Her career in the entertainment industry was not smooth. First, she encountered a terrible agency, and then she was cheated out of money by her manager and assistant. She experienced a lot at a young age. It wasn't until she met a decent manager who helped her that things started to improve and her reputation improved a lot.
Sun Chengcheng in this world is similar; she is still a proper professional, ranked first in the acting department, participated in the graduation play, and has a lively appearance, making her the kind of face that directors would like for a campus drama heroine.
Sun Chengcheng doesn't post much on Weibo; her latest post was the day before yesterday.
@SunChengchengIsSweet: I received some good news today~ I'm so happy I'm spinning around.jpg I'll share it with you all another day!
A selfie followed, showing loose pigtails, Japanese-style makeup, heavy blush, and well-done eye makeup.
This kind of makeup is rarely seen in the entertainment industry here, so it's quite unique. There are also a lot of people praising her looks, mostly from female accounts: "Sister, please," "Wife, please," and so on.
But Sun Chengcheng replied enthusiastically below, sending many emojis such as "sending you a kiss," "love you," and "heart."
Liang Shi glanced at her Weibo account but didn't follow her.
She hesitated until late at night before finally clicking on the WeChat contact and requesting to add the contact as a friend.
After applying, she sat there staring at the screen, idly scrolling through Weibo for a while. She quickly browsed through Sun Chengcheng's Weibo posts using her alternate account and discovered that she had registered the account a week ago.
This is not scientific.
As a performing arts student, one should be well aware of the importance of fans in the era of internet traffic, so it is very likely that one registered a Weibo account during university.
To verify his conjecture, Liang Shi also searched for other students, and found that some of them had not yet left school and might only have played a cameo role in a play, yet they had already registered for Weibo.
After registering her Weibo account, Sun Chengcheng put a lot of thought into every post. She would post about once every other day, and each time she posted, she would include a selfie. All the selfies were heavily edited, showing no flaws from her face to her legs.
Sun Chengcheng's nose isn't very pretty, so she applies heavy shadows to the sides of her nose and highlights the tip. Every habit she has when taking photos is exactly the same as in the original world.
Liang Shi was a little confused. Just as she was anxiously thinking, a WeChat message popped up, showing that she and Sun Chengcheng were now friends.
Liang Shi sat there and waited for a minute before sending a message: "Hello, I was introduced by Director Quella. My name is Liang Shi."
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Meanwhile, on the other side of the city, in a high-end residential area.
Sun Chengcheng was sitting in the spacious room painting her toenails. The nail brush gently brushed over them, covering them with a light pink layer.
The nanny brought over the bird's nest and gently knocked on her door. "Miss, your bird's nest is ready. Please eat it while it's hot."
"Okay." Sun Chengcheng paused for a moment. "Where are my parents?"
The nanny whispered, "Mr. Sun and his wife are already resting."
Sun Chengcheng said, "Okay, then you can go out too. Come and collect the dishes tomorrow morning."
"Yes, miss."
The nanny left respectfully.
After the room door closed, Sun Chengcheng continued applying toenail polish, but her phone on the bed vibrated slightly, causing her hand to tremble and the polish to smear outside the lines.
...
I hate it.
Sun Chengcheng wiped away the marks with a tissue, cursed the person who sent her the message in her heart, and then picked up her phone to find that it was a stranger who had added her as a friend.
She flipped through the information; the name was just an "L," and the bio was a period.
A bit pretentious.
Sun Chengcheng never liked this kind of thing, so after she finished painting her nails beautifully, she picked up her phone again and slowly accepted the request.
Then she sat there gracefully and ate bird's nest.
She discovered a week ago that she had been transported to an ABO world, where everyone grows glands.
Actually, for a seasoned bookworm who has read countless Mary Sue novels and has many years of experience reading TXT files, the ABO worldview is not unfamiliar to her. It's just that she has never read this type of book before. After all, as a TXT reader, she has always read whatever others send her.
However, she quickly adapted to this worldview.
She transmigrated into the body of someone with the same name as her. The original owner of the body was a performing arts student, just like her, and was graduating this year. Although the original owner was talented, she became mute due to an accident.
