After achieving the Grand Slam, the three major gold awards held a ceremony for Jiang Ling, awarding her a Lifetime Achievement Gold Award.
She also became the first actress in the history of Long Country's entertainment industry to achieve the Grand Slam.
And at this time, she was only twenty-three years old.
However, at the peak of her career, Jiang Ling quietly retired and disappeared without a trace with Jian Zhou.
The reason for her doing so was very simple.
Firstly, she had almost acted in all the classic TV dramas from her previous life, and the system had not assigned her roles for a long time.
Now, everyone knew that every movie and TV series she starred in was undoubtedly a masterpiece and a hit.
The greater the expectation, the greater the disappointment. If she randomly chose scripts to act in, and the plot was terrible, leading to both ratings and reputation collapse, wouldn't that be self-sabotage?
Secondly, she had been at the top of the pyramid for too long.
Precisely because her acting was so good and her script selection was so sharp.
With all audiences and fans unanimously recognizing her works as masterpieces, major film and television companies and crews would inevitably follow market trends and spare no expense to invite her to act.
In this way, all the market's capital would flow to her, leaving no room for other newcomers to emerge.
A single blooming flower might be beautiful, but a hundred flowers blooming together truly signifies the splendor of spring.
Although Jiang Ling liked acting, she did not want to be the chrysanthemum that withered all other flowers after it bloomed.
Thirdly, she was too invested in acting, which inevitably led to neglecting other aspects.
Before, she was alone and could do whatever she pleased.
Now she had two children, so she naturally had to consider them more.
A childhood without parental companionship was destined to be incomplete. Since she gave birth, she had to be responsible until the end.
Jiang Ling also wanted to leave more time for herself and her children, to give them a happy and warm childhood.
With multiple reasons accumulating, Jiang Ling quietly disappeared at the peak of her career, waving her sleeves, leaving no trace of a cloud.
Time flowed like water, and sixteen years passed in the blink of an eye.
Apart from finding two children, Jiang Ling and Jian Zhou spent the rest of their time traveling.
Over the sixteen years, they had traveled all over the country, far away from the schemes and calculations of the entertainment and business worlds, finding solace in nature, and living a truly relaxed and free life.
Although the entertainment industry changed rapidly, with fans changing their "husbands" with every drama they watched.
In these sixteen years, the die-hard fans who once loved Jiang had not forgotten their goddess.
Although time had erased most of Jiang Ling's traces, and the media, always eager to stir up trouble, no longer reported on her.
Yet, the vivid characters she portrayed blossomed in the hearts of her fans, never aging.
In the past sixteen years, the entertainment industry had undergone earth-shattering changes. Not long after Jiang Ling retired, a rare economic recession occurred in the parallel world.
More than two hundred countries worldwide were severely affected, and Long Country was no exception.
The entertainment industry was a capital-driven world. The more active the economy, the more hot money flowed into the entertainment industry, and the more developed the film and television industry became.
Conversely, once an economic recession occurred, the film and television industry would usher in a capital winter, with flowers withering and industries struggling to survive.
This great recession lasted for six years.
Six years later, the economy restarted, and the entertainment industry began to flourish.
It was a pity that the market, which Jiang Ling had purified single-handedly back then, was once again hijacked by profit-driven capital, with traffic supremacy reigning supreme, and young idols dominating the scene.