"After Rebirth, I Got a Happy Ending with the Scum Gong's White Moonlight" by Yu Misheng [Complete + Extras]
Synopsis 1: Between the scum gong and his white moonlight, there was always a cannon-fodder
stand-in
who helped their love grow stronger than gold, only to make a dejected exit afterward.
Xu Chun was that cannon-fodder stand-in. The scum gong had hurt him in body and mind, but heaven favored him and gave him a chance to be reborn.
From then on, Xu Chun set out on an inspiring path, determined to devote himself to his career. But he hadn't expected the scum gong's white moonlight to look at him so strangely.
Xie Jianyuan: "We look a little alike."
Xu Chun's heart skipped a beat. Is it finally happening?
Xie Jianyuan: "No wonder I feel the most aroused when I'm looking at myself."
Xu Chun: "..."
Synopsis 2: Everyone knew that when the young heartthrob Xie Jianyuan first debuted, he promoted himself as
the Best Actor
"Little Xu Chun."
Seeing him ride on Xu Chun's fame like that, people in the industry assumed the two were at each other's throats.
Who would have guessed that someone would one day stumble upon "Little Xu Chun" pressing Xu Chun against a wall and kissing him?
Everyone: They weren't at each other's throats, folks—they were all over each other!
Content tags:
Devoted love
Entertainment industry
Rebirth
Sweet romance
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Chapter 1: Rebirth
Xu Chun looked at the person before him in a daze. The man sitting across from him was tall and handsome, his face one Xu Chun had always known so well.
Anyone could see that Jiang Xiuyan was distracted. His attention was fixed on the phone on the table. Xu Chun knew who he was texting, and a faint pang went through his heart. He lowered his head and looked at his reflection in his coffee cup. Seeing the face that resembled that person's so closely, he couldn't help curling his lips in a self-mocking smile.
"The coffee's getting cold."
Once he had composed himself, he looked up again, his expression as gentle as ever, and spoke softly.
Jiang Xiuyan froze for a moment, then murmured an acknowledgment. He gave Xu Chun an apologetic smile, picked up his coffee cup, and took a small sip.
Xu Chun smiled again and spoke the name with an air of indifference. "Is it Xie Jianyuan?"
At the sound of the name, Jiang Xiuyan's expression changed instantly, and his brows drew together. Throughout the long time Xu Chun had been with him, he had always been careful and had never dared ask about Xie Jianyuan in that tone. Jiang Xiuyan was a little irritated, but he kept it well under control.
"Why bring him up all of a sudden?"
Xu Chun pressed his lips together and said nothing more. Silence settled over them again.
Perhaps because of that question, Jiang Xiuyan finally put down his phone. He glanced at Xu Chun, ordered a slice of Black Forest cake, and said to him, "I remember you like this."
A faint pang went through Xu Chun's heart. He wasn't the one who liked it—that person was. Jiang Xiuyan had always imposed that person's preferences on him.
He preferred watching movies to playing sports, and drinking tea to coffee...
But Jiang Xiuyan seemed not to have noticed his preferences at all, or perhaps he simply didn't care. After all, Xu Chun was only a replacement. Who would care what a stand-in liked?
Xu Chun stared motionlessly at the coffee cup before him, then suddenly spoke in a low voice.
"I don't like it."
Jiang Xiuyan hadn't expected him to refuse. He froze in a rare moment of surprise, then quickly recovered and smiled. "I must have remembered wrong. Sorry."
Xu Chun was a little strange today. Usually, he wasn't so talkative; he was quiet and gentle. That was also why Jiang Xiuyan had kept him by his side for so long.
The two finished their meal in that strange, silent atmosphere. When Jiang Xiuyan paid the bill, Xu Chun happened to catch a glimpse of a photograph tucked neatly into his wallet, and his pupils contracted.
The young man in the photograph wore a sunny smile, with an endless expanse of blue sea behind him.
It was Xie Jianyuan.
Looking closely, Xie Jianyuan's face did resemble his in some ways, but a closer look revealed the differences. Xu Chun's features were softer and cleaner, while Xie Jianyuan's facial contours were handsome and deeply defined.
Their eyes were the least alike.
Xu Chun's irises were extremely pale, a lovely light color in the sunlight, and his gaze was always quiet and gentle. Xie Jianyuan's eyes, on the other hand, were an unfathomable black; even when he smiled, it was hard to tell what he was thinking.
Xu Chun looked away and glanced out the glass window. At some point, a light drizzle had begun to fall.
"Let's go back."
Jiang Xiuyan frowned at Xu Chun, who was clearly lost in thought, and spoke in a low voice.
Xu Chun turned and looked straight at his face. It was impossible to tell what he was thinking. Suddenly, he quietly asked a question.
"How long have we been together?"
Caught off guard by the sudden question, Jiang Xiuyan chose his words carefully and said, somewhat uncertainly, "A year or two, I think."
Xu Chun smiled. "It's been three years and eight months."
"That long?" Jiang Xiuyan raised an eyebrow in surprise.
Xu Chun smiled again. Yes, it had been that long.
He had been born gay, and Jiang Xiuyan was outstanding in looks, family background, and bearing. On top of that, Jiang Xiuyan had pursued him relentlessly back then. It had been hard not to fall for him.
He hadn't wanted to classify their relationship as one between a sugar daddy and the person he kept. At least as Xu Chun saw it, it had simply been a romance. Besides, his career had begun to decline over the years because Jiang Xiuyan didn't like him making public appearances. At first, he had thought it was just a lover's possessiveness. Looking back now, he had been pathetically foolish.
Clearly, Jiang Xiuyan had been afraid he would hinder Xie Jianyuan's career. Not only did they look alike, but they also played similar roles, so they were bound to become rivals.
And now he had missed the golden period for advancing his career and was gradually joining the ranks of washed-up actors.
But he hadn't expected that, after giving so much, he would end up in such a sorry state, caught up in this melodramatic stand-in situation.
In the end, he had merely been a replacement for Jiang Xiuyan's unattainable white moonlight. All Jiang Xiuyan had wanted was his face.