After a Zen-Minded Chinese Medicine Doctor Reborn as the Villain's Substitute Lover

[Recommended: My Upcoming Main-Pursues-Recipient Novel, When Can I Pursue You? Blurb below] Zhou Jueming, born into a family of traditional Chinese medicine practitioners, is accidentally transported into a melodramatic entertainment-industry novel about tormenting scum, where he becomes the biggest "scumbag" with his name: a "budget" version of the protagonist, and the villainous recipient's lovesick lover. He opens his eyes, still completely bewildered, only to find himself at the point in the plot where the original Zhou's attempt to frame the top-tier star protagonist gong is exposed. So the director wants to replace him, the protagonist shou wants to blacklist him, his sugar daddy wants to terminate their contract, and fans across the entertainment industry launch a massive online hate campaign against him. On top of that, the original Zhou's appalling lifestyle has left him riddled with illnesses... His sugar daddy, Jiang Jie, sits across from him, his face cold and impatient as he pushes over the last few documents. "You know what to do. Get lost." Take the fall and endure the online abuse. Zhou Jueming quickly understands that this is the final price he has to pay. Once he calms down, he picks the seemingly most hopeless option: a low-budget variety show. "Goodbye." He turns to leave, missing the faintly surprised look in the other man's eyes. Soon, the once-notorious green-tea man of the entertainment industry vanishes from everyone's sight. Two months later, a variety show called Hello, Doctor becomes a huge hit thanks to one of its guests, a refined traditional Chinese medicine doctor with a quietly elegant look and a wealth of knowledge. The show breaks into the mainstream, but viewers find the gentle, cool doctor strangely familiar. That is, until someone digs up the real names of the show's amateur guests... Fans: !!! How could that affected, phony white lotus possibly be our gentle, gentlemanly, and incredibly capable Dr. Zhou? Then a flood of haters descends, determined to make sure he doesn't take the opportunity to cling to the top-tier star gong again. But they discover that his name is at the very top of the graduate admissions list for one of the country's top universities of traditional Chinese medicine. He makes the news, but only because he's playing in the mud outside the city. He fades from the entertainment industry, and even from that variety show, but gradually makes a name for himself in academia. Some people even switch from haters to fans and want to confess to him. But the entertainment industry's leading heir, an arrogant and domineering textbook CEO type, gets there first, photographed climbing into his car while clutching a quilt like a bashful little wife. The media: What the hell is this comeback-from-the-bottom story? We have to milk this trending topic for all it's worth! - Two months after Jiang Jie and Zhou Jueming terminate their contract, they unexpectedly end up in bed together. Jiang Jie: An irritating, disgusting man, just a stand-in who brought it on himself, and he still can't get over me? Zhou Jueming chooses the medicinal herb schizonepeta on a variety-show segment. Jiang Jie: That green-tea bastard is still trying to use this to get close to me?! Rumors about Zhou Jueming and the protagonist shou break across the internet. Jiang Jie: ...Zhou Jueming, you have to take responsibility for me first! A seemingly desireless, calm and cool true traditional Chinese medicine doctor gong who doesn't care about anyone, but is secretly a scheming black-hearted type, x a seemingly lovesick and obsessive, actually short-tempered and easily flustered true CEO-type shou who gradually talks himself into falling in love. #No More Entertainment Industry, I'm Conquering Academia# Theme: No matter how your circumstances change, if you hold on to what you love and keep striving for it, life will reward you with what you want.