I Mistook the Movie Star's Gender, Then He Flirted Back

Next up: An Ordinary, Confident Beta. The blurb is at the very end. Please add it to your reading list! This novel: [Drama-addicted, long-haired beauty gong, obscure, honest country-dog shou, older gong] When Hu Dou was 18, he left the countryside to study in a big city. Thanks to his simple, adorable looks, he signed with a small agency and comfortably chose to lie flat in the entertainment industry's lowest tier. A year later, an internationally renowned director suddenly took a liking to Hu Dou and cast him as the lead in his new film. His co-star was Yu Lan, a highly respected actor known for his excellent acting. At their first meeting on set, Yu Lan had long hair that covered his neck and a slender build. Dressed all in white, he looked as if he had stepped out of a celestial realm. Hu Dou had never seen such a beautiful "woman" before. He exclaimed in admiration, "Oh my goodness, Teacher Yu Lan must be a fairy who descended to earth!" When they were taking costume photos, Hu Dou went into the changing room first. Not long after, Yu Lan walked in too and began trying on his costume with his back to Hu Dou. Hu Dou exclaimed again, "In the face of art, what difference does gender make? Teacher Yu Lan is so unconstrained by convention. I really admire him!" From then on, Yu Lan's dedication inspired Hu Dou, and his nervousness completely disappeared. He threw himself wholeheartedly into filming. In today's entertainment industry, Yu Lan is the leading man and Yu Lan is the leading lady. They can be called the two outstanding hidden talents of the new generation of actors. The role this time had special characteristics: neither fully male nor female, both strong and gentle, and extremely challenging. Yu Lan auditioned dozens of times and lost over ten pounds before finally winning the production team's approval. For this role, he was willing to play second fiddle to a newcomer. But this newcomer was just a little too dedicated... A confession scene? Let's do it! Hu Dou: Teacher Yu, these two characters have been suppressing their feelings for each other for a long time. Let's hug for a little longer later! Yu Lan: ...All right. A kissing scene? Bring it on! Hu Dou: Teacher Yu, this is the moment when the two characters are overwhelmed by passion, so we need to make it more intense! Yu Lan: ...Fine. As time went by, everyone on set realized that little Hu Dou was pursuing the great movie star Yu Lan! His advances were so fierce that even Yu Lan, who had always been detached from worldly desires, was moved. Just as they were about to cross that final line, Yu Lan suddenly realized that Hu Dou had always thought he was a woman? By the time he understood, he was already in too deep. Yu Lan decided to play along and bend the little obscure star... Meanwhile, Hu Dou, focused on acting, began to wonder why he, a gay man, was becoming more and more infatuated with a female senior colleague. He missed her when she wasn't around, and when he saw her, his heart bloomed. Could it be... that Teacher Yu had turned him straight? Until one day, Teacher Yu asked him to come to his room to discuss the scene. Hu Dou clutched his script and knocked, knock, knock. Then he saw Yu Lan standing in the doorway, fresh from a shower, his bathrobe half open... The scheming Teacher Yu: "I've been fishing for ages, and finally got a bite!" A silly, sweet romance with misunderstandings and no angst. *The original premise was sensitive, so I kept its core idea. Readers who saw the earlier version will basically know what changed just from the title~ (2022.11.22) ---Next up: An Ordinary, Confident Beta. Please add it to your reading list--- A lot of people don't understand why an Alpha would get together with a Beta. In a crowd, the two walk side by side: one expressionless, the other fawning to the extreme. What does the Alpha see in the Beta? The Beta grins: I've got thick skin, I want to win badly enough, and failure is impossible! . Born into the same family, the Beta and the Omega have completely different lives. Their parents learned their secondary genders from their genetic information long ago. So the Beta was ignored, while the Omega was cherished like the apple of their eye. Even the Alpha who ruled the school preferred the Omega. He would make excuses to come over to the Beta's house to study, but his mind was always elsewhere... The Beta, however, didn't care about any of that. He only wanted to win. The family business, an excellent partner, fame, and power were all trophies to him. So while everyone's attention was focused on the Omega, the Beta worked hard in the shadows. Like wild grass growing crazily in a corner, in the blink of an eye he had spread green across the land. At 25, the Beta officially took over the family business, made the list of top young talents under 30, and became a well-known philanthropist. That was also the year he successfully proposed to the Alpha and stepped into the palace of love. Everyone envied him. His dreams had come true. He felt that it was all rather ordinary. Then he made some astonishing discoveries: - His husband's computer held tens of megabytes of photos of him. - Every painting in his Omega older brother's art exhibition featured him. - His good friend, who had fought alongside him, had never been at the end of his rope. On the contrary, the company behind that man was powerful, and he had been the Beta's hidden backer. - Even his socially anxious Alpha assistant was a force to be reckoned with in private, drinking and smoking with the best of them. He only put away his thorns and became a shy rose in the Beta's presence. The Beta, now aware of the truth: As expected of me! (A confident look.) . The Alpha knows full well how popular his husband is. But it doesn't matter. From the moment the Beta foolishly proposed to him, the Alpha would never let him leave his side. In the middle of the night, the Alpha's eyes reddened as he bit the Beta's nape again and again, unwilling to accept it. "Why can't I mark you?" Then he tenderly kissed the skin covered in tooth marks. "I want everyone to smell my pheromones on you so badly..." The Beta thought for a moment. "That's easy. What do your pheromones smell like? I'll go buy a bottle of perfume tomorrow." "We Betas can smell however we want!" "..." The Alpha complained that the Beta was being frivolous, while turning him over and over to punish him... Theme: Love takes a thousand forms, and every one of them is beautiful.