CH 1

Chapter 1 Waitress

“It’s 10:44 now,” Jenny Jane said, as she sat in the visitor’s chair across from the desk, with her legs crossed and one hand elegantly resting on the armrest. “There’s still one hour and forty-seven minutes until 12:30. Mr. Vigeri, nice to meet you.”

She lowered her voice, uncrossed her legs, and gave a confident smile while staring at Cesare Vigeri, almost tauntingly, she said, “Now, you have one hour and forty-seven minutes to persuade me and make me believe that you are a good agent.”

Cesare remained unmoved, his cold attitude yet remains, with only a slight wrinkle at the tip of his nose and an almost imperceptible flicker in his eyes. However, Jenny knew that she had successfully ignited his interest.

“Good.” Cesare said, “You have successfully caught my attention, well done.”

He pulled out a blank folder, opened it with a snap, and symbolically asked, “Now, shall we formally begin?”

#

Three and a half months ago in Los Angeles,

Jenny Jane – Chen Zhen stared at herself in the mirror, motionless and serious.

This is a very beautiful face.

Jenny Jane is 20 years old this year and is in the most beautiful age range of a woman’s life. Unlike her peers in the far east, she studied makeup since the seventh grade and has been practicing for six or seven years. It is enough for her to add many embellishments to her appearance and achieve the effect of icing on the cake. Not to mention, even without makeup, Jenny Jane is still considered a beauty.

Her appearance has strong Germanic features, typical of blonde hair and blue eyes, with a high nose, deep eyes, three-dimensional facial features, bright emerald eyes, and long straight blonde hair.

Coupled with her standard height of 5 feet 6 inches (1.67 meters) and a standard figure that is definitely not plump by white standards, Jenny Jane’s head-turning rate on the street is definitely not low, even if she were to enter some regional hot nightclubs, she would be able to enjoy pretty privilege and skip the line.

Normally, she would not have a reason to carry such a serious expression. For a beauty like her, there’s not much chance for there to be nothing joyful to be found in life.

But she looks really unhappy now, whether it is her tightly pursed lips or tensed shoulders, it shows her mood. Jenny Jane, or Chen Zhen, is now under heavy pressure.

Well, considering what she went through, she isn’t making a fuss about nothing.

She has traveled through time and space from Beijing to Los Angeles, from 2014 to 2001, and from being a Chinese person to a white person. It is now the year 2001, and computers have just become popular, the internet is changing people’s lives, and mobile phones are gradually replacing brick phones. However, Steve Jobs has not yet introduced the revolutionary iPhone, and the iPod that changed the era has not even been released. Chen Zhen, who came from 2014, is already somewhat uncomfortable with life in the early 21st century. This is an era without Weibo, Twitter, or Facebook, and the mainstream communication tools are ICQ and MSN. In the rapidly changing world of technology, these names are already quite old. If it were not for her transmigration back to the early 21st century in the United States, Chen Zhen would not even remember these terms, nor would she realize how much her life has been changed by these technologies, and how inconvenient life was in the early 21st century.

Of course, that is not her biggest problem now.

Her biggest problem is that she fell asleep in her home in Beijing, but when she woke up, she had already returned 13 years to the past, into the body of a white beauty named Jenny Jane Jefferson, born in 1981, with social security number 422-11-6742, from a lower-class family in Alabama. Her father is a repeat offender who was sentenced to over 100 years in prison and had been behind bars since Jenny was six years old. Her mother left home and never contacted her family again. After her grandmother passed away, Jenny was placed in social welfare institutions and grew up in multiple foster homes. She completed high school two years ago and came to Los Angeles to work, hoping to find an opportunity to become an actress, but she was unsuccessful and is currently working as a waitress in a restaurant.

Her memories can be summarized in a few sentences. The rest of the miscellaneous information such as personal preferences and social relationships was all filtered out by Chen Zhen as useless information. In general, like the “North drifters” in the Chinese entertainment industry, Jenny is just a common Hollywood drifter who wants to find a place for herself in Hollywood with her beautiful appearance and youthful body.

As for Chen Zhen, who is now trapped in Jenny’s body, her information is as follows: Chen Zhen was born in 1982, from a middle-class family in Hangzhou, and her ID number [Ommited]. She was admitted to the Beijing Film Academy’s Acting Department through the national college entrance examination. While in school, she fell in love with a wealthy man five years older than her. After graduation, they got married and had a child. Before her rebirth, her child was eight years old, and Chen Zhen was in the midst of a divorce from her husband. Since her in-laws have gradually relinquished their power, the company has been inherited by her husband, and she owned several properties under her name, with an estimated net worth of more than 30 million yuan including real estate.

At this same age, the two people’s lives may not be too different, but more than ten years later, Jenny may become a person at the bottom of society with nothing, while Chen Zhen would be a single and wealthy woman living a worry-free life. This gap is of course huge, and if she could go back to her original body with just one suicide, she would now be standing on the rooftop with no hesitations.

Going back to her original body is now Jenny’s, or rather, Chen Zhen’s current top priority.

The reason why she didn’t try is that she knew that even if she committed suicide, she couldn’t go back.

Because she didn’t just transmigrate for nothing, she was transmigrated with a mission.

To dominate Hollywood.

These may be three vague words. But when Chen Zhen opened her eyes in the body of Jenny Jane, she naturally knew this: when the day comes of her Hollywood domination, she would have the option to go back.

Leaving aside the difficulty of dominating Hollywood, Chen Zhen immediately noticed the logical contradiction after coming to her senses – if one day she really dominates Hollywood, wouldn’t she be a winner in life? Why would she go back at that point?

The following question was if she was here now, is there still a Chen Zhen living in Hangzhou at the same time? And if they met, what would happen? Is Jenny Jane not in her own body, but in Chen Zhen’s body now?

Of course, she has no way to verify it now. First, a headache arises in her just thinking about this issue, and second, even if she could endure the headache, she doesn’t have the money to buy a plane ticket to Beijing, let alone the fact that her present poverty would be an obstacle to her obtainment of a Chinese visa.

Jenny Jane only graduated from high school, and her education level is very average, she scored less than half of the SAT, and even if she had the opportunity to go to college, she wouldn’t have had the tuition fees. It would be difficult for her to find any advanced jobs coming out of such a lousy university. She may even earn more as a waitress in a coffee shop.

Chen Zhen herself was a drama student, who got married to a rich man right after graduation, and all her skill points were added to binding her husband’s heart and saving her own secret stash of money. Her workability was close to zero.

Now, with the memories and personality of both individuals, let’s call her Jenny Jane, she has to consider not only finding “Chen Zhen” in China but also at least making a name for herself and living like a normal person. Of course, in her grand plan, she also has to try to dominate Hollywood and attempt to return to her original life…though she still doubts why she would return if she were to truly dominate Hollywood.

After serving at the restaurant for two days, Jenny Jane had a strong desire to get out of poverty. She couldn’t wait to start her own acting career with a film contract now – no matter how hard it is to be an actor, it’s better than standing in a restaurant for twelve hours.

The need to change her fate was urgent and couldn’t be delayed. Jenny Jane took a deep breath and looked at her watch before walking out to start her shift – her lunch break was already over, and the afternoon shift had started.

Yes, she is now just a restaurant waitress.