Summary: Shen Jiao was reborn. She was hit by the light fixture. Although she was pretty popular at the beginning of her career but soon she became ridiculed because of her agency, because of people who wanted to hype CP with her, because she thought that because we all are in this industry there is no need to make things difficult. But others happily stepped on her, while she was enduring.
Haha, I know the cover is not the best.
Shen Jiao wakes up, realizing that she is reborn, looking back at her life she regretted that she didn't push back and was always "tolerant" towards others, was influenced by the comments online and opinions of other people, while others wantonly danced on her head and never bothered to be civil. This is why she suffered several setbacks. Although she is not a completely poor person, on the contrary, her parents are scholars, while her brother is a rising star in business and her family has money, her friend are really rich people, but she never wanted to use these connections. Now she said to herself - fuck it, I'm not going to be a softie for others.
The greatest point is that she does not go crazy mindlessly, you know being rude just for the sake of being rude. She acts the way she wants, but if other person tries to act up, she has her own ways to deal with it. Just to give an example, the novel about truth system I reviewed recently makes the host tell the truth regardless of the occasion, but here Shen Jiao knows what to say and when to say it.
This is a refreshing entertainment novel, very fast-paced and I'd say short. To me the ending was wrapped quickly. But in general it dealt with everything that was mentioned in the beginning.
It also has a pretty strong commentary on men in the industry, which I could understand, because it reminded me of some male users on TT who acts as pretty boys just for the sake of fame and vanity and then we hear some scandals about them that they slept with fans etc. All stories are taken from life.
But this novel is quite short (61 chapter) and has a bit of the same structure. E.g. the scandal happens, Shen Jiao figures out who did it, she has black material on the other person and strikes back. And because the other person has more to hide than her, they all leave entertainment industry in disgrace. This happened 3 or 4 times in the novel.
The only person who was left for the most part is Qin Fangzhi, daughter of the Qin family who always considered herself Shen Jiao's rival, but she had a higher starting point, promoted herself as this pure person, pearl in the ocean etc. But in reality she bought so many black hot searches for Shen Jiao like no one else did. She wanted to trample on her, she looked down on her but was also envious and she proved to be too proud and conceited to find she was set up when she decided to film in ancient idol drama like Shen Jiao did (which made Shen Jiao the most famous). Also Fangzhi is the only one who woke up at the end. Most of the "villains" ended up banned by the industry.
The relationship is with Pei Yinghuai. She and him are what is called childhoow sweethearts who liked to pick on each other, they are always mean about each other in a friendly way. Though I'd say Pei is a good person who has a crush on Shen Jiao, but the romance is quite flat in this novel.
Well, it's a quick read for an evening if you search for something of this kind.
RATE: 4/5. For what it is in its' own category of short, slap back, entertainment.
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