The Washed-Up Supporting Actress Is Completely Unhinged [Showbiz]

The moment the variety show contract was placed in her hands, Gu Yao finally realized she hadn't been given a second chance at life. She had transmigrated into a book.

In the original story, she was a vicious supporting actress in a third-rate showbiz career, with a nasty personality.

On a dating show, she used her seductive looks, long legs, and slender waist to constantly compete with other women, stir up trouble, and juggle N men. By stark contrast with the sweet, gentle heroine, she was eventually dragged through the mud by the entire internet.

After falling into despair, she went completely mad, speeding through the streets and killing indiscriminately to vent her rage, before finally crashing into a building and dying.

Gu Yao tumbled off the sofa, completely dumbfounded.

Who? Who was competing with other women, stirring up trouble, and juggling N men? She'd only ever dated one guy online, for heaven's sake!

To avoid becoming the crazed version of herself in her head, driven mad by the plot, Gu Yao immediately switched to another variety show. She was going to join an esports show!

After all, esports meant nothing but rock-hard fists! No going crazy and competing with other women!

Gu Yao had no intention of competing for anything, but what she hadn't expected was that the sweet heroine would be a guest on this show too!

And what she really hadn't expected was that her online boyfriend would be the genius pro player joining the show as a team coach!

Oh, no!

Her secret identity online was that of a wretched, impoverished wage slave! She'd always gone on about how she needed to work hard, save up for a plane ticket, and go see him!

If he found out that one episode of the show paid enough to buy a hundred plane tickets!

She'd be so dead.

Before her secret identity was exposed, Gu Yao was enthusiastic and uninhibited in their online chats.

Baby. You're so hot. I want you.

After it was exposed, Gu Yao smiled timidly in person.

I'm sorry. I'm guilty. I repent.

But that wasn't the key problem. As filming went on, Gu Yao realized that several aspects of this esports variety show were remarkably similar to the dating show in the original story.

Thinking it over, she suddenly saw the light. Oh, no. So the dating show itself wasn't the problem. It was the original story's hero and heroine acting all shy and ambiguous that made viewers think the esports show, "Battle for Glory," was a dating show.

This is bad... So Gu Yao had walked right into a trap from the start!

Then something even more terrifying occurred to her. If this was the original variety show and the original heroine, then where was the original hero?

That's right, her online boyfriend was the original story's male lead!

Gu Yao x Su Yu

Drama-loving actress x sweet-tempered esports bigshot

Please add my new novel to your collection! The entire story is already written, and I won't abandon it!

"Tightening Bolts at the Interstellar Military Academy, Wrecking the Competition"

Experiment log: Specimen No. 420 slaughtered the life-forms in Laboratory Three, displaying a violent personality. Sample eliminated.

...Revised entry: Elimination of Specimen No. 420 failed. Mutated regenerative abilities discovered. Dissection and study ready to begin.

Bunker alarm: Beep! Beep! Warning! Warning! The experimental bunker is under attack by an unknown organism. Life signs unknown. Conventional weapons ineffective. The organism is immortal and can regenerate. The bunker has initiated self-destruct mode. Staff, evacuate immediately. Repeat, staff, evacuate imme...diately...

In Interstellar Year 496, Jiang Yining crawled out of a corpse pit in the wilderness of Baisha Star.

Specimen No. 420 had "died," and Jiang Yining had transmigrated into a child who had been kidnapped and dumped in the wilderness.

She killed the people who had kidnapped the original owner.

She would be sent to prison and sentenced to death.

In the interstellar world, military power reigned supreme. Only military academy students had the right to appeal, and only a military court could save her life.

After the original owner's family found her, Jiang Yining was faced with two choices.

Either die, or get into a military academy.

Jiang Yining wanted to choose the first. After all, she couldn't die. But the original owner's parents gave everything they had to send "her" down the second path.

They wanted "her," wanted her, to live a good life.

Year after year, they saved up every last bit of spare interstellar currency in sacks, piling them up beneath the bed.

Jiang Yining lay in bed. She wanted to go to school.

When it came to enrolling in the military academy, her parents felt that she wasn't suited to be a healer, commander, or mech engineer, or to serve as a mech infantry soldier. They chose the military specialty with the lowest entry requirements, the one she was most likely to get into: maintenance soldier.

Maintenance soldiers were a new type of military unit that emerged in Interstellar Year 389. They were responsible for maintaining the biological joints of mechs.

During the war against the Zerg in Interstellar Year 389, toxic miasma corroded the Federation's mech joints, leaving the entire army incapacitated.

The Federation dispatched an emergency team, and military experts found a new energy source on an unnamed planet: bio-ore.

Bio-ore had the characteristics of life but no consciousness of its own. It could be grown in specific locations and shaped, making it an ideal material for resisting Zerg miasma and manufacturing mech joints.

But since bio-ore had to be nourished by mental power before it could be used as a material, a special military role was created: the maintenance soldier.

Jiang Yining became a maintenance soldier.

Her weapon was a hammer. A maintenance hammer.

Having achieved her goal of getting into a military academy and staying alive, Jiang Yining planned to lie flat. But gradually, she began to sense that something was off. Why did the team's commander, whose mental power was unstable, always come to chat with her? Why did the team's infantry soldier always come to eat with her after getting injured? Why did the team's mech engineer always come to go shopping with her after getting confused in class?

Had they discovered her secret, that she was secretly studying healer courses?

But she was just an ordinary maintenance soldier.

The school competition began, and media outlets raced to cover it.

In the Central Military Academy's livestream, the contestants from the four-school alliance stood proud and confident. They were the cream of the crop, the military academies' newest generation of talent, the hope of the Federation!

Yet on this blazing-hot battlefield, where the new generation of geniuses from the four major military academies were battling for supremacy, a short figure radiating resentment suddenly went viral.

Swords, guns, and artillery. Mechs charged into battle.

Amid the swirling sand and flashes of swordlight, a bulky support mech wielded an ugly iron hammer and swung it at the strongest mech infantry soldier predicted to compete that year.

Jiang Yining hefted her massive hammer, landing every swing.

She pounded away at the bio-joint of the opposing super-S mech like a merciless bolt-tightening machine.

The livestream camera zoomed in, and the chat exploded.

[Is... is that really a maintenance soldier?]

[Mom, nobody told me maintenance soldiers could be this scary.]

Swinging her hammer on the battlefield, Jiang Yining stood atop the infantry mech and proclaimed, "Come on! Every problem takes just one swing."

Theme: The brave who dare to go wild get to enjoy the world first!