I Didn't Flirt, but the Movie Emperor Fell for Me

[New story: Marrying an Old-Fashioned Researcher. Please show it some love~ Blurb at the bottom] Blurb: [Complete] Actor Jian Ningyi transmigrates into a novel written by a hater and becomes a short-lived cannon fodder character, useless in every way and constantly picking fights with the protagonist Shou. After transmigrating, filming begins on a new drama. That's when Jian Ningyi discovers that the person playing his beloved master is the unattainable love of his life from the novel: box-office king Qi Yu. Everyone knows Jian Ningyi is deeply in love with Qi Yu, obsessively pursuing him and acting like a madman, while Qi Yu avoids him like the plague and finds him unbearably annoying. After working himself to death, Jian Ningyi has seen through the world and wants only to take care of his health, but Qi Yu doesn't see it that way. Faced with Qi Yu's wary, guard-against-a-wolf stare, Jian Ningyi remains unmoved. He spends his days steeping red dates in his thermos, wearing a hat, long johns, and a thick padded coat, and never stays a second past quitting time. Faced with Jian Ningyi's strange behavior, Qi Yu, like everyone else, believes he must be playing hard to get. Sure enough, during filming, Jian Ningyi clutches Qi Yu's sleeve and sobs so hard he can barely catch his breath. With red-rimmed eyes, he pleads pitifully for Qi Yu not to leave. Qi Yu coldly shakes off his hand and walks away without looking back. Everyone thinks Jian Ningyi's acting is utterly terrible, so he must be desperately in love with Qi Yu to cry with such heartfelt emotion and move them all. After filming, everyone looks at him with sympathy. Even Qi Yu feels a faint ache in his heart and decides to soften his attitude. But once filming wraps, Jian Ningyi stops crying in an instant, pours himself a drink to celebrate his outstanding performance, screws the lid back onto his thermos, and leaves. Qi Yu, who was just about to hand him a tissue and wipe away his tears: ? Qi Yu before filming: To get my attention, you really will stop at nothing! Qi Yu after filming: Man, why do you change your heart so quickly? Qi Yu's fans take after their idol. At first, they say: You toxic pest, get lost! Stay away from my brother! We reject your shameless publicity stunts! Later, they say: Qi Yu, you hopeless idiot! Are your eyes glued to that man or what?! He loves him so much! Jian Ningyi, please, just look at Qi Yu! Note: 1. If you want to drop the story, there's no need to tell me. Please. 2. I'm open to and welcome feedback on anything I've written poorly, but if you start by insulting me, I'll delete it as soon as I see it. My new story, Marrying an Old-Fashioned Researcher, is now updating~ A painting prodigy x a research big shot. If you're interested, check it out in my author page~ Blurb: Qi Bai, the campus heartthrob in the art department at Nanda University, is as beautiful as a celestial being and has a fiery temper. One professor once said his hands were made for holding a paintbrush. He has no shortage of admirers. After being harassed repeatedly by an obsessive suitor, he has no choice but to hire a special-service worker as a fake boyfriend to deal with him. His fake boyfriend, Jiang Jianzhi, is tall and graceful, with the air of a scholar, like a noble gentleman stepped out of an old painting. Apart from being a little old-fashioned, he's the perfect fake boyfriend. Later, after Qi Bai develops feelings for him, he asks Jiang Jianzhi to find a different job. Jiang Jianzhi refuses. "I like my current job." Qi Bai gets angry. "Now that you have me, you can't keep doing this kind of work." Jiang Jianzhi asks why. Qi Bai puts his hands on his hips and glares at him. "Because it's unchaste!" Jiang Jianzhi takes off his glasses, confused. "Being a professor and doing research is unchaste?" Qi Bai is stumped. "??? What professor? Aren't you a male escort?" Jiang Jianzhi: "???" Seeing Jiang Jianzhi's shocked expression, Qi Bai belatedly realizes there may have been a rather large misunderstanding between them... Jiang Jianzhi is naturally indifferent. He graduated from university at eighteen and became the youngest full professor-level researcher in the country at twenty-one. He thinks eating and sleeping are just a waste of life. Students: All he does is research. Professor Jiang is like a machine that only knows how to work! A strict, old-fashioned, cold-blooded demon king with no human warmth! Professor Jiang, whose whole life revolves around experimental data, meets someone who occupies his thoughts even more than research on his twenty-sixth birthday... When news breaks that Jiang Jianzhi is dating, the entire university is stunned: Professor Jiang has this kind of worldly desire after all?! No one believes it until they see Professor Jiang walking hand in hand around campus with a boy whose features are exquisite and whose beauty is almost unbelievable. The entire university: "!!!" [Free-spirited genius painter Shou x meticulous research big shot Gong] Theme: Even when surrounded by darkness, there's no need to panic. Keep striving upward. You are the light, and you are the brightest presence of all.