The MC of SA has a wider range of skills from acting to singing and cooking but the realistic level of skill the MC shows is characteristic of Mo Huan Chen. MC of SA is an actor worthy of being the best, his singing is considered to be on a professional level but not godly since his voice isn't special it was just that he'd been professionally trained and as such knows all the tricks and techniques, he can cook but it was at a homemade level and not that of a professional chef. (Personally he reminds me of Cha Tae Hyun, a Korean actor who is also part of the main cast in a Korean variety show, 1Night 2Days, both are acclaimed actors, both have released hit songs and it might just be me but their personalities are pretty similar? CTH is married with 3 kids though.)

The ML of SA is simply put, adorable. He too has a secondary account that he uses to support the MC like the ML of RS but it serves another purpose of being something akin to the ML's alter ego. The ML may seem cool and distant at the start but his secondary account shows what he really thinks, he fangirls the MC a lot, lol, and learns new terms from the wise netizens. It gets funnier when the MC starts to connect the dots between the second account and the ML. The ML of SA is less blackbellied but just as domineering, he isn't as ruthless to the people who offend the MC, most of the time he gets his agent to dig up and reveal the offender's black history, but he isn't really kind either. RS and SA's MLs play similar yet different roles, both act as supporters, guardians and partners, but RS's ML also acted as a rival where as AS's ML is more of a companion.

There isn't a lot of face slapping, unless you count the occasional anti-fans online there were less then a handful of rivals and canon fodders that were quickly shut down, the main focus of this story is the MC's movies and other accomplishments as well as his relationship with the ML. It's all pretty slow paced, in total it's placed in a time frame of about 4-6 years since the MC's debut at age 18 and spans for nearly 180 chapters including extras. The MC's popularity is measured by the number of his fans compared to the ML and the number of awards, whereas RS uses the Supermodel rankings to determine the rate of the MC's progress. The romance starts early for the ML's side but doesn't bloom until about halfway.

I have to mention that the movies and dramas are amazing. The description, on paper, are very interesting to the point I wished they were real! Especially the crime drama the MC started in, definitely would watch!! Kind of reminded me of the Chinese drama 'Love Me If You Dare' but with a twist.

In fact, he's so "dumb cute" that his fangirl persona has her own fans that worry about "her" being taken advantage of when "she" starts posting about her love life.

ML at first keeps using his mom as an excuse to check up/take care of MC. At first MC just accepted it because they didn't know each other well, but eventually he actually teased ML about this excuse, and ML finally admitted that he's doing things out of his own volition.

Due to him being fat when he's still not a singer, he's very insecure.

They had s*x when they're filming.

At that time, Ah'Xuan who still known as Lin Shen was fat. He became the translator of Klimans, a foreigner who's surrounded by Chinese staffs and actors.

Klimans at that time wasn't still a famous director. He's just an assistant around the set, following Lao Liu, the director, to learn.

I actually wouldn't say they had s*x when I can say it's r*pe.

Ah'Xuan was bleeding heavily, there's no after care. When Klimans woke up and saw he had s*x with Ah'Xuan he just panicked.

Klimans even described Ah'Xuan as a pig and a walking ball of flesh.

He wrapped up the matter by giving Ah'Xuan a second male lead role, which Ah'Xuan didn't even take.

And when he got to know that Lin Shen, the 'pig' and Lin Xuan, the beautiful oriental boy was the same person, he started to regret???

He then proceeds to say that he likes Lin Shen???

Highly Proficient Actor with a over two decades worth of experience. A Learnt Singer with a Solid Foundation. High Memory Retention and a Quick Learner. Humble but Firm bearings and an agreeable temper. A philanthropist

There is a part where MC finds ML’s second account and follows secretly. The account uploaded a weibo of 10, 000 copies of his newly released album and MC feels very distressed. He goes home to nag the ML and Qin Cheng is quick to kiss to make him forget. Of course after the deed is done, he still confronted him. But after MC realised that spending this money made him truely happy - it was his way of showing his love and his support - he let go. ML noticed that his partner’s distress had calmed after he mentioned his happiness and naturally felt very warm.

Another instance, a Director had once tried to hit on Rong Xu and caused Qin Cheng to call his father, another Director and acquaintance, to discipline him for having unspoken rules with actors. To which, Director Holt Snr flew from Washington to set and beat his son. Still, Qin Cheng visited his set pretending to be an investor so he had an excuse to be on set to see Rong Xu for three days.

Even after 3 years, Holt remembers Qin Cheng, for backing out of his investment and held this grudge.

