[Laid-back, flirtatious actress × hopelessly romantic, three-time award-winning actor]
(Dating show + livestream + mutual pining + sweet romance + strong female lead + devoted to each other)
After five years of struggling in the entertainment industry under a contract, Lin Xi was forced to play an unlikable character. Labels like “drama queen,” “resource hog,” and “diva” sent her spiraling down the path of being notorious for all the wrong reasons.
At last, her contract expired. Lin Xi declared,
“I’m done pretending! Anyone who wants to act can go ahead!”
So on the dating show, while everyone else flirted and played hard to get, she slept and played video games.
During the cooking segment, while the others did their best to impress, she brought out instant noodles.
Across twelve episodes, she curled up in the fifth-floor screening room and binge-watched three shows.
“Three shows is the production crew’s limit, not mine.”
She’d thought that after she gave up trying, online commenters would drag her even harder.
But, to her surprise, they all turned from haters into fans.
The youngest three-time award-winning actor in the industry, a genius singer who’d won more awards than he could count, and the heir to a top-tier wealthy family all chose her as their ultimate crush.
Fans went wild shipping them:
[Dating an actor like Gu, who’s such a hopeless romantic, must be the best. You don’t even have to comfort him when he’s upset. He can cheer himself up.]
[Younger guys are the best! The puppy-like little brother is aloof and cold to everyone else, but clingy with his big sister. They’re a perfect match, the ultimate match, a match made in heaven!]
[Can a romance that got off on the wrong foot really have no happy ending? I love the missed-connections trope. Please don’t make it a bad ending, aaah!]
Lin Xi: “This can’t be real. I cleared my name and became famous everywhere just like that?”
