"Popular actress, Ji Qingqing, had been apprehended by the police for deliberating injuring someone. Today, she was let out on bail. It has been reported that once she's formally prosecuted, Ji Qingqing will face five years of jail time!"

Ji Qingqing looked at the headline news on the phone's screen. She blinked, then she looked at the woman sitting in front of her. "You're saying that I'm Ji Qingqing, the person in that news article?"

The woman was dressed in a professional suit. She looked at her with an unsmiling face, "I came to see you today to tell you that Miss Shen decided to offer to settle out of court with you. In return for not suing, she's only asking that you compensate her with twenty million yuan. The full amount has to be paid within a month."

The person sitting in front of her was Meng Xun. She was her agent. Miss Shen's full name was Shen Weiwei, and she also worked under Meng Xun.

A week ago, Shen Weiwei and Ji Qingqing were part of the same cast and crew and filming together. A disputed occurred between them, and Ji Qingqing pushed Shen Weiwei down a hill. Shen Weiwei ended up with multiple bone fractures and a deep cut on her face that almost spoiled her beauty. For an actress, this was undoubtedly a huge blow.

Afterwards, Shen Weiwei reported Ji Qingqing to the police, and Ji Qingqing stayed in the police station for a few days. As soon as Shen Weiwei filed a formal lawsuit, the fate that awaited Ji Qingqing was a five-year prison term.

However, Shen Weiwei had expressed a willingness to settle out of court as long as Ji Qingqing compensate her with twenty million yuan.

"Qingqing, you've been my charge for a long time, so I won't talk in circles with you. The company's upper level executives are unhappy about this matter. The company has already decided to give away your endorsements and roles to other actors and actresses. During this period of time, you have to resolve your problems before we can discuss anything else."

Ji Qingqing was jolted out from her shocked state.

"That's all for today. If there's nothing else, I'll be leaving."

Ji Qingqing watched as Meng Xun departed.

After Meng Xun left, Ji Qingqing went over the novel's plot in her mind.

Ji Qingqing knew the star she was born under and that she was due for a calamity, but she hadn't expected it to be so bad. After waking up, she had transmigrated into a novel as the supporting female character that had done many nefarious deeds.

The novel was an inspiring story of sweet pampering in the entertainment industry.

The female lead in this novel was Shen Weiwei. She was born in an impoverished family, but she was naturally optimistic, benevolent, and worked hard to improve herself and her situation. Because she liked acting and had a beautiful face, she was scouted and entered the entertainment industry. However, the female lead didn't have a strong family background or any other supporter, so she had difficulty progressing in her acting career. One after another, the female lead overcame difficult hurdles. In the end, she achieved fame and fortune and reached the pinnacle of her life and career.

As for the malicious supporting female character, Ji Qingqing had been able to enter the entertainment industry because of her sweet looks. She had gained popularity after playing the role of a cannon fodder supporting female character in a TV drama and received endless invites. If Ji Qingqing had adopted a serious work ethic and kept a humble attitude, she might have been able to stay in the entertainment industry for a long time.

After all, the stars in the entertainment industry had to withstand the test of time. There was wave after wave of new stars. Only the people that had genuine abilities could hold onto an invincible position.

However, the novel's Ji Qingqing was a person that favored the rich and disdained the poor. She was unruly and impulsive. Although she had a beautiful face, but it wasn't enough to counteract her actions.

After entering the entertainment industry, she didn't work on improving her acting skills. Instead, she depended on hype and marketing to attract attention. She had used speculation involving popular actors to increase her popularity. It had reached the point where celebrities would rather take a detour than pass by Ji Qingqing. No one wanted to be associated with her.

Later on, Ji Qingqing hooked up with a rich second-generation. Believing herself as the second-generation's girlfriend, she acted like a tyrant in the entertainment industry and offended many people. She hadn't expected that the second-generation was only playing with her. The kind-hearted and hard-working female lead attracted his attention. After he witnessed Ji Qingqing giving the female lead a hard time, he claimed that Ji Qingqing was only a plaything he kept on the side. After that incident, he escorted the female lead around like she was the empress, and Ji Qingqing gained the reputation of being a kept plaything.

As for the novel's male lead, he was female lead’s boyfriend and had been helping her all along. What was even more interesting was that male lead had once been Ji Qingqing's boyfriend when they were younger, but she had kicked this poor boy to the curb.

In reality, he wasn't a poor boy. He was a young master from a rich and powerful family. Before running away from home to live a life of self-reliance, he never had to worry about daily life necessities. He was firmly woken up to reality after being kicked to the curb by Ji Qingqing, who looked down on the poor and flattered the rich. Having undergone that experience, his temperament went through a huge change; he became a heartless and fickle person. But then, he met the kind-hearted and beautiful female lead.

The female lead didn't look down on the male lead that was pretending to be poor. She quietly stayed by his side. When the female lead encountered many challenges created by people that wanted to make life difficult for her in the novel, it was the male lead that overtly and covertly helped her by resolving them for her. Eventually, the male lead decided that he shouldn't continue to hide his identity from the female lead, so he confessed the truth to her.

After the female lead found out about the male lead's identity, the female lead had conflicted feelings and gave the male lead the cold shoulder for a period of time. In the end, she forgave him for hiding the truth.

As for the supporting female character, Ji Qingqing felt extremely remorseful after finding out the male lead was a consortium's successor.

In the entertainment industry, she tried to push the female lead out. She targeted her and framed her. Without any restraint, she even bragged about the male lead's attempts at wooing her in the past. She tried all sorts of underhanded tricks to get close to the male lead and rekindle their past relationship. But, this only cause the male lead to loathe her and blacklist her from the entertainment industry. She lived the rest of her life accomplishing nothing and living in envy and bitterness. There were even months when she couldn't afford to pay rent.

The existence of Ji Qingqing, the supporting female character, was probably meant to set off the female lead's beautiful heart. The female lead's life was meant to be an inspiring story.

Let's go back to our protagonist's current dilemma. The orginal Ji Qingqing was a natural-born hedonistic. She spent her money purchasing brand-name purses, clothing, and skincare products. These were all consumables, and wasn't worth much if you tried to resell them. The only valuable thing she had was a home located at the heart of downtown. It was worth a few million dollars.

By demanding a compensation of twenty million yuan, the female lead was giving her an impossible to complete task.

She was obviously just trying to torment her to death!

How had the original owner of this body resolved this problem?

Oh.

Because she had recently been abandoned by that second-generation nouveau riche, everyone in the entertainment was eagerly waiting to see Ji Qingqing's imminent misfortune. Ji Qingqing had lost her supporter and could no longer lord herself over them. Her endorsements had been robbed from her, and her acting role had been given to someone else. Anyone could step on her right now.

In the novel, when Ji Qingqing was at the end of her rope, a middle-aged, oily, obese man appeared and solved this problem for her.

Before Ji Qingqing had transmigrated into this novel, her finances had been in such a poor state that she almost had to sell her body. Her parents and grandfather as well as her spoiled older brother completely depended on her support to support them.

In the blink of an eye, she had woken up to owning a grand residence and a luxury car. Before she had time to throw a party to celebrate her good fortune, she was informed that she was responsible for a twenty million yuan debt. Not only that, she had to choose the ending option of either selling her body or being the kept plaything of a middle-aged, oily, obese man.

Ji Qingqing closed her eyes and almost fainted.

Twenty million yuan! How could she possibly get that much money?!

She roughly estimate the assets owned by the original owner of this body. Even if she sold off brand-name personal property and real estate, it would only add up to ten million yuan. It was far from being enough.

Ji Qingqing stood in front of the mirror and looked at the woman in the mirror. Even without makeup, this face was a hundred times more beautiful than the actresses on TV. She would rather die than sell this body!

Otherwise, she wouldn't have come to this rotten place!

"Do you have an urgent need for money?"

One after another, commercials for lending money sounded on the TV.

"As long as you do what I say, you'll have more money than you can spend in a lifetime."

"First, download the Financially Ruined App. Only one step is needed. Just enter the amount of loan you need to borrow, and you'll have more money than you can spend in this lifetime."

Ji Qingqing: ...

What a magical world.

"Do you have an urgent need for money?"

"Lu Lixing is from a family that’s rolling in money, but he's coming to the end of his allotted lifespan. If you marry him, you'll gain his enormous inheritance."

"...?" The words in this commercial was too weird.

Ji Qingqing turned around. The TV screen was black.

"Lu Lixing is going to die soon. As long as you marry him, you'll obtain his vast wealth."

"Who?" Ji Qingqing's voice echoed in the empty room.

"Let me introduce myself. I'm your system. I'll guide you out of our current predicament. You can call me Little A."

"Little A? What's that supposed to be?"

"To be precise, the reason why you're in this world is because I brought you here."

Ji Qingqing's gums trembled. "I don't need you to guide me out of this predicament. I can easily tell you how to solve my problem. Just send me back home."

"Sorry, this request can't be fulfilled. In your original world, you're already dead. If you go back, you would just be cremated ash. But, I can solve your current problem related to the 20 million yuan debt."

Okay, she could settle for the next best thing.

"How this problem be solved?”

-- "As long as you marry Lu Lixing, you'll get his entire inheritance after he dies."

Was this system that powerful? She could marry whoever she wanted?

"How much is his inheritance?"

-- "Oh, it's probably only 100 billion."

"..."

"......"

Ji Qingqing managed to assent, "... Okay then." This world was too crazy.

"What should I do?"

-- "Open the door."

There was a knock at the door.

Looking out from the peephole, Ji Qingqing saw a man that was dressed in a suit. When she opened the door to look, she saw that there were several men dressed in suits standing outside.

Ji Qingqing took a step back. Where these people from the mafia?

The leader of the group asked, "Miss Ji?"

Ji Qingqing nervously answered, "That's me."

"Our family's older master has something to discuss with you. Could you please come with us?"

This didn't sound like a request from the tone of his voice.

This man was wearing a suit and sunglasses, so she couldn't clearly see his face or tell what exactly was going on. His attitude was very impersonal as if he was just doing normal business, and Ji Qingqing truly felt apprehensive.

-- "Go with him! Hurry up, go with him!"

"Wait a moment." Ji Qingqing returned inside and changed her clothes before following the group in going downstairs.

The night wind was strong. In this upscale neighborhood, the area was deserted.

The sight of the four black luxury cars parked in the underground garage dazzled the eyes. The leader of the group opened a car door and gestured for her to get in.

Ji Qingqing sat down in the backseat. She appeared calm, but she was actually panicking as she scrutinized the unsmiling man in the passenger seat. "Where are we going?"

"Hospital."

"Who's your family's old master?"

"Old Master Lu."

Ji Qingqing fell silent. She recollected the sparse information that she knew about Lu Lixing.

Lu Lixing. He was 30-years-old and 189 cm tall. He had a master's degree from a prestigious graduate school. He had a car accident a month ago, and his condition wasn't good. So far, he hadn't woken up yet. He wasn't known to be close to women, but there were rumors that he liked to torment people, was very controlling, and had a volatile temperament. He had a private basement, and the servants frequently heard wretched screaming coming from the basement.

The novel had very few descriptions of Lu Lixing. Most of it was just passing comments or fleeting references. He would only appear in desperate situation to turn the situation around. The more one tried to hide, the more mysterious one seemed.

The most important thing was that he was Ji Qingqing's ex-boyfriend's older brother.

"Why is Old Master Lu looking for me?"

"I'm not sure. Miss Ji, you'll find this out once you arrive at the hospital."

Ji Qingqing looked at the scenery outside the window that they were passing by in a blur and forced herself to calm down.

---

Two hours ago.

In the hallway of the hospital's quiet patient ward, hurried footsteps broke the peacefulness.

"Senior Lu, your grandson's condition isn't hopeful. His major organs are starting to fail. We'll do our best to save him, but please sign this notice that informs you of his critical condition."

The greyish-white hair old man took the notice from the doctor. It felt as if the pen in his hand weighed 500 kilograms as he signed his name.

"I'll have to trouble you, doctor."

Life and death was decided by fate. Having lived for many years, the old man had seen many things regarding life and death. Birth and old age, sickness and death, such is human nature. It was beyond his ability to interfere in this. But, he couldn't accept a white-haired person sending off a black-haired person. This was his grandson that he had painstakingly educated and raised.

With the help of someone next to him, the old man, who's legs felt weak, sat down on one of the seats in the corridor. His back, which had been ramrod straight his entire life, was now stooped over. He looked as if he had aged a lot.

The sound of another set of hurried footsteps came over, and a man approached the old man and whispered something into his ear.

"Ji Qingqing? Great Master Wen said that?"

"Yes, Great Master Wen said that as long as young master marries the woman named Ji Qingqing, his medical danger will be averted. This is Ji Qingqing's information. Please look it over.