So when his father invited him to his set with the intention of hooking him up with Rong Xu, he sees Rong Xu and eventually he finds out that he and Qin Cheng are a couple. He blatantly takes Rong Xu away, using his father as an excuse, and then watches as his face drop from calm to annoyed then into grievance giving him great satisfaction. Until Rong Xu got angry :

“Occasionally I feel very happy to see him jealous. But Kerry, he is my lover, who allows you to bully him over and over again... I wanted to say this to you before I came out again. Kerry, there is no next time.” Rong Xu walked away and stood in front of Qin Cheng, patting his hair.

I’ve never seen a confrontation like this. Gongs are usually so forceful that other men don’t have the opportunity to be that close with their partners. But Qin Cheng respects his partner’s private time but in turn Rong Xu respects his lover’s tolerance and naturally will not let him be bullied.

This also showed a bit of Rong Xu’s dominance. It’s hard to see because Rong Xu gives in to Qin Cheng anyways but after finding his partner’s meng from his second account, it may have gave them a fresh wave of understandings for each other.

He started his second account to confess his love for MC even before they started dating. Almost religiously, he posted every meal time, blatantly followed his fan activities and fan donations. Every debut that he couldn’t come to publicly, he went to in a panda suit (* and because only the two of them know that its him in the suit, it was a very sweet way to subtlety confessing their love).

He visited every set when he could (* even when he couldn’t, he’d fly there in the middle of the night using his family’s private jet and let his manager deal with the rest), he called him every night when he could, watched every livestream and ordered almost $3 million + worth of film dvds, album cds, magazine covers, merch etc.

They are each other’s partners at red carpet events and he even forcefully added himself to an awards committee so he could present his partner his first ever award.

He started a charity foundation with Rong Xu, something he had never been interested in and donated 20% of his movie earnings. And did it because Rong Xu had always wanted to do charity.

Once, he even reprimanded in his head, a character that he was acting, for not falling in love with his partner, who was acting as his love interest, after seeing him look at him some type of way.

He had a nightmare that everything was going downhill. But when Rong Xu in his dream, had mentioned breaking up, he knew it was a dream and woke himself up. He stated: “I don’t believe in myself but I believe in you.”

Some other cute things =w=

He has never forced his spouse to give up a good role because the scenes were too intimate

- s*x scenes, or any of that nature, are rejected tho unless it was with each other (and there’s one where its with each other 😗) -

He does express his jealousy and ask for kisses later but as an actor, he understands how acting is. How a good script can really make a person’s career. Naturally he wants the best for his partner and will do what he can as his biggest supporter.

He has never force his spouse to tell him secrets - like the anti-Qin group, or the second account that Rong Xu uses to watch his own second account, or why his partner doesn’t consider the money from Rong Family, his own money, etc - but always hopes that he would tell him things when its important.

There was an instance where MC had found one of his co-star’s acting suspiciously and did not tell anyone, not even QC. So when ML visited and saw the set collapse on top of Rong Xu, he panicked. MC was safe, there was a small nook he climbed into and was completely unharmed. But he noticed that there was too much glass on set and they traced it back to his co-star. He had asked his assistant to loosen the bolts and place glass near a particular exit. A normal person, would run to that exit, and the glass would shatter and disfigure, scar or seriously injure them. Or even, they wouldn’t make it to the exit and be injured under the set’s bars instead. ML was upset. Angry that he waited until something happened to him, before he said anything. But he understood that MC probably felt it was ab unreasonable assumption and was more mad at himself. He probably didn’t know why he was more mad at himself - probably mad that he couldn’t protect him. Since then, the honesty between them increased and even small instances are spoken about over casual conversation.

He is quick to be distressed after seeing a bruise on MC’s chin and flew half way across the world to make sure he wasn’t being bullied on set. *** much to his manager’s distress***

After confirming his s*xual desire for Rong Xu, he practiced his abstinence and wanted to wait for his partner to grow some more, before they had s*x. Of course, Rong Xu is more mature than most 18 year olds, and was quick to find ways to seduce his gong and he fell quick.

There was also a scene where Rong Xu had attended his first awards ceremony for best actor and he did not get it. MC smiled gently and said he expected it. Qin Cheng took him home and gave him all his trophies. MC laughed and said he didn’t want them because they weren’t engraved to him. Qin Cheng nodded and said “Well, since I’m yours”

He takes pride in being his spouse’s biggest supporter :

<— —“Even if I donated all my income someday, wouldn’t you still be there?”

These words put Mr Qin in a good mood and he nodded immediately, wishing to set up a note now and have his lover press a red handprint, mount this sentence on a wall and read it a hundred times a day.

