Chapter 53: The End of the First World

In the four years that followed, Sang Zhiyi won more than a dozen highly prestigious Best Actress awards for her role as Chi Jun.

By the time she received the Golden Glory Award for Best Actress, Sang Zhiyi had become the first actress in this world to achieve a Grand Slam.

The title of Best Actress was truly hers.

When she stood on the award stage of the Golden Glory ceremony, wearing a pure white Greek-style gown, she looked out at the dense crowd of audience members below.

The focus of their gazes was all concentrated on Sang Zhiyi alone.

In their eyes there was awe, admiration, congratulations, pride, as well as adoration and fondness, worship and fervor.

They were the eyes looking at a legend.

During these four years, Sang Zhiyi had done many things.

She led Starlight to become the dominant king in the entertainment industry, becoming a model of outstanding young entrepreneurship.

She specifically sought out the original team of the film Insect-Eating Rotten Wood, which Jiang Yingru had missed and always regretted in the original plot development, allowing Jiang Yingru to act in the work she desired, making up for the regrets in her original life.

At the invitation of Jiang Yingru, Yu Zilin, and others, she acted in several new works, and together with Jiang Yingru, who had become much more productive after her recovery, they became known as the “Twin Jewels of Film,” renowned both domestically and internationally.

She cooperated and advanced with the Zhongli family’s conglomerate, helping them join the ranks of the world-renowned top 100 enterprises, completely erasing the Lou family from the wealthy circle of A City, and supporting Song Ying’s return to the Song family, making the plot where his stepmother and stepbrother could only live at his mercy happen a few years earlier, and doing it more thoroughly by driving out his stepmother and stepbrother and returning the entire Song family to Song Ying.

She donated substantial amounts of money and materials to charitable causes and public infrastructure construction.

In the past year or two, libraries and Hope Primary Schools bearing the name “Ren Xiaoqian” had sprung up all across the country like bamboo shoots after a rain.

***

She was a person who had moved past the stage of “poverty leads to self-improvement” and begun the stage of “prosperity leads to benefiting the world.”

By this point, even Song Ying, who had been the most actively pursuing Sang Zhiyi before, had ultimately chosen to silently stand by.

Rumors between the two had persisted for a long time, so someone naturally asked Song Ying why.

Hearing the question, Song Ying rarely showed a bitter smile.

“In the past, I always felt I could take good care of her for a lifetime.

Later, I thought I could follow her to the end of our lives.

But now… I realize I’m not worthy.”

“She is too perfect, too great.

If she were with someone as worldly as me, it would be too unfair to her, wouldn’t it?”

This was also the mindset of many of Sang Zhiyi’s admirers.

Taking the Golden Glory Award trophy from the host, Sang Zhiyi stood under the spotlight, at the focal center of all viewers both offline and online, and once again curved her lips into that sweet smile that had captivated countless people.

Radiant, shining brightly.

***

The system said: [Congratulations on completing the novice world mission.

Calculating your mission points.]

[Main mission: Change the tragic fate of the cannon-fodder supporting female lead’s original owner.

Final rating: S-rank.

Reward: 20 mission points.]

[Side mission one: Take the original owner’s career to the extreme, becoming a Grand Slam Best Actress.

Reward: 10 mission points.]

[Side mission two: Gain favor from this world’s male lead, Lou Yanchen, to the level of “regret beyond measure.”

Reward: 3 mission points.]

[Side mission three: Gain favor from this world’s female lead, Jiang Yingru, to the level of “sworn sisterhood.”

Reward: 5 mission points.]

[Side mission four: Create significant influence in this world’s fields of culture, entertainment, economy, education, etc.

Reward: 5 mission points.]

[After calculation, you have earned a total of 43 mission points, which have been deposited into your personal account balance.]

[Upon detection, your accumulated mission points have reached 10.

The system store permissions have been unlocked.

You may browse at your convenience.]

[Thank you for your efforts.

Please continue to strive.]

The clear, magnetic male voice, accompanied by slight static, reported to Sang Zhiyi the final gains from this first world in a machine-like, methodical manner.

After winning the Best Actress award at the Golden Glory ceremony, Sang Zhiyi had received a notification from System Sir that the main mission was complete and she could leave at any time, along with the option to continue living in that world until the end of her life.

Sang Zhiyi, of course, chose to leave.

She still had too many things to do.

Before leaving, Sang Zhiyi resigned from all her positions in this world, said goodbye to her close friends, announced publicly that she was traveling alone around the world, settled all her responsibilities and debts, and then bid farewell to this world for good.

After departing from that world, Sang Zhiyi, in the form of a soul, arrived in a completely enclosed small space.

This space was not unfamiliar to Sang Zhiyi, because after her death in the real world, she had come here, communicated with the Main God, and then signed the contract with the system.

Sang Zhiyi had specifically observed at the time that this small space was a rectangular prism, with dimensions approximately 4x2x2.5, a volume of about twenty cubic meters, like a square little room.

The space was completely empty, apart from her own soul, only the six dark gray walls.

Arriving here again, Sang Zhiyi felt that the length, width, and height of the space seemed to have increased slightly, but she had no measuring tool to confirm it, and even with her excellent memory, she had spent about five years in the first small world, making it impossible to accurately recall the previous situation.

But these details were not important; Sang Zhiyi was simply, habitually, whenever entering a new environment, quickly gathering as much information as possible about her surroundings.

What was more important now was the list given to her by System Sir.

At this moment, Sang Zhiyi had a virtual electronic screen in front of her, and System Sir had already listed the items in text form, one by one.

Sang Zhiyi carefully examined this information, looking for patterns and accumulating experience from this first settlement.

Clearly, the main mission reward was the most generous, followed by taking the original owner’s career to the extreme, which was essentially also about achieving the original owner’s counterattack, rewriting her bleak fate, and forging success.

This was completely consistent with Sang Zhiyi’s philosophy of living a brilliant life.

When doing missions in other small worlds in the future, she could specifically focus on these two points to achieve twice the result with half the effort.

Causing significant influence in the small world’s worldview also gave 5 mission points.

Sang Zhiyi felt she had done almost all she could in the limited time, but the reward received was not proportional to the effort invested.

She could not expend too much energy on this aspect in the future.

The favor of the male and female leads could be grouped together; it was easy to understand.

Seeing that the scumbag only gave 3 mission points while Sister Jiang gave 5, the mission points earned were directly related to the level of favor—the higher the favor, the more mission points.

However, only the favor of the female lead and male lead of the small world gave rewards.

For other supporting characters, whether Song Ying and Zhong Yueyi, who had significant appearances and important roles in the original plot development, or Zhongli Hanyu, Zhu Qing, and Yu Zilin, who were barely mentioned in the original plot, no matter how high or low the favor, there were no mission points.

Sang Zhiyi bent the index finger of her right hand against the tip of her chin, thinking.

The current information sample was too limited.

It was possible that for the novice world, supporting character favor had no rewards.

In the future, if she went to other worlds, perhaps she could use this channel to earn more mission points.

After all, among all the listed items, only this one was divided into two side missions to explain, so it might have some particularity.

Moreover, Sang Zhiyi remembered very clearly that System Sir had personally conveyed to her that these small worlds had different levels.

That was when she had learned, in order to buy on credit that C-rank universal medication, that she needed to complete at least two intermediate-or-higher level world missions, or at least one advanced world mission.

By analogy, it was more or less determined that the novice world she had just experienced belonged to the low-level category.

Thinking of this, Sang Zhiyi couldn’t help but sigh.

She also remembered that System Sir had said these extra missions were roughly equivalent to 2000 mission points, and looking at the mission points she had earned now, only a mere 43, which converted was one fiftieth.

After all, it had been five years of hard work.

And her main mission had received an S-rank rating.

Although she didn’t yet know exactly how this grading was determined, or if there were SS rank, SSS rank above S, it wasn’t too bad, but it had only earned 20 mission points.

In addition to this extra mission, she also needed to earn the opportunity to be resurrected and reborn in the real world, and the required amount was something she currently had no permission to know.

Shaking her head, Sang Zhiyi didn’t bother with these matters that were useless to think about for now.

Instead, she did something practical: she clicked on the light screen in front of her and opened her newly unlocked system store interface.

Just like in the films and television shows and novels and anime Sang Zhiyi had seen before, the goods in the system store were truly a dazzling array, ranging from everyday items like toilet paper, pots and pans, to rarely seen firearms and tanks, to superpowers and cultivation methods that only existed in fantasy—everything one could want.

But the rarer the item, the higher the price.

An ordinary handgun cost 100 mission points to purchase, and a Qi cultivation method cost five figures.

What she could afford now were only some daily necessities and food and drinks.

Sang Zhiyi glanced over.

A lighter cost 3 mission points, a 200-gram bag of bread cost 2 mission points, and a 300-milliliter bottle of purified water also cost 2 mission points.

Not bad.

At least if she encountered extreme environments in the future, she wouldn’t starve or thirst to death.

After browsing the system store, Sang Zhiyi also confirmed with System Sir exactly how the grading worked.

The answer she received was that the system used the same grading system for both items and mission ratings, with the highest being SSS rank and the lowest being F rank, a total of nine levels.

Here, the system specifically explained that the novice world had particularity, with the highest rating only S rank and the lowest only D rank.

As long as the host’s performance wasn’t particularly outrageous, they would receive a D rank or above, and no mission points would be deducted.

Hearing this, Sang Zhiyi couldn’t help but smile a little.

System Sir, after all, always in such small details, seemed to still have remnants of emotion.

After all, a pure machine would only answer the question itself and would not actively give additional explanations like this that seemed intended to comfort her, without her even asking.

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