CH 1

On Lin Zixi’s last day off, he woke up in the ‘early morning’, went to eat breakfast, and dropped his phone.

Fortunately, although the mobile phone he endorsed was aimed at mid-to-low-end consumers, the quality was still okay. The corner of the bare phone knocked into the floor when it fell from a high altitude, but the phone could still be used as usual as he picked it up to call his agent, Chen Yunyun.

"Sister Yunyun, what's the matter with the hot search on Weibo?" As soon as the call was connected, Lin Zixi asked without saying hello, "Why is the number one hot search ‘Lin Zixi looks like Gu Zecheng’?!"

"Oh." Chen Yunyun on the other end of the phone replied in a cold tone, "Not only on Weibo, you can also see it when you open the news websites. Anyway, the hot search and the front page have already been bought, so don’t waste it.”

Lin Zixi was baffled when he heard it and asked in astonishment, "Why did you say to not waste it? Didn’t the company ask me to hype CP with Liu Xia? I heard Xiao Zhang said that he has already revealed some warm-up news in various forums last week."

"The news reveal was done, but unfortunately, before it got hot, your good fans and 'LianXi Fufu' fans upturned Liu Xia. Even her previous beautified photos were dredged up. I let a few big fans stop them, but they kept going." Chen Yunyun was not calm and collected this time, sneering, "Still hyping CP? It's already good if the company doesn't insist on hiding her."

It had been four years since Lin Zixi made his debut by acting in a TV series in his junior year in university, and he was aware of how capable of fighting his fans and certain BL CP fans were. He coughed awkwardly and said, "But you also can’t use this topic as a substitute for it, ah. Who is Gu Zecheng? I'm only a half-red, not even purple little star. Isn’t it the same as courting death when I touch his porcelain? You quickly remove all the hot search and press releases."

"Don't worry, some people had hyped sex scandals with Gu Zecheng before, but we never saw him respond. And it's not just one person who thinks that you look like him. Even if it’s said that you look like him, can Big Boss Gu force you to have plastic surgery?" Chen Yunyun over there was called by someone. She comforted Lin Zixi without any worry and then exhorted, "You go to bed early tonight. Tomorrow is the booting ceremony of The Legend of Concubine Ling, and Xiao Zhang will pick you up at 7 o’clock. Don’t get up late." She then hung up the phone.

Lin Zixi stared blankly at his mobile phone for a long time, but he could not calm down.

Others did not know, but he clearly knew in his heart. Of course he looked like Gu Zecheng—because that's his father.

The kind of blood relationship between a biological father and his illegitimate, unrecognized son.

In summary, the fucking story of Gu Zecheng and Lin Zixi, except for some details, was like this. An ignorant girl and a second-generation young master of an army officer went from friends to lovers. Their first sexual intercourse bore fruit. After the incident was known, the couple was separated. The girl took the break up fee from the boy’s family, but she was reluctant to have an abortion as per the deal. In the end, she went far away to give birth to and raise the child by herself.

As for the details, the college girl who was a home tutor back then was already a senior, while the second-generation high school student who was tutored was only a sophomore.

So before Lin Zixi, who had been bullied in his childhood because he came from a single-parent family, knew the truth, he always felt that his own dad was a beast, a coward, and not a human at all. After his mother got drunk before her second marriage, he finally got to the bottom of who was the man who had provided the Y chromosome to him. Then when he calculated that man’s age with his fingers, there was only one thought left—

Mother, you’re the one who’s a beast!

His mother hardly mentioned anything about his biological father, and now that she had formed a new happy family—even his half-sister was almost nine years old—although he was curious about what had happened to them in the first place, he also understood that it's not good to question her closely.

However, as the only beneficiary of the wrong and improper romance that happened at the wrong time, Lin Zixi, who could come to this world safe and sound, always had a guilty conscience of being sinful and shady when facing Gu Zecheng's news and images.

Well, maybe it's the mentality of a convicted criminal facing the victim?

He had met Gu Zecheng in person once when he participated in a charity event, and it was enough to scare him to a heart attack. Now, a hot search drafted by his company actually linked them together . . . . This was simply asking for his life, ah.

The so-called people were sitting at home, and disaster came from the sky.

Lin Zixi, who had taken advantage of the gap between his announcements to stay at home for a weekend and gotten up on Monday to ‘Lin Zixi looks like Gu Zecheng’ everywhere, felt ill at ease for a whole day on his last day off.

Even if the thirty cards he drew out in succession when playing a mobile game were all worthless cards with no useful seeds, it couldn't give him more blows.

