In summary, everything boiled down to a couple of things.
She and the system were tied together basically until death did them part, or the main task was complete.
Valentina Salazar was unreconciled when she died, so the system was here to help resolve her unrealized dreams.
She wanted to be a star.
She wanted to be acknowledged by her family as the rightful daughter.
And she wanted her reputation cleared with the truth of what Aaliyah had done behind the scenes coming to light.
Since the original Valentina had died, she had somehow being drawn into and placed into the book Valentina's body and attached to the system.
She would be given tasks to complete, and those tasks were divided into major and minor tasks, which gave out rewards.
Minor tasks gave out minor rewards and could be ignored.
Major tasks gave out bigger rewards, and if she ignored them, she might be penalized, or even worse, she might die.
Although the two of them were tied together, it seemed like she was in a slightly worse position than the system.
She could not survive if the system removed itself from her, but the system could, although it would take a lot of damage.
It was in both their best interests to work together.
Reading the long explanation, Valentina felt a huge headache building along with her existing one.
What kind of nonsense was this?
It seemed that her will was going to be completely ignored, and she would have no choice but to listen to this dumb system.
If it thought that she would obey...
Dream on!
"Hey, you," she asked, "if I am able to complete all these requirements, will I be free to return to my world and resume my life?"
[Host's original body has perished; however, if the host finishes all assigned tasks, the host has the option to continue living in this life or reincarnate to a new body in your old world]
"Will the new body be completely mine?"
[Yes. The host will be reincarnated as a baby and live in that life.]
"Without a system like you directing me."
[…..Correct]
Valentina didn't know if it was in her head, but the system's response sounded a bit petulant.
Good.
How dare it sign her up without her permission?
"Okay, I agree to follow along and perform the tasks. Since I did so, shouldn't you give me something like a gift for agreeing?"
[Host has already received a gift.]
"That doesn't count. I didn't agree to it then. Give me another one." Valentina replied roguishly.
She had gone to lie back on the bed as her body felt weak after standing for a bit.
[...]
The system was silent for a bit, and Valentina couldn't help but smirk, her gorgeous face looking slightly devilish.
"What, are you going to tell me you can grab my soul and bring me into another world, but you can't give me a welcome gift? Be fucking for real" Valentina replied fiercely.
[...…]
The system was still silent, so Valentina decided to cave in a bit.
"If it's too hard to give me another gift, then at least make my body a bit better. You know better than I do what this body has been through. I feel like I am about to drop dead at any moment, so the least you can do is increase the level of health of this body, right? That way, I can do my best to accomplish the goals of the original owner."
The system thought to itself that it had never met such a shameless human who was trying to hold it hostage.
Still, the host made sense and there were allowances for cases like this where a new host entered a damaged body.
Before the system could respond, Valentina hurriedly urged the system.
"Seeing that you're hesitating, it means that you have something good. Hand it over, quickly. I feel like I'm going to die."
[......]
[Giving host a chance to draw a body improvement gift. Draw now?]
"Draw Draw! This young miss is about to perish!"
[Skill Drawn! Low-level recovery skill acquired]
[Effect: Whenever the user imbibes something harmful to the host body, the body immediately starts to neutralize it. Since it is a low-level skill, the length of recovery depends on the amount and strength of the substance taken in. The skill also works in the background to slightly improve the host's health as long as the host gets some rest.]
[Time to recover from ingesting excess sleeping pills – 2 hours]
Valentina couldn't help but smile to herself, it seemed that she had managed to get something good out of this system.
Although her body still felt horribly weak and her head still hurt, she swore that she was starting to feel better.
Mentally dismissing it, she decided to organize her thoughts and figure out what she was going to do.
According to the inherited memories, which seemed to go back only a few months, Valentina had recently gotten a small-time role in a new drama.
She had gotten the role of the third female lead in a drama, and her character was a sickly, poisonous female cannon fodder who harassed the female lead and the second female lead in hopes of attracting the male lead's attention.
The character ends up being blamed by the second female lead for an issue, rejected by the male lead and dies of sickness and heartbreak.
The original Valentina had not been in the best state of mind or body and had repeatedly delayed the filming and photoshoots so much that the director scolded her.
If it hadn't been for Aaliyah and her agency, Black Rock Entertainment, "helping" her come up with excuses to delay the filming, she would have gotten fired.
When the original Valentina had made up her mind to try her hardest, the male and female leads both had a filming conflict, so the whole cast got a 3-day break.
The director had told her to recover her mental and physical state during the three-day break before she returned to begin the filming process again.
If she continued to mess up, she would be replaced.
Somehow, the directors' words were leaked to the public, and fans of the other stars were abusing the original Valentina and calling for her to get fired.
Although it wasn't fully her fault that the filming was delayed this time, it somehow got attributed to her, which caused even more abuse and led her to sink into a deep depression.
Adding to the long years of abuse and lack of mental care with her step sister urging her on from the back, Valentina finally broke down and committed suicide.
Calculating the time, it would be time for the original Valentina to go back to filming tomorrow.
However, Valentina had a huge problem, which was causing her another headache.
She had never acted before, as she had studied fashion marketing and communications instead of acting.
She hadn't even acted in a school play growing up, much less as a professional.
Additionally, her status window clearly showed her stats.
[Acting Skills: 20/100]
It was a horribly low number, especially when compared to her visual beauty stat of 90/100.
What the hell was she supposed to do??
Sighhhh.
First, let's take a look at her schedule and the script.
She quickly found her phone and absently noted that it was almost noon.
There were no messages on her phone, so she quickly unlocked it with her face and browsed her email until she found the script for her current drama.
As Valentina quickly browsed the script, she noticed that she didn't have a lot of lines in her scenes to film.
The main thing that needed to nail was just the visual aspects and presence of her character.
Hmmmm, if it were only this much, maybe she could somehow get by?
With her visuals, she could definitely get by the photoshoot portion, and as long as she memorized her lines, she hoped that she would be able to do a decent job.
Before she could think about it too much, her stomach growled loudly.
It seemed to have been a while since she had eaten.
Since she had to leave the hotel room anyway, she quickly went to shower so she could leave.