It's refreshing and absolutely not bad, but it's long for my taste. And it's a re-read.
This is from Qidian instead of JJ, and I'm not sure when I picked it up first, either before I started this blog (not sure), or during the "Qidian hell posts" (more likely) when I first encountered Qidian as a self-publishing site ever. But never made a post about this novel? I suppose the circumstances did not allow it.
Summary: Rong Xi was a movie queen in her world, although she was an orphan, but she reached heights others could only dream about and only a car accident took it away from her. During her hospital stay her assistant read a refreshing article where cannon fodder had the same name as her. But when she opened her eyes she found out that she became this cannon fodder fake daughter. Soon her reputation will be soiled by her own "good" family. Escaping from the club Rong Xi meets Wen Yu, CEO of Tianyu Technologies, young and promising president who helped Rong Xi in the moment of need. But it tied their fate together.
It's a pretty refreshing article with the plot about fake and true daughter, wealthy families, enertainment world, found family and Rong Xi as a center of it all.
In original this novel has 455 chapters (they are quite short, felt like 1k characters), and I say it feels long not because of the number of chapters, which are very short, but because of the content.
With spoilers~
Rong Xi is plotted against by her family, true daughter and even her fiance. This is a B-Day party day specially catered to Yu Nuan (true daughter), who only returned. But because of her Rong Xi's reputation will be smeared by everyone in the family (just because of Yu Nuan's not so smart schemes).
Rong Xi meets Wen Yu in the club and asks to help and escort her out, she will pay back.
This is the part that annoyed me a bit, before they fell in love they always danced around theme of Wen Yu being the creditor and Rong Xi being annoyed by him, but he basically used it to get close to her, while not realizing he fell for her. He makes such a big leap when it comes to feelings.
Rong Xi manages to be on time, revealed the plans of Yu family and announced that she will severe relationships with them. Thanks to Wen Yu she got the video and later with his assistant managed to separate household registration before moving to another city. She also renamed herself from Yu Xi to Rong Xi.
While Yu family thought she will come back and started making small moves, like finding her another man to marry (this never got a conclusion actually, like guys who almost assaulted her received their due, but this one never was mentioned by anyone again) or just spreading rumors. But who are wealthy families, not everyone will buy it.
She also meets Gu Qiyun at that party, who is a famous director. He acts as a knight and falls for Rong Xi. Becoming one of her admirers.
To distract the Yu family, thanks to one of the friends she helped during this period she connects with a popular blogger but also a second-generation rich young man Ji Ming, who reveals some stuff about Yu Xi, the third son of the Yu family (yeah I know, same sounding name, different characters with Rong Xi's previous name, but still confusing). While everyone is in uproar, after all Yu Xi not only had illicit relationships with many women, including his fans, but also was involved in a car accident, hitting a person to death.
While it was all going on Rong Xi quietly left the city. Yu family was dumbfounded.
Rong Xi at first wanted to start as a model but met Qi Yun, president of entertainment company who was going to audition with the director of a TV drama and noticing Rong Xi he proposed for her to audition for a Crown Princess, a pretty important role in the drama. Rong Xi nailed the audition and got the role. But refused to sign the contract with Qi Yun's company (the ongoing joke).
She joined the crew where everyone was marveling at her beauty, but later wereconquered by her acting skills.
Note: To be honest sometimes I get tired of FMC portrayal in Chinese novels, there is so much emphasis on the beauty, like nothing of her character matters. Many were also conquered by her beauty, men and women.
Here she becomes friend with a "vase" actress Yin Qiao, with whom they formed long-lasting friendship. But the heroine was played by the first actress of Qi Yun's company, Wei Xue. Here appear first "scandals" involving Rong Xi, one of the numerous scandals that will circulate. At first the situation wasn't good, but later Wen Yu got involved and threatened Qi Yun (they know each other) to make the situation right (since Qi Yun partially used Rong Xi as a threat to Wei Xue who wanted to fly solo after many years of resources being tilted towards her, and Qi Yun is not a good person who will let it go). Qi Yun's character is a bit of a class clown, he seems so unserious, but actually is an okay person.
During the filming Rong Xi also meets an actor (another male admirer who falls for Rong Xi) Jiang Yuhan, but his role is kinda important and not, since he is connected to Rong Xi's real family.
Few words about the romance, since it started to develop. Wen Yu fell in love first, he actually confessed quite early and did not impose on Rong Xi, but you could feel he will persist for as long as he should to finally win the beauty. Actually his actions were okay, he knew his boundries. But to acknowledge the relationship and love, to justify it, there was also a mention of "only him she allowed those things, if it was anyone else, she would never do the same" stuff like that. It actually took a long time before they came together and Rong Xi finally admitted to their relationship. Saying things like - I will give him twice as more feelings that he gave me during this time. And girl fell hard, when she is in love it's a different person.
So with scandals flying around, being debunked, finding fans and fame, the period of filming the first drama was over.
But one thing indeed happen, Wen Yu asked if Rong Xi wanted to find her parents, if they are alive. And the secrets led them to He County. 20 years ago when Rong Xi was born there was a big catastrophe in He County, rainstorm and mudslides took away many lives and it was easy to believe that either her family did not survive and her being in the Yu family is also a mistake. But is it really? Liu Yunhe (Mrs Yu) acted as if she hated Rong Xi prior to finding her real daughter and it felt weird, like there is some secret behind it, but if she knew it was not her daughter, why not find Yu Nuan sooner?
