"Villainess Quick Transmigration System Host—Liuyue is entering the small world."
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[Your name is Jiang Liuyue, and you grew up in an ordinary family.]
[Your parents are ordinary workers. You lived in an ordinary neighborhood and attended a regular school nearby since childhood.]
[If there was one thing extraordinary about you, it was that you won the genetic lottery. Since you were little, you were much more beautiful than everyone around you.]
[Even bare-faced, you looked as if you were wearing makeup. You had long eyelashes, deep double eyelids, and a natural eyeliner effect with a moody shadow at the corners of your eyes.]
[Therefore, you decisively chose to take the art college entrance exams and successfully enrolled in the acting department of the best drama academy.]
[Right after graduation, you were signed by Wanxiang Xinghe, a major entertainment company, becoming one of their minor actresses.]
[The goddess of fate even smiled upon you once more. Right after your debut, the company arranged for you to play the sixth female lead in the annual historical palace drama, The Legend of Linu—the personal maid of the female lead, Linu.]
[And thus, the nightmare began.]
[The actress playing the female lead in The Legend of Linu, Li Feile, was the top star of Wanxiang Xinghe. She was also your senior in the same company.]
[At first, you humbly asked her for advice. But she treated you like a maid on set, and continued to treat you like a maid off set.]
[The tasks of serving tea, pouring water, and buying coffee that were originally meant for her assistants were all dumped on you. If you failed to do them perfectly, you would be cursed at best, and beaten at worst.]
[You thought about fighting back, but with just a casual word, Li Feile could end your acting career and even have the company freeze you out.]
[And you were just an ordinary person. You couldn't afford the exorbitant breach-of-contract penalty, much less defeat Li Feile.]
[Not to mention, everyone said that Li Feile had a powerful sugar daddy behind her, someone who held the lifeblood of the multinational entertainment industry.]
[Once, it was clearly Li Feile who woke up late and arrived two hours behind schedule, making everyone on set wait.]
[But the next day, the entertainment news exposed someone for acting like a diva and being two hours late on set—and that person turned out to be you, Wanxiang Xinghe's newly signed rookie, Jiang Liuyue.]
[The public started digging into your background. Looking at your beautiful face, your smooth entry into the industry, and your ability to participate in such an important production like The Legend of Linu right after your debut, they speculated that you had already been kept by a sugar daddy while still in school.]
[Various tabloids and fabricated news outlets released your scandals. Some even tracked down your elementary school classmates to verify it all.]
[The cyberbullying was only secondary.]
[The most important part was that Li Feile intentionally disfigured you.]
[In one scene, the female lead Linu, whom she played, threw a temper tantrum. She was only supposed to throw cold tea at the little maid as an act for the other concubines to see.]
[But when the cameras rolled, what she splashed on you was boiling hot water. Your face suffered mild burns, the wounds festered and turned red, and you were completely disfigured.]
[When your heart was dead as ashes, and you climbed up to the thirtieth-floor rooftop ready to jump...]
[...a man suddenly appeared in your mind. That noble and aloof man, Li Feile's sugar daddy.]
[If you had taken the opportunity to seduce him when he asked for directions back then, would everything have been different?]
[Li Feile ruined everything of yours, so it would be perfectly reasonable for you to steal her sugar daddy, right?]
...
"Beep, beep, beep."
"Beep, beep, beep."
The phone resting in her pocket vibrated continuously.
Jiang Liuyue, who was resting in an actor's chair, opened her eyes and was just about to reach for her phone.
A hand beside her grabbed her arm, and its owner shook her head at her.
It was her manager, Qian Li.
"Sister Li," Jiang Liuyue called out.
She decisively opened her phone's camera and flipped it to selfie mode.
A delicate, palm-sized face appeared on the screen. Her features were bright and captivating, her skin porcelain white and virtually flawless.
What was even more special was that her brows and eyes carried a faint, natural makeup look.
Good, she wasn't disfigured yet.
Qian Li was a bit baffled by her action.
But she still said, "Stop looking at the news. Since the company is allowing those online articles to write whatever they want, it means they've tacitly agreed to let you take the fall for Li Feile."
"She is the company's top star. If the same thing happened to her, the impact on the company would be much greater."
"Sacrificing you at a time like this can't be helped." Pausing for a moment, Qian Li added, "I know you've just entered the industry and don't know the rules of the circle yet."
"But don't worry. As long as we weather this storm of public opinion, I'll go negotiate with the company."
"Since you're taking the blame for Li Feile, they should at least compensate you with some resources."
Jiang Liuyue smiled.
She gave her a grateful smile.
Qian Li was considered a pretty good manager.
Unfortunately, it was hard to say whether she lacked capability or just had bad luck.
Having been in Wanxiang Xinghe for about ten years, not a single artist under her wing had ever made it big.
Back then, it was also her who came to the school to scout talent. She had spotted the most outstanding Jiang Liuyue in the crowd at first glance, believing this girl had the potential to become a massive hit in the future.
Who knew that right after joining the cast of The Legend of Linu, she would end up taking such a huge fall for the company's top star, Li Feile.
Jiang Liuyue curled the corners of her lips, signaling her to relax.
"Sister Li, don't worry."
"Didn't Sister Feile also rise to fame through negative publicity in the past? Even though I'm taking the blame this time, more people know the name Jiang Liuyue now."
The drama hadn't even aired yet, but she was already well-known in the entertainment circle.
Even if it was because of scandals.
Seeing her having such a good mindset, Qian Li couldn't help but nod.
"With a mindset like yours, you'll make it big sooner or later."
"Of course," Jiang Liuyue replied without the slightest bit of modesty.
She chimed in with a smile.
Actually, she had a rough idea of why Li Feile was targeting her.
Because the characters 'Feile' sounded very much like 'Feiyue', a crimson moon.
Her fans also called themselves the 'Red Moons'.
And Jiang Liuyue's name clashed with hers. Although they just shared a similar syllable and not the exact same character.
Yue, and Le.
But for Li Feile, who was already the top sister of the company, how could she tolerate this?
Not to mention that this newcomer was so stunningly beautiful. She might not be a threat now, but she would definitely threaten her position in the future.
Including the incident later on where the cold tea in the scene was replaced with boiling water.
Needless to say.
It was also Li Feile's doing.
In the entertainment circle, if you wanted to be famous, apart from fate...
...it was more about fighting and snatching, and never trusting others easily.
Jiang Liuyue glanced at the time on her phone.
It was about time.
Making an excuse to Qian Li that she was going to the restroom, she actually strolled leisurely out of the film set.
This film city was huge.
There were several dramas shooting simultaneously: historical palace, Republican era, and modern business wars.
Wearing a little maid's palace costume, she was still quite conspicuous in the crowd.
Before long.
She happened to see the window of that black Maybach slowly rolling down.
The profile of the man in the backseat was blurred by the glass, but it couldn't hide the aloofness and nobility radiating from him.
He raised his eyes.
And met Jiang Liuyue's gaze perfectly.
Tapping his fingertips, Song Hanzheng said to the driver, "Go ask for directions."
The driver opened the car door and was just about to get out to ask.
But Jiang Liuyue had already taken the initiative to walk over.
The very first sentence she spoke...
...was astonishing.
"Are you the boyfriend I rented?"
