I'm Too Ugly to Sleep [Showbiz]

[Main story complete. Extras updated irregularly.] Blurb: I am the little prince of the Wanhua Kingdom. I should have been showered with love and inherited the throne. Instead, I was thrown out of the palace as soon as I was born. The people of the Wanhua Kingdom have a different sense of beauty: they consider ugliness beautiful and beauty ugly. I didn't find that out until much later. For now, I'm just an unlucky guy who was matched from the start with the ugliest face in the history of the Wanhua Kingdom. The first time my father saw me, he foamed at the mouth and nearly died. After that, I wandered the streets, learned a whole host of skills, and in the end, died alone, unloved and consumed by self-loathing. The good news: after I died, I transmigrated to Blue Star. The bad news: my body came with me. With my naturally ugly face, I found a part-time job in the entertainment industry. There was a man at the same company who was as ugly as me. He was just as cautious, and gentle in the way he treated everyone. Maybe he was so ugly that he was afraid people would beat him up if he acted too boldly. Poor guy. We're both ugly souls adrift in this world. Should I give him a few extra hugs? * As a top-tier star in the entertainment industry, Xie Zhifei has a face so beautiful it seems divinely bestowed. Not only his looks, but also his family background, acting talent, and wealth all seem like gifts from heaven. And yet, though he has every right to be arrogant and do as he pleases, he treats others with humble modesty, politeness, and restraint. The media say that Xie Zhifei's very existence is gentleness itself. He can make pessimists fall in love with the world again. But they don't know that Xie Zhifei himself is the pessimist who doesn't love the world. Xie Zhifei often wonders if there will ever be anything in this world that makes him want to stay. He never found an answer, not until Wu Sheng appeared. For the first time, Xie Zhifei was grateful to heaven for giving him such a beautiful face, beautiful enough to catch Wu Sheng's eye. He can tell that Wu Sheng is always sneaking glances at him, and never looks at anyone else the same way. After overthinking it from every angle, Xie Zhifei can only reach one conclusion: He likes me. What a coincidence. He likes Wu Sheng, too. It must be fate. Wu Sheng: He's so ugly and pitiful. Xie Zhifei: My wife is sneaking glances at me again. He loves me so much. A naturally oblivious beauty who doesn't realize he's beautiful, with a warped sense of aesthetics and a dash of darkness at times, as the bottom x a self-deluding, world-weary beauty who loves his wife so much as the top The main story is told in third person. The idea dates back to 2021, and I have screenshots to prove it. Huge thanks to the artist who stayed up all night working on the cover!!! Thanks to my dear friends for helping with the blurb! I'm hopeless at writing blurbs, but I'll love you forever! Thanks to all the lovely readers for supporting the official release~ A new book is now available for preorder: "Being a Master in the Modern World Is Pretty Safe, Right?" After transmigrating to the cultivation world, Sui An is bound to a Dragon Proudheaven System. But as he levels up, the people around him look at him in increasingly strange ways. After asking the System for help: The System: [All fear comes from a lack of firepower. Host, you only need to become the strongest, and you won't have any more worries or troubles with interpersonal relationships.] Sui An: Got it. After focusing on cultivation and becoming the strongest in the world... Those strange looks don't disappear. They only grow even stranger. A fellow disciple with less talent than him is crushed by him at every turn, grows twisted in silence, and always watches him with a gloomy, resentful gaze, as if filled with the clammy body heat of a snake. The disciple even keeps a life-sized training dummy with Sui An's face in private. His sworn enemy, the young master of the demon realm, has a blood feud with him, yet after the immortal and demon realms make peace, he still refuses to let Sui An go, saying he'll pursue him until they die, and won't stop until death. His childhood friend is gentle and knows all his likes and weaknesses. But at some point, he began looking at Sui An with possessive eyes, and their deep friendship quietly changed. Besides these people, Sui An's life of cultivation is also full of little thieves and perverts who spy on him or steal his clothes. Sui An: ...The whole cultivation world is full of perverts. Whoever wants to be the strongest can have the job! Thinking back on his thousands of years of cultivation, the only comfort he had was his youngest adopted disciple, Pei Zongyu. Pei Zongyu came from a poor background and had half the blood of the Hehuan Sect. The Hehuan Sect has extraordinary gifts in certain areas, and its members are naturally lustful and pleasure-seeking, so the whole cultivation world despises them. Only Sui An didn't look down on Pei Zongyu's background, taking him in and raising him from childhood. Under Sui An's earnest guidance, his young disciple grew up to be upright and optimistic, never giving in to wine or women. But Sui An never expected that... After faking his death and leaving the cultivation world, he returned to the modern world, where spiritual qi had revived. A transfer student joined his class. The new student was gentle, with a calm temperament like a capybara's, and had many little habits just like his well-behaved former disciple. He always called him "Master" this and "Master" that, never fought with anyone, and obeyed him in everything. It was only natural that Sui An paid him a little extra attention. Until one day... Sui An accidentally found the robes and trousers he'd lost in the cultivation world in the transfer student's desk... #A Hehuan Sect top with an addiction# #There is no such thing as a safe Master# #Modern cultivation and supernatural setting, original worldbuilding, the teacher-student relationship has hidden complications, and the top has another identity and secret identity# Theme: Love yourself, love the world