My Character Must Never Collapse

[Coming Soon: Doomsday Game Milk Tea Truck, blurb at the end]

Entertainment industry, both leads are actors

Actor Obo is of mixed Chinese and European heritage. With a pair of captivating blue eyes and a stunning face that's hard to gender, he's known among his fans as the entertainment industry's number one gender-bender.

Actor Shen Yao has sharp features and a cold, tough air. He's 1.9 meters tall, with a presence of 299, and his fans joke that he was born to play a domineering CEO.

But in reality...

Obo's manager: "Our Obo is a silent flower when his mouth is shut, but the second he opens it, it's a comedy show. Can he keep his mouth shut? Can he?!"

Shen Yao's manager: "Our Shen Yao is a huge guy, but he's afraid of mice, cockroaches, and the dark. He's even afraid of his female scene partner's long fingernails! Last time I went to his place, I found him doing cross-stitch!"

The two managers declared firmly: "Neither of their public images can fall apart!"

The two join a variety show together. Thanks to their managers, they form a strategic alliance to keep their public images intact, and casually promote a CP while they're at it.

Obo's emotional journey: This guy's stuck with a ridiculous public image just like me, poor thing -> We're just colleagues who sympathize with each other, out of basic human kindness -> It's love.

Shen Yao's emotional journey: He's amazing -> He's so cute -> It's love.

Shen Yao gong x Obo shou

Content warnings:

1. Gender-bender fans: also known as reverse-fujoshi fans. They switch the celebrity's gender in their imaginations, like to treat male stars as girls, and call them big sister or little sister.

2. The entertainment industry in this story is a fictional world, with no real-life counterparts. The author doesn't follow celebrities, and made the whole story up.

[Coming Soon: Doomsday Game Milk Tea Truck]

On September 9, 2999, the doomsday dungeon game descended upon Blue Star, randomly forcing people to become players. With a death rate of 98%, humanity's survival was nothing short of an interstellar miracle.

In the game's third year, the intense pressure forced humanity to evolve. Everyone became a chosen one with supernatural powers, the reborn were everywhere, and Systems were a dime a dozen. Humanity's fellow survivors were confident they'd win this time, but they never expected the monsters on the other side to get cheat codes too.

The level cap could be raised at any moment, dungeon monsters could take drugs, and BOSSes could buff themselves before mutating while nearly dead. Damn it, did this dogshit game have no balance at all?!

Just as humanity despaired, thinking this time might really be the end, a legend about the game began to circulate. If you called a magical food delivery number, and the monster you faced was buggy enough, a righteous pink milk tea truck would come crashing down from the sky, its little lace-trimmed flags fluttering, and run right over the monster's face.

Then you'd have to hand over everything you'd earned from killing monsters to buy a cup of milk tea from the handsome owner, or the long-legged driver beside him would smash your head in with a hammer.

Don't ask if the milk tea tastes good. It's the sweet taste of surviving disaster, the rich aroma of life carrying on!

To stop humanity from achieving final victory, the game secretly tampered with players' path of evolution. The stronger the individual, the more useless the ability they gained through evolution. For example, the little lunatic He Wuning got a milk tea shop management System, while humanity's shining hope, Yi Luo, awakened the strongest repairman ability.

He Wuning: Damn it, you dogshit game, you think you can punish me? I'll punish your BOSS! Anyone who throws the balance off has to die!

Yi Luo dutifully raised his repair wrench.

A ruthless, taciturn, rampaging driver cool guy gong x a ruthless, loudmouthed, cocky little lunatic shou

--My wheels roll ever onward. Even if I have to ride the silliest unicycle parade float, I'll crush the crowns of the gods behind the scenes and greet the final light of victory.

Theme: Work earnestly and live well. Sincere feelings behind a polished public image are all the more moving, and our true selves deserve to be loved too.