- #1
MC wakes up in the body of a young idol who commits su*cide after his unrequited love/boss essentially pimps him out for his own gain. The MC instantly adapts, fulfils the contract and plays along until his acting skills start to speak for itself. Since showbiz has always operated in shades of grey, he manages to attract the attention of said boss and various other men who are leagues away from good, but will spend the story revealing why they aren't completely bad either.Celebrities have always seemed out of reach for normal people, and so rife with sordid rumours that it's easy to dismiss our morals and rationale when dealing with them. On this premise, the MC is so used to the shady workings of Hollywood, and is so desensitised and hardened after facing death and other struggles for most of his life, that he easily accepts every brow raising event that occurs. Even after being drugged, r*ped or kidnapped, he just shrugs it off, and since the victim doesn't really care, neither do the readers.While the story itself is alright, all the events that come up seem unrealistic - or at least hard to relate to - while the MC is so calm and non-reactive that he doesn't really have a personality. He starts to open up to his emotions more in the second volume, but by then the impression is ingrained. It's an easy read, but forgettable and overshadowed by other series of the same genre.Other Notes:
- MC is the most comfortable around Lu Tian Chen of all the love interests because in the MC's mind, what he values him for is what the MC has the most confidence in - his acting. The others are based on (warped) emotions, which the MC doesn't really understand since he closed his off.
- In terms of characters, it resembles Rebirth of Chen An more than any acting series.