Lu Jingzhe is a B-list celebrity, famous for being a pretty face.
The reason he's had a little buzz is that he looks like the award-winning actor Zhuang Xunan. But while the actor never smiles, Lu Jingzhe smiles all the time. Put simply, he's the smiling version of Zhuang Xunan, a stand-in for the actor in his fans' eyes.
Of course, some people say he got famous by leeching off the actor.
Lu Jingzhe doesn't really care about any of it. He's a mayfly spirit, the kind that lives for a day.
The price of becoming a spirit is that every month, he has to choose one day to be born and another day to die.
He's long since gotten used to this boring cycle of life and death.
Until the day he chose drowning as his way to die, only for a passerby to haul him out of the water.
The person who saved him was none other than Zhuang Xunan.
Zhuang Xunan is an award-winning actor with godlike acting skills, and is known as an aloof, untouchable beauty. In reality, he's a socially anxious shut-in who loves hole-in-the-wall eateries.
That day, after eating at one of his favorite grubby little joints, he passed a river and rescued some idiot who'd jumped in. He wiped the boy's face clean and realized it was that smiling little stand-in celebrity, the one who always had such a sticky-sweet grin.
Zhuang Xunan was shaken: What on earth could have upset him so badly that he wanted to end it all?
Out of the deep well of kindness and sympathy hidden within every socially anxious person, he decided he couldn't let this sunny version of himself fall.
He would save him, keep him in line, and give him a reason to live.
And that's when things began to spiral out of control.
Zhuang Xunan (sternly): "Life is precious. Don't do anything foolish!"
Lu Jingzhe (earnestly): "Thanks, but I really do have to die tonight."
Zhuang Xunan (trying hard to persuade him): "Ahem... There's no obstacle in life you can't overcome."
Lu Jingzhe (looking at the calendar, calculating seriously): "There is. Every month has a day called 'Today Is an Auspicious Day to Die.'"
[The Little Matter of a Socially Anxious Actor Insisting on Saving Me]
A smiling mayfly spirit who also loves dying, gong x a socially anxious actor with an overwhelming sense of compassion, shou
A silly showbiz comedy. There's very little about the entertainment industry, which mainly serves as background, and no real-life figures are involved.
Guiding theme: Live well.
Oops, the two of them have such a close bond. Maybe the teacher is also Zhuang.
"When the cold noodles were carved, he coughed..." This is a big bug for the author~ he coughed it out