When Chu Zheng woke up, she found herself in a small room with an awful smell permeating the air.
She was lying down on a bed and confusedly looking at the ceiling without moving an inch.
Why was she here?
Oh, that’s right ……
She met some kind of system called Wang something that said she was dead, and he told her she had to do tasks to go back to her world. Afterwards ……
Chu Zheng frowned. Her memories didn’t seem right, as if she had forgotten something.
[Xiao Jiejie,] A lively voice sounded, [For the sake of your mental health, your memories of the last plane were sealed up, ah~ But I’m naturally a very humane system, so you can check them as you like if you want to know.]
Chu Zheng remembered accomplishing her mission, but she couldn’t remember any concrete details.
“No need.” Chu Zheng refused with a wooden expression. Since she only wanted to go back, the previous mission’s details were insignificant to her.
The sealed memories were only details, and she still roughly remembered the course of event. Therefore, she concluded that not remembering the details wouldn’t have any adverse effects on her.
“What haven’t you given me this plane’s information yet?” The moment her previous mission ended, she was immediately transferred and woke up in the next plane. The bastard system didn’t even give her any chance to catch her breath.
And he says he’s humane?
What kind of humanity was this?
He’s just a broken system from who knows where and he still has the nerve to say that it’s humane, talk about being shameless.
[…… Xiao Jiejie, those systems have empty voids, we don’t have a set of those.]
[Xiao Jiejie, please receive the plot of this plane, ah~]
After Wang Zhe’s prompt, Chu Zheng’s mind was instantly flooded with the original owner’s memories.
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Her body in this plane was called Gu Chu Zheng.
Her family situation was ordinary. After dropping out of high school, she came to Qingteng City because she liked acting, so she started playing minor roles in some historical dramas in the film city.
The original owner was very good-looking, but her background wasn’t especially wealthy or powerful. Moreover, she stubbornly refused to abide by the unspoken rules, and thus, she wasn’t able to get any good or significant role so far.
One day, she coincidently auditioned for the third female lead in new historical drama and was successfully selected. Yet, she didn’t get enough time to celebrate before she was notified that they selected someone else and she wouldn’t be needed anymore.
When she learnt that she was switched out, the original owner was very surprised and confused at the sudden turn of events so she quickly went to ask for an explanation from the crew.
However, before she could manage to ask anyone, she accidently witnessed her roommate, Liu Manman, getting in the assistant director’s car.
At any rate, she had also been part of this circle for a long time, so how could she not understand what happened after seeing such a scene?
When Liu Manman got back home, the original owner immediately questioned her.
Unexpectedly, Liu Manman, in a bold and confident way, very righteously said that she had just depended on her own ability to get the role, and it was the original owner’s fault for being too stubborn and not making any effort.
Since they had been roommates and depended on each other for such a long time, the original owner didn’t want to tear their face as they still lived in the same small apartment. (TN: tear their face means to fight openly about all their issues and cut bridges, have a very strained relationship later.)
After the drama aired, Liu Manman’s popularity rapidly soared and she became an instant hit.
When her popularity continued to grow, the original owner was still struggling with minor roles and odd jobs to make ends meet.
Until one day, a director accidently spotted her in a filming scene and thought that her temperament and her looks were very suitable for the female lead of his new movie.
The original owner was very happy and thought that she could finally prove herself with her acting skills.
However, before she could step inside the filming crew, Liu Manman paid a hefty sum of money to invest in the production and once again stole her role.
The director felt bad for the original owner and gave her another role in the same movie.
Since Liu Manman brought capital into the production, she could have kicked out the original owner, yet, she didn’t do that, and instead, she started tossing her around and giving her trouble during filming.
Even thought she was being bullied, to outsiders, it only seemed like the original owner’s acting wasn’t very good, and that she making trouble by delaying the filming progress of the whole team.
Later, Liu Manman and another male actor were suddenly exposed in a scandal and got all over the internet and tabloids. Liu Manman was afraid that her golden master would be angry and mercilessly pushed out the original owner as a scapegoat to shield her.
Because the original owner and Liu Manman’s silhouettes were very similar, the latter only needed to spend some money and resources to thoroughly let her bear the blame.
In order to whitewash himself, the male star also threw the pot to the original owner, claiming that she deliberately seduced him in order to get popular and appear on the headlines. (TN: whitewash means to clear the reputation after a negative action/event. Throwing the (black) pot means to pass the blame.)
The original owner was naturally powerless because of her lack of money and contacts so she could only become the main target of public anger and thoroughly suffered insults and admonishments on the internet.
The internet gossip and abuse were so fierce and violent that it almost cut off her acting career.