Wasn't I Playing a Gloomy Ghost Top?

* Everyone loves the bottom

* All characters are sexually inexperienced. No attractive tops, no side pairings, no shipping speculation, and no designated top

* No role reversal, and no fantasizing about the top

After the reality show Taking a Gamble to Find True Love became a huge hit, preparations for the second season began immediately. To keep things fresh for viewers, the show made a few changes to its rules.

Teng Gui was an out-of-work actor who had offended someone and been blacklisted. On a dare with a friend, he sent his resume to the show, only to be inexplicably selected by the System of Myriad Realms Entertainment.

Before filming began, he received his character profile and script.

[Teng Gui: a gloomy, fickle ghostly top]

Teng Gui felt a little reluctant when he read the description of his character.

So this reality show was a gay dating show after all. How had they picked an outdated nobody like him?

[Teng Gui is a frail and neurotic man, often sitting alone in a small courtyard filled with spirit flowers and herbs, his back radiating loneliness.

His skin is fairer than snow, and his beautiful face is difficult to classify as male or female. When he speaks, his gaze is always moist and unfocused as he looks toward others, like an alluring ghost deep in the mountains, so chillingly cold that it somehow becomes lushly beautiful.

Rumor has it that Teng Gui may appear frail, but he is dangerous and sinister. He bewitches innocent young men into falling for him, then cruelly abandons them for his own amusement.

In the Demon-Slaying Court of Huai'an Town, few dare to approach this handsome cultivator, who seems more ghost than human and is gaunt to the point of emaciation.

Then, that year, a spirited young fan cultivator joined the Evil-Slaying Division of the Demon-Slaying Court in Huai'an Town. Without knowing any better, the bold young cultivator struck up a conversation with Teng Gui.

The gloomy beauty, who never smiled, fell in love at first sight with the fan cultivator and began pursuing the new Evil-Slaying Officer...]

He was supposed to pursue a man? But he was straight!

Teng Gui's already pale, handsome face took on an even more sickly look. His slender brows furrowed, his lips curved into a self-pitying, sorrowful smile, and tears spilled from his lashes with the blink of an eye.

He hated getting too close to men, but there was no other choice.

If he wanted to act again, he'd have to pretend to be gay and hog the screen time.

"One of you is gay. Find out who, and you'll win this round," the director announced.

"..."

"Is there really only one?"

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"In mist, I watch flowers bloom, a fleeting dream; rain of petals clings to clothes, and wears away the soul and bones." Beneath the torrential rain, the eerie man holding an umbrella was like a chilling ghost. The wrist exposed beneath his sleeve was sharply bony.

He lowered his eyes toward the fleeing, battered heretic cultivators. A faint smile, as pale and delicate as an orchid, appeared on his face, and a pitying tear rolled from his lashes.

"How pitiful, how pitiful. Hurry along to the road to reincarnation and keep each other company."

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PS: I haven't decided yet whether this will be historical BL or a cultivation story set in a futuristic world.

Theme: True feelings can exist even in a false performance