After the TV drama Rong Xi (with her amazing acting skills) landed another big role in a major production and started the preparation for that role and consequent filming.
I won't pinpoint the timing, since I managed to forget, but during filming when she got a vacation she left for He County with her friend Wang Shengan and there she met a young man with whom she had a magical connection. This young man came to the memorial to pray for his sister.
The met several times on several occasions proving the hand of fate in working, because it is obvious that this young man is actually her biological brother. They became friends and he came to her filming site of the new drama, but because his family was worried about him, his second brother came after him, but then he saw Rong Xi and this is where the official investigation and recognition of relatives began.
Rong Xi happened to be a lost princess of the Rong Group, they are the type of family that is mentioned in the history books and have a long history of enterpreneurship and helping the motherland. Nowadays their business is concentrated abroad. The Rong family has several branches along with the main one, but the greatest power of this family is that everyone utilizes their abilities and does not fight for power, this si how they survived this long. Rong Xi's father Rong QiZheng is the current chairman, while her mother Mu Yan in the past was a famous painter (has a story of feud with Mrs Yu). Eldest brother Rong Yanlin, second brother Rong Yanjing (everyone uses pseudonym Jing Yan) and actually her twin brother Rong Yanyi (also uses Jing Yi mainly). During the recognition period you can say it's another quite long period of just lovely content, pretty tame. Another period like that was when Wen Yu took Rong Xi to the Wen family for a New Year, of course Wen family is a fine family that also loved Rong Xi (since at that time they knew she had no family). Rong family always looked for their daughter, but they had no idea she will grow up in the family of an "enemy".
It all starts with Liu Yunhe, since she is the one who plagiarized Mu Yan's work and thought she will get away with it. She wanted to outshine Mu Yan, but the tragedy happened. Both were pregnant at that time and gave birth.
Main spoilers.
As it happens, Liu Yunhe has a cousin, who worked as a nurse, but this cousin hated Mrs Yu a lot, so instead of taking away the baby, she swapped them. making Mrs Yu raise the daughter of her "enemy". Because Liu Yunhe not only stole her boyfriend (Mr Yu), bu framed her and made her marry another man, but later plotted against her husband and his family to bankrupt them, thus she lived in poverty all these years.
For reasons decided to blackmail Mrs Yu when they were in the most trouble and were not as powerful. But got into trouble together with Mrs Yu for blackmailing and extortion.
So the one responsible for the swapped babies is non other than Mrs Yu.
Fate of Yu Nuan. Who thinks she is the smartest.
Yu Nuan's tricks actually did not fool anyone. Her family indulged her into framing Rong Xi, only because they knew Yu Nuan was mad for the 20 lost years. Yu Nuan was reborn and thought she grasped everything. But she was wrong. Being reborn did not give her any buffs.
She tried to enter entertainment industry and blurry the lines of what Rong Xi said, but she tried to hype herself through Rong Xi too much, while on her trumpet account she spread rumors (was busted several times and became a joke). She made several not smart moves and embarassed not only herself but the reputation of her family. She never made a splash in the industry despite the help of the Yu family. Her reputation was well-known to people for all her "glorious" deeds. She always tried to play this innocent flower that knows nothing and everyone misunderstand her, but she did many wrong moves that threw her family even further into oblivion.
Eventually she agreed to marry someone for the sake of money, but it was a person who suffered a lot because he was used by the Yu family (Luo Feng, main guy from the beginning). He abused Yu Nuan, since he himself had no healthy bone left, he was "greeted" several times andspent most of his time in hospital during this year. So Yu Nuan ended up with the worse fate than in her previous life. All because she liked to scheme and do small moves.
Fate of the Yu family.
Liu Yunhe (I hope I tyoped her name correctly, if not, my bad, I'm lazy to search for her name) was arrested for her crime of swapping babies along with her cousin.
Their company was under investigation and they went bankrupt, her husband was arrested, the only person left was he eldest son, but he sold everything he could just to not serve time in prison.
Second brother was taken for investigation because he defamed the original screenwriter of his first movie, who consequently comitted suicide because of this.
Third brother had the list of death of his fan he had a relationship with, death of the person he hit with the car, and another one was during a fight that broke out where a number of people wanted to humiliate him but he beat everyone he could without considering consequences.
Yu Nuan is in the hands of the Luo family.
Pretty dim.
Actually, this is just the overall outline of this novel, I did not mention a lot of entertaining stuff, online specualtions and reports, which made this entertaining.
It happened to be not that bad. It's quite an easy read, it's not writtent to be anythng more than that.
RATE: 4/5.
Because I've been working on my reading journal these days it took me longer to finish the book. But one thing that I did not include in my reading journal is - rating. Actually I did not divide it into months too like many others do or done anything fancy, started it from the period of Divine Rivals, also include Chinese novels, excluded DNFs (did not want to waste time on those) and only have reviews there. I just include my impression along with what the book was about. But overall it's just a therapeutic experience of doing creative stuff.
I will make few photos when I'm done.
But now I wonder what I'd like to read next or continue what I have, especially Nightmare Live. Several novels I included in previous short reviews are still on-going.
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