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Chen Qingqing, an innocent and carefree young master, had done only one truly outrageous thing in his life: he stripped completely naked, knocked on Xu Xingnian's door, and asked, "Director, do you think I'm right for the part?"

Xu Xingnian had met countless people who wanted to sleep their way into a role, but this was the first time someone so direct and inexperienced had come to him. And he wasn't after fame or money. He bluntly said he just wanted to act in one of Xu Xingnian's films.

The next day, Chen Qingqing became the first person ever to land a leading role in Xu Xingnian's film without an audition. Rumors flew around the set, and everyone knew how he had gotten the part: by sleeping with the director.

Only Chen Qingqing knew that he had gone home the same way he'd arrived that night. The director hadn't slept with him at all. Instead, he had told him, "I'm not interested in you in the slightest."

Only later did Chen Qingqing realize that Xu Xingnian might like pretty people, or melancholy people, or people with stories to tell, but perhaps he would never like Chen Qingqing.

Director x actor

A refined director top x a pure-hearted young actor who seems to know it all but is actually a whiny softie

Happy ending / 12-year age gap (23/35)

Next book, Why Is the Senior Doctor Like That?:

Chi Ping'an's superior, the newly arrived deputy director of the department, Dou Yu, is a young doctor with an overseas PhD. He's an outstanding young talent, but he always seems to have it in for Chi Ping'an.

Chi Ping'an writes medical records, and Dou Yu says they're terrible. Chi Ping'an writes orders, and Dou Yu says his thinking is terrible. Chi Ping'an steps into the operating room, and Dou Yu says his surgical skills are terrible.

After half a year of trying with no results, Chi Ping'an thinks, Fine, if I can't afford to offend him, I can at least avoid him, can't I?

*

After a year away for further training, Dou Yu returns to the department only to learn that Chi Ping'an transferred to another department six months ago. Half a month later, he corners him at the entrance to the internal medicine building:

"Why did you leave?"

"Who signed off on it?"

"Transfer back."

Straightforward, confident young talent x an adorable, unlucky guy who works hard to improve but seems to get nowhere

Theme: Be a good actor who keeps striving