He had only one wish—of course it's not world peace—which was for XX or XXX studios to quickly and urgently released big news about whichever star taking drugs, visiting prostitutes, cheating, or coming out of the closet. Anything was okay as long as it could push this press release down.

Monday was usually not the time when the gossip entertainment studios were active, so naturally there was no big news breaking.

But maybe the company's PR department was stingy and had not given enough money, because when Lin Zixi checked Weibo the next morning, the hot search that caused him headache had dropped from the first place to the fiftieth. Just one more place, and it would fall off the list and be invisible.

Only then did he voluntarily eat a mouthful of oatmeal porridge with peace of mind, got into the nanny car driven by his assistant, Xiao Zhang, and went to the opening scene of The Legend of Concubine Ling.

The Legend of Concubine Ling belonged to a kind of insincere TV series that ‘randomly searched a popular novel, blew it into a super IP, and then looked for a few young actors and actresses, relying on fans for free publicity and the broadcast platform to determine the ratings’.

It was still a major female lead TV series.

When it was still a novel, the readers tore at each other resoundingly and fought up a storm when they argued over which one was the red rose and which one was the white rose between the first male and the second male. 

It stood to reason that with Lin Zixi's current heat, there should be a better choice than this TV series.

However, because The Legend of Concubine Ling was invested by his own company and stuffed with countless of their own actors and actresses as the third male, fourth male, nth male, second female, third female, nth female…, Lin Zixi, a big brother from this company, had no other choice but to act according to the arrangements.

Fortunately, Lin Zixi had nothing to pursue in his career. He had no hobby of pursuing luxury goods, and he had earned enough money from his actor salary, endorsement fees, and so on in the past few years. Now he was basically waiting for his ten-year contract to end quickly (oh, there were still eight years to go before the contract expired). So he naturally acted as he was told and had no complaints.

Lin Zixi did not have much career pursuit, but the one who was invited from another company to play the second male did.

From the moment that man agreed to and signed the acting contract, the major marketing accounts had never stopped posting ‘Lin Zixi Lost’, the kind of ‘comparison’ Weibo with a special double-label selection of pictures, magazine photos vs. TV series screenshots.

You know, Lin Zixi looked really good.

His mother, a single mother, had always had a line of suitors. As for Gu Zecheng, he almost had no opponent in the political circle and the business world in terms of appearance.

Lin Zixi, who only absorbed the advantages of both of them, was considered as one of the most handsome guys in the entertainment industry. Even those who criticized him for his poor acting skills as ‘a disgrace to the CFA (Central Film Academy)’ inevitably had to admit that Lin Zixi was handsome.

Otherwise, it was impossible for him to keep a huge group of diehard fans, chicken blood fans, and fighting fans with just a couple of representative works.

So, as soon as the adulation of the second male, Sun Yuwen, was spread, Lin Zixi's fans blew up.

The TV series had not been filmed yet, and the two groups of fans had already gone through big wars so many times.

Lin Zixi’s support club had decided a long time ago that they would organize their first visit when The Legend of Concubine Ling began shooting—it was to see their idol, greet the production team, and most importantly, take a look at the appearance of the restless second male.

Fans had to be organized to visit any of the actors at the movie set. Lin Zixi naturally couldn't refuse, so when the booting ceremony was over, he immediately asked assistant Xiao Zhang to take him to meet the fan group waiting around the site.

Among the thirty or so front lines who came to visit this time, there were a few whom Lin Zixi was already quite familiar with and able to name as well as a few he had some impressions of.

Lin Zixi greeted them, said a few words, and noticed that among the enthusiastic little sister fans, big sister fans, and mother fans, there was also a grandma fan.

The grandmother accompanied by a woman seemed to be about 60 years old, splendidly dressed and elegant looking, yet she looked more excited than the other enthusiastic fans. Her eyes were fixed at Lin Zixi, and they were brimming with tears.

Being liked and even got visited by such an old woman, Lin Zixi was of course very flattered and hurriedly walked to her side to greet her.

As a result, as soon as he walked to the grandmother's side, the other party grabbed his hands and cried affectionately, "Ze Yi!"

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Fuck, who was this?!

TL's note: 

After one and a half years, I finally found a story that I really wanted to translate. The number one requirement for me to choose a story to translate is that it must be a simple, fun, and happy story with the kind of characters that I like.

This story, in spite of the taboo relationship, is a fun and happy one with no angst and, to my surprise and utter delight, lots of uncensored sex scenes.

Also, I've kept a few Chinese terms/idioms in this translation because it's easier for me and I think you're already familiar with them. In case you don't know about them, "touching porcelain" is explained here, and "the red rose and the white rose" is the mistress and the wife.

For now, a new chapter will be posted every Monday and Thursday.