It's All Acting, but the Movie Emperor Took It Seriously

Yin Ying was so beautiful he looked like a bewitching spirit, captivating everyone he met. Even the powerful, wealthy benefactors, despite having seen it all, couldn’t help entertaining improper thoughts about him and finding him impossible to resist.

He thought Su Yu was the only one who truly cared about him. He never imagined that even Su Yu was using him as a decoy for his secret relationship.

Yin Ying didn’t want to be anyone’s backup anymore. He decided to leave the popular band Su Yu had formed. While drinking his sorrows away, he accidentally fell into a wealthy man’s trap, only to be rescued by a man who seemed both strange and familiar.

That man was the award-winning actor Xi You, whom he had met just once.

Before long, he ran into Xi You again on an outdoor survival variety show billed as having no script. Also there were his senior and his senior’s lover.

The participants were all people from the entertainment industry: exes who had publicly announced their breakups, divorced couples, or people who had been involved in rumored romances. Anyone could tell the production team was planning to stir up trouble.

The show had everyone pair up with a CP partner to complete intimate challenges. The socially anxious Yin Ying turned to the newly famous actor Xi You, his tactical CP partner, with whom he had formed a temporary alliance to avoid being eliminated in the first round.

While starting fires, catching crabs, and free-climbing cliffs to find clues

Xi You: “Don’t touch it. I’ll do it.”

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How was a CP supposed to build intimacy when his partner was constantly annoyed with him?

Then came the talent showdown. The production team required each CP pair to perform while maintaining physical contact.

Yin Ying asked timidly, “If I play the piano with Teacher Xi’s hair, does that... count?”

Yin Ying rose onto his tiptoes and gently kissed Xi You, then plucked out one of his hairs while he was distracted.

The next moment, Yin Ying was lifted off the ground.

Xi You swept him into his arms and sat him on his sturdy thigh. “This is what counts.”

After the show aired, “You can play the piano with hair” became a trending topic.

The least-favored CP, “Xi Ying Li,” unexpectedly became popular for their strange chemistry: they seemed incompatible, yet were inseparable...

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As a rainstorm raged, they took shelter in a makeshift grass hut.

Yin Ying couldn’t understand why Xi You gazed at him so tenderly and told him there was someone he had loved for a long time.

Yin Ying didn’t want to be anyone’s substitute again.

But why did Xi You grip his chin and demand through clenched teeth, “You know I’ll keep backing down for you, so how many more times are you going to test my limits?”

What did he mean? Yin Ying didn’t understand.

But Xi You’s kisses were scorching, his hands like hot irons, and his embrace utterly intoxicating.

Yin Ying thought, as expected of an award-winning actor. He could make it look as if he were madly in love even when he didn’t love someone.

So Yin Ying had to do his best to act, too. He couldn’t let the award-winning actor lose face!

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The young award-winning actor Xi You never appeared on variety shows, until he saw in Yin Ying’s devoted fan group that Yin Ying was going to film “Wild Love.”

Xi You: “Is he crazy to go on a show like that?”

He turned to his agent and instructed him, “Make the arrangements. I’m going on it too.”

Agent: “??? Which of your rumored boyfriends are you bringing along?”

Xi You: “My future wife.”

Xi You: My silly wife will probably never remember how we first met.

That year, I was eighteen and he was twenty.

I watched him, but his eyes held the silhouette of someone else.

From that moment on, I was trapped in a midsummer night’s dream at eighteen.

Note:

A pure and adorable, heartbroken puppy who turns dark, becoming a scheming, arrogant, mercurial, unhinged younger top × a beautiful fool of a bottom with an unstable IQ who is somewhat of a heartthrob

Slow burn, with melodramatic amnesia. The bottom is actually in love with the top~

One-on-one romance

Theme: You only live once, and every step you take is a precious experience