She was able to speak after she arrived. The original owner of this body was an Omega, so she is now one too.
Her father is the CEO of a milk tea chain, and her mother is a ballet dancer, making them far more prominent than her original family.
Strangely, she entered this world while dreaming.
When she wakes up, she will reappear in the real world.
She had deliberately calculated that the flow rate in this world was three times that of the real world, because she was a staunch eight-hour sleeper. Even if there was a long night shoot and she needed to rush to finish the filming, she would still maintain eight hours of sleep. During the eight hours she slept, she could spend twenty-four hours here.
The dream felt so real, so real, that it felt like she was playing an immersive game. As a skilled player, she naturally had some advantages over others, such as her acting skills and her precognitive abilities.
She received a picture book called "Fragments of a Dream in the Entertainment Industry." Each page of the book featured an important figure in the entertainment industry, including a visionary investor, a future triple crown actor, an internationally renowned director, a future movie queen, and so on. Each page about them included strategies for winning their heart.
In other words, as long as she has this picture book, she can win over these big shots, become a heartthrob in the entertainment industry, a rising star, and a woman standing at the pinnacle of power.
When she saw this picture book, she was overjoyed. Could it be that her unhappiness in reality was allowing her to realize her dreams in her dreams?
She's got the script of a max-level expert returning to the beginner village!
But Sun Chengcheng's joy was short-lived; all the dream fragments disappeared, leaving only a mysterious mosaic.
A system called "King of the Entertainment Industry" reminded her that she could only unlock the contents of the picture book by completing the corresponding tasks. Her tasks were very simple, including going to bed early, waking up early, exercising, and studying hard at school. After completing the tasks for two days, she chose to unlock the strategy for the internationally renowned director.
Internationally renowned director Gu Yixue, English name/stage name Quella, is the least favored illegitimate daughter of the Gu family, a genius misanthropic, with a unique artistic vision and screenwriting ability.
She is a lonely wanderer, a night walker, and a heartbreaker, with people always rushing to love her like moths to a flame.
She hates all things bright and righteous, and manipulating people's hearts is her favorite thing to do.
She longs to become better, yet hates when others try to make her better; she is a complex contradiction.
Her favorite food is coconut, her least favorite fruit is pineapple, her favorite flower is hyacinth, and her least favorite flower is rose.
Her favorite person is Shen Fenghe, and her least favorite person is Gu Chunmian. In her mind, Gu Chunmian is hypocritical, dissolute, and inhuman, so she hates hypocrites the most.
She loves light brown eyes, people who wear white dresses, things that are mysterious and unpredictable like the wind, and romance and mystery, but she also longs to kill romance.
...
The page was filled with information about Gu Yixue, so on a rainy day, she wore a white dress, light brown contact lenses, and had her long, straight black hair down to the street where she "bumped into" Gu Yixue and successfully landed a role in her next drama.
She was stunned when she saw Gu Yixue, because the other woman's face was so beautiful that she didn't look like a misanthropic person at all.
Aside from the occasional coldness and aloofness in her eyes that could freeze you to the bone, she was mostly charming and carefree, seemingly just a bit dissolute.
However, the information about her in the catalog also included a description of Gu Yixue: She moves among the crowds, yet remains detached from the world.
Currently, Sun Chengcheng has only unlocked the Gu Yixue profile card because she feels that for a fledgling actress, landing a leading role with an internationally renowned director means that she has already achieved half the success in her career in the entertainment industry.
Sun Chengcheng is about to accumulate enough fragments.
The next profile card she wants to unlock is that of a shrewd investor. Once she has that role, she'll need to raise money, mainly by setting up a mobile ATM.
The information about Gu Yixue provided in this picture book is very artistic, so Sun Chengcheng is unsure whether all the information is artistic or just Gu Yixue's.
She desperately needed confirmation; after all, what she needed most was a straightforward and effective method.
Although the strategy to win over Gu Yixue was successful this time, it doesn't mean that it will always be successful in the future.
