Huayu: Please leave me alone, I really want to retire from the entertainment industry!

Chapter 2 Proficiency Extraction System

Extraction complete

[You have achieved a "Makeup" skill proficiency level of 300]

Makeup (Excellent): 350/1000

Song Ze blinked, watching the line of semi-transparent text on his retina gradually fade away.

He subconsciously raised his right hand and looked at his fingers.

That's right, he also studied makeup in his previous life.

During the most difficult years after the house collapsed, I took on any job imaginable.

She worked as a makeup artist for wedding companies, did makeup and styling for obscure online celebrities, and even did dead person makeup for extras at a third-rate film and television company.

Those memories became incredibly clear the moment I traveled through time, as if I had just touched the powder puff yesterday.

Therefore, the system did not give him this ability out of thin air.

It reawakened what he had already learned.

"Good heavens, there's even a cheat code."

Song Ze muttered something under his breath and turned off the floating skill panel in front of him.

A dozen minutes later, the short-haired girl left carrying her makeup bag.

Before leaving, she turned back to look at him with a worried expression, probably thinking that he had gone crazy because he couldn't bear the blow.

While scumbags are despicable, what if they're extremely handsome...

That might not be entirely unacceptable.

"What a pity."

Muttering to herself, the short-haired girl gently closed the door, feeling a pang of regret.

But Song Ze was completely unaware of her complex psychological state; at that moment, he was engrossed in studying the limitations of this cheat system.

First, it can only be extracted when the target "demonstrates skills".

Secondly, the same target can only be extracted once.

Then, the skill level of the target cannot exceed two levels of the user's own level.

Finally, there's one more crucial point—

[Note: This system can only extract skills that the host has previously learned.]

In other words, the system cannot obtain anything that he has never touched in his life or his previous life.

But for someone who has been in the entertainment industry for ten years, this is hardly a restriction.

Anyone who has been an entertainer knows that this industry typically requires you to know a little bit of everything.

Singing, dancing, playing instruments, acting, composing, even makeup and editing—what hadn't he learned in his past life just to make a living?

However, at that time I learned a wide variety of things but not a deep understanding; at best, I only got a basic understanding.

But it's different now.

"This system is here to help me pay off my debts."

Song Ze stared at himself in the makeup mirror and smiled.

Those wasted ten years in my past life, those sleepless nights studying, those moments of gritting my teeth and persevering, yet never having a chance to put them to use—

Now they've all become his ammunition.

He opened the skill panel, and lines of familiar yet unfamiliar text appeared before his eyes.

[Singing (Excellent), Music Composition (Skilled), Literary Writing (Skilled), Guitar Playing (Skilled), Piano Playing (Beginner), Acting (Beginner), Cooking (Skilled), Dance (Beginner)...]

Each one was earned through scars in a past life.

......

......

"Happy Friday, everyone!"

"Welcome to the final episode of the domestic celebrity dating show, 'Heartbeat Model'!"

"Today's special segment is the Heartbeat Singing King Competition!"

"The eight guests will perform in the order drawn by lot, and the final winner will be determined by real-time voting in the live stream!"

"And the winner of the singing competition will have priority in the subsequent selection process..."

At 8:00 AM sharp, the fifth episode of "Heartbeat" began airing on time.

To keep things fresh for viewers, each episode of "Heartbeat" is filmed in a different location and also features a "special opening segment".

Last time, we competed to see who had the lowest heart rate while riding a roller coaster at the amusement park.

This episode features a singing competition held in a suburban villa.

Of course, since the guests have different main professions, it's definitely not a very serious competition.

It's really just about livening up the atmosphere and ensuring high ratings while getting the guests into variety show mode quickly.

[Great! I can hear Shishi sing again!]

[Lu Ming! Lu Ming! A Bright Future Ahead!]

Where is Song Gou?

When will Song Gou retire from the entertainment industry? Urgent!

[Song Gou, stay away from Shi Shi!!!]

[If you don't understand, just ask: Why is Song Ze laughing? Has he gone mad?]

At 8:5, the number of viewers in the live stream had reached over 100 million.

At least half of the comments were related to Song Ze.

This was probably the most popular day of his two years since his debut.

Unfortunately, Song Ze was drawing lots in the villa's living room at the time and couldn't see such a grand occasion.

All I saw was a cameraman carrying a video camera and filming me.

The production team clearly understands the importance of generating buzz.

"Song Ze drew number 6, a very lucky number! I believe he will have good luck this year!"

Next to the lottery box, the host took the slip of paper handed to him by Song Ze, and smiled as he unfolded it to show the camera.

His tone was normal, and he was saying nice things.

But is it really necessary to target them like this?

"I'm really lucky today."

Song Ze shrugged, told the truth, and then, to the host's astonishment, walked to the sofa and plopped down on it.

Holy crap! Song Gou has really gone mad!

[So you've given up entirely?]

Why did I suddenly go from hating Song Joong-ki to liking him?

[Disgusting! Disgusting! Disgusting!!]

Undoubtedly, the barrage of comments exploded instantly because of this outrageous statement.

Although Song Ze could guess it, he didn't care at all.

Anyway, this is definitely his last episode. He's not going to be in the entertainment industry anymore, so what's there to worry about!

"Snap!"

With this in mind, he became even more fearless and directly opened a can of sponsor's beer on the table and took a swig.

This scene caused the guests who had already drawn lots to frown slightly.

Only one stand-up comedian named Shen Xiaoyuan hesitated for a moment before suddenly coming over.

"Brother Song, why are you drinking already?"

Shen Xiaoyuan is the least famous among the eight guests (four men and four women), and she didn't have much presence in the first few episodes.

Perhaps she wanted to increase her exposure by taking advantage of Song Ze's scandal, or perhaps stand-up comedians don't need to pay too much attention to their public image, so she's the only one who dares to talk to Song Ze now.

"Would you like a can too?"

Song Ze glanced at her and casually grabbed another can of beer.

"I... I'm fine! I'm always off-key anyway, maybe a few more drinks will give me an amazing performance!"

Shen Xiaoyuan reacted quickly, immediately taking the beer with a smile, opening it and taking a small sip.

Seeing how generous she was, Song Ze reciprocated by deciding to maximize her exposure.

"Shouldn't you be asking me why I drink now?"

"what?"

Shen Xiaoyuan was overjoyed and quickly asked, "Why?"

"Because I'm happy today."

Song Ze crossed his legs: "Let's have some drinks to celebrate."

"happy......"

Shen Xiaoyuan tried her best to maintain her composure: "So, Brother Song, is there some good news? I haven't been checking Weibo today, so I don't even know what happened."

I haven't been browsing Weibo at all.

"It's alright, I'll take a look at it for you now."

Without saying a word, Song Ze took out his phone and opened the trending topics.

The latter clearly hadn't expected him to do this, but since things had come to this point, he had no choice but to pretend to be puzzled and lean over to take a look.

Immediately, she covered her mouth in exaggerated surprise and exclaimed:

"What? How could this be? This kind of rumor is outrageous!"

"rumor?"

Song Ze smiled slightly and calmly said to the camera that was almost pressed against his face:

"The girlfriend thing is definitely a rumor."

"But I am indeed a scumbag."