Transmigrated as the Heartthrob's Cannon-Fodder Childhood Friend

[The physical edition of Su Yu Er An is now available. Presales open at 8 p.m. on November 23]

Gentle Control is a modern-day danmei novel tagged with angsty romance and domineering love.

The bottom, Xie Sui, is a favored child of heaven: born into a prominent family, aloof and ascetic, he attracts a crowd of (deranged) suitors. From a gentle senior to an obsessive CEO to an arrogant rival, every one of these power players commands the wind and rain in their own field, yet they all go mad over him.

After a series of emotionally and physically torturous ordeals, the three decide to join forces to destroy the Xie family and imprison Xie Sui, breaking his proud spirit and turning him into a pet who can rely only on them.

While readers howl, “Waaah, this is so good!”

Song Yu is already furious. Unable to stomach any more of this eye-searing story, he curses, “Idiots,” and hurriedly logs off.

But when he wakes up, he has transmigrated.

He has become the third young master of the Song family, the childhood friend of Xie Sui who is only mentioned in passing in the novel and will die of an incurable disease.

Song Yu is devastated, but he has already made up his mind: Those three idiots can forget about getting anywhere near his childhood friend!

*

Xie Sui was born cold-hearted. In either lifetime, he has never experienced loving someone or being protected by anyone.

After bringing down three families and killing his enemies, he is reborn at fifteen. He hides the violent, cruel darkness in his heart and pretends to be the gentle, mild-mannered boy he once was.

Everything is just like before, except that this time, the childhood friend from his previous life, a vague memory of an unremarkable boy, is very different.

As if a spring breeze were thawing frozen earth, someone in the abyss takes his bloodstained hand.

*

Song Yu tears up a love letter in a fit of anger. “Don’t pay attention to those people. Don’t believe their sweet talk. They’re scum, and their affection means nothing. Don’t fall for them, okay?”

Xie Sui gazes at him for a long time, then smiles. “Okay. I won’t fall for them.”

I only love you.

Couple: reborn top × bottom who transmigrates into a book

My next novel is a fantasy danmei.

Best Performance, set in the entertainment industry.

[Watching your movies makes me blind from beginning to end]

[The only actor in showbiz I respect is Tong Hua. He can turn a reunion after years apart into a quest for revenge with a knife, a school romance into a war epic, and the old Wang from the village entrance into a greasy, domineering CEO. I hereby name him the King of Bad Movies.]

The year Tong Hua, hailed as a box-office curse, turns twenty, his parents die tragically, the entire internet mocks him, and he is saddled with eighty million in debt.

His manager gives him one final ultimatum: “If you don’t pass the audition for Murder House, you can go shoot adult films to pay off your debt!”

With a cold face that makes him look like he’s the one owed eighty million, Tong Hua strides out, ducks into the basement, opens a collection of films starring the award-winning actor Shen Yan, and studies expressionlessly while slurping instant noodles.

Who would have thought he’d choke on a noodle?

When he opens his eyes again, he’s in a dilapidated apartment building in the 1980s.

A Best Performance app has appeared on his phone, and a cold voice speaks beside his ear: [Dear Host, you must deliver the best performance of your role to leave this building]

“…”

In a public restroom, Tong Hua stares into the mirror at the middle-aged man before him: unshaven, wooden and numb, dressed in a green padded coat.

After holding it in for a long while, he curses, “Fuck.”

*

The day Murder House premieres.

The whole internet explodes.

[Holy crap, did someone transmigrate into Tong Hua’s body? Have you seen Murder House? His portrayal of Wang Jianguo is incredible.]

[That feeling of drifting through life without support, wanting to be respected but ending up a joke, he captured so many details: his hands, his eyes, that fawning, ingratiating smile. I cried...]

[...Did anyone know Murder House is based on a real murder that took place in Qingcheng in the 1980s?]

[Holy crap! Shen Yan followed Tong Hua?!]

*

Shen Yan’s life was split in two during the summer he turned fifteen.

A paternity test shattered all the pride he had once held. He had taken another’s place, and suddenly even his excellence seemed like a sin.

The boy tucked away what remained of his battered pride, fragile and pale, and returned to the narrow, run-down, damp alley that should have been his home all along. Like a bird with broken wings, lost and helpless, he encountered the brightest light of his life in the abyss.

A famous director was filming nearby. His cherished youngest son tossed him a piece of candy from the moldy, damp stairwell above and warned him fiercely, “You’re not allowed to cry.”

Shen Yan lowered his eyes and stared at the candy. After a long silence, he began to smile.

Meeting you was the fairytale fate wrote for me.

*

It begins in a haunted apartment building in the 1980s and leads to the arson case on Yong'an Street that shocked the nation ten years ago.

The present and the films intertwine: uncovering the truth through cinema, and finding oneself in real life.

One day, I will stand at the pinnacle of fame, where the stars shine, and deliver the best performance of my own.

Serious acting, entertainment industry, perhaps with a touch of infinite-loop elements (??), plus a little serial crime-solving [but it won’t be serious police procedural stuff. I want to be kind to my hair qwq]. Just read it as a feel-good power fantasy!

Debonair, devilishly charming actor-king top × cool guy bottom, the King of Bad Movies.

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