I Turned Gay After We Started Promoting Ourselves as a Couple

Blurb: At the age of twenty-eight, Jing Xuan took his first villain role. After the show aired, his popularity didn't drop. Instead, he gained countless fans, along with a male CP: Ji Meng, a newcomer who played his confidant in the show.

From then on, the rumor-proof Jing Xuan and his male CP were trending every few days.

Later, the two starred in a gay romance film and accidentally won the title of Couple of the Year.

After the awards ceremony, someone snapped a photo of Jing Xuan trapped in a backstage chair by his puppy-like CP, who was rubbing his nose affectionately against Jing Xuan's. Jing Xuan held the younger man's face in both hands, looking at him with adoration.

Fans: Just tell us when you're getting married, and I'll bring the marriage registry office over.

Later, during an outdoor livestream, a TV station happened to film the two of them sharing a passionate kiss on a street late at night. As their relationship was revealed, public opinion erupted:

Fans: Holy crap, is this ship real?!

Antifans: What true love? Jing Xuan is clearly using his status in showbiz to exploit a vulnerable newcomer! Ugh! Disgusting!

But the next day, the so-called vulnerable young star posted several Weibo updates showing off his luxury cars, mansion, and "beloved wife," then personally confronted the antifans:

[I'm short on plenty of things, but money isn't one of them. To everyone saying I'm being kept, who gave you the nerve? Fish Leong?]

Fans: Younger men really are the best!

Reading tips:

1. Sunny, handsome puppy-like newcomer younger top x Beautiful veteran actor bottom; the bottom is 28 and the top is 23; each other's first love.

2. The story takes place in 2025. None of the characters are based on real people!

Currently updating: The Lazy Beauty Doesn't Want to Pretend [A companion novel in the same series]

Gu Yu has been in the industry for years, but his popularity has never taken off. His company sends him to a talent competition show to raise his profile.

Gu Yu politely declines: I'm hopeless at both singing and dancing.

His manager persuades him: Your face is all you need!

Before he enters the show, his manager gives him a three-word motto: Keep low, mooch, cling!

Stick around as long as possible! Shamelessly mooch screen time! Cling to a strong contender!

Gu Yu: I just want to coast through one round and get eliminated.

For the Dream, also known as Gu Yu's Epic Embarrassing Debut.

In singing class, everyone else combines technique and emotion, while Gu Yu sings with nothing but emotion and no technique. In dance class, everyone else moves with grace and style, while Gu Yu dances stiffly, like he's in physical therapy. In rap class, everyone else raps, while he's a reader.

He's earned the nickname: Pretty Face, Useless Talent.

The useless pretty face looks at his bottom-of-the-rankings score and smiles with satisfaction.

But the night before the elimination round, the production team releases a behind-the-scenes clip.

In the video, Gu Yu stands onstage, a beam of light falling across his handsome, cool face and revealing the reddened corner of one eye.

Tears slide down his cheek like pearls slipping from a broken string, making him look like a fragile crystal doll, beautiful in his heartbreak.

Netizens: Gasp... is this what it feels like to fall for someone?

That night, the show's official voting channel nearly crashed.

The next day, Gu Yu stares in silence at his skyrocketing rank.

As Gu Yu's popularity keeps rising, so do the doubts, and the internet is flooded with hate.

[He's got nothing going for him but his face! Why does Gu Yu deserve a debut spot?]

[It's an outrage if Gu Yu doesn't leave! The domestic entertainment industry is doomed!]

His manager comforts him: Hated and famous is still famous! Keep coasting, keep your head down! The useless pretty face is the best!

But the useless pretty face himself doesn't want to pretend anymore.

Second public performance. After the third group finishes, netizens flood the comments:

[Ahhh, the center is amazing at both singing and dancing! How can someone with A-level skill be in F?]

[Because that's Gu Yu... the famous useless pretty face...]

[??? You call that useless?]

Only later do the netizens learn that the so-called useless pretty face was once the top-ranked applicant among ten performing arts schools, and the idol worshipped by aspiring performers before their entrance exams...

On debut night, Gu Yu makes his debut as the center.

His fans cry out: Gu Yu! You fooled us so badly! Why did you pretend to be a useless pretty face?

Gu Yu: I didn't plan on debuting at first, but later I heard that the contestants who debuted could choose a mentor to collaborate with onstage.

Fans: ???

It's a tradition on For the Dream that the contestants who debut get to choose a mentor for a stage collaboration.

After filming ends, Gu Yu walks up to Shen Ranxuan with an easy smile. "Mr. Shen, would you do me the honor?"

Shen Ranxuan looks at the face he's been longing to see day and night, his gaze turning dark. "Is the game of strangers over, upperclassman?"

Other completed novels in the same series: The Top-Tier Star Shipped Himself with His Manager, My CP Has to Be Sweet, and Boys Who Act Cute Are the Best

If you like them, add them to your reading list~ Muah!

Theme: Work hard and strive forward without forgetting your original aspirations