SP – Superstar and Ordinary People

By: Su Youbing

Native Title: 综艺小白和三栖巨腕 by 酥油饼

Genres: Comedy, Drama, Romance, Yaoi

Tags: Celebrities, Comedy, Dense Protagonist, