The Resource Darling Insists I Become His Biggest Fan

The next book I might write is The Noble High School's Cannon Fodder Delinquent and the Second Male Lead Transfer Student, 1v1, both each other's first love. The blurb is at the very bottom!

Straightforward and reliable on the outside, gloomy and snarky on the inside, a timid, handsome guy, bottom x sunny but deceptively mischievous, princely, baby-faced wolf, top (?)

Ji Xiaoyu, a minor actor with barely any clout, finally landed a role in a script he loved, only to have it stolen right before filming began.

Later, he heard from someone else that the person who replaced him was Song Pingxiao's ex. In fact, Song Pingxiao was the one behind Ji Xiaoyu losing his original role.

Song Pingxiao was a willful rich second-generation heir chasing his dream of becoming an actor, and the young master of xx Entertainment. Apparently, he had even asked for a part in the show just to get back together with his ex.

Ji Xiaoyu: I'm so mad, but I still have to keep smiling ^_^

To avoid offending someone with connections, every night Ji Xiaoyu returned to the hotel and silently stuck pins into a little effigy of Song Pingxiao. Then, in the morning, he acted as if nothing had happened and greeted him on set:

Xiao Song, they're handing out coffee over there. Want me to grab you one?

Can't get into the scene? No worries, let's run through it together.

Want to come eat in my room? Oh... all right, then.

Ji Xiaoyu thought he and Song Pingxiao were just getting along like normal coworkers.

Until one day, when they were alone, Song Pingxiao grabbed his wrist and kissed him.

Ji Xiaoyu: o.O...?

Wait a minute.

*

After the kiss, Song Pingxiao looked handsome and bashful as he asked Ji Xiaoyu what it had felt like to kiss him.

Ji Xiaoyu was stunned.

You sacrificed me, the cannon fodder, for your ex, and now you're trying to seduce me without batting an eye?

You people with connections are so brazen! Do you have no limits at all?!

Then Song Pingxiao added, “I've already put in a good word for you with the crew of xx. Go to the audition this week, too.”

But, come to think of it, my standards aren't that high either (not like that).

It took Ji Xiaoyu only two seconds to understand what he meant.

Song Pingxiao wanted to keep him as a sugar baby.

Ji Xiaoyu, professional role loser and walking disaster, went back and agonized over it all night.

...Well, it wasn't like he couldn't do it. Song Pingxiao was pretty handsome, after all.

Before long, the two were dating.

To be fair, Song Pingxiao was a great boyfriend. He gave Ji Xiaoyu all the emotional support he could want, was romantic and attentive, and they were a good match in bed, too.

But everyone said Song Pingxiao had joined show business to seduce actors. He'd been all over his ex in his last show, and now he was tangled up with Ji Xiaoyu in this one.

Did that mean things between them would end when filming was over?

On his birthday, Song Pingxiao asked Ji Xiaoyu what he wished for.

Ji Xiaoyu thought for a long time. “If we break up someday, could you, for the sake of having been married for a day, spare me from having my roles stolen and my dirt exposed?”

Song Pingxiao: ?

*

At last, one day, Ji Xiaoyu saw a photo online of Song Pingxiao embracing his ex in the rain. The paparazzi caption read: After breaking up and getting back together, they've finally found their true love.

In that moment, Ji Xiaoyu knew things between him and Song Pingxiao were truly over.

And with a heavy heart, he realized that he had fallen for him long ago.

His fingers icy, he sent Song Pingxiao a breakup message.

[Thank you for everything you've given me over the past three months. I saw the news. I wish you happiness. In that case, let's end things here. It's not like this was a proper relationship anyway.]

That very night, Song Pingxiao showed up outside his door.

At the same time, the gossip news on Ji Xiaoyu's phone refreshed.

Breaking news! Actor xxx exposed as the secret lover of the current CEO of xx Group. The CEO, who has never shown his face before, turns out to be the biological brother of Song Pingxiao, and looks seven-tenths like him!

Ji Xiaoyu: ...O.o?

Song Pingxiao turned around and held up his phone.

“How about explaining what you mean by ‘not a proper relationship’?”

1v1, both each other's first love. The rumors about the top are a misunderstanding. He also didn't take anyone else's opportunities away from the bottom, he mainly helped make an introduction.

The actual story may differ from this blurb. The novel itself is the final word.

Pre-release: The Noble High School's Cannon Fodder Delinquent and the Second Male Lead Transfer Student:

Sharp-tongued but soft-hearted, a young master with a touch of world-weariness in the beginning, bottom x righteous-to-a-fault, hot nerdy loner bookworm top (but he can fight)

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In stories about elite academies, there's always a classic kind of rich-kid cannon fodder.

They're usually admirers of the male lead, jealous of the tough, innocent girl who has caught his attention, so they bully and torment her at every turn, until the male lead gives them a harsh comeuppance.

Cannon fodder bottom *** woke up to his role on the eve of the female lead's enrollment at the elite high school.

According to the plot, at the welcome dance after the school year began, he would deliberately choose the female lead as his dance partner, setting off on the path of a villain.

On the night of the dance, he looked at the pure and innocent female lead, as sweet as a little white rabbit, and the male lead gazing fixedly at her. His eyes wandered around the room, bored, then settled on the second male lead beside her.

“Let him dance with me.”

*

Second male lead ***(top), another supporting character built from stereotypes.

The whole point of his role is to protect the female lead as her knight before the male lead appears, then keep protecting her as a backup after he does.

When they were alone and passing the time, the bottom couldn't help mocking him. “It's so easy being a character in a book. You can watch the person you like fool around with someone else and still stay so calm.”

“You talk and act like a block of wood, no wonder the female lead isn't interested in you.”

The top pushed up his black-framed glasses and asked, looking confused, “What is the female lead?”

“Are you calling me a character in a book?”

The bottom scoffed. “Just pretend I was talking in my sleep.”

*

In the original novel, the second male lead learned to fight to protect the female lead.

At first, the bottom didn't care.

Until rumors spread around the school about a legendary fighter among the new students.

He stood up for the underdog, came to people's aid, and opposed all bullying. In no time, he had antagonized the school's powerful aristocratic students, A, B, C, D, and E.

And apparently, this new student had been spending a lot of time with the bottom lately.

When the bottom heard the news: ...

Why is he doing everything the female lead was supposed to do?! Is he insane?!

The bottom repeatedly ordered the top to behave himself at school, or one day even he wouldn't be able to protect him.

Then a bullying scandal erupted at school, and the top threw himself into it without hesitation.

The bottom was dragged in, too.

After someone played a prank on him, leaving him trapped with the top in the school washroom and soaked for nearly an hour, the bottom could take no more. He shoved away the top, who was trying to dry his face with a towel.

“Are you a machine?! Don't you have any feelings? Do you actually enjoy being made a fool of? From now on, you're on your own. I can't believe I was stupid enough to neglect what matters and hang around with someone like you...”

Before he could finish, someone caught his wrist.

The top said quietly, “I'm not a machine, and neither are you. We're real people, not supporting characters in someone else's life. Why are you fighting your own nature? I know you're not a bad person.”

As his mind reeled, the bottom heard him add,

“Also, I don't like xxx (the female lead).”

*

The top had known since he was thirteen that he was a supporting character in a novel.

The first time he saw the bottom, he knew he'd found someone like himself.

Theme: Success comes from keeping your feet on the ground