That is, behind this boy, is him. Even if Rong Xu really has nothing, no one can bully him. —— >

Overall, he’s my type of gong. The perfect balance of respect, protect,

Anti-Qin Group: a group of fairly popular celebrities that have a (playful) vendetta against the all-perfect Qin Cheng. They invited Rong Xu slyly and he’s been sitting in as a double agent for years. Eventually Qin Cheng “forces” MC to take him to their meetings and since then, their group has been like this.

Xu Jin - Qin Cheng’s Manager and has been his exclusive manager his entire career. Qin Cheng naturally runs this guy nuts but as an employee, it’s hard for Xu Jin to voice his grievances. Even his wife, as a Qin Cheng stan, won’t let him talk back to her Family’s Qin. (* Xu Jin cries... I’M your family t-t)

LIN XUAN.

Cheerful and lively playboy at the top of China’s Music scene. He’s silly, dramatic, flamboyant and narcissistic.

And he’s being pursued by young Director Holt.

(* yea the Mr 2 spoilers back that got beat by his dad for tryna hook up and then was set up by his dad to hook up with that person he tried to hook up with in the first place only to find he was no available so he took revenge on his partner for bouncing on his investment <- him lmao)

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Lin Xuan and Holt had history together. Holt had gotten drunk and slept with Lin Xuan when he was 18 (consensually. Since Holt was drunk, Lin Xuan asked him if he knew who he was, he did, then he confirmed that this was what he wanted so they continued)

Afterwards, regret and mistakes were made

(* regret that he let his desire overrule him and let him f*ck someone that his friends would laugh at him for

* desire because this arrogant mf was in love with Lin Xuan)

and Lin Xuan said goodbye to his first love and disappeared (* at least, Holt couldn’t find him- not that he tried that hard)

14 years later, Rong Xu brought Lin Xuan to his set and Holt fell in love with Lin Xuan at first sight and started his pursuit.

(note: Holt never really pursued Rong Xu. He had hinted, but once MC stood back, he never pushed)

(also note: Holt does not recognise Lin Xuan because he had lost a lot of weight - but he was instinctually attracted to the other)

Lin Xuan was indifferent to his pursuit until eventually we, the audience, find out what actually happened between the two

(* go~ read the extraaa~)

The author stated that Holt’s arrogance would not let him love a fat man, but his heart would not let him love anyone else. I can’t believed I awwed at this line. Smh Don’t. Forgiveeeee~

There are shadows of Lin Xuan in all his works. The heroine in his romance film has Lin Xuan’s gentleness. This action star is as hard working as Lin Xuan is. Even his quick pursuit of Rong Xu was him projecting his gentle Lin Xuan onto the also gentle Rong Xu. Of course, they aren’t the same. So he lost feelings quickly.

That jump scare at the end was criminal 🔪t-t🔪 don’t make cry and then laugh two seconds later (* respect for my fallen cannon fodder sister though. A stranger just fought your surgeon and asked him desperately to save you. Your boyfriend almost fought said stranger assuming he was your mistress... then that stranger found his actual partner and left y’all.)

If I’m honest, we live in a society that lowkey shames second chances - as soon as he cheats, I’ll leave, as soon as he f*cks up, I’m out - at least, as far as the internet is involved, you’re a dumny if you let a mf that played you once, play you again. Even I, after I read what he did and said, was so quick on sending this boy to the crematorium...

But my boy, had forgiven him.

He just had s*x with his favourite person... he was so happy that even through the pain, he got up and made them breakfast. He heard all the words that Holt said and must have thought to himself, “You’re right. I am not worthy” and left. He smiled and waved as he went. Cried as he turned his back.

Holt, even though his soul stirred and his heart softened over the time he spent with Lin Xuan, he would never admit him to the world. That he loved and was in love with a fat man.

He humiliated him.

The goofy narcissist in his darkest moments, calling himself ugly 14 years after this incident happened and suddenly my heart wants to hug this young man.

But you don’t choose who you love. And you can’t help how you perceive people. When people saw an arrogant and young director ordering the young Lin Xuan to make him tea, they don’t see the Director that defended his passion for acting (* ofc after he laughed at him) and taught him in the private after work hours. They don’t see that even though his words are not nice, mean even... No like really mean... Like if-his-father-wasn’t-famous-he’d-be-🪦 mean... Okay, I don’t wanna defend him anymore. He’s okay. But if he was my sister’s boyfriend, I’d break his arrogance before he could ever take my sister away. (* which the author did, thank you =3=)

As a reader living vicariously thru Rong Xu, I’ve given myself permission, as a best friend, to break his leg. And he can live with Lin Xuan (because my bestie loves him or whatever 🙄) as his house fairy.