The Tycoon Heiress's Stand-In Actor

As a wealthy CEO, Pei Yu has everything she needs: money.

Countless young heartthrobs have tried to get together with her.

Not one has caught her eye.

Few people know that Pei Yu got together long ago with Shen Yu, an award-winning actor who was once just a young star.

Until one day,

Pei Yu discovers that the world she lives in is actually a novel.

Shen Yu is the male lead, destined to reach the top of the entertainment industry.

And she is a female supporting character who will humiliate him beyond endurance.

The male lead has always pretended to please her while secretly biding his time and lying low.

In the end, he finally plots to have her killed.

After learning the ending already written for her,

Pei Yu watches coldly from the sidelines and continues to play her supporting role to the hilt.

Male lead's blurb:

When Shen Yu was at his lowest, Pei Yu reached out to him.

From then on, he stayed by her side.

She gave him unlimited resources and made him an award-winning actor.

He always thought that if she wanted him to stay by her side, he must mean something to her.

Until one day,

Shen Yu suddenly realizes

that he is nothing but a despicable stand-in.

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[Reader's guide]

A cold-hearted female CEO x a pitiful male lead who knows he's a stand-in but is still determined to be with her

A gender-swapped take on the old-fashioned domineering CEO and stand-in romance, full of old-school melodrama.

The man gets tortured, not the woman. Six-year age gap. Both are each other's first.

I've read too many melodramatic stories about domineering CEOs torturing women, so I wanted to switch things up for a change. I'm just writing for fun, so don't take it too seriously.

[Readers who are devoted to the male lead, beware]

A recommendation for my friend's novel: "Me, a Goddess! Just Kidding." by Hua Zhishan, ID: 6619267

Blurb:

Shen Lemeng, the art department's campus beauty, is gentle and composed, with an elegant air. She's the school's publicly acknowledged goddess.

To maintain that image, she works hard to keep up the act.

She hopes to snag a rich, handsome man and live comfortably for the rest of her life.

At last, she finds a suitable target, only to suffer the first major setback of her life.

From the start, the handsome rich guy's friend sees through her goddess act.

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Liang Ziheng first hears the name Shen Lemeng from a friend.

A group of men are gathered together, discussing which girl at school is the prettiest.

He expects them to disagree, but his friends, who usually never see eye to eye, are surprisingly unanimous this time.

They praise the girl to the skies.

Calling her breathtakingly beautiful, like a fairy descended from heaven.

The more they say, the more exaggerated it gets.

Liang Ziheng can't help scoffing. "She's got two eyes and a nose, like everyone else. How pretty can she be?"

The very next day, he gets face-slapped.

It turns out that someone really can be this beautiful.

The kind of beauty that makes your heart stop with one look, as if you don't even belong to the same world.

But Liang Ziheng doesn't want to admit he was wrong, so for the first time he says something he doesn't mean: "Don't all girls look like that?"

He talks tough, but can't stop sneaking glances at her.

Until one day, he sees Shen Lemeng thrown out by her landlord because she can't pay the rent. Wearing pajamas and sporting a wild bedhead, she stands in the sun with her hands on her hips and curses out the landlord for a full two hours.

Liang Ziheng: "..."

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When his friends once again rave about how gentle and elegant Shen Lemeng is, Liang Ziheng's mouth twitches.

To keep his friends from being fooled, he drops a quiet hint: "What you see on the surface might not be the truth."

When they discover the two of them are together, his friends angrily confront him: "Didn't you say she was average-looking and two-faced?"

Liang Ziheng silently gazes at the sky. "Who said that?"

His friends cry out indignantly: "A dog said it!"

"Woof!"

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