Stop Faking It, I'm the Real Deal

Pei Zhen, a top physician and construction company CEO, is about to marry Hu Xiu, a brilliant architectural designer. But an earthquake and fire take his fiancée's life, and Pei Zhen leaps into the flames with Hu Xiu's body in his arms, choosing to die with her. When they regain consciousness, the two have somehow transmigrated into the fanfiction novel Theatrical Romance. Hu Xiu becomes the female lead, while Pei Zhen is the second male lead, also named Pei Zhen. In the novel, Hu Xiu's daily interactions with the original male lead, Xiao Zhiyu, keep stirring Pei Zhen's hazy memories of reality. Then, an accident recreating the fire from their real lives finally awakens him completely. He helps her break free from the character assigned to her, give up Xiao Zhiyu, and fulfill their uncompleted engagement. Pulled between the novel's predetermined plot and his real-world devotion to the woman who shared life and death with him, Pei Zhen uses the depth of his love and his forceful determination in both identities to win back his beloved and finally reach the wedding that came too late.