Zhou Luochen is a fourth-year student at an arts college who signed with a small-time agency. He's a nobody, ranked somewhere around 180th in the domestic entertainment industry. He can spend an entire day waiting on a folding chair for a role, only to find out they won't be shooting his scenes that day. Then he'll go home and come back early the next morning, all ready in his makeup and costume, to keep waiting.
At least he's still young, he tells himself. His life is full of possibilities.
As a bottom-rung nobody in show business, he has no money, but he still needs to look the part of a pretty young star. He can't look shabby when walking down the street, and he has to spruce himself up for auditions and TV appearances. All of that costs money. As the poorest of the Ten Great Evil Spirits, Zhou Luochen can get by each day only on the set meals and wholesale instant noodles.
Zhou Luochen has a habit: every week he changes his phone's lock screen and wallpaper to a different image of a lucky koi, a fame-bringing charm, a prayer for blessings, or a charm that promises he'll win Best Actor tomorrow. The first thing he does every morning is pray with utmost sincerity.
Until one day, he secretly changed his wallpaper to a photo of someone.
On a bright, sunny day, Qin Sheng gets a call from Zhou Luochen. After seven or eight years without seeing him, the shameless guy wants to come over and freeload off him for food, drinks, a bed, and Wi-Fi. Qin Sheng is bursting with joy. His beloved is really coming to stay at his place? That counts as living together, right? Right?
Qin Sheng hangs up with a cold expression. He has to keep up his image as an aloof, domineering CEO.
Three months later,
Qin Sheng coldly tosses a bowl of fried noodles onto the table. “I made this on a whim. Try it.”
(Though Qin Sheng had never cooked before, he'd secretly spent ages learning. He'd cut his finger and burned the back of his hand.)
Six months later,
Qin Sheng expressionlessly flings a contract at Zhou Luochen. “I've been a little bored lately, so I opened an agency for fun. I plan to focus on promoting you alone.”
(He had spent a fortune hiring the country's top agency team.)
A year later,
Qin Sheng sits on the sofa with Zhou Luochen in his arms, watching one of his shows. “Would you mind dating me, my idol?”
(Qin Sheng is completely smitten. He'd built up this precious darling himself, and he's afraid that once Zhou Luochen becomes famous, he won't be able to keep up.)
Qin Sheng is the young master of a wealthy family, a successful man with a brilliant mind and high emotional intelligence. He looks glamorous to outsiders, but they don't know that on every lonely night, he tosses and turns, unable to sleep. He laughs at himself for being so sentimental. Then, one year, he met a boy named Zhou Luochen. That boy's “Good night” became his salvation. To have you in this life, what more could I ask for?
* Tsundere, scheming, gentle, devoted-dog gong x hardworking, ambitious, career-focused, love-struck poor shou
* Older gong, one-on-one romance
* An alternate-universe entertainment industry, with fictional characters who aren't based on real people
* A sweet, lighthearted slice-of-life story
Theme: Live each day well, with sincerity and effort.
