and most of it was ML using his mother as an excuse to help MC. Such an indirect baby, let me push into Rong Rong's arms!

he can't sing (which is actually pretty nice because the MC is great at singing).

My only gripe with the acting is that the MC is always described as pure/clean/gentle etc and almost all his movie roles are like that (even though the author would say stuff like "he had never played a character like that before"... total lies).

act, sing and even become a magazine model (for promoting his movie/drama)

there are several parts that I really like, such as, when second male lead was jealous towards Rong Xu, he purposely make the props (this prop is for ceiling, I think (?) made from cement and steel) collapse towards him and Rong Xu, Qin Sheng was at the scene during that time. He was so panic, that when he found Rong Xu, he immediately carry him (Princess-carry) to the infirmary that he didn't realize that Rong Xu was not hurt at all (he was able to duck below the table). And I really love the way Rong Xu propose to Qin Sheng, it was so romantic~

like when he’s acting as the psychologist/ killer, some of his lines are about horoscope and personality. But they don’t actually explain how the psychologist can tell something about that person he’s describing. It’s just left hanging there. And as the psychologist/ killer, these scenes are repeated like 3 or 4 times. After a while, it’s just like... huh? ok and? What’s the point of writing this again??

Villains are basically mere stumbling blocks with IQs that somehow hit the negative levels. They're cannonfodders whose brains have been melted by fate so that they can go on their merry way and fulfill the purpose of their existence: be a one-dimensional antagonist who unthinkingly seeks death by being mean to MC and then be hopelessly kicked down by the ML.

To be fair, there IS this one singer/actress who tries to seduce MC and ISN'T subjected to a horrible fate, but her subplot's villain is another woman who tries to sabotage the singer/actress's career because of pettiness, so the singer/actress might not be a victim-of-fate's-bias-towards-MC Cannonfodder, but her subplot's villain certainly is.

Side Characters are funny and fun to read about, but their existence is mainly to either provide comedic relief for the story or help for the MC/ML. They're just as one-dimensional as the cannonfodders, the only reason they're not called dumb is because their screen time is so little and so focused on either being funny/supportive/impressed by one member of the main pairing that they don't really do anything else that can be used to measure their intelligence.

To preface, the Main Pairing ACTUALLY HAS A HEALTHY, NON-TOXIC RELATIONSHIP! WOOHOOOOO! NO RAPIST ML'S HERE! Seriously though, both the MC and ML are very fun to read about. The problem is that both of their characters have neither progression nor development. None of their background, motives, hobbies, and the likes are fleshed out, nor do their personality, behavior, or way of thinking ever change.

MC is a Mary Sue—or a Gary Stu, since he's a guy. You may think that he isn't because unlike other Mary Sues, the MC is thankfully not a pure little White Lotus who is too good for this world, but that doesn't change the fact that he's perfect—which is what a Mary Sue is. He can act and sing, his rebirth gave him talents that have been cultivated to their peak in his past life, his luck is so tremendous that he can rise to the top of the industry in three years—not only because he is SO talented, but also because the ML pretty much ensures that he'll never encounter roadblocks to his career.

Why does he meet so many cannonfodders with despairingly low IQs? Because the world revolves around him, therefore fate robs the characters of their intelligence so that the MC's road to fame wouldn't feel TOO smooth and so the ML can show his love for the MC by taking care of the cannonfodders—because we all know outside from that, it'll basically take a million years for then to get together.

At first, I liked the attitude he has towards the cannonfodders: indifference. He's an experienced star. He knows how he should act and behave in order to survive in the entertainment industry. But then, I realized that it doesn't really matter how his attitude is, because his golden finger—our ML—will take care of everything for him anyway.

Speaking of the ML, he honestly can be replaced with a sentient s*x doll and nothing in the story will be affected. He basically has no clear personality, no motives, no hobbies, no likes outside of MC.

