"How Did I Blow Up Just from Watching the Drama?" by Yue Zhaoxi [Complete + Extras]
Synopsis:
Also titled: "How Did Watching the Drama Turn Me into a Divine Seer?"
Ye Mo bound herself to a gossip
system
888: [...Host, you were deliberately switched at birth. Your biological parents are actually the owners of the Ye Group?]
Ye Mo: ??
The true heiress
of a wealthy family was me all along? Excellent. With a big tree at my back, I could enjoy the shade. With a family background like this, I would be
the entertainment industry's
next dazzling star!
As for her biological parents not liking her? Talking about feelings would hurt her wallet too much, ha.
888: [Host, your family's maid sewed 999 peach blossom talismans into your father's suits, just to make him fall for her!]
Ye Mo: With skills like that, this is what she does?
888: [Your third brother's girlfriend loves keeping fish. She has a foot in five boats, and your third brother is just one fish in her pond. Even when she has scarves knitted, she commissions five copies!]
Ye Mo: You're the master of time management!
Host: [The director of the production next door has hooked up with his daughter. His wife's coming to catch them in the act!]
Ye Mo (thrilled) immediately got dressed, put on a mask, and rushed to the scene to watch the drama.
After binding herself to the Gossip System, Ye Mo passed through the heart of melodramatic gossip every day. And thanks to her precise divination of juicy scoops, at some point, she suddenly became a "divine seer" renowned throughout the entertainment industry.
A tycoon worth hundreds of millions clasped her hand, his eyes brimming with tears. "Master! I understand now!"
A famous actress said gratefully, "Thank you for saving my sorry life, Master!"
A certain famous director: "Thank goodness the master warned me, or I really would've lost even my underwear!"
Meanwhile, Ye Mo, the so-called divine seer: "...If I said I was only watching the drama, would you believe me?"
Career-focused synopsis:
Ye Mo was known as the entertainment industry's pretty vase, a famously empty-headed beauty.
But one day, everyone discovered that the empty-headed beauty was no longer empty-headed. Her acting, once unbearable, had actually become good.
The white moonlight who was murdered, the aloof, immortal-like eldest senior sister, the steadfast spy devoted to the greater good... all kinds of classic characters came to life in her hands.
From pretty vase to Best Actress, someone asked Ye Mo if she had a secret.
Ye Mo (with a deep, thoughtful gaze): "Ah, that all started when I bound myself to a Gossip System..."
Content tags: entertainment industry, face-slapping, system, alternate modern setting
Feel-good fiction
Main characters, viewpoint: Ye Mo, He Mingzhang
One-line synopsis: I became a divine seer by watching the drama!
Theme: cherish yourself
Chapter 1: The first scoop: What juicy gossip is this? Let me take a bite!...
"...Mr. Shen, I really can't teach a student like Miss Ye. Just consider me lacking in talent and learning. Please find someone more capable for this job!"
"Wait, Teacher Qin, you... can't we talk this through?"
"Mr. Shen, please don't take offense at my bluntness. To tell you the truth, Miss Ye simply isn't cut out to make a living from acting. Personally, I think she does quite well as a pretty vase. There are some things in this world we truly can't force!"
Through the slightly ajar door of the practice room, Teacher Qin's "tactful" advice to the esteemed manager Shen drifted faintly inside, carrying a hint of disdain.
Ye Mo sat there, listening expressionlessly.
A few minutes later, presumably after seeing Teacher Qin off, Ye Mo's manager, Shen Yan, walked in from outside.
"Teacher Qin left?" Ye Mo looked at him.
"Yes." Shen Yan gave a dry laugh, then said, "It's fine. If this Teacher Qin doesn't work out, we'll find another teacher. There's bound to be someone who can teach you how to act..."
Ye Mo looked at him expressionlessly and pointed something out. "You said the same thing before this Teacher Qin came."
Shen Yan: "..."
