Forced to Share a Body with My Archenemy

[Blurb to be revised, essentially unchanged] A sweet, lighthearted romance with an everyday showbiz feel.

Shi Song shot to fame in the entertainment industry on the strength of his good looks, only to run into Jiang Yansheng. They debuted the same year, competed for the same resources, and seemed born to clash. Their fans went to war, leaving a trail of bloody online battles.

One day, a video of an interview surfaced.

A reporter shoved a microphone in front of Jiang Yansheng and asked what he thought of Shi Song.

The man couldn't even be bothered to lift his eyelids. He curled his lips in a sneer, took a long stride, and walked away.

Shi Song watched the video and exploded with anger. That very night, he bought three black trending topics about Jiang Yansheng.

His manager said, "Shi, calm down. You know what Jiang Yansheng's temper is like. Once we dig up some dirt, we'll drop something huge on him all at once!"

Shi Song sneered. "Easy for you to say. Where am I supposed to find dirt on him?"

His manager pushed up his glasses and tossed him a contract.

"The second male lead. You in?"

-

Shi Song rolled his suitcase onto the set of Jiang Yansheng's leading-man drama, a role he himself had failed to land the month before.

Now he was the second male lead.

Determined to dig up dirt, Shi Song put himself in the line of fire. He made a point of knocking on Jiang Yansheng's door late at night, making excuses to go over the script, borrow a charger, or bring coffee, hoping to find evidence of his rival's chaotic private life and strike a fatal blow.

After several nights of knocking, he still had no evidence. Instead, he gave Jiang Yansheng's manager such a fright that the man panicked.

The manager rushed to a Taoist temple that very night and came back with a talisman to ward off evil, which he slapped right in the middle of Jiang Yansheng's door.

Shi Song scoffed, reached up to tear it down, and slapped the talisman into Jiang Yansheng's hand as he did.

In an instant, their fingertips touched. Electricity shot through them, and the world spun.

When he opened his eyes again, Shi Song was standing inside the room.

Outside, his "own" body clutched the talisman and crumpled to the floor.

Jiang Yansheng: "..."

Shi Song: "..."

Heaven had played a cruel joke on him: Shi Song had ended up inside Jiang Yansheng's body. The two were forced to share one body, and control happened to belong to the outsider, Shi Song.

With no idea what to do, he carried his "own" body back to the room next door and spent a whole day anxiously pretending to be Jiang Yansheng.

That night, he watched helplessly as his sleeping "self" was carried away on a stretcher. His manager cried until he could barely breathe. "Shi! Wake up! You can't die!"

That night, the trending topic was: #ShiSongTakenAwayInAnAmbulance PossibleSuddenIllness# [Viral]

Exhausted, Shi Song fell asleep inside Jiang Yansheng's body.

When he opened his eyes again, he saw a snowy white ceiling and smelled disinfectant. A hospital?

Shi Song was overjoyed. I'm back!

The next second, his body sat up on its own. "Don't get too excited."

Shi Song: "..." What am I supposed to say to that?

-

To keep their situation secret, the two were forced to live together.

At an interview.

A reporter baited him: "Mr. Jiang, what do you think of the rumors that you and Shi Song have a terrible relationship?"

"Jiang Yansheng" smiled brightly. "Mr. Shi is handsome and kind. I've always looked up to him. I have a poster of him in my bedroom, and I sleep especially well after looking at it every day."

The real Jiang Yansheng, inside his body: ...

The next day at the airport, Shi Song's fans came to greet him.

One asked, "How do you pass the time on long flights, bro?"

"Shi Song" replied with a blank expression, "Picking my feet."

The fans: ???

The real Shi Song, inside his body: Jiang Yansheng, you're more petty than the eye of a needle!

One trending topic after another exploded: #ShiSongPossiblyPossessed# #JiangYansheng'sImageInShambles# #JiangYanshengBedroomCoveredInShiSongPosters# #Top-tierStarActingStrangely#

Both managers were at their wits' end. "You two are driving us crazy! What on earth are you doing?!"

After half a year of living together, the two rivals had never appeared in public side by side. Yet people found that they had the same sofa, the same slippers, and the same takeout bags. Rumors that they had secretly gotten married grew wilder by the day.

At last, they returned to their own bodies. Though Shi Song was reluctant, he still called a moving company.

But Jiang Yansheng hurried back and stopped him inside the house. "What's the rush? Afraid I'll call the police because you sneaked a feel of my abs last night?"

Shi Song: "..."

Theme: Work hard for a better tomorrow