The "King of the Entertainment Industry" system will also accumulate "charm points" as Sun Chengcheng continues to complete tasks. The higher the charm points are accumulated, the higher her success rate in winning over characters.
Sun Chengcheng plays this as a gacha and strategy game, and she finds it quite enjoyable.
Most importantly, in this world, she enjoys the treatment of a little princess. Her family here is so happy that they cry tears of joy because she can speak, and they cherish her like a precious gem. It's completely different from her previous world.
Sun Chengcheng felt that everything that appeared in her dream was a compensation for her reality; what she didn't get in reality, she was determined to get here.
She sat at the table and elegantly drank half a bowl of bird's nest soup. She felt a little full. As a female celebrity, she had to strictly control her weight, so she didn't continue eating. Just as she put down her spoon, her phone vibrated slightly. The person who had just added her had finally sent her a message.
Sun Chengcheng only gave her half a bowl of bird's nest time, thinking that if this person didn't speak, she would delete him after she finished drinking the bird's nest.
They were so slow and indecisive, and had no manners whatsoever.
The moment she saw the message, her pupils dilated in shock.
—Is it Liang Shi?
Sun Chengcheng checked the information card again; it contained very little information.
In the original world, Liang Shi's WeChat name was A Shi, and his bio read: "Walk towards the light."
This is a completely different style.
Could it be that they have the same first name but different last names?
Sun Chengcheng inquired about Liang Shi's situation from various sources and learned that she had become a vegetable. That's why her agent issued a statement announcing her retirement from the entertainment industry in an attempt to quell public anger.
However, after Liang Shi announced her retirement from the entertainment industry, someone leaked the news that her father had been imprisoned. Her agent carried out a crisis management campaign, which barely made things a little easier for her.
After Liang Shi announced her retirement from the entertainment industry, her former laid-back fans went crazy, flooding her social media feed with insults and spreading dirt on her. Their fighting power was far stronger than that of ordinary haters.
Sun Chengcheng was the one most affected.
Because she criticized her co-star after the drama's promotion ended, no one dared to use her anymore and kept their distance from her, afraid of getting involved with her.
Some influential figures even said that if Sun Chengcheng were to appear in the show, she would not act in it.
Most of these influential figures were famous actors who had worked with Liang Shi, and they all secretly voiced their support for Liang Shi after the incident.
However, because the online criticism is overwhelmingly negative, people are afraid of being caught in the crossfire, so few dare to speak out publicly.
But once the storm had passed, even a fool would know who had leaked those rumors, so everyone turned their attention to Sun Chengcheng, secretly targeting her and causing her to lose several acting roles.
After this incident, although she became more famous online than before, and most netizens felt sorry for her, few people dared to cast her in films.
In particular... Liang Shi's agent, Wang Zhaozhao, is ruthless and decisive. She has released a lot of dirt on her, both openly and secretly. The news about her father having been to prison was also released by a marketing account at Wang Zhaozhao's behest.
When her agent called Wang Zhaozhao, Wang Zhaozhao didn't give her any ammunition, only saying, "What a pity, such a good actress, how did she end up with such a scandal?"
Overt praise with veiled sarcasm.
Sun Chengcheng was so angry that she couldn't sleep all night.
Because of this incident, Sun Chengcheng's reputation in the entertainment industry plummeted, and she only got a role in a low-budget campus drama. The male actor in the drama was also someone who had previously been involved with Liang Shi. He was a minor supporting actor in Liang Shi's previous drama, playing Liang Shi's younger brother.
The other person was quite good-looking, and at first glance, she seemed well-behaved and quiet, which was Sun Chengcheng's type.
She was thinking of creating a romantic pairing in a campus drama to boost her popularity, but the first thing the other person said to her was: "Bad luck."
Sun Chengcheng: "?"
After that, the male actor kept her away from him, both openly and subtly. Except after filming started, the guy could quickly get into character after filming began. He had been giving her a cold look before filming started, but as soon as he faced the camera, he smiled like a spring breeze. This made Sun Chengcheng feel even more wronged, to the point that she wanted to cry in front of the camera.