The Substitute Game

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1. Chu Zhao and top-tier star Lin Zhaixing were secretly in love for ten years. Chu Zhao thought love could overcome anything, but she never expected that with a ten-year age gap, her lover was still young while she could no longer keep up.

Chu Zhao wanted so badly to spend another ten years with her young lover, but she was dumped.

An accident took Chu Zhao's life.

Lin Zhaixing, who had insisted she wanted nothing but a divorce, was willing to sacrifice her career to publicly mourn Chu Zhao after her death.

From beyond the grave, Chu Zhao watched helplessly as Lin Zhaixing destroyed her own future, then sought out a master to perform a ritual, willing to violate another person's body to bring Chu Zhao back to life.

In the blink of an eye, Chu Zhao really did come back to life, only ten years in the past.

Reborn, Chu Zhao was convinced that a good horse never returns to the same patch of grass. She and Lin Zhaixing would have nothing to do with each other in this life.

But she stumbled upon Lin Zhaixing's secret: in a remote county lived a girl named Lin Wangyue, who looked exactly like Lin Zhaixing and was, astonishingly, her twin sister.

Chu Zhao's entire worldview was shaken. The woman who had shared her bed for ten years had a twin sister, and she had never known?

After being reborn, Chu Zhao not only uncovered Lin Zhaixing's biggest secret, but also found that everyone in this life was completely different from who they had been in her last.

Her ex-wife Lin Zhaixing, who had divorced her out of disdain, couldn't let go of her; the rebellious, unruly artist Song Xi pursued her relentlessly; Meng Wan, a former top-tier star who had retired from the industry, returned to the country for a single word from her; and Lin Wangyue, her ex-wife's twin sister, who had never existed in her previous life, chased after her, demanding an explanation.

2. Everyone said that Lin Zhaixing had risen from humble beginnings to become a top-tier star thanks to the support of her agent, Chu Zhao. Lin Zhaixing agreed. She accepted that people would forever link her name with Chu Zhao's, because Chu Zhao was the person who had recognized her talent, her lover, and her wife.

But she had stolen and fought for her lover. Even after her lover died, she was going to take her back.

3. Song Xi and Lin Zhaixing were both top-tier stars under Chu Zhao's management, but compared to Lin Zhaixing, Song Xi was a little menace, constantly surrounded by scandals and bad press. In her previous life, she had managed to drive herself out of the entertainment industry.

After Chu Zhao was reborn, she discovered that this little demon was actually becoming obedient after just a kind word or two from her.

Gradually, Chu Zhao seemed to figure out how to handle Song Xi.

4. Lin Zhaixing was the brightest star in the night sky, drawing everyone's gaze.

Lin Wangyue was the radiant moon in that same sky, her gentle light silent, just like her feelings for Chu Zhao.

As the older sister, she was supposed to yield to her younger sister. She could give way on anything, except Chu Zhao.

Reader's note:

Top, one-on-one ending, revealed at the end.

Theme: Never forget your original aspirations, and you will reach the end.