"Oh, my little ancestor!" He crouched down, racking his brains to comfort Ye Mo. "Isn't there a saying? When God opens a window for you, he's bound to close another window..."
Before he could finish, Ye Mo's gaze instantly sharpened, and she hit the nail on the head. "You mean I'm never going to be able to act in this lifetime?"
"...I never said that," Shen Yan denied hastily-he certainly didn't dare admit to that, did he?
Ye Mo: Heh.
Looking at her dejected expression, Shen Yan couldn't help sighing inwardly.
Ye Mo really was born to be a star. Her face was exquisite and sophisticated, her figure tall and well-proportioned. Simply standing there, she was an undeniable bright spot. No matter how you looked at her, she belonged beneath the spotlights, shining.
Back then, she had cut her way through the competition with a single photograph, gaining countless fans online before she even entered the industry. All of that had been thanks to her exceptionally outstanding looks.
Unfortunately, while Ye Mo certainly had the looks, she truly had no talent whatsoever for acting. In her five years in the industry, her face alone had propelled her straight into the A-list, but her complete lack of acting skills had earned her the mocking nickname "the entertainment industry's number one pretty vase" from netizens.
Some particularly nasty people even mocked Ye Mo to her face.
In response, Ye Mo smiled in public and said, "Not everyone has what it takes to be a pretty vase..."
In private, however, she turned around and told her manager, Shen Yan, through gritted teeth, "Find me ten teachers right now! I refuse to believe I can't gnaw through this bone called acting!"
But reality proved that some bones truly were too tough to gnaw through.
Teacher Qin, who had just left, was already Ye Mo's tenth acting teacher. And now the tenth one had left, too. Under these ten teachers' guidance, rather than improving by leaps and bounds, Ye Mo's acting had made no progress whatsoever. In fact, it had become even worse than before.
Shen Yan kept starting to speak, then stopping, then wanting to speak again... what he meant was, they didn't actually have to keep stubbornly gnawing away at acting!
But he didn't dare say that to Ye Mo, afraid his little ancestor would explode on the spot.
"Why can't I act well?"
After Shen Yan left, Ye Mo simply lay down on the floor.
She raised a hand and looked at her spread fingers, her expression questioning her whole life. "How is that possible?"
She handled everything else with ease, whether studying, singing, or dancing, yet acting alone had dealt her the greatest Waterloo of her life.
But that only made Ye Mo want to master acting even more.
"Ding-dong!"
Suddenly, a strange voice sounded in Ye Mo's mind.
"Scanning for host. Host scan successful... Gossip System No. 888 binding... Gossip System binding successful!"
As the flat mechanical voice announced the successful binding, its previously lifeless tone suddenly filled with passion, calling out with animated inflection, "Hello, Host! I am Gossip System No. 888!"
"Our goal is to feast on the biggest melons and be the wildest melon-munching badgers!"
Ye Mo: "..."
She picked at her ear with her little finger and muttered, "Have I gone mad trying to act well? I'm even hearing things."
"Host, you haven't gone mad, and this isn't an auditory hallucination!" The system's enthusiastic voice rang out in Ye Mo's mind again. "Gossip System No. 888 was born specifically to feast on gossip. I know every juicy scoop about everyone on your planet!"
Something stirred in Ye Mo's heart, and she asked unhurriedly, "You know every scoop?"
System 888 answered with absolute certainty, "That's right! There's no scoop 888 doesn't know!"
A shrewd light flashed in Ye Mo's eyes as she asked, "Then do you know any juicy gossip about He Zhen?"
Like Ye Mo, He Zhen was an actress in the entertainment industry. She was also the person who had once mocked Ye Mo to her face as a "pretty vase." The two had debuted in the same year and had been sworn enemies and rivals ever since. Even people who paid little attention to the entertainment industry knew that Ye Mo and He Zhen were on opposing sides.
So now that she had bound herself to this so-called Gossip System, if she really could feast on anyone's gossip, He Zhen was the first person Ye Mo thought of.