Another Day of Ruining My Perfect Image

[My neighboring novel, I Sleepwalked and Marked My Nemesis, is now being serialized. Check it out in my author column!] One day, Lu Qi was working late at school when he saw someone about to jump from the rooftop. He rushed to save them, but lost his footing and fell instead. When he woke up, he had been reborn as the person who had tried to jump: the rising young star Lu Qi. But Lu Qi, who had somehow become a celebrity, was at a loss. He couldn't act or dance, and he was already past his early twenties. How was he supposed to maintain his public image? He soon realized that Lu Qi was a pretty face with nothing else going for him. Lu Qi got it. Oh, so he just had to coast by as a pretty face. Easy! But the haters, who were used to camping out on trending topics for gossip, were caught off guard by one face-slapping moment after another. Lu Qi accepted an advertising deal and played a piano piece. Haters: The staged photo looks pretty professional. Not bad, not bad. At a New Year's Eve gala on a major TV network, Lu Qi played Liszt's La Campanella, stunning the entire audience. Haters: ??? Is this actually a pianist wearing a pretty-boy disguise?! On a school-themed reality show, the pretty-boy Lu Qi said he wanted to become a teacher. Haters: What a joke. He hasn't even finished his no-name undergraduate degree. Please don't go misleading students. A top student deliberately challenged him: "Lu, we can't solve this problem. I heard you're really good at studying. Why don't you teach us?" Lu Qi, top scorer in science on the college entrance exam, undergraduate at T University, recipient of a full scholarship to a direct-entry PhD program at an Ivy League school, glanced at the problem and realized he had solved it in an IMO competition before. "Easy. If |S|=1, let S={(x?,y?)}. By Bezout's theorem, there exist integers a and b such that..." (Five minutes omitted.) "Got it?" Top student: ??? What S? What B? Haters: I'm done talking. My face hurts so much :) So much for sticking to the pretty-boy image for a hundred years without wavering. How can he just drop it like that?! Blurb two: Everyone knows that top star Feng Qianxing's biggest rival isn't some award-winning actor or TV star. It's the pretty-boy upstart Lu Qi. Forced into a pairing, forced into publicity stunts, forced to play second fiddle. One day, the Xing-Lu CP was pushed onto the trending list again. Feng Qianxing's fans were about to roll up their sleeves and fight the marketing accounts, when they discovered their idol had posted this himself: [Feng Qianxing: Here's the proof. Lu Qi is my official CP. We're the Xing-Lu CP. Come ship us! <3] A minute later, Lu Qi reposted it with a single, meaningful ":)". The fans on both sides suddenly became one big happy family: What? Are you kidding me??? [Help! What do I do if my idol has become the rival's devoted fan?!] [Everyone, take a look at this award-winning actor who's shipping himself with his rival like there's no tomorrow.] Overthinking gong (Feng Qianxing) x all-rounder, old-school shou (Lu Qi) PS: 1. The gong is very narcissistic, with a ton of inner monologue. Proceed with caution if that's not your thing! 2. The author's logic is dead, they're hopeless at daily life, and their writing is amateurish. Don't take it too seriously~ No need to tell me if you drop the story~ 3. Weibo: @-Fan Shuangli- Next up: I Sleepwalked and Marked My Nemesis. Please preorder it for me~ QUQ Yang Xu had a nightmare. Somehow, he ended up in the bed of his nemesis, Qiao Weixiao. Qiao Weixiao held him in his arms, affectionately called him by his nickname, and even marked him! Yang Xu screamed and woke up, only to discover... Qiao Weixiao really was lying beside him! The nightmare had come true! Just as he was about to strangle Qiao Weixiao, the latter sighed and pointed at the fresh bite mark on his gland. "Look carefully. You're the one who marked me." Yang Xu: "???" "This is the twenty-fifth time this month you've picked the lock to my dorm, climbed into my bed, and marked me," Qiao Weixiao said aggrievedly. "As an Omega, aren't you going to take responsibility?" Yang Xu: "How the hell am I supposed to take responsibility just because I'm an Omega?!" Qiao Weixiao's lips curled up as he pinned him to the bed. "Be good. First comes close contact, then responsibility." [We fight each other during the day, and we fight each other at night ^-^] [The shou sleepwalks. During the day, he argues with the gong and finds him annoying in every way. At night, he picks the lock and climbs into his bed, then eats his words.] Daytime Yang Xu swore indignantly: "I'd rather jump off this building than breathe in a single whiff of Qiao Weixiao's pheromones!!" Nighttime Yang Xu, eyes brimming with tears: "Just let me bite you once, please. I feel awful, wuwu..." The next day, Yang Xu mocked him mercilessly: "Who in their right mind would mark you? Maybe a dog bit you and you're too embarrassed to admit it!" Qiao Weixiao: "..." Like a total scumbag, with a severe case of split personality. Reader's guide: 1. Ultra-dominant, powerful, theatrical shou (Yang Xu) x secretive, sharp-tongued, exceptionally lazy gong (Qiao Weixiao) 2. There are lots of original setting details. If that bothers you, don't read. (For example, Omegas can mark Alphas too.) 3. The author is letting loose with this one, so it won't be very long~ Theme: