The Best Actor Has Landed a Devoted Lover Persona

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Before he started acting, Xie Huai had a boyfriend he loved deeply as a boy. But later, that person vanished from his world. Only then did Xie Huai realize that, apart from his name and university, and the fact that he had a younger brother called "Luo Luo," he knew nothing about him.

Ten years after he disappeared, Xie Huai met a young man named Lian Ruo on a film set.

The young man looked a lot like him, but their personalities were quite different.

The young man became famous overnight for a single performance, then got into the film program with the highest score and became a hot new name in the movie industry.

Xie Huai kept the young man by his side, gave him opportunities, and took him along to act. To the public, he said, "I don't want to see a genius go to waste."

The Xie Huai who had always lived high above the clouds suddenly seemed more human.

Later, Xie Huai realized the young man liked him.

That day, he lit a cigarette and took a deep drag. He blew the smoke in front of the young man and asked Lian Ruo, "Did your brother ever mention me before he died?"

Lian Ruo froze in place. It was the first time he had seen such desolation on Xie Huai's face.

It was also the first time he understood the phrase "love someone and love everything associated with them."

*

News broke that Lian Ruo, the talented young man signed by Best Actor Xie Huai, was ending his contract with Xie Huai's studio. The two went their separate ways.

According to industry gossip:

The pure-love film the two had recently finished shooting was shelved by Xie Huai's side.

While Lian Ruo was still at university, he couldn't get any acting offers. Investors didn't dare risk crossing Xie Huai.

Rumor had it that the award-winning actor had fallen for the young man during filming and confined him, unwilling to let him enter the entertainment industry.

In the years that followed, rumors spread throughout the Chinese entertainment industry that Xie Huai's devotion was reserved for Lian Ruo alone. The award-winning actor acquired a reputation for being deeply devoted.

When Lian Ruo heard, he scoffed. "He is devoted, just not to me."

*

They met again at an awards ceremony.

Xie Huai presented Lian Ruo with the Best Newcomer Award.

The petite young man from years ago had grown up, leaving his childishness behind. He smiled gracefully. "Thank you, Senior."

As he left the stage, Xie Huai gave him a deep look and said quietly, "You're just like your brother. Neither of you has a heart."

The following year, at the awards ceremony, Xie Huai and Lian Ruo met again. This time, he presented him with the Best Actor award.

At the peak of his fame, Lian Ruo accepted the senior actor's recognition. After a string of thank-yous, as Xie Huai smiled warmly at him,

he said to the whole world, "Thank you to my lover, Xie Huai."

Then Lian Ruo kissed Xie Huai and whispered in his ear, "I'm a lot braver than my brother."

[Reading Guide]

A devoted, possessive, protective, mean older actor seme x a natural flirt, secretly dark, hard-to-seduce genius actor shou

Older seme, with a 12-year age gap.

The best hunters always appear in the guise of prey!

The younger brother is such a flirt. I thought the story would have a groveling-for-forgiveness arc, but somehow he ended up pursuing the other lead instead!

(P.S. Xie Huai's feelings for the older brother were probably just an obsession after being inexplicably dumped. They had faded long ago with time.)

Theme: The person before me is the one in my heart