An Sheng

**An Sheng** is the ML of the second arc's small world.

### Background

An Sheng is an aspiring Actor who has made his way through the entertainment industry by sleeping with influential women and taking advantage of others. In the original world's plot he seduces the 'movie queen' Su Lüxia and uses her to propel is career in the entertainment industry. He is shown to be very cruel and willing to do anything to achieve his goals. Not only does he drug Su Lüxia to be sexually assaulted (implied rape) for a role in a movie, he also records it and spreads it on the internet to lower her reputation. He even Goes as far as to pay news outlets to throw dirt on her name afterward for what appears to be no reason at all. In the original story line this caused Su Lüxia too commit suicide.

In the original story line of the world, after drugging Su Lüxia he gets the movie role and he lives a successful career as an actor. He marries wealthy heiress to the Lin corporation, Lin Xue, and in the end he 'repents' in front of Su Lüxia's grave by showing some remorse.

### **Arc 1**

He is first seen talking with a Wealthy CEO confirming that he will receive a role in an upcoming movie. He leaves Su Lüxia to her fate.

Later he is taking a phone call from the CEO he pimped Su Lüxia out too. He cuts off the deal and hangs up on An Sheng, who grows furious wondering what the hell Su Lüxia did too him. His thoughts are interupted when **Gu Chen** approaches him calling him 'gigilo man' and jesting at An Sheng for crawling into the beds of women for fame. He retorts by saying at least they want him crawling into there beds, clearly jabbing at Gu Chen's crush on Su Lüxia saying 'if it was you she wouldn't even want it'. He is punched by Gu Chen who eventually leaves after An Sheng indirectly threatens him about telling Su Lüxia.

Later to do damage control he texts Su Lüxia, pretending he had been knocked out after leaving the room and asks her how she is and if she is ok.

The next day he shows up to set and gives everyone breakfasts to increase his reputation. When Su Lüxia shows up to set he imediatly rushes to give her some food but she simply walks right past him. He grabs her arm and asks why she is ignoring him and she looks panicked and asks if she knows him. He is taken back and the crowd starts murmuring. After the crowd starts whispering about how An Sheng talking about their relationship was all a one sided lie he quickly grabs Su Lüxia's arm again but is smacked away by Gu Chen. After being told of by him he is enraged when Su Lüxia invites Gu Chen to study over the script.

An Sheng is furious when he catches them in the middle of there kiss, but then gets a notification from his phone. Its from a news outlet talking about how he sexually assaulted Su Lüxia and got punched. This ends up breaking a deal his manager was making with a film director enraging him further.

He bursts into Su Lüxia's room and yells if she set him up. She tells him to stop speaking like a pig and says it was all coincidence and lightly threatens to sue him for slander. He backs up and asks what evidence she has but instead she scolds him for thinking only he is allowed to do underhanded things and that others can't. After she leaves he becomes even more mad but then checks his pocket for his voice recorder, which makes him more mad after realizing it had been fried.

After Su Lüxia and Gu Chen wrap up a scene he is seen being mobbed by reporters asking about him assaulting Su Lüxia. He tells the reporters that all the photos were fabricated by the press and tries to shoo them away. He is then cut off by Gu Chen who tells everyone he is lying and that the assult photos are real, and he did try to assault her. Gu Chen then tells him because he already has Lin Xue he should stay away from Su Lüxia. The crowd believe Gu Chen to An Sheng's dismay.

In fury he comes to Lin Xue, who he affectionately nicknames A-Xue. He lies to her and tells her that Su Lüxia is in love with him and is blackmailing him to the paparazzi for leaving her. He guilt trips her into believing him, and she vows not to let Su Lüxia get away. He later posts on social media that he had already left Su Lüxia and pretends to be kind, wishing her the best.

Later he sees Su Lüxia and Gu Chen's ring posts and is infuriated once more. He plans on posting all the photos of Su Lüxia with him but he finds all the photos have been deleted. He is then seen talking with his manager who tells him that he has been nominated for the thousand flowers best male acting award, but if he wants to earn it he needs to stay on the low and not cause anymore drama. He then revives a text from Lin Xue who aks him why he doesn't just leak his messages with Su Lüxia however because he no longer has them he simply says he would never stoop so low.

Eventually after the ring plan he initially stays silent but then makes a move. He buys lunch for the entire film crew and gifts Su Lüxia porridge personally. It turns out he put low grade stomach ache drugs in there, meant to embarrass Su Lüxia on set. When they are filming Su Lüxia improvises lines, showing An Sheng's poor acting skills and inability to improve. An Sheng gets mad but the director likes Su Lüxia's new lines, saying the show the emotion better than the previous script and he wants to use them. An Sheng tries to come up with lines to suit the new dialogue but always ends up being awkward or downright bad. He continuously gets scolded by the director.

The footage is leaked by Fu Yuantian, An Sheng's biggest rival for the thousand flowers bets male actor award, and brings down his reputation. He is scolded and yelled at by his manager who tells him to use Lin Xue to turn his situation around. He refuses, saying he only wants to use Lin Xue as a last ditch effort. He instead tries to meet up with Su Lüxia, thinking she still has feelings for him and wanting to manipulate them. He meets her at the restaurant and tells her that he is in love with her and always has been. She plays with him but then reveals she knows he is lying and mocks his poor acting performance. Terrified of being frozen by the company he turns to his trump card, Lin Xue, who he asks to meet at Figures hotel.

At the hotel he arrives to a quiet Lin Xue. He does his usual tactic of beating around the bush, victimizing himself going along with the lie that Su Lüxia was mad to leave him and kept harassing him. He is taken back by Lin Xue's aggressiveness when she asks, "What do you want? Just spit it out already." He tells her about how he lost the international endorsement and Lin Xue asks him if this was why he came running back to her after Su Lüxia. He is shocked and asks how she knew and she throws the audio recording device Su Lüxia gave her at his face. He tries to explain and grabs her arm, she shakes him off and tells him that he disgusts her, and that they are over. She also says that if he ever pesters her again he will never get another endorsement in his entire life. He is horrified and leaves her alone.

We then get a time skip to when he has grown out a stubble beard and is holed up in his apartment. He was dubbed 'crap' by the industry and has lost favor with the Lin corporation and family as we are told by a reporter. We see a picture of Su Lüxia with cuts and a knife embedded into it on his floor. he slips on a bottle of alcohol in his apartment and falls to the floor cursing Su Lüxia.

A month later it turns out he died from intoxication, it was several days before anyone discovered his body after death. Apparently, the stench was so bad, other tenants in the building could smell it floors down.