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Era background: In 2025, in a flashy world where entertainment industry capital and traffic go hand in hand, social media and reality shows dominate public opinion.
The growth of the two male protagonists from "rivals" to "symbiosis" explores self-salvation and emotional fetters in Vanity Fair.
Cheng Ye (accepted)
Identity: A top-notch singer turned actor, with the image of "crazy beauty" in the industry, good at using acting skills to subvert roles.
Personality: On the surface, he is unruly, but in fact he is sensitive and has low self-esteem. He suffers from "stage fright" due to his experience as a child star and relies on drugs to control his emotions.
Secret: His true identity is the illegitimate son of a certain chaebol. He was exiled to the entertainment industry by his family and struggled for many years with the label of "illegitimate son".
Shen Zhubai (attack)
Identity: A new director, born in a theater family, known for his artistic films, with an obscure and profound style of work.
Personality: Rational and restrained, pursuing artistic purity, scornful of Cheng Ye's "traffic artist personality", but gradually attracted by his true side.
Cheng Ye was blacklisted by the entire internet due to the "big name" scandal. Shen Zhubai's new drama "Abyss" started filming, and Cheng Ye was forced by capital to be the male lead.
Shen Zhubai asked Cheng Ye to film a crying scene without makeup on the set. Cheng Ye sneered: "Director Shen, why don't you learn how to get actors into the scene first?"
Cheng Ye improvised to save the scene. Shen Zhubai looked up from behind the monitor and took a serious look at this "opponent" for the first time.
The two co-produced the suspense drama "Twins". In order to break through the drama, Cheng Ye took the initiative to propose a "play within a play" structure, and Shen Zhubai set the characters as "criminals who are mirror images of each other."
The crisis broke out: In order to cover up the scandal, the Cheng Ye family bribed the media to spread rumors that Shen Zhubai had "sexual misconduct". Cheng Ye blurted out during the live broadcast: "The man I love is 10,000 times cleaner than you.
Cheng Ye gave up his endorsement in order to protect Shen Zhubai, but Shen Zhubai turned over the evidence to the disciplinary inspection team, and the Cheng family collapsed.
Cheng Ye collapsed during psychological treatment, and Shen Zhubai held his hand: "You don't need to be perfect, my beloved Cheng Ye is beautiful even when she's shaking! "
The two-way nature of redemption: Cheng Ye lets Shen Zhubai see another possibility in art, and Shen Zhubai helps Cheng Ye break away from the shackles of his family.
Intent: satire on reality, two-way redemption
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