Ding Yun's days were quite comfortable, and she didn't feel bored at all.
Besides having fewer worries without going to work.
The most important thing was that...
Ding Yun had already boosted her dedication to her job to seventy-nine, to the point where she had an eight or nine out of ten level of passion for her current career as an artist. Therefore, when she spent a lot of time learning various essential artist skills every day, she didn't feel bored. Instead, she felt happy about her skill improvement, believing that her current efforts were for the career she loved.
People are sometimes like this; when you are passionate about something or immersed in it.
Time passes quickly.
And you don't feel bored.
But when you loathe something, a day feels like a year, which is an accurate depiction.
Ding Yun was clearly passionate about something, loving the things she was doing. Thus, she didn't feel bored, impatient, or even burdened by the amount of content she had to learn daily. She even added more to her plate, setting more tasks for herself to improve.
For example, without the money to hire top teachers for private lessons, she diligently studied theories and online courses, constantly observing and learning from videos by various experts and masters online for free.
Although not comparable to one-on-one teaching, it was certainly faster than improving by studying alone.
With her diligent learning.
Her abilities were undoubtedly improving rapidly, and her skill levels were progressing at an extraordinary speed.
Rising from level four to five, five to six, and six to seven was swift, without encountering any difficulties or bottlenecks. It was only when singing reached level nine, acting reached level nine, and dancing reached level eight that Ding Yun felt she had hit a bottleneck and found it difficult to progress further.
Further practice only led to familiarity and increased proficiency.
It would not result in any qualitative change.
It was only at this point that Ding Yun understood the purpose of the commentary within the parentheses of the skill descriptions.
{Host Information Summary —
Name: Xu Siyan (Ding Yun)
Occupation: Artist
Dedication: 79 (You are willing to strive for this for a lifetime)
Professionalism: 25 (Although you have been absent from the public eye for a long time, appearing unprofessional, your professionalism has slightly increased because you are diligently improving yourself to present a better you to your future audience. If the audience acknowledges your progress, your professionalism may rise further.)
Artist Skills —
Singing lv.9 (You are a master and have almost perfectly utilized your innate conditions, but your talent seems to be limited to this. Insufficient talent cannot be compensated by effort; please find ways to improve your talent.)
Acting lv.9 (With a hundred faces and a hundred states of life, you have grasped the essence of acting and can accurately imitate the lives of most ordinary people. However, without firsthand experience, it is difficult to perfectly replicate despair, great joy, and the psychological states of many individuals.
Fictional characters lack roots.
Your talent is insufficient for you to imagine from nothing.)
Dancing lv.8 (Because you started dancing at a relatively late age, your bones and muscles are difficult to compare with those who have practiced stretching from childhood. Coupled with your average talent, you can probably only reach this point; further progress is impossible.)
...}
In the beginning, when her skill levels were low, Ding Yun thought the content in parentheses was just a jab at her. It was only as her levels gradually increased.
She realized that the content in parentheses could be considered notes or system analyses, always accurately pinpointing weaknesses.
This comprehensive upgrade and the newly emerged changes.
Undoubtedly reminded Ding Yun that continuing to blindly practice and study was no longer effective; her talent had reached its limit.
The acting skill was currently acceptable.
At least it could be slightly improved by experiencing various real professions and the joys and sorrows of life.
But for the other two skills, singing and dancing, the descriptions in parentheses were very clear: they were completely constrained by talent. To improve further, she could only find ways to increase her professionalism, indirectly enhancing her talent, or any amount of practice would be in vain.
This meant that if Ding Yun wanted to continue progressing.
She had to find work.
By diligently working and receiving positive feedback from fans or the public, she could increase her professionalism. Then, relying on the talent boost from her professionalism, she could continue to improve her skills, forming a virtuous cycle.
However, Ding Yun was not ready yet.
Most importantly, she still had money.
She genuinely felt no urgency.
So, she quickly decided to continue learning, not the three skills that had reached their peak, but to develop and improve new ones.
For instance, the ten most commonly used foreign language skills, beauty, hairdressing, and makeup skills, clothing matching and design skills, jewelry design and appraisal skills, luxury goods appraisal skills, embroidery skills, combat skills, all-around athlete skills, Chinese and foreign history and etiquette skills, and medicine identification skills...
In short, there were far too many things to learn.
As for why these skills were considered artist skills:
Nowadays, for dedicated artists looking to expand into foreign markets, wouldn't they need to learn a few foreign languages? Otherwise, taking a translator to explore foreign markets would be too easy a way to earn money. Therefore, commonly used foreign languages naturally needed to be learned.
And thus, they could be considered artist skills.
Skills like beauty, hairdressing, clothing matching and design, jewelry appraisal, and luxury goods appraisal could be outsourced, but learning them herself would be beneficial. Moreover, if she knew how to do these things herself, she could handle them directly if any issues arose, without worrying about sabotage.
Being an all-around athlete might be useful if encountering anti-fans.
History and etiquette would be useful for filming historical dramas.
Medicine identification could prevent poisoning.
Even hacking skills were included in Ding Yun's learning plan, as this skill could help gather evidence and clarify her innocence if she encountered defamation or cyber attacks.
With such analysis and additions, she had no shortage of things to learn, only a lack of time.
The prepared learning time was insufficient.
To accelerate her learning progress, Ding Yun specifically used her mental energy to create over a dozen sub-personalities. These sub-personalities would connect to the network within her consciousness chip and learn independently, requiring no physical body, only receiving knowledge to improve skills.
The main personality, which could use the physical body, primarily learned skills that required a physical presence, such as embroidery and being an all-around athlete. If a sub-personality mastered a skill to its highest level, Ding Yun would merge that sub-personality into the main personality and then create a brand-new sub-personality to learn new skills.
Through this continuous cycle, Ding Yun's skills were constantly updated and increased almost daily.