Why Are My Love Rivals Fighting Over Me?

★ Younger seme, 1v1, stream-of-consciousness entertainment industry, mountains of made-up details. Written for fun, so let's all give each other a break. ★

★ Blurb saved. The proper title is "Highly Flammable." Sending hearts~ ★

Yu Ran debuted at a young age, blessed with peerless looks and acting talent. At twenty-eight, he won the Best Actor award, with a bright future ahead of him.

The night he won, he got dead drunk and dreamed that he was the fourth male lead in a novel where readers bet on the love interest. The protagonist was a little-known star.

In the story, he would pursue the little star relentlessly, spending money and calling in favors to take him from trainee to top-tier star. But in the end, the little star would get a happy ending with the major villain, the character most popular with readers.

Yu Ran, meanwhile, would love in vain, leave show business in a melancholy state, and eventually die in a car crash, dazed, on the night of the little star's wedding.

Yu Ran: "...???"

No. I'm not getting involved in this love-triangle-from-hell. Whoever wants to be the devoted supporting man can have the job!

But when Yu Ran woke up from his hangover, he found himself lying in a man's arms.

The man had golden hair and blue eyes, handsome brows and deep-set eyes. It was none other than his nemesis, Yi Jin, the villain boss himself.

Yu Ran's scalp prickled. "...That wasn't in the story!"

So while his nemesis was still asleep, he got dressed and slipped away.

*

After awakening to the truth, Yu Ran suddenly noticed the other potential love interests looking at him differently.

The world-class fashion designer who was supposed to be at the little star's beck and call now publicly declared that Yu Ran was his muse.

The domineering CEO with billions in assets, who was supposed to torment the little star before forcing him into a relationship, suddenly showed up to tell Yu Ran he wanted to keep him.

The top-tier star, a childhood friend and lead dancer in a boy band who had silently protected the little star, began chasing Yu Ran under the pretense of asking for career advice and exchanging numbers.

Even the little star himself blocked Yu Ran's door on the eve of his debut, eyes red...

Yu Ran: "...Thanks, but I'm not interested. Please stop making up stories in your own heads!!!"

When he turned around, he saw the golden-haired, blue-eyed villain showing off the matching ring on his hand, smiling brightly.

Yi Jin: "Teacher Yu, I'm ready. When are we getting married?"

Yu Ran: "...???"

Theme: Pain and redemption.