My new story, Living with a Chaste, Old-Fashioned Beauty, is now being serialized!
Blurb for this story: Others transmigrate into a book, but Nan Qing transmigrates into a TV drama.
After finally landing a role, acting newcomer Nan Qing has an accident and transmigrates into a supporting female character in the production next door.
The supporting character is a talented farmer who is rewarded by the imperial court and marries a princess.
The princess is aloof and proud, with skin as pale as glistening new snow and a faint teardrop mole at the corner of her eye, like a dying ember.
Beautiful, but tragic.
The rest of the royal family look down on the supporting character's peasant background. She gets bullied outside the home, then takes it out on the princess by beating and berating her every day. The princess is frail and dies not long after being abused.
The System sends Nan Qing a rough outline of the plot and threatens her: if she doesn't farm properly, she'll be humanely eliminated.
Nan Qing lives in fear in ancient times. If she doesn't farm properly, the System will humanely eliminate her, and one wrong move as she navigates the royal family's complicated relationships could cost her life.
A sword hangs over her head, ready to fall at any moment.
2
The good news is that Nan Qing returns to modern times after each episode finishes airing. After the first episode ends, she borrows the script from the production next door and reads it carefully.
The bad news: there's no peasant supporting character in the script, and the princess, the female lead, doesn't have a wife at all!
Even worse, the original footage for the first episode, prepared by the production next door, somehow turns into what Nan Qing actually experienced in ancient times when it's screened.
Before the supernatural incident can be resolved, Nan Qing is transmigrated into the second episode. Even worse news follows:
The princess has been reborn.
3
Late at night, someone wears only a sheer white undergarment, revealing hints of smooth, pearly skin. She leans against the headboard, her amber eyes glistening with steamy moisture, and parts her pink lips:
“Consort... I want your heart.”
Later, Nan Qing realizes that what the other person wants is her actual, beating heart.
4
As the finale approaches, Nan Qing fears that if she dies, the princess will dig out her heart and dismember her, leaving her with such a ghastly corpse that she'll frighten the audience. So she takes what little money she has, buys a coffin, finds a place, and buries herself.
She closes her eyes and awaits death.
Her body grows stiff and numb, cold all over, and breathing becomes difficult. Then light breaks through the darkness, and the nailed-shut coffin is opened.
At the center of her vision, Xuan Zhaoci's eyes are red-rimmed, and the faint mole at the corner of her eye has turned crimson. Her voice catches as she says:
“Nan Qing, is pretending to be dead fun?”
5
The TV drama reaches its finale, and Nan Qing still dies.
1. Both leads are sexually inexperienced.
2. Includes court politics, farming, and the entertainment industry, among other elements. The ancient setting takes up more of the story than the modern one.
3. The dynasty is fictional, so please don't overanalyze it.
4. The writing is amateurish.
New story: Living with a Chaste, Old-Fashioned Beauty
[A gentle, steady CEO with plenty of tricks up her sleeve, 0.9 x a cool, chaste, old-fashioned school board chair, 0.1]
The group founded by Gu Lingyi goes public, but on the night of its IPO, her family bundles her up and throws her out of the old family home.
For five generations, everyone in the Gu family has been a public servant dedicated to building China. They all have jet-black hair red enough to ward off evil spirits.
The Gu family can't accept that the youngest generation they dote on most is actually the power behind the company monopolizing the entire adult-product industry.
They unanimously decide they must drive this rebellious, tradition-defying daughter out of the Gu family!
Late at night, Gu Lingyi holds a velvet quilt and knocks on Jiang Yanqing's door. She leans lazily against the doorframe, full of charm, one toe holding the door open. Her bright smile is as warm as spring sunshine. “Can I stay over for one night?”
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Jiang Yanqing comes from a family of scholars. Since birth, her elders have laid out her entire path for her.
During her student years, she was required to get specific scores on every exam to get into assigned schools. After she started working, she was required to become a high school board chair to make way for a bright career path for her younger brother at home. Even the top button of her shirt had to stay fastened.
The elders of the Jiang family won't allow Jiang Yanqing to stray from the proper path in any way.
The walls of Jiang Yanqing's home are covered in full-length mirrors, constantly reminding her to straighten her clothes, observe proper etiquette, know the rules, and stay on the right path.
All she needs to do is live her life this way, methodically, coldly, and calmly.
Until someone undoes the top button of her shirt with her own hands.
[Bonus Scene]
Outside the floor-to-ceiling window, rain patters softly. The light beside the bed is dim, but it does nothing to hide the springtime scene reflected in the full-length mirror.
Gu Lingyi supports Jiang Yanqing's bent legs with one long arm and buries her face in a soft kiss along her smooth neck.
Jiang Yanqing, whom the students have nicknamed “the chaste goddess in a qipao,” has reddened, damp eyes. Her voice trembles with cool restraint, husky as she pleads, or perhaps coyly resists: “No... Not in front of the mirror...”
Theme: Live well
It looks good at first, but then becomes a bit inexplicable. I don't understand why it needs to be changed like this, alas.
Where is Ash? Dead? I know you are a cold-blooded person, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, I am going to be so angry 💔[clown]
Damn, how many copies of this are there?
Is Danan going back to modern times soon? The ancient line is offline here.
Wuwuwuwu, little Ashi
Ah ah ah, I guessed it right, that pervert is the princess.
Stuck here! It's unreasonable 💔
You are Qian Bei, and Qian Bei is you. Surprise or surprise!
Dog, how can you attack a dog?
I hope to see how majestic Nan Gou is now and how embarrassed he will be later! Qian Bei, do you still want this kind of Da Nan?