This is a world with an especially thriving entertainment industry. Every top-tier star has hundreds of millions of fans, and wherever they go, they stir up a deafening frenzy. Flashing cameras light up the night as if it were day.
None of that has much to do with Lu Yu, though. He's just a tiny, insignificant speck on the fringes of showbiz.
Since making his debut on a talent show, his social media following has never even reached half a million. The biggest role he's ever played was a minor underling of the second male lead, the kind of guy who rushes in to fight on the second male lead's behalf as soon as the man waves a hand.
The only time he ever got to carry a production himself was when a young actor from his company thought the script was too stupid to touch. Lu Yu was hurriedly thrown into the role of an overbearing CEO in a groveling-ex-to-win-her-back drama, a man who opened his eyes every morning ready to throttle someone, and who demanded either the heroine's kidney or her heart each day.
After the show aired, the sheer stupidity of the character and Lu Yu's painfully stiff acting earned him more than ten thousand unfollows.
Lu Yu had thought he'd remain an insignificant bit player forever, waiting out his contract before deciding what to do next.
But then, one day, at a major industry awards ceremony, a newly crowned Best Actor who had been standing onstage to accept his award briefly fainted. When he came to, he suddenly charged at Lu Yu like a madman, eyes bloodshot and breathing ragged. He grabbed Lu Yu's hand and begged for his autograph in a trembling voice.
The top-tier starlet who had fainted alongside the Best Actor rushed over too.
She was just as flustered, running to his side without a care for anything else. With firm conviction, she declared that she was his fan and asked him to coach her acting.
Lu Yu: Um... What is this, some kind of Dragon King Returns-style face-slapping fantasy? Even in his dreams, he wouldn't dare pull off something like this!
Later, a group of mysterious people sealed off the entire venue, and everyone present was made to sign a confidentiality agreement. Only then did Lu Yu learn that this wasn't a wish-fulfillment story come to life. It was the eerie world breaking into reality!
The newly crowned Best Actor and the top-tier starlet had been so desperate for his autograph and so eager to become his fans because he, Lu Yu, might be a nobody in the entertainment industry of the real world, but in the eerie world, he was an undisputed superstar!
The kind whose dramas made the male and female ghosts in the dungeons sob and beg to give him every last one of their hearts, livers, spleens, lungs, and kidneys.
Later, after signing the confidentiality agreement and returning home, Lu Yu found an exquisite card on his bedside table. A line of twisted writing on it read: "I will bring this world, born from the flesh and blood it devoured from me, with me to love you."
The card was signed: "&*##@#"
It was a string of gibberish, and it belonged to his very first fan: a deranged sasaeng who wrote love confessions in blood and secretly broke into his home to steal things.
There's a terrifying legend in the eerie world. One day, you might suddenly run into a powerful disaster-class ghost who graciously shares every work featuring his gorgeous celebrity wife.
If you can't appreciate her work, can't even come up with a remotely insightful review, or have never heard of this ghost's gorgeous celebrity wife, then congratulations.
Bang! You explode.
Because he thinks you have absolutely no taste.
But if you happen to be just as passionately devoted to this gorgeous star, know every one of his works and every line of dialogue, and can even empathize with his profound acting and offer a few accurate critiques, then congratulations.
Bang! You explode too.
Because this disaster-class ghost won't allow anyone in the world to know his gorgeous wife better than he does.
Your talent for stanning makes him jealous.
Lovecraftian ghost seme x gorgeous little celebrity uke
P.S. The seme isn't actually a sasaeng. It's a misunderstanding.
Theme: As long as you work hard, everyone can shine with a light of their own.