A Struggling Variety Star Goes Viral After Binding to Her Sister-in-Law System

The next book I'll be opening is Ambitious Starlet Takes Over the Entertainment World [Turn of the Millennium]. The blurb is below this one.

Jiang Huyu had been a K-pop idol for nearly a year, but she was still so unknown she might as well have had no name.

Her company did nothing, her bandmates ganged up on and bullied her, she got no resources at all, and her styling was deliberately designed to make her look terrible...

Jiang Huyu put up with it again and again, until she finally couldn't take any more after they gave her a look so hideous it was beyond belief. She ditched the awful styling her stylist had prepared and went onstage in her own clownfish outfit.

After the performance, a bandmate shoved her as she left the stage. Just before she passed out, she clearly heard a mechanical voice in her head: [Congratulations, you've bound the Sister-in-Law System!]

When she woke up, the fancam of her clownfish performance had gone viral, and her group was called back to promote their song.

At the post-show interview area for Music Bank, Jiang Huyu stared at the huge red arrow over the handsome male host's head and fell into deep thought...

[How can you be a sister-in-law without people finding out? Our motto is: The more your brother-in-law loves you, the greater your exposure!]

Go to a mixer with a popular boy band, exposure +600!

Go on a date with a top-tier star known as the nation's visual, exposure +1,000!

Get photographed as a top member of a top-tier boy band tries to win you back late at night, exposure +8,000!

Get a famous, top-tier star actor to travel a thousand miles to see you, exposure +10,000!

Jiang Huyu hesitated, tested the waters, grew excited, and took the initiative!

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The first time people noticed that the background of a photo matched that of a Red Group artist, and the public started wondering if they were dating

[Our little nobody didn't mean to! It was just the same cafe. Please be fair, ladies!]

The second time people spotted her and the guy entering the same apartment complex just minutes apart, and the media speculated that they were living together

[Our little unknown idol has finally gained a bit of attention and earned a little money. She was just looking at apartments. Don't drag our little nobody into this.]

The third time she was spotted walking by the river with a top member of a top-tier boy band, and his fans spread rumors that she was throwing herself at him

[Hello? Our little nobody beats your guy's numbers across the board. Who's jealous of the one who came in last among the ten million? Don't come clinging to our little nobody, washed-up old male idol. Did the jacket he lent her smell like old man?]

The Nth time a handsome star actor flew to Korea to beg her to get back together, and a face-reading master declared without a shred of evidence that she was pregnant

[We all have a duty to fight superstition. Report and block them, please! Keep supporting the empress of luxury brands, whose global campaigns launch simultaneously everywhere!]

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One day, a post on a well-known forum shot to the top of the trending discussions

[Do Jiang Huyu's fans even know how many people she's dated? Are you really okay with your girl loving relationships this much?]

[She's only in her twenties. What's wrong with dating? Is it against the law?]

[Let's put her on trial! Why do all these men keep trying to seduce our little nobody?]

[Her fans have already learned to lie flat. Our girl is carrying us to success, so what more could we ask for?]

[Here's a serious answer! First of all, our girl's professional skills are absolutely solid. Her live singing and dancing are incredible, and she has 42 fancams with over ten million views and 109 with over a million;

She's naturally talented at acting. She won Best Actress for her very first role, and a Hollywood blockbuster made just for her is about to come out;

She treats her fans wonderfully, too. She's held free birthday events for eight years in a row, never forgets fans she's met, and always knows exactly where the fans' cameras are.

Even when she dates someone, she never shows off the relationship in front of her fans. If those restless men hadn't kept trying to force her to make things official, her fans might never have found out.

In short, it's all those restless men's fault!]

[First, I support the sister above! Second, the fans of Nosay have more drama to enjoy: they're leaving the fandom of their third favorite because he hasn't dated our girl as long as their first favorite did. They think number three isn't good enough!]

#ExactlyHowManyPeopleHasJiangHuyuDated

#IsMyFaveReallyTheOtherWoman

#JiangHuyuCanYouStopDating

[How to Read and Things to Note]

1. As the blurb says, the heroine is an idol who gets bound to a Sister-in-Law System and has to date people to gain exposure. She's universally adored, but the men are all just side dishes and won't affect her career.

2. Her fans spoil her rotten, and she caters to them. Apart from loving to date, she has no shortcomings.

3. She's an absolute magnet for scandals and controversy. She is NOT written as the perfect idol! She has a little bit of idol integrity, but not much. Whatever little she has left, she spends on her fans!

4. The heroine's group has no group spirit at all! In the first half, when she still needs the group, they don't play up group unity. Later, when she goes solo, there's even less of that.

5. She starts out in a group, goes solo in the middle, then expands into multiple countries and becomes famous around the world.

6. Do not map this onto real life! Do not map this onto real life! Do not map this onto real life!

Blurb for the upcoming Ambitious Starlet Takes Over the Entertainment World [Turn of the Millennium]

The first time she stood in front of a camera, people maliciously heckled and mocked her, telling her to imitate her gambler father, who had been dead for years;

The second time she stood in front of a camera, she had applied to film school herself, only to be blacklisted and denied admission;

The third time she stood in front of a camera, it was on the set of a low-budget movie, where she was the most insignificant extra in the crowd;

The countless time she stood in front of a camera was at the star-studded Cannes International Film Festival. This time, she was the undisputed Chinese Best Actress.

Sang Ying had always believed that if you wanted something, you had to fight and claw your way to get it. No one would love her unconditionally.

She was greedy and wanted everything, so she had to work ten or a hundred times harder than anyone else.

What does it take for a bullied country girl to take over the world of cinema? Just be Sang Ying.

When people later looked back on Sang Ying's life, they always remembered her peerless beauty, brilliant acting, and tenacious vitality.

The world's most authoritative Global Film Review wrote of Sang Ying: “She is a treasure born of her time, a soul unlike any other in the world. With her beautiful, clear eyes, she sees through everything and portrays the joys and sorrows of life with stunning realism. Hardship and setbacks are the stepping stones she climbs, while resilience and greatness are the refrain of her life!”

One day, a hot discussion made headlines once again:

[Everyone knows Sang Ying had three marriages: a military officer she met through an introduction, a famous director she fell in love with while working on a film, and a loyal fan who pursued her for years. So here's the question: who did Sang Ying love most?]

The top-liked answer: The only things Sang Ying loved most in her life were herself, acting, and her fans. Sang Ying V.

[How to Read and Things to Note]

1. The heroine grows over time and is not perfect. The career-to-romance ratio is 6:4, and she has more than one romantic storyline.

2. The setting is fictional and not intended to be historically rigorous.

3. A traditional entertainment-industry story, with plenty of stories within the story and forum-style sections.

4. The heroine is not a good person in the traditional sense. She'll use tricks and connections to get the roles she wants, and she'll eventually become a power player.

5. There are no real-life models. Do not bring up real people.

Theme: Hold fast to your dreams and work hard