An Amateur Kept Man in Showbiz

[I'm drafting a new Quick Transmigration novel, The Cannon Fodder Villain Takes Action. Add it to your bookshelf!]

In his previous life, Jiang Que debuted as a sexy young actor and easily became the dream boy of countless young men and women. He thought a bright future lay ahead, but instead, his roles kept getting snatched away.

The director said, "Your sexy-young-actor image is too strong. It doesn't suit the protagonist."

Jiang Que stared at the script's character, a lascivious playboy, and fell into thought. Was he not debauched enough himself?

His agent said, "There's no future working with you. Let's never see each other again."

Jiang Que later heard that his agent had switched to representing the actor who stole his roles. The other guy got funding for every production he joined, but ten shows in, not one had become a hit.

Jiang Que fell silent. If losing money counted as a career path, then he really hadn't lived up to his potential.

Later, he was forced into semi-retirement. He still kept up his online presence, but died in an accident during an outdoor livestream.

He didn't die. When he opened his eyes again, he was back at a party from three years earlier, when he'd just entered the industry.

It turned out his world was a danmei novel, and his rival, who kept stealing his roles, was the story's aloof and unattainable protagonist love interest. On the surface, he was easygoing and indifferent, like a chrysanthemum untouched by the world. In reality, he had latched onto the protagonist pursuer and used his money to become the entertainment industry's top-tier star.

And tonight was the night the protagonist pursuer and love interest fell in love at first sight.

Jiang Que had already noticed the protagonist pursuer sneaking ambiguous glances at him again and again. He smiled wickedly, deliberately spilled his wine, and went over.

"Sir, could you take me to change my clothes?"

Love at first sight, what a nice story. Jiang Que didn't believe in it! This industry was all about lust at first sight and one-night stands.

Tonight, the protagonist love interest could go find somewhere else to be!

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For a long time, Xiao Hesheng had the same stirring dream. In fragments of a broken film, the smooth, youthful back of a boy appeared by a river. Mountain springs splashed across his shoulders and rolled down, but Xiao Hesheng could never make out his face.

He thought there was no chance they'd ever meet, but an impulsive act gave him what he wanted.

A late-blooming romance. After waking up, Xiao Hesheng wanted to have a not-too-short, not-too-long relationship with him.

Who knew the other guy would get the wrong idea? Jiang Que grabbed him by the collar, gritting his teeth. "I knew it, I knew it!"

What story has pure love at first sight? Look, the protagonist pursuer has already asked him to be his kept man, and they've known each other for less than 24 hours!

"I want to act in X drama and Y drama!" Jiang Que fumed.

Give me back everything that was stolen from me in my previous life!

He's surprisingly easy to deal with, but why are kept men so much more domineering than their benefactors these days?

Xiao Hesheng chuckled to himself. "Sure. Let's set some rules before we start."

A bad-hearted, flop of an actor forced to give up x a steady, fatherly boyfriend

A benefactor who falls for a pretty face and wants to bully a young man, only to get caught in his trap.

A playboy who thinks he's found another playboy, only to discover true love.

*Neither pursuer nor love interest is a virgin. The pursuer is 10 years older: 20 x 30.

*In his previous life, the pursuer and the protagonist love interest never had anything happen between them. The protagonist love interest had his reasons for targeting the love interest in his previous life.

*Both pursuer and love interest have flaws. The love interest is bad-hearted, the pursuer is cold-blooded, and both will grow.

Quick Transmigration pre-publication: The Cannon Fodder Villain Takes Action [Quick Transmigration]. Please add it to your bookshelf!

Blurb:

Guan Ci, an A-grade top employee of the Quick Transmigration Bureau, was framed one day and sent to the villain department as punishment.

His only job was to help the protagonist grow by making a spectacle of himself, then happily collect his villain's exit package.

But after he became a villain, the protagonists all begged for mercy.

The System watched in shock as Guan Ci stole the protagonist's script and rose to the top, its code thrown into disarray.

Guan Ci's take: Do your job properly, make a mess, and be the heartbreaker who sets the game world ablaze.

World 1: A dark moonlight's love is worth only fifty million

Dark moonlight Guan Ci: Successfully seduce the pure-hearted young CEO. Successfully crush his pride and leave with the money when the CEO is head over heels. Successfully get revenge when the now-grown, corrupted CEO comes after him. No one understands the dark moonlight role better than he does.

Guan Ci looked contentedly at the final item on his task list: throw a huge fit at the CEO and protagonist love interest's wedding over money, get dragged out of the venue in disgrace, and exit the story to enjoy his retirement.

He was indeed thrown out, but from the wedding venue straight into the CEO's bed.

The CEO turned his back to Guan Ci and began undressing. "I knew you still loved me."

World 2: The fake young master everyone hates runs off with his heir older brother

Fake young master Guan Ci: Discover the truth about his birth. Successfully get caught seducing the heir older brother in public to stay with the wealthy family. Get kicked out of the house by the real young master, who's obsessed with his big brother.

Guan Ci lay in his rental apartment waiting for his biological parents to find him and accept him. Once they could no longer tolerate his spoiled behavior and kicked him out again, he could take the little nest egg he'd saved over the years and enjoy himself in another city.

On a rainy day, Guan Ci ran off carrying a suitcase full of gold bars and happily slipped into a puddle.

The heir older brother held an umbrella over him himself. "Mom and Dad don't want you, but your big brother does."

World 3: The kept man quits, and his benefactor begs him to stay

World 4: The money-grubbing flop and his one and only sugar daddy

Flop Guan Ci: Successfully return to work as a suggestive adult-content blogger. Successfully fabricate a tragic, delicate-flower backstory and trick his top donor into sending him hundreds of millions. Successfully let them look but never touch, then refuse to return the money after his scandal and sue his one and only sugar daddy.

Guan Ci: No one knows how to get canceled better than I do.

Guan Ci, whose scandal made him infamous, hid out in a basement on the outskirts of the city. Once he lost his lawsuit and was nailed to the pillar of shame as a scammer and gold digger, he could retire to the mountains and escape all the noise.

But on the night before the hearing, his one and only sugar daddy dragged him out of the basement by the collar, looking murderous. Faced with a whole truckload of cash, he offered to settle: "Take your clothes off and let me have you once. I can let bygones be bygones and start over with you."

*Worlds are not ranked in any particular order. There will likely be more than four.

*No pregnancy.

Theme: Live earnestly and cherish life