Chapter 1- I...I Seem to Have Stolen the Female Supporting Character’s Part...
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Names mentioned in this chapter (which can also be found in the glossary ):
-云舒( yún shū)- Yun Shu, the female lead
I…I seem to have stolen the female supporting character’s part…
This was the first sentence that flashed through Yun Shu’s mind after waking up from her dream.
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Yun Shu’s parents died in a car accident when she was ten years old. She only had one relative, her grandmother, who passed away after bringing her up until she graduated from high school and entered university.
In order to study at the university, Yun Shu used her available time to work part-time. Later, when she was temporarily pulled into a short-term job at a film studio, a manager fancied her and dragged her into the entertainment industry. Since then, she became a third-tier celebrity that was neither unpopular nor popular.
The reason why she was neither unpopular nor popular was not that she was unattractive or had no acting skills. In fact, she did not lack in either of these things. The main reason was that she had no motivation at all.
It was probably because she had experienced many separations of life and death that Yun Shu was not interested in anything. She was rather indifferent. Even though her work was the same, she felt that it would be fine as long as she had sufficient money. Those kinds of ‘If she put in more effort, she would be more popular’ were not important.
Furthermore, she also did not want to be famous. After all, one would face more problems when one was more popular, which she feared the most.
She was able to live smoothly and steadily for five years in the tainted waters of the entertainment industry because she was determined to be salted fish <sup>[1]</sup> until the end and was protected by a motherly manager. Then, in her sixth year——
Yun Shu received a seven-figure cheque in exchange for being a lover.
Yun Shu looked at the cheque and then the man’s face who gave it to her and agreed in a heartbeat.
There was no other reason other than the money being desirable, but that man being even more desirable.
After that, she dreamt about her past life that night and learnt about the bad news——she transmigrated into a novel she had read. An entertainment industry romance novel.
A legendary thing like transmigration was regarded as grievous news because she didn’t transmigrate into any of the characters that had a name. Her name was not in the novel at all. In other words, she was just a passerby who didn’t possess a name!
Of course, what’s worse was that she actually agreed to be the male lead’s lover! This was not the worst part. The worst part was that she seemed to have stolen the female supporting character’s part. Because in the novel, it was the female supporting character who accepted the cheque handed over by the male lead and agreed to be his lover…
At first, Yun Shu thought optimistically. Is it possible that it is currently before the timeline in which the female supporting character appears?
Then, she remembered that there was a female co-star who had a small role in the same drama she was in and who also shared the same name as the female supporting character. She had heard that her mother was ill and she was very short of money. In the novel, it was because of this that the female supporting character agreed to be the male lead’s lover… Alright, the case is solved. She really did steal the female supporting character’s part! QAQ
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Now, let her shed some light on that novel.
This novel was titled “Showbiz: Film Empress and Domineering President.”
Yes, it was that straightforward.
The plot was also very simple—— how the female lead made both love and career blossom with her wonderful character, strength and hard work. Of course, the summary stated that this novel was a Mary Sue novel. Naturally, there was no shortage of plots where the various outstanding male leads helped and fell in love with the female lead. Some of them contributed misunderstandings to the romantic route between the male and female leads and then resolved the misunderstandings to deepen the sentiments in the relationship.
Of course, the most important thing wasn’t about what happened to the male and female leads. The most important thing was what happened to the female supporting character; what happened between the female supporting character and the male lead; what happened between the female supporting character and the female lead; and what happened between the female supporting character, the male and female leads!
When Yun Shu carefully recalled it, she instantly despaired because——
In the original novel, the female supporting character was his lover and a villainess!
Frick!
<sup>[1]</sup> 咸鱼(xiányú)- Salted fish. There are several meanings. Firstly, it is a Cantonese metaphor for “dead”. Secondly, it is a Cantonese metaphor for “people who don’t want to move.” Thirdly, it is an internet slang for “people without dreams.” Fourthly, it is an online game term for “a player who does not or rarely spends energy and time participating in activities to improve oneself”. Lastly, it is a self-deprecating phrase on the internet “I’m a salted fish”.