Deeply Devoted on the Surface

Main story complete; side stories updated irregularly

* Everyone in the industry knows that movie star Zhou Xingzhi has a lover outside show business, Xie Nanchen. He has a cool, aloof look and an even colder temperament, yet his eyes are full of romantic tenderness.

The cool beauty is gentle and attentive toward Zhou Xingzhi, always doing as he asks. Even with Zhou Xingzhi's endless scandals, he remains devoted, making him the perfect lover.

Everyone thinks he is madly in love with Zhou Xingzhi, and Zhou Xingzhi thinks so too, until one day...

Xie Nanchen suddenly asks to break up, completely calm.

Zhou Xingzhi doesn't care in the slightest. "Don't come crawling back."

Xie Nanchen loves him so much, he'll come back on his own sooner or later.

Famous singer and business tycoon: No, no, no, buddy, you've got it wrong. You're just a substitute.

Zhou Xingzhi: ???

Only later does he understand that Xie Nanchen's passionate love was all surface. Deep down, he was nothing but cold and indifferent.

* Xie Nanchen made his film debut at nineteen and won Best Newcomer. At twenty, he won Best Cinematography. Now, at twenty-eight, he has become the youngest professor in Jiang University’s Department of Fine Arts. Everyone around him says Professor Xie is perfect in every way, except for his taste in men: every boyfriend he picks is more unreliable than the last.

Only Xie Nanchen knows that he has a white moonlight, and that all his exes were substitutes he got in exchange for giving them all the love his face could express.

They each got what they wanted. It was perfectly fair.

But one day, the elegant and refined director Shang Yanque grabs him by the collar like a thug and tells him, "If you're sick, go see a doctor. What the hell is finding a substitute supposed to do?"

Xie Nanchen: ... (You're the one who's sick.jpg)

["He doesn't know how to love anyone."

"I'll teach him to love me."]

* Elegant, secretly passionate director gong (Shang) x ill-tempered, haughty shou (Xie)

* A fictional entertainment industry, set in an alternate reality

Content warning: The shou looks for substitutes. Zhou Xingzhi is one of them and an important supporting character. He's a scumbag while they are together, but he never has a physical relationship with anyone else during that time. Before and after their relationship, he sleeps around. Finally, the gong is Shang Yanque.

Theme: Face yourself and live well.