A Straight Guy Became a Showbiz Sensation by Playing Gay

Weibo: @GuYuLianYiYi Blurb: Shen Yituan is an idol agency trainee who has spent eight years training as a lead vocalist. But he's saddled with a mountain of scandals, so he still hasn't been able to debut. Everyone avoids him like the plague and treats him as disposable. He nearly loses his dream of becoming an idol altogether when the company almost fires him. - By chance, a photo of Shen Yituan and Li Weilan, a famous trainee from the same company, is snapped and posted on Weibo. The photo has an incredible atmosphere: the two stand side by side in a snow-white street, framed by a shop window. Their eyes meet. The height difference between them has an irresistible chemistry. Their auras are complete opposites, yet they fit together perfectly, and even the lighting tells a story. Seeing them in the same frame is enough to make people ship them. Likes, reposts, and comments explode. They even trend, causing a sensation. - The little no-name company seizes the opportunity, puts Li Weilan and Shen Yituan in a group together, and launches them with a “Li Weilan x Shen Yituan” fanservice plan. A small company with no resources, connections, or top-tier producer can only rely on fanservice to generate buzz and trend. Li Weilan is beautiful, the group's top visual, and over 190 centimeters tall, with impossibly long legs. But he has a terrible temper, claims to be severely homophobic and a total straight man, and refuses to cooperate with the fanservice plan. Shen Yituan struggles to sell the ship on his own, while Li Weilan's toxic solo fans chase him around, calling him a clout-chaser and a leech. The group is always on the verge of breaking up. - Later, Li Weilan learns arranging and composition, becoming the group's golden producer and bringing out the best in powerhouse vocalist Shen Yituan's voice. Shen Yituan proves to be a generational, world-class vocal powerhouse. His solo career is a huge success, he wins countless awards, and he becomes a sensation in the industry. From then on, whenever Apollo makes a comeback, they dominate the music charts and become a famous chart-crushing phenomenon known throughout the world. They're already this famous. Apollo doesn't need fanservice anymore, so why is it… That Li Weilan and Shen Yituan's real-person ship has somehow overtaken all the others to become the top RPS ship in Chinese entertainment? - The Li Weilan x Shen Yituan real-person ship has countless excellent fan accounts, but the most notorious and influential of them all is “Yituan Weilan Bot.” Word is there's only one person behind the account, yet they have seemingly boundless energy. They can argue, shower the ship with praise, spend money, and create fanworks, both written and illustrated. They produce a huge amount of excellent content and are an utterly ferocious fighter, unbeatable in every fan circle. No one dares mess with them. They beat Li Weilan's toxic solo fans until they squeal. Then one day, a solo fan and airport photographer spots Li Weilan himself at the airport. He personally switches accounts, logs in to “Yituan Weilan Bot,” and taps away at the keyboard: [I'll be posting new goodies today too: a 30,000-word AU collection, school setting/ABO/historical… To be continued. Guaranteed sweet (teehee.jpg). Wait for me.] The photographer is completely dumbfounded. What the hell… Has the world gone crazy, have I gone crazy, or has the celebrity himself lost his mind? - Much later, Shen Yituan asks Li Weilan, “You did that on purpose? I remember your phone has a privacy screen protector.” Li Weilan acts like a mistress cornering the wife, putting on a coy, sugary voice: “What could I do? You kept putting off giving me a name. I had no choice but to do it this way.” …Huh? What happened to “severely homophobic” and “total straight man”? Theme: Work and life should be kept in balance