After My Image Crumbled [Showbiz]

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To follow the person she admired, Liang Song set herself the goal of becoming an actress back in high school.

Through her own hard work, she got into film school and took the first step toward her dream.

After graduating, she signed with a talent agency and successfully became a nobody on the eighteenth tier.

As for her good acting but painfully few opportunities, even her fans had to admit: "Top-tier looks and acting, but her personality is totally NPC. She'll never make it big."

But they didn't know that, deep down, Liang Song simply disliked any work unrelated to acting.

She was afraid of being scolded, afraid of standing out, afraid of any unpredictable trouble.

All she wanted was to quietly be an actress.

Her agent, however, worked tirelessly and refused to give up. In desperation, they even put her on a dating show as an observer.

She'd planned to quietly go through the motions, but when a male contestant rudely insulted someone in front of everyone, her mouth suddenly ran wild: "Why don't you buy a mirror and take a look at yourself first?"

The whole room fell silent. Liang Song was sweating buckets.

After an urgent postmortem, she was horrified to discover that she might never be able to go back to being that smooth, well-rounded glass marble.

But after nervously waiting for the show to air, all she got was a flood of praise?

Liang Song: ??? What's with people online these days?

There's no use worrying about it now. Since it's come to this, she might as well go with the flow.

Her public persona gradually fell apart, but her career gradually came to life. She landed the first second female lead role of her career.

Good news: She's the second female lead.

Bad news: The male lead is Chen Yinian, a senior from her university whom she'd disliked ever since college.

Liang Song: Fine. You win some, you lose some. I'll take it.

But could someone tell her why this once haughty senior is now acting like a piece of gum stuck to her shoe?

Making small talk, fussing over her, never leaving her side. What does he want?

Worse still, she accidentally learns that he once secretly interfered with her work.

How could she let that go? Liang Song storms over to confront him.

He confesses readily enough: "The work thing was a misunderstanding, but my reason was real."

The alarm bells go off in Liang Song's head. Before she can run, she hears him say, crystal clear:

"Liang Song, I like you."

Liang Song: ??? No, wait. This isn't how the script is supposed to go.

My next story is "Night of Hide-and-Seek."

A cat that went missing for a year has returned, but only Qing Xun can see her.

Everyone thinks she's hallucinating.

Until night falls and the cat speaks: "Mom, come with me."

Qing Xun stares in shock, thinking she must really be at the end of her life. Otherwise, why would she hear a cat talking?

The cat turns and walks away, as if she's made up her mind.

Qing Xun hurries after her and tries to talk to her again, but the cat doesn't say another word, as if it really had been a hallucination.

They reach an abandoned old house. The cat leaps onto the courtyard wall, looks back at Qing Xun, then disappears.

The old door's lock opens with a tug. Apart from clusters of withered weeds, the desolate courtyard is empty.

No, there are cats. More cats than she can count.

In the darkness, Qing Xun sees pairs of glowing green eyes staring fixedly at her, full of malice.

Just as she's about to turn and run, the cat at the front speaks in a mocking tone: "Want to run away?"

"Let's play hide-and-seek."

"Find your cat, and you can take her with you."

And so Qing Xun takes part in a game of hide-and-seek unlike any she's ever played.

Only, their game of hide-and-seek seems completely different from the one she knows?

She enters the pet hospital where she once took her cat. Every cat and dog in the cages has blood-red eyes and a menacing look.

She enters the university dormitory where she lived for four years and wanders around in the dark. When she looks up, the floor indicator clearly says minus eighteen.

After finally finding her dorm room, she comes face-to-face with another version of herself playing the pen fairy game with her roommates.

Even in the home she knows best, she can hear cries of misery coming from the hallway.

Qing Xun trembles with fear, wondering if she can really bring this game to an end.

Maybe all they want is for her to die?

Theme: Accept your true self