Most of the time, ML is cold, like an iceberg that feels nothing. Why? The story says it's because his dad is like that, but let's face it: it's probably because of his neglectful, absentee parents. This reason behind his character is never acknowledged and is instead excused as a hereditary trait. Why does he turn into a cutesy Bai Fu Mei online? Is it because he finally feels free to express his true emotions when he is incognito and therefore free from the restrictions of his identity? No. It's another hereditary trait, this time from his mother. The ML obviously has problems with expressing emotions. It's not that he can't feel them, he just can't let them out. And the story never acknowledges this problem past presenting it as a cute pet peeve that at first kind of gets in the way of our main pairing getting together.

And this is what I mean by no development and no progression. As characters, we know virtually nothing about the main pairing's background aside from a brief description of their parents, wgo are either dead or absent from their life because of work. We never know how they got this way.

We never even know what kind of people they really are. MC does a lot of charity, but he seems to just do it casually. He never says anything about how he sympathizes with or cares about the plight of others. It's never addressed how his past led him to develop this sense of empathy, or why the ML's own past led him to not develop a similar attitude. ML only really does charity because that's what the MC wants—and the MC is also the reason why the ML does anything.

You may be confused why I said that the ML doesn't have hobbies. After all, isn't he a super famous actor? It's because he doesn't really like acting. And neither does the MC, to be honest. They never say anything about the craft, about how nor why they like the process of acting, or reading scripts, or the fame and money that comes with the profession. They seem to do it just because if they're not actors, then this story wouldn't really exist.

Lastly, I said that neither of their characters progress—which is true. They never change nor improve as people. They're perfect cardboard cut-outs in the beginning of the story, and they stay that way until the end. They try to jam in some drama with the MC being unable to come out publicly in an awards show, but that gets resolved quickly. The ML has a nightmare about losing stardom, but it's not because he loves acting nor because he doesn't want to lose the career he worked so hard for—he just doesn't want to break up with the MC.

Also, in general, it really feels as if the ML loves the MC more than the MC loves him. This is because the ML's life is fully centered around the MC. The author says he has friends who he has good relationships with, but he never interacts with them. Because he doesn't seem to take any enjoyment from his job as an actor, it really does come across as if the ML's life revolves around our MC who, to be honest, just isn't THAT into him.

MC actually has friends (despite how poorly fleshed out they are) and we actually see him interacting with others, unlike the ML who pretty much only interacts with a handful of characters, mainly Xu Jin and his family—and those interactions are primarily due to the MC.

It's good that the MC has his own life, but he also sometimes does things that kind of contradicts his affection for the ML. He joins the ML is Crazy Club for no reason aside from he just wants to make more friends, I guess?

It would have been fine if the members of that club are actually presented as ML's friends, so that we have their friendly interactions to prove the lightheartedness of the ML is Crazy Club member's constant badmouthing of him, but we don't. So it seems as if the MC is just letting these people talk badly about ML because the author says that the ML and those people have a great relationship so their teasing is all fun and good anyway

This novel is a bonafide yaoi with detailed R-18 scenes. They're just like any other smut part in other BL novels, so don't worry about them being too extreme if you're not into that.

Although, this author does write the misinformation that a person's back hole can self-lubricate—which is, unfortunately for people who like doing it that way, false. Lube is important, everyone.

These included:

Giving away his house key on their first meeting.

Making an alt Weibo account to spew fangirlish declarations of love to MC without his knowing.

Purchasing millions worth of MC's merchandise.

Renting out theaters just to show MC's movies.

Attending MC's concerts in a panda outfit...

Lin Xuan is such a little cutie and his gong deserves to be punished a little for everything he's done. Let him chase for another 14 months? That's right! Let him suffer!

although it's not entirely about our MC and ML but it's partly because of them. I really cried a few times but the ones that I feel the pain in my heart the most is :1. The whole Law Zero (MTL name) movie

2. The last chapter of extra especially when Kerry (MTL) thought that Lin Xuan died. I literally also got fooled by the author at this part and I was ready to skip the rest of chapter and cried my heart out?