The Top-Tier Star Keeps Courting Disaster, and His Image Falls Apart Again and Again

A complete short story of 100,000 characters.

A carefully crafted persona made He Ruiqing, with his sweet, handsome face, an overnight sensation.

That same persona collapsed when He Ruiqing planted a foot on someone.

In the entertainment industry, everyone wears a mask. What kind of heart lies beneath those fake faces?

For a moment, you think you've seen through someone. Then, in the next, your certainty crumbles completely.

What is real? What is fake? For those caught up in fame and fortune, it all seems as light as a feather.

Before He Ruiqing, dogged by scandal, could fade into obscurity for good, he met Chu Nanjiao.

A photo of the two of them together went viral, spreading across the entire internet.

A fan community for their pairing sprang up overnight, and Chu Nanjiao got a contract to rehabilitate He Ruiqing's image.

Known as the entertainment industry's national goddess, Chu Nanjiao joins scandal-plagued top-tier star He Ruiqing on a variety show under a pairing contract. He Ruiqing repeatedly sabotages himself on the show, while Chu Nanjiao smiles and cleans up his messes.

Until Chu Nanjiao punches He Ruiqing to the ground, and their relationship takes a complete turn...

Content warning: The characters aren't perfect. If you can't accept flawed characters, this may not be for you.

This was the first novel I ever finished, but I kept it saved on my computer and never published it. I always thought I'd wait until it was more perfect before putting it out there. But the way we see things changes with each stage of life, and at this point, I find it hard to write a story about love and nothing else. By chance, while revising chapters of This God Looks Like a Villain, I opened this completed manuscript and realized that the person I used to be was no longer the person I am now. I also realized this story had a simple kind of happiness. I've added many scenes from Gu Li's perspective, as well as Qionghua's helplessness in the face of love. When I read it, I realized I no longer had the ability to revise it. It had become a complete, self-contained story. So I read it all that day and decided to publish it as a finished novel. It includes the story of Qionghua and the others and may spoil later chapters. Readers still following Qionghua's story who don't want spoilers may want to avoid it. The broad direction of the story won't change, but some details will be revised. You can think of it as a spin-off of Qionghua's story.

Includes spin-off plot from This God Looks Like a Villain and may contain spoilers.

Theme: Simple love.