The AR Top-Tier Star Stole My Role

As virtual actors created with AR become the mainstream of the film and television industry, human stars have become a bubble of the times.

Jia Xingchi, a systems operator, is trapped in an endless loop.

He wakes at dawn and returns at dusk, taking on a different identity every day and becoming an obsolete entertainer whose opportunities have been stolen by virtual people.

He sees online popularity collapse, acting lose its value, and countless people who devoted themselves to the industry lose their footing in the tide of new technology. The glamorous entertainment world sheds its filter, revealing its brutal core: capital chases low-cost virtual illusions, and real human joys and sorrows are no longer wanted by the market.

Every brief life is a question.

In the face of perfect illusions built from code, is there still room for the uniquely human, imperfect vitality of real life?