[Football] The Top-Tier Star Retired from Showbiz and Became a Legend on the Pitch

Top-tier star Lin Qiao is constantly criticized for his terrible singing, wooden acting, and stiff dancing, but he's still a top-tier star because he's handsome. Then one day, the top-tier star suddenly announced his retirement from the entertainment industry. His fans wailed, and his haters celebrated. At his final interview, a reporter asked, "What do you plan to do after retiring?" The top-tier star answered with a serious expression: "Play football." Fans: "Waaaah, we're so sad, but as long as you get to do what you love, that's all that matters, oppa. Don't forget to post lots of selfies." Haters gloated: "Heh, that's a pretty impressive lack of ambition. You're going to fade into obscurity!" / Word has it that a young man has suddenly joined Manchester United's first team. He's Chinese, and he's handsome. He'd never appeared in any official league match before. Ferguson, who watched him play in person: "He'll be Manchester United's secret weapon next season." Back home, the whole country went into a frenzy trying to dig up the details on this record-breaking rising star. Finally, three days before the season began, they found his name on the registered squad list. Lin Qiao The top-tier star's fans tagged Lin Qiao: "Hahaha, oppa, what a coincidence. Your names sound the same." Haters tagged Lin Qiao too: "Has-been, come look at this rising star." A TV station also tagged Lin Qiao: "Xiao Lin, what a coincidence. Since you're free, why not come to the studio as a guest commentator?" 123 friends in the industry tagged Lin Qiao one after another: "LMAO, why's his name the same as yours!" Lin Qiao replied to them all: "That's because it's me." Fans: "You're so funny, oppa." Straight guys: "Heh, pretty boys can brag without paying taxes, I guess." Everyone: "Yeah, right!" Then, on the first day of the new Premier League season, Manchester United's new number 17 appeared. His face was so handsome it was almost offensive, and he looked exactly like the top-tier star. A screamer, four goals in one match, a hat trick in the derby. Top scorer, Ballon d'Or, an undefeated season. Barcelona tries to sign him, Real Madrid makes a play for him, but Manchester United won't sell. Messi praises him, Ronaldo applauds him, and everyone loves number 17. The fans went wild: "Aaaaaah, oppa looks so handsome playing football!!" Straight guys went wild: "Holy crap, the king of football!!! No, the god of football!!!" Even the haters went wild: "Can somebody tell me how the hell we're supposed to hate him now????" -- Lin Qiao had a secret. Starting at age eighteen, he was forced by the System to train in a virtual space every day. He trained for three years. Three years later, the System finally issued its first main quest: Become a professional player. #Maxed-out expert moves to another field and stays maxed out##The protagonist never loses##A real-time record of haters becoming fans# #I write stories so the protagonist can become king# #Funny, satisfying, and not meant to be fact-checked. You don't need to know football to follow along##The author is a fake fan too# -- Please bookmark my upcoming story, "[Football] Real Madrid's Defensive Ace, but Europe's Golden Boot Winner"! Fei Min worked overtime until he dropped dead, then transmigrated. Good news: He transmigrated into a successful professional footballer. Bad news: He'd just been in a car accident and was already dead. Good news: The System saved him. Bad news: The System's rule is that if you don't score, you die. Good news: The System gives him help with scoring. Bad news: He's a defender. Good news: He's a Real Madrid defender. Fei Min: . Before long, the first goal-scoring machine in history, a defender who scores more goals than anyone else, emerges at Real Madrid. A defender winning the Ballon d'Or isn't strange, but what about a defender winning the Golden Boot? -- Here's a serialized story of mine, already over 100,000 words long, on another page. It's a feel-good entertainment-industry business story. If you're interested, check it out and bookmark it! Title: "The Whole Entertainment Industry Is Waiting for Me to Deliver" Excerpt: Only after Zhu Xilin died did he learn that this world was a book. He was a cannon-fodder character, while the current top star, who had been handed a script to leapfrog from the bottom to the top, was the protagonist of this world. Zhu Xilin finally understood. His efforts had only brought him more misfortune because it was all written in the script. He was just one more supporting character in the chosen one's story. Then he transmigrated back. Watching his thoroughly rotten former coworkers, he calmly spilled all the dirt during a livestream, leaving behind a mountain of mess as he successfully terminated his contract. The boss nearly bled from the heart after paying the breach-of-contract fees to twelve advertisers. The boss forced out a bitter laugh. "A troublemaker like you will never find anyone willing to sign you." Zhu Xilin smiled. "Thanks for the offer, but I'm planning to start my own company." * Zhu Xilin signed a chubby guy with one hand and a wooden-faced popular star who was about to retire with the other. Netizens lamented: "Zhu Xilin is handsome and talented, but he's completely unsuited to being a boss..." Only Zhu Xilin knew that in three months, the chubby guy would slim down in a flash and become the stunning visual center of a certain boy band; and six months later, the wooden-faced star would awaken a second personality and become such a good actor that acting textbooks would be written about him. There was also the delicate-looking girl who danced without any energy, the real heiress who was called a scheming green tea bitch on a variety show, and the top singer-songwriter struggling underground while caught up in a plagiarism lawsuit... Later, the stunning visual said on the red carpet, full of emotion: "I owe it all to President Zhu for recognizing my potential. I wouldn't be where I am today without him!" The wooden-faced star won the Best Actor award at Cannes and thanked Zhu Xilin 22 times during his speech: "President Zhu... is my spiritual mentor!" The delicate-looking girl, the variety-show queen and real heiress, and the top singer-songwriter all said in unison: "President Zhu saved my life!" Netizens who were waiting for Zhu Xilin to give up on his business and return to the entertainment industry to debut as center waited and waited... then watched his company rise to number one in the entertainment industry? The boss who was waiting for Zhu Xilin to go bankrupt instead watched his own company shut down and liquidate? Zhu Xilin: The one and only treasure trove in the entertainment industry. Bring all the good stuff to me. If it's made by Xilin, it's bound to be top quality! Theme: The more everyone doubts you, the more you have to show them what you can accomplish!