A cold and aloof top who has an overwhelming need for control x a gorgeous, fiery, unhinged rock musician bottom
Six years ago
The Starlight Pictures money-laundering scandal broke, shaking up the entertainment industry.
Seventeen-year-old Pei Jue was caught in the fallout, going from the heir apparent to a stray dog with nowhere to go. He fled to America and lived a miserable life.
Xie Tanglin, the chief force behind the scandal's exposure, saw his career soar and became the nation's beloved heartthrob.
Six years later
Pei Jue formed a rock band and shot to fame, but just as his career was taking off, he suddenly returned to China.
He wanted the cool, upright, rational, self-controlled national heartthrob to taste the same ruin and fall into hell.
A sweet-and-sour, spicy love story between a gorgeous, unhinged beauty who doesn't know he's flirting and an intense, gravity-defying man who's cold on the outside.
Reading guide:
1. Older top, one-on-one, happy ending.
2. Not a typical entertainment-industry story, with a touch of mystery and deduction.
3. No real-life inspirations. The professions and workplaces are loosely fictionalized, so please don't map them onto real-world structures.
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Bonus scene:
At the Golden Lotus Awards in Harbor City, the two appear onstage together for the first time.
In the audience, people keep glancing over, waiting for a show.
Onstage, the two have no interaction whatsoever, not even a single exchanged glance.
The rumors that they don't get along seem confirmed.
After the ceremony, paparazzi lie in wait at the end of a dark alley, eyes wide as they capture a shocking scene:
Xie Tanglin grips the back of Pei Jue's neck, while Pei Jue holds Xie Tanglin by the hips. They kiss fiercely and passionately.
"More Insane Than a Soap Opera! Bitter Rivals Caught Kissing So Hard Their Lips Nearly Came Off! The Whole City Is Stunned!"
A sensational headline from the Hong Kong media sets the whole country ablaze in an instant!
Theme: Lovers end up together.
