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The Sadder My Roles, The Stronger I Get—Fans Beg Me to Stop the Angst

share time: 2026-01-20 02:31:07

Lin Xiaoman, an 18th-tier actress, has a “misery buff”—the more traumatic her roles are, the more OP her real-life skills become: playing a extra whose script was stolen gave her a photographic memory; playing a sickly abandoned heiress unlocked her medical talent; playing a betrayed slum girl granted her god-tier investment intuition. She’s quietly rising to fame with “sad roles,” but her fans are flooding social media: “Xiaoman, stop the angst! Our tears are drying up!” To her surprise, top actor Gu Chuan—her secret crush—is her die-hard fan, even handing her warm ginger tea privately: “Stop doing such painful scenes. I saw you shaking in the rain while acting a breakup.” When she takes on her most tragic role yet—a depressed singer bullied online—she unlocks a new skill: hearing fans’ thoughts! Caught between her agent’s “sadder = more popular” push, the fans’ “stop the angst” voices in her head, and Gu Chuan’s subtle care, she panics: turns out, the hardest part of “getting stronger” isn’t acting miserable—it’s making the ones she cares about hurt.

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