The Protagonist of the Tragic Novel Chooses to Be Loved

The moment before Su Xingtang accepts his crush's confession, he awakens to the truth. He's the protagonist bottom in a melodramatic, tearjerker novel, about to embark on a sweeping, heart-wrenching romance with the movie emperor Jiang Chenfeng, complete with having his heart and kidneys ripped out. Jiang Chenfeng can't stand rich kids, so he leaves the wealthy Su family and hides his identity to enter show business. He gets trapped in an exploitative contract, bullied and sidelined, and even when he meets his biological father, the man suspects he has a sugar daddy. Jiang Chenfeng wants to repay his foster parents. So even when their green-tea adopted daughter drugs him and frames him, making the entire internet turn against him, he puts up with her in every way. Even after the two of them cheat on him, he is forced to forgive them because of their self-pitying act. When Jiang Chenfeng's white moonlight is diagnosed with a terminal illness and needs a kidney transplant, he agrees to donate one to repay what he calls a life-saving debt. After a car accident leaves Jiang Chenfeng with amnesia, he turns out to be the true young master of a wealthy family who grew up outside it. He shows off his romance with his fiancee while waging a business war against the Su family. And then, driven by his love-addled brain, he overhears the villain planning to get rid of Jiang Chenfeng and rushes to warn him. In the end, the scumbag gets no more than a scratch, while Su Xingtang is badly injured... By the time the story forces a happy ending, the Su family has been acquired by Jiang Chenfeng. "What the he..." Su Xingtang swallows the curse on his tongue, dodges the rose in the man's hand, and turns to leave. "I have to go." The man, who had been so confident, stiffens. "What's so urgent?" Su Xingtang: "My white moonlight is coming back. I'm going to pick him up." Jiang Chenfeng: ...??? Wait... You have a white moonlight too?! * Su Xingtang rushes home that very night to accept the luxury cars, designer watches, and penthouse apartments he'd turned down before, then announces that he's going to have a whirlwind wedding with his fiance. His family is horrified. "Where did you get a fiance? You don't mean that Jiang Blowhard, do you? We won't allow it!" Su Xingtang: "Didn't Jianshen say he was coming back? We're engaged." His family: "...Wake up. That was a game we played in kindergarten." "Then we'll turn pretend into reality," Su Xingtang says with determination. "No matter what, I'm marrying Jianshen. I'd even accept his luxurious estate, priceless jewelry, and top-tier endorsement deals." His family: ... Do you even hear yourself? Theme: Love yourself before loving someone else.