What? You're a Guy? [Entertainment Industry]

(I'm revising the entire story right now. The plot has strayed way too far from the original plan~)

[Main story told in third person]

I'm Chen Jianjing, an unknown actor at the bottom of the entertainment industry. The peak of my acting career came when I was fifteen, when my parents bundled me off to a set for a children's educational drama because I was interrupting their time together.

My first crush was the cute, fair-skinned, beautiful little female lead from that same show. Unfortunately, I was young, and my mom said school came first, so she wouldn't let me use a phone. I never got her contact information, and my little seedling of love withered before it could even sprout.

A few years later, I went abroad. By the time I came back, the little female lead had disappeared without a trace.

Then recently, I got lucky and landed a role in a famous director's production, playing a well-known character in a hugely popular IP. I stared at the male lead's impossibly beautiful face. The more I looked, the more familiar he seemed, and the more uneasy I became.

Huh, I've met this kid before.

Why does he look so much like the little female lead I had a crush on when we take off his mask?

I thought it over and over. Could he... be the brother of the person I had a crush on?

So I tentatively asked, “Hey, man, do you have any sisters?”

The male lead's gaze darkened as he backed me into a corner. “Brother, don't you recognize me?”

A bolt from the blue. My brain nearly atrophied. I babbled like an idiot: “Haha, man, you're really funny, haha. Did you get a sex change or something?”

The male lead seemed to be rendered speechless by me. For a long moment, he said nothing. The veins stood out on the hand braced beside my head. He looked like he wanted to crack open my skull and see what kind of mush was inside. Then he gritted his teeth and said, “Why don't you find out whether I look like I got a sex change?”

I choked up. “I'm not trying it.”

No joke, my vision really did go black.

So the female lead I liked back then was actually a boy?

My heart felt colder than the rain the day Er Yuehong begged for medicine. Why had nobody told me that the children's educational drama we filmed back then actually had two male leads?

What do you do when you got your crush's gender wrong? Asking online, it's pretty urgent.

*Bonus scene

One late night, some time later

Shi Yi: “Want to try again?”

Chen Jianjing's eyes reddened. He shook his head with a whimper. “No more... I don't want to try...”

Sunny, cheerful, overactive-imagination bottom x flirtatious beauty, warm on the outside and aloof, calculating, and possessive younger top

[Blurb date has been screenshotted]

Reader's Guide: Main story is told in third person~ A sweet little bedtime read, not very long.

Absolutely no characters are based on real people. Any similarities in plot are purely coincidental [highlighted and underlined].

Don't overthink the setting in this story. I don't know much about the entertainment industry, since I'm not in it either (scratches head).

Strictly following Jinjiang rules, the leads have no romantic feelings for each other before they come of age! It's all vague and innocent!

Next book: "Oh No, I've Become the Infertile Fake Young Master in a Dogblood Romance"

Theme: Life is short, why not give it a try