The Asian Supermodel in Prada

Eight trips to the marriage bureau, eight divorces. A family of divorce experts ✅ A battle of the crazies

Guiding, controlling heir x mixed-race supermodel with a chaotic streak. They’re both seriously unhinged!

The second season of the variety show Glory on the Runway premiered, opening with Ling Yun, who had received the lowest score from every judge and viewer in the first season for being arrogant and looking down on everyone.

In the interview room, Ling Yun turned the camera toward himself and said cheekily, “I don’t have a gambling-addict dad or a sick mom, or a younger brother who needs to go to school. My personality isn’t broken, either. I’m perfect. Can you see that?”

Viewers: Damn it! What’s this Asian guy saying? He should be eliminated! Why hasn’t he been eliminated? This show must be rigged…

On camera, Ling Yun stood up, took off his clothes one by one, and confidently showed off his body from every angle under the spotlight. Then he put back on the outfit he’d worn on the runway in the first season, the one every judge and viewer had criticized for his complete lack of stage presence.

Viewers: …It’s rigged! This show must be rigged! This beautiful Asian man has upset the powers that be!

Someone captured every model’s pose at the end of their walk in the first season and cropped off their heads. Without the distracting, exaggerated makeup, it was obvious who had the better walk.

Ling Yun was born to be a clothes horse.

Rewatching the first season, everyone realized that Ling Yun really had been straightforward and confident from beginning to end. The one-quarter mixed-race young man had introduced himself with sparkling eyes.

“Hi, everyone. I’m Ling Yun, Yun as in ‘soaring to the clouds with great ambition.’”

“Just watch. I’m going to be a supermodel!”

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At eighteen, Ling Yun drifted across the Atlantic on a cruise ship. The restaurant’s elegance and luxury were not for him, and neither was the nightclub’s glittering hedonism. Back then, his only wish was for the staff meal to include more fresh meat left behind by the guests.

At nineteen, Ling Yun helped a generous guest. The guest spent the whole night getting drunk on the deck in the sea breeze, telling Ling Yun his story. Through him, Ling Yun glimpsed another possibility for his life.

When he returned to his dorm before dawn, he locked himself in the bathroom and looked at his naked reflection in the mirror. I’m beautiful, too. Why can’t I have that kind of life?

When the cruise ship docked, Ling Yun disembarked. His only luggage was his young, beautiful body.

On his twentieth birthday, Ling Yun lit a candle in the interview room of the reality show Glory on the Runway. There was no cake, just a biscuit from a staff member.

He had no tragic backstory to cry about, so he could only ask the viewers to admire his perfect body and excellent runway walk.

Later, netizens jokingly called him the man who never forgot where he came from. Even after becoming famous, he never shied away from showing off his body and remained highly active on the runway.

“Someone as perfect as me deserves to be admired and adored.”

“So look at me. Look only at me.”

Reader’s guide:

1. The protagonist is chaotic, with a narcissistic streak. The kind of narcissist who’s completely in love with himself. I really want to write something like a classic American TV drama and try a challenging romance: the leads get married and divorced a dozen times, curse each other out and storm off at the drop of a hat, but never actually leave. They silently share a cigarette in an underground parking lot, go speeding when they’re angry because they want to die together, and no matter what happens, make sure the other one survives. [Both leads are sexually inexperienced and each other’s first love.]

2. The competition format is mainly based on America’s Next Top Model. Readers who see professional competition as competition between men and women may not enjoy this. In the adult world, you have to fight for your career.

3. When the protagonists and side characters wake up in the middle of the night, it’s never because of love. It’s because they’re thinking, “Fuck, I’m not satisfied. I still have to win!”

*Writing about niche topics is already hard enough. Stealing my ideas just makes you ugly on the inside :)

Coming soon

The Rumored Industry Plant by Murder the Moon

Xu Mengyuan shot to fame in a whirlwind.

Overnight, he seemed to be everywhere. All the biggest stars in show business were happy to take him along.

An art-house director invited him to star in a film hoping to compete at Cannes; a diva invited him to appear in her comeback music video; a top-tier star kept bringing him up on a variety show. Rumor even had it that he was on this year’s Spring Festival Gala lineup.

Who was this guy, anyway?

Sure, he was gorgeous and had a great figure, but weren’t these opportunities a bit much?

Xu Mengyuan: Thanks for asking. Welcome to witness my first year of finally making it big.

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It started with a chance encounter at an underground film festival when they were students. Xu Mengyuan paid for a bottle of water for Luo Yun, who didn’t have any change. The man gave Xu Mengyuan a business card, then wrote down his private number and told him to call anytime if he wanted to repay the favor.

He meant it.

Xu Mengyuan traded that business card for a villain role in a crime thriller, a pure-hearted second male lead in a youth film, and a dinner with the director of a Lunar New Year movie.

Thanks to Luo Yun’s special favor, the card had no spending limit, enough to buy him almost anything in show business.

As he met more people, it became easier and easier to get what he wanted.

Luo Yun took back the business card and gave him a new one.

A room key.

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Xu Mengyuan: What’s this supposed to mean?

Luo Yun asked in return: After all these years, you haven’t dated anyone. Isn’t this what you’ve been waiting for?

As if he’d just heard a joke, Xu Mengyuan gently set the room key on the table.

“Why would you think I was waiting for you, Mr. Luo?”

“I was clearly waiting for my career to take off.”

Reader’s guide:

1. Both are sexually inexperienced and each other’s first love. Pretentious guy x pretentious guy. They’re both a mess at pretending not to care :)

2. The current plan is to write about the struggle to go from bit player to movie star. There’ll be hardships, but also plenty of fun as he lands one great opportunity after another. I’ll go into detail. I studied film, and I’ve been working on theatrical movie sets since my sophomore year. I’ll do my best to keep things professional. Some scenes are based on my own bad luck. If any of it sounds familiar, the other person must have stolen my life code.

3. No real-life inspiration. No projecting real people onto the characters or changing their faces. If you do that with your favorite, they’ll lose every award and become a complete flop.

Theme: Shining on the runway