True Love Goes Public [Entertainment Industry]

[The next salted-egg novel, I Just Want a Normal Start in the Entertainment Industry, is now underway. Please add it to your favorites, mwah~]

Blurb: We loved each other for twenty years. Now we get to do it all over again.

Song Zhaoyan and Zhao Yunsheng made it to around forty together. They had lived together for over a decade, supporting each other through the lowest points of their lives. When the whole world vilified Zhao Yunsheng, Song Zhaoyan retired from the spotlight with him. When Song Zhaoyan's father died, Zhao Yunsheng stayed by his side as he wept at the funeral.

But because of their status, they never made their relationship public.

It wasn't until Song Zhaoyan was forty-five and Zhao Yunsheng was forty-one, after they'd lived more than half their lives, that they finally got ready to tell the world they were in love.

Who could have guessed that some paparazzo or rival would strike first and expose everything, twisting their entire past into a pile of scandals, even though the truth was that they really were a couple?

Suddenly, the two great film emperors, who had finally enjoyed a few peaceful years, seemed to have betrayed the whole world. Even announcing that they truly loved each other now felt like a joke.

But they didn't care. At their age, they lived their own lives. The trouble was, they understood that, while everyone else didn't.

In the end, who knows who lost their mind.

A car accident, and the two of them were reborn.

The year they were reborn, Song Zhaoyan was twenty-five and Zhao Yunsheng was twenty-one. It was the year their lives first became entangled.

Song Zhaoyan and Zhao Yunsheng hadn't even met yet, but they made the same decision first: this time, they would never let all those years go to waste!

And they would definitely, definitely tell the whole world that their love was real!

A little scene~

At a movie press conference.

Song Zhaoyan and Zhao Yunsheng sat shoulder to shoulder, heads together, their hands clasped without the slightest attempt to hide it. They even made sure to show off the identical rings on their ring fingers.

The reporters crowded around them. They asked about the movie, but wouldn't ask the one question Song Zhaoyan and Zhao Yunsheng wanted them to ask.

Song Zhaoyan looked at the reporters who, in his previous life, had chased after them like hunting dogs, and tried to hold back. He couldn't.

"Aren't you going to ask what our relationship is?"

The reporters all smiled in unison. "We already know."

In their hearts: Seriously, are they still selling this fake romance? They want to mess with us again? Not a chance.

Song Zhaoyan really couldn't understand how reporters thought these days. Maybe he'd treated them too badly in his previous life, so this time they were being good around him.

Seeing how annoyed he was, Zhao Yunsheng said, "Why not leak a bedroom photo?"

After agonizing over it for ages, Song Zhaoyan bundled Zhao Yunsheng up from head to toe, showed half his own body, and sneakily leaked a half-naked photo of them entwined in bed.

Fans on both sides cheered. Their idols were just so sweet.

Song Zhaoyan thought he would finally get what he wanted this time.

But the top ten comments all asked the same thing: "Huohuo, are you and Water God working on a new R-rated movie together?"

Song Zhaoyan: !!!

Zhao Yunsheng: ...

I Just Want a Normal Start

So, my name is Shui Bufan, and I really do have a pretty extraordinary story.

I got bound to a System and became a professional protagonist.

That's right, the protagonist.

It's just that this is the scene at the start of my 101st attempt.

Someone has a foot on my head, and I can feel the pattern on the sole of their leather shoe and the weight of it pressing down on my face.

My guess is that the person standing on my face is the ultimate mastermind, the kind who never shows up until the very end.

As for why I ran into him right from the start and ended up under his foot...

Hell if I know. I want to find out, too.

Based on my hundred previous attempts, if I get up in a rage to defend my dignity as the protagonist, this story will probably head straight for a disastrous ending.

The plot will go: The protagonist appears, then the protagonist dies.

There's no way I'll ever finish the main storyline about reaching the pinnacle of life.

So my only option is to raise my eyes, blink, and smile coquettishly.

"Boss, let's talk this over. Could you lift your foot?"

After being flirted with ninety-nine times by a certain full-time mastermind, he finally decided to listen to his heart.

He was ready to really date the idiot who tried his hardest to flirt with him in every world and stay alive.

But who could have known that the other guy would flirt and never marry? Ahem, I mean, never get married.

In a fit of rage, the boss forced the System to give the other guy a 101st conquest attempt that was never supposed to exist.

He had only one requirement: I have to meet him right from the start!

But the start came just one step too late! The sweet romance route was already gone!

A boss who just wants to clear the sweet-love-and-pampered-wife scenario VS a shameless, flexible, hardworking protagonist who insists on following his own protagonist route.

1. This isn't quick transmigration. The story takes place in just one world.

2. Set in a fictional modern world, with an entertainment-industry backdrop. During the main story, the protagonist is a variety-show personality. He doesn't take singing or acting seriously. Even when he acts, he only plays tiny supporting roles with less than three minutes of screen time. He sings only because he has to, just to entertain the public.

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