Chapter One: The Strategy Mission

GG Red Carpet Gala Lounge—

Su Tang struggled to open her heavy eyelids, and immediately felt something lodged in her throat. She hurried to spit it out. As soon as she sat up, she saw several bottles of sleeping pills on the table in front of her. Her face changed, and she quickly formed a spell. Only then did she let out a sigh of relief, collapsing on the sofa as she picked up the phone glowing beside her.

The moment Su Tang picked up the phone, her eyes were greeted with screens full of insults and abuse, and the message page was still flooding with new messages.

Average Guy: "I really don't know what you are, pretending to be so virtuous? Disgusting!!"

Average Girl: "Wow, you're the legendary white lotus, green tea bitch, aren’t you? Do you have to act so obviously? You think we're blind?!"

Su Tang Disgusts Me: "You're so fucking gross, just go away, seriously, seeing you pollutes my eyes."

Stinky Bastard: "Are you a maggot? Do you always have to rely on leeching off others and spreading black rumors?"

Su Tang pressed her lips together, fuming, and was about to fire back on her phone when the system stopped her.

001: "Wait, think about your current situation first. Don’t act impulsively."

Su Tang calmed herself and recalled the memories of the original owner. The original owner was a female celebrity, an actress. When she first entered the entertainment industry, she benefited from her looks, but as more and more talents emerged, the company could only use her for scandalous publicity to earn money. For three years, the original owner lived in endless abuse and insults, which was nothing like her initial fantasies. Ultimately, all these reasons led to her depression and suicide, which was precisely when Su Tang crossed over.

She watched the ever-increasing private messages on her phone and paused, forcing herself not to retaliate.

001 said, "Your task is to help the original owner make a comeback and, at the same time, win over your target—Best Actor Song Heqing. Once you succeed, you’ll get task coins, which we’ll exchange for the merit you need."

Su Tang snapped her fingers, brimming with confidence as she stood up. "No problem!" For her fox tribe, this task was the simplest of all, wasn’t it?

Yes, Su Tang was a fox spirit who had cultivated for a thousand years, always diligently doing good deeds and accumulating merit. Who would have thought that on a gloomy day, when she went out seeking good deeds to do, the old Heavenly Dao struck her and took one of her tails?

Furious, she activated the system and struck a deal with it.

Back to the present, Su Tang had just thrown several empty pill bottles into the trash when her phone rang.

She picked it up and saw it was the original owner's agent. Su Tang’s brow furrowed instantly in distaste.

Because of her scandalous fame, the company sent this agent not only to manage her career but also to keep her under surveillance. The original owner had earned that small-time company a lot of money through negative publicity. To keep her stirring up trouble, the agent was painstakingly attentive, following her closely at every event, terrified she might say anything that would actually attract fans.

The moment Su Tang answered, the agent’s furious voice blasted through the receiver.

"Why are you so slow to pick up? Don’t you know how to reply to messages?! Listen, no matter how many people urge you, you have to appear after Yang Xi, got it? Today you must be the finale!"

Before Su Tang could respond, the call was cut off.

This was the last straw for the original owner. She had endured all the online and real-life abuse until now. But for this red carpet event, the agent insisted she hold off, no matter how many people urged her, and appear after the popular star Yang Xi. That way, she would be cursed and dominate the trending lists for a whole week.