The CEO's Palm Jewel [Reborn]

A rich idiot X a socially inept, washed-up actor from the bottom tier

Zhang Peize: I once mistook a fish eye for a pearl, and left a treasure by the roadside. Thankfully, Heaven gave me another chance. This time, Gu Xilian, everything you long for but cannot have, I will give you.

Gu Xilian: To look back is to glance over your shoulder. Only when I see you still on the road behind me can I keep moving forward without hesitation.

After the Zhang family fell, the once-arrogant Young Master Zhang treated a client manager from Jimin Bank to dinner to secure a loan. He smiled and flattered his way through the meal, and was even egged on to down two jin of baijiu.

After the dinner, Zhang Peize clutched his stomach and spat blood into a trash can in an alley. Suddenly, someone pressed a bottle of yogurt into his hand.

He looked up. Though fine lines had already crept into the corners of the person's eyes, he could still tell this had once been an extraordinarily beautiful face.

"Drink some yogurt. It'll help you feel better." The other person gave him a faint, cool smile, then got up and left.

Behind that kindness lay the past: to get revenge for his young boyfriend, who had cheated on him with countless men, Zhang Peize had unjustly fired Gu Xilian, the most dedicated actor on the entire set.

"Maybe I should apologize to him next time we meet," he thought as he tilted his head back and drank the yogurt.

Unfortunately, the next day came news that the young actor had jumped to his death.

Looking at the trending topics on Wotu, he finally remembered his name: "Gu, Xi, Lian." It seemed every character was pleading with the world for a little love. Sadly, Gu Xilian had received nothing but cold treatment in life, yet after his death he received more attention than ever before.

People dug up every show he had appeared in and discovered that he was the aloof top student who silently loved the heroine in a school drama; the cool, otherworldly immortal who guided the protagonists in a xianxia series; the nameless assassin who repaid the heroine with his life after she spoke up for him in a wuxia drama; and the deranged killer who enjoyed murdering people and hiding their bodies, leading the protagonist around by the nose in a mystery series...

Many people had watched these shows, but until then, no one had realized that these supporting characters were all played by the same person. Unless you checked the credits, it was impossible to recognize that such wildly different-looking characters with such distinct personalities were all portrayed by one actor. How fortunate, and how unfortunate. They had been lucky enough to have such a vivid actor among them. But if they wanted to find more of his work, those online sleuths wielding their "magnifying glasses" could only look among the furious crowds throwing rotten eggs at death-row prisoners, or in heaps of corpses amid the carnage left by war.

The last character with lines that netizens found was a pervert in a historical drama who spied on the heroine while she bathed. After the male lead caught him, he kicked him to the ground and beat him mercilessly.

The pervert hugged his head as he took the beating, sobbing, "This lowly one knows his mistake! This lowly one knows his mistake! Have mercy, hero! Have mercy!"

Gu Xilian made the voyeur far more vivid than the male lead, who did nothing but throw mechanical punches. But the viewers who had eagerly clicked on the clip felt as though they had watched a pearl sink into the mud, and a heavy, aching bitterness rose from deep within them.

Theme: Always stay passionate, and always hold on to hope.