[Two male leads / Comedy / Substitute / Transmigration into a book / Married first, love later / Mutual crush becomes true love / Showbiz / Happy ending]
Sharp-tongued, mean CEO gong x mentally unhinged, barely-known cannon-fodder shou
Life advice: Never fall in love with a straight man.
The most despairing way to die is to say:
“I like you.”
Only to get this in return:
“I’m straight.”
Yu Shi, with a broken heart: …You sure know how to say things that make a person want to die.
Yu Shi, a florist who’s an expert at spotting scumbags, had a smooth ride through the first twenty-three years of his life. Then one day, he transmigrated into a book called The Guide to Winning Over a Straight Man as an Eighteenth-Tier Stand-In and became the story’s biggest cannon fodder.
Just how bad was his fate as cannon fodder?
He blocks the protagonist’s fortune at the start of Chapter One, dies horribly, and is written out.
So the saying is true: “Bend a straight man, and heaven will strike you down.”
Determined to defy fate, he decides to keep his head down and shut his heart away.
Until one day, that mysterious man appears.
Yu Shi: Love at first sight. I want to pursue him.
Taking charge for once, he stops the man and confesses to his face.
He thinks that boldly declaring his feelings will move the man with his sincerity, but Xu Yi coldly tosses out one line:
“I’m straight.”
By a twist of fate, he sees through the villain’s plan
and successfully stops a young man from falling into ruin.
After marrying his crush, he turns to the entertainment industry and fights his way up from the bottom… only to end up as someone else’s substitute?
Just when he thinks his first love is doomed to go nowhere, his crush suddenly confesses to him one day!
Yu Shi: Sorry, I’m not straight.
Xu Yi: Well, that’s perfect. Neither am I.
