After staying up all night to finish the final chapter of a melodramatic angst novel, Lin Yan, a top-tier star of the danmei writing world, drops dead at his keyboard. When he opens his eyes again, he's become an obscure, bottom-tier voice actor with the exact same name!
His skills are terrible, the whole internet mocks him as a nepotism hire, and he once relentlessly pursued Qu Yang, the voice-acting world's “ultimate top,” only to be rejected three times in a row...
Lin Yan: Thanks for asking. I get a fresh start, and I'm choosing to erase my embarrassing past and focus on my career.
But then...
He revises a script, and Qu Yang praises him to his face: “The logic's solid. You wrote this?”
He writes fanfiction, and the ultimate top reads a line aloud from his phone: “‘The top pins the beauty against the wall’... Lin Yan, you've got quite an imagination.”
He improvises voice work on a livestream, and viewers go wild: “Is this really that nepotism hire?! Has someone possessed him?!”
Later, Lin Yan makes a stunning comeback as the voice-acting world's dark horse, thanks to his “talent for reworking melodrama,” and is forced to play a couple opposite Qu Yang.
In the recording booth, his legs turn to jelly and he has to brace himself against the wall.
Qu Yang chuckles softly. “When you write novels, are your protagonists this timid too?”
Lin Yan's eyes widen in shock. “How do you know I...”
Qu Yang raises an eyebrow. “The logic behind the dialogue revisions is exactly the same as that of Yan Ci, the author of Against the Current.”
Lin Yan: ...What do I do when my secret identity is exposed even faster than my past embarrassments?!
Even more absurdly, one day Qu Yang corners him against a wall, his voice as deep as every domineering CEO Lin Yan has ever written:
“The script revisions are good. How about we practice the romance scenes for real?”
Lin Yan: Help! The melodramatic plot I wrote has become my own romance story?!
