Luring a Celebrity to Use as Medicine

★ Obstacle-laden, flirtatious sugar daddy bottom x closeted, brooding top-tier star top (both each other's first and only, happy ending)

Question: When an actor you've admired for ages stars in a movie you're financing, how would you get closer to him as the big spender?

Yu Sheng (raising his hand to answer): Make him an offer he can't refuse! Move into his place! Eat his food! Kiss him! Sleep in his bed!

Yu Sheng has a secret: he needs a "catalyst" to treat his PTSD.

After considering countless candidates, he set his sights on Lu Chenyang, a top-tier star who had graduated from the police academy before becoming an actor.

Handsome, fit, and upright in manner, he was practically tailor-made as a "rehabilitation tool."

Whether he liked him or not didn't matter. Getting better was what counted.

So Yu Sheng invested in a movie, arranged chance encounters, and pretended to be drunk and helpless. Second Young Master Yu plotted at every turn, determined to lure this aloof beauty home and use him as "medicine."

But he hadn't counted on the supposedly upright, celibate, homophobic Lu Best Actor having a strong grip and an even worse temper.

The first time Yu Sheng forced a kiss on him, Lu slapped him so hard his lips went numb.

The second time Yu Sheng got close, Lu shoved him away like a crazed fan.

The third time Yu Sheng stole a kiss, he nearly got pinned to the ground and handcuffed.

Yu Sheng wasn't backing down: "Officer Lu, if your grip is that strong, are you good in bed too?"

Lu Chenyang shot him a cold look: "Get lost. I'm not into men." (Still closeted.)

But later, Lu Chenyang never imagined that the slap he'd given Yu Sheng on their first night, when he'd struck back against Yu Sheng's advances, would be repaid many times over for the rest of his life. And he'd be the one willingly asking for more, enjoying every moment of it.

Lu Chenyang with puppy-dog eyes: A smooch. (His big brother's scent came before the slap.) (Having the time of his life.)

But Yu Sheng, lost in the throes of love, didn't know that the lie about needing a "catalyst" was about to come to light

Lu Chenyang: "Every time you say you need me, is it because you love me, or because you're afraid of having an episode?"

Lu Chenyang: "Everything you've done for me, was it because you love me, or because you're paying for your medicine?"

Later:

Lu Chenyang: "Since you chose me as your medicine, then keep taking me. Take me for the rest of your life. Don't switch to something else, and don't stop."

In the end:

Lu Chenyang: "The doctor told me psychological illnesses don't really get cured. You have to take good care of yourself for the rest of your life. Since I'm good for you, keep me around, okay? Please."

Faced with a pitiful puppy crying so hard he had snot bubbles, what could Yu Sheng do? Of course, put a leash on him.

Reader's guide:

1. They're each other's first and only. The bottom has plenty of theoretical knowledge but no practical experience. The top has neither theoretical nor practical experience, and is mildly homophobic early on.

2. The bottom has an obvious mental illness; the top has a hidden one.

3. They save each other. The entertainment industry is just the backdrop. They both take good care of each other. Happy ending. No role reversal.

4. No real-person inspirations.

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[Coming soon: "Uncle, Open Up, It's My Dad"

Short preview:

"I have a mental illness, but that doesn't stop me from liking my uncle. My uncle doesn't like me, though. He likes my dad, but my dad is dead. Good thing I'm still alive. I can stay by his side forever.", This was the conclusion Jin Ran reached on his twentieth birthday.

A genuinely unhinged, silly puppy of a mixed-race younger top

x (10+ year age gap)

A falsely gentle, godlike queen of an uncle bottom]

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Theme: Grow toward the sun and follow the light