The full novel is written and ready to post. I'm at 55,000 words so far, but work has been too busy to write. First, I just need to survive! As for updates, I'll figure something out.
Quiet, sensitive, seemingly half-dead, universally disliked B-list actor bottom × resentful, determined-to-win-him-back, universally adored actor top
Gu Changxing, once a rich young master, falls on hard times. He enters the entertainment industry to pay off his family's debts, but after failing three talent competitions, he becomes universally loathed.
His company terminates his contract, he inherits his father's debts, and his savings have been at zero for ages. He owes tens of millions and is practically the world's biggest deadbeat. With no other choice, Gu Changxing takes work as an extra at a film studio to make ends meet. But instead of finding a way forward, he finds himself facing a dead end, along with his former lover.
The moment actor Shao Shihui sees him, a shadow crosses his eyes. "Well, well. I believe we've met before."
Gu Changxing looks away, his expression cool. "Don't know you. Don't contact me. Leave me alone."
Gu Changxing's sudden disappearance years ago was enough to make Shao Shihui hold a grudge. In Shao Shihui's eyes, Gu Changxing glimpses the deepest, most intense hatred.
But that hatred doesn't fit with his warm, light-like actions at all.
On the first day of filming, the actor appears out of nowhere and offers salvation amid a chorus of doubt: "I believe him."
A month into filming, the actor makes the trending lists several times for privately meeting with a male castmate.
Near the end of filming, someone kicks Gu Changxing hard enough to give him a work-related injury, and the actor personally escorts him to the hospital.
The whole internet goes wild.
[Shocking! Actor Shao Shihui rumored to be dating!]
After being dragged onto trending lists one after another and fed up with the attention, Gu Changxing asks, "What exactly do you want?"
The shadow in Shao Shihui's eyes has vanished. Smiling, he hands Gu Changxing a contract. "Become an artist signed to my company, and..."
He leans close and says with a laugh, in a voice only the two of them can hear:
"Become my legal spouse."
Modern-day angst, mutual pining, both are each other's first and only.
Includes a secondary couple, HE
Please note before reading:
1. The characters aren't based on real people, so please don't associate them with anyone.
2. Set in an alternate modern world. No need to overthink the details.
3. The names were made up on a whim. Any resemblance is purely coincidental.
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Theme: Love needs to speak up
