[Showbiz] From Comic Artist to Top Screenwriter

Anti-theft: 50%. My author page has a new upcoming novel, From Novelist to Top Director. See the blurb below. (Recently updating around 7 or 8 a.m. All scripts are original, not copied from other works. The male lead is GD.) Jiang Tinghan is a Chinese student studying in Korea, the campus belle of Seoul National University, and a rising manga artist who shot to online fame with a horror comic. No one knows that behind her famous nickname, “Ice Beauty,” she is actually a Chinese money-devouring beast who loves staying home and following her idol. Manga has a limited audience, so Jiang Tinghan decides to bring her work to the big screen and becomes a rising screenwriter. Her suspense dramas are terrifying yet tightly connected to real social issues. Her humorous slice-of-life dramas become a must-have accompaniment to meals in households everywhere. Her revenge dramas leave viewers cheering, while her palace dramas and classic power-up epics showcase her limitless potential. Men love them, and women love them too. Her TV dramas set ratings records, and her low-budget productions become “once-in-a-generation hits” and “miracles of the industry”! Her films make it onto the world stage and compete for the Oscars. She is a fierce storm sweeping through the entertainment industry! As netizens put it: “Is this woman secretly bound to a System or something? She’s so ridiculously good it scares me!” But all Jiang Tinghan wants is: “Let the money roll in so I can eat my fill every day!” Although Jiang Tinghan’s works have romance, they never revolve solely around a couple’s love story. Netizens are convinced she must be terrible at making romantic idol dramas. But once she tries, it’s clear she has what it takes. Her stories make viewers laugh and cry, moving them to tears one moment and crying, “Stop making us suffer! Please!” the next. Jiang Tinghan ascends to the throne. Her mysterious persona naturally inspires the curiosity of netizens, and the all-powerful internet sleuths dig up one secret identity after another. What! She’s the belle of Seoul National University? What! The character who never showed her face but made viewers cry their eyes out, the unattainable dream girl, was played by Jiang Tinghan herself? What! She wrote and composed that hit GD single? #WhatOtherSurprisesAreYouHidingFromUs #BeautyIsHerLeastImpressiveQuality #TheTrulyAllRoundAceJiangTinghan Wait, when did a top-tier female writer get involved with GD, a top-tier star?! These two have absolutely nothing to do with each other! This is a dream crossover, the kind of thing that makes fans of both go wild! Netizens keep digging and discover that the woman rumored to have strolled through the rain in Paris with GD is her. The watercolor and oil paintings GD posted on Instagram are also her work. The lucky fan in the front row of the concert whom GD followed specially? Also her! And several songs about GD’s innocent first crush, falling in love, breaking up, and getting back together all have her as their subject! Fans of both are no longer happy. And that’s not all! This couple has been secretly dating behind our backs for ages! “Were you both working in national intelligence in your past lives?” * Everyone online says Jiang Tinghan’s one flaw is her taste. Kwon Jiyong wholeheartedly agrees. Because the decor in Jiang Tinghan’s little home, along with her clothes and jewelry, is all blindingly bright and golden! Kwon Jiyong: “I haven’t met anyone flashier than me in ages.” So he falls in love with dressing Jiang Tinghan up, playing real-life Love Nikki. If he can’t show her off openly, he’ll do it on the sly. When Jiang Tinghan’s secret identity is finally exposed, Kwon Jiyong says, “Great! I’m a copyright tycoon. I can make money!” When their relationship finally comes to light, and even her 2016 Instagram alt account gets hacked, all the details of their romance are dug up. It turns out Kwon Jiyong is so lovesick even zombies wouldn’t eat him. “Your sister-in-law broke up with you and went to Antarctica to get away. Huh? You actually chased her there?!” “You said the first single your sister-in-law wrote was for her first love, and you got so jealous. Then you found out her first love was you! No, it was GD and G-Rosely from the 2009 ‘Strong Baby’ stage!” “Damn, you really did reenact G-Rosely with that woman!” “Aigo, I wondered why you wore so much gold jewelry for a while. Turns out your wife likes it.” The star himself starts a late-night livestream and boasts smugly: “You don’t know this, but I was the inspiration for the main character in her very first manga! She was my fan back then!” Bystanders and fans: “???” “You mean that manga where an idol disguised as a monster goes after their teammates, then their manager, then their boss, and finally destroys the whole world in revenge?” Kwon Jiyong: “…” #TheTroubleOfHavingAGirlfriendWhoLovesHorrorManga 1. A top-tier foodie-brained screenwriter and manga artist × a top-tier lovesick superstar. A love story between two artists who pretend to be introverts but are actually extroverts, and are masters of romantic push and pull. 2. Definitely a feel-good power fantasy. Romance and career get equal focus. Lately I’ve been obsessed with GD and couldn’t resist starting this. 3. The heroine is the hero’s fan! This is important! 4. Dragon’s life sounds like a novel’s male lead, but at the end of the day he’s a real person with flaws. Both leads will give so much to each other. They’re crazy about each other, and this is an ultra-indulgent mutual-pampering romance. 5. I’m not very familiar with Korean entertainment, so feel free to point out any mistakes. 6. There’s a lot of fiction within the novel, and I love writing forum-style posts. This is not a story about plagiarizing works. There’s really, really a lot of fiction within the novel and forum-style posts, because I couldn’t find what I wanted to read, so I made it myself. I can’t change that (tears). If that bothers you, please don’t read it (please). [Entertainment Industry] From Novelist to Top Director: (The timeline starts in 2006. All scripts are original.) As a Chinese money-devouring beast, Jiang Tinghan loves two things most in life: making money and creating. She came to Korea at fifteen with no money and wrote novels while working part-time to pay for school. Her novels weren’t famous and didn’t earn her much, but they helped her meet a trainee named Kwon Jiyong. They were both poor, but around the same time, they each earned their first paycheck. Jiang Tinghan used her writing fee to buy Kwon Jiyong a belated birthday cake. And Kwon Jiyong used his appearance fee to buy Jiang Tinghan a camera. “Wuli Tinghan neomu yeppeuda (is so pretty), so I need to take more beautiful photos of you.” Jiang Tinghan used the camera to turn one of her stories into a short film. She originally made it as a keepsake, but never expected it to go viral on YouTube. At fifteen, she began filming a scruffy little puppy who was eighteen. The puppy grew handsome and radiant, earning a name that would ring out across the world: G-Dragon. Jiang Tinghan went from filming music videos to TV dramas, commercials, and movies, eventually becoming “one of the greatest directors of the 21st century.” And she gained a third favorite thing: dating GD. * GD’s longtime fans all know that he has a “pen pal little sister” who has never appeared in public. He has often mentioned her ever since his debut. When “Lies” changed from a solo song to a group song, GD ran to the beach in the middle of the night. His pen pal little sister searched for him for three hours that evening before finding him and comforting him. When GD was accused of plagiarism and attacked by the whole internet, even showing signs of depression, his pen pal little sister confronted his antis in person, wiped away the red insults they had scrawled in Hongdae, and got them sent to the police station. And the support went both ways. Whenever his pen pal little sister had trouble with her homework, she asked GD, her senior, for help. She also asked him for advice when she performed at a school festival. His pen pal little sister loved creating, but someone stole and published one of her essays. GD helped her deal with it, firmly demanding an apology. His pen pal little sister was once stalked and harassed. GD personally acted as her guard for a week, eventually catching the creep and taking him to the police station. … They had a restaurant where they often ate together. They had taken lots of photos together. His pen pal little sister’s novels were in Kwon Jiyong’s lyric notebooks, and Kwon Jiyong’s lyrics were in his pen pal little sister’s notebooks. There were too many incidents to count. GD always brought her up openly, but it was hard to believe their relationship was purely platonic. Still, GD never admitted that they were dating. Fans had protested, gotten jealous, and gone crazy, but she was a girl who had never shown her face. Even the most obsessive fans who tried to investigate came up empty-handed. Some fans even suspected she was a hallucination caused by GD’s poor mental state. Still, they could clearly tell that some of the videos GD had filmed in the past were leagues ahead in camera quality, composition, color, and pacing. But maybe she was just a talented photographer on staff? Wasn’t the pen pal little sister a novelist? Eventually, the fans accepted that even if the pen pal little sister who had stayed by their oppa through thick and thin really was his girlfriend, they would accept her. She had become their oppa’s emotional support. When rumors broke that “top-tier star GD and acclaimed director Coldy are secretly meeting,” fans split into two camps. One stuck by the first-love theory, while the other thought a real woman was much better than an imaginary one. But they never imagined that the acclaimed director Coldy was the pen pal little sister herself! 1. Together, we’ll go from the streets of Seoul to the top of the world. No storm can ever tear us apart. 2. Tinghan writes and directs her own work. Career and romance still get equal focus. It’s a pure, fluffy romance. 3. Still mutually indulgent. They’re both hopelessly, madly in love with each other. A lovesick romantic and another lovesick romantic, an artist and an artist: a perfect match. 4. This is version 2.0. You don’t need to have read 1.0 to enjoy it. Blurb written on June 20, 2025. It may be revised at any time before the story begins. Theme: Reach for the heights.