She Is Both the Empress's Powerful Chancellor and a Song Queen

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[Career-driven wicked lily × sexy househusband, gentle with a bit of mean]

[Long-married couple pretending not to know each other while flirting | Queen vs. loyal puppy | Conquering the entertainment industry]

Blurb

Zhao Ruan is the lily of the human world, as well as a C-list singer who throws her family’s modest wealth around to make waves in the entertainment industry. After publicly professing her love for an award-winning actor online, she earned the nickname “The Hilarious Queen Who Thinks She’s Peachy.” Her already nonexistent reputation plummeted to rock bottom, and both her career and love life fell apart.

By chance, Zhao Ruan unexpectedly caught her dream guy kissing his girlfriend and fainted from sheer shock. When she opened her eyes again, she had already lived an entire lifetime in a matriarchal world. After all she had been through, she returned calm and unruffled.

According to the System, she was originally the vicious supporting woman in a romance novel, while her dream guy, the award-winning actor, was the male lead she kept pursuing. If she hadn’t been mistakenly absorbed into a matriarchal world and awakened to her own consciousness, Zhao Ruan’s ending would have been set in stone: when she became a mentor on the talent show Star Select, her career would grind to a halt, and she would drag her family and friends into bankruptcy.

Zhao Ruan, former female emperor’s powerful minister, seasoned in the dark arts of officialdom, Softie: Small potatoes. This is nothing. I can still turn things around.^^

First, she’ll prove herself with her skills, then showcase her vocal talent on the show and use her money to drum up a little publicity. Most importantly, she’ll bring all the talented people mentioned in the original novel under her wing, including the female lead: the all-around diva and grand-slam award-winning actress who rose from humble beginnings, the gifted new-generation singer from a musical family, the female director who turned her career around with art-house films and racked up award after award... She’s taking them all!

Her love life also falls into place. A popular boy-band member offers himself to her, while the original novel’s second male lead, who admired the original female lead, gazes at her with adoration. Even the original male lead seems to have something to say, and offers to take her home when she’s drunk.

But Zhao Ruan staggers, waves a hand, and declares that she’s a woman of principle who would never make a move on a married man. Sisters are like limbs, men are like clothes. Besides, she has someone dear to her heart:

“Xiangxiang... come pick me up.”

A moment later, Xiangxiang himself appears at the private room’s door. He’s none other than the trainee who once went viral on a talent show for a stunning tearful reaction image. Now he speaks softly to Zhao Ruan, telling her she made him worry and mustn’t drink so much next time.

“You’re someone destined to accomplish great things. If you don’t take care of yourself, it’ll break my heart.”

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Hot Topic | Who’s had the best career after Star Select 303?

[OP] Seriously, the seven-member group got popular and faded away way too fast...

1L

Rigged votes got them their debut spots. The real highlight of the show was the boy-band trainee, actually. [Covers mouth, laughing]

2L

They got their fan favorite a debut spot, only for that fan favorite to curse their career into the ground. Heh.

3L

Definitely the fan favorite. Anyone who went up against him failed to make it. The award-winning actor tried to sabotage him during a drama promotion, and got cursed into temporarily vanishing from public view to lie low.

4L

I nominate the fan favorite. That guy’s ridiculously lucky and has a great eye. He should count himself lucky to land a woman as high-profile as the Queen of Pop. He just needs to spend the rest of his life as a happy little husband...

The Zhao family’s new son-in-law is wonderful in every way. It’s just that the things he says are a little odd.

“If Ruan likes it, I don’t mind.”

“Cooking for her is my responsibility. How could I let her get bogged down by little things like that?”

“She’s the one who treats me well and gives me someone to rely on.”

Zhao’s mother and father: ???

[Reading Guide]

1. The heroine is imperfect. As a lingering effect of studying in a matriarchal world, she occasionally fixates on other men.

2. Male lead is a virgin, one-on-one romance. There are pseudo-harem members from her past life and a rivalry among men over the male lead.

3. The original female lead is not vilified. The heroine is relatively tolerant of women, and any conflicts are business rivalries. She is extremely career-driven.

4. The talent show format serves the plot, so just enjoy it. There are no real-life counterparts; don’t draw parallels with reality. Controversial opinions in the story do not reflect the author’s own views.

5. The heroine is secretly loved by everyone.

Theme: Sincerity for sincerity