rose and the flowers bloomed.
By morning, the flowers had withered.
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The heroine is not a morally perfect character.
Whoever she loves is the male lead.
Theme: Why fight to survive and still yearn to be someone's favorite?
