(Apologies for changing the premise.)
The night Pei Mingchen won the Best Actor award at the age of twenty-six, he jumped off a building and killed himself.
When he woke up, he found himself inside the character of the last script he'd read before dying.
The role he played was a minor actor, so obscure he was only an eighteenth-tier star. Because his face resembled the male lead's beloved, the male lead kept him as a lover. But the actor foolishly fell in love with him, only to be thoroughly crushed when the beloved returned from abroad.
Pei Mingchen arrived at just the right moment: the night he was supposed to sign a contract with the male lead.
But looking at the man's face, which bore some resemblance to the face that had grown hazy in his memories, he paused, swallowed his refusal, silently picked up the pen, and signed his name.
Wei Yun, president of the biggest entertainment company in City A, appears frivolous and spoiled, but is actually deeply devoted. Since childhood, he has kept a beloved in his heart.
But his beloved went abroad and vanished without a trace. Missing him so intensely, Wei Yun saw his shadow in an eighteenth-tier actor and, in a moment of impulsiveness, offered the young star a contract.
To his surprise, the actor signed without hesitation.
Wei Yun scoffed. A substitute was just a substitute. Apart from his face, he had nothing in common with the person he was replacing.
After taking him as a lover, Wei Yun went about his life as usual. Apart from occasionally remembering him and giving the young actor a few opportunities, he didn't give the matter another thought.
Until one time, after getting drunk, he inexplicably called the young actor. The next morning, he woke to find them both naked in bed, with a sore, aching sensation below his waist.
Only then did Wei Yun realize that something had slipped out of his control.
When his beloved returned from abroad, Wei Yun should have been overjoyed.
But when Pei Mingchen asked to end their relationship, his face utterly unmoved, Wei Yun felt a strange, indescribable emotion well up inside him.
At the time, he chose to ignore this odd feeling. But when the beloved he'd never forgotten stood before him, he thought in a daze:
Why had he ever loved him?
Even though he was spending all his time with his beloved, the only person in his mind was that young actor.
The young actor was no longer a young actor.
He had become a superstar.
Everyone at the company knew that the current Best Actor and their boss had once been in a kept-lover relationship, but they all kept their mouths shut, afraid the secret might get out.
They assumed President Wei didn't want the news to spread.
But the President Wei they imagined was frantically searching for videos featuring Pei Mingchen.
When he saw a host ask Pei Mingchen if there was anyone who had left a deep impression on him, the man, usually so cool and distant, gave a faint smile.
"Yes, someone very willful."
Wei Yun's eyes lit up. He thought Pei Mingchen meant him, but the next words made his eyes redden instantly.
"He was my childhood friend, but he's dead."
So he wasn't the one Pei Mingchen cared about.
Back then, Pei Mingchen had only agreed because he looked like "him."
A flicker passed through Wei Yun's eyes.
Well, since "he" was dead, why couldn't Wei Yun be his substitute?
Ice-cold Best Actor x Spoiled President
1. 1v1, happy ending, both are each other's first and only, seme-focused. Pei Mingchen is the seme.
2. Both are (false) substitutes and (true) first loves.
3. No System.
4. Not suitable for readers with extreme character preferences. Let's discuss peacefully, and I hope you enjoy the story.
Theme: Keep living with all your might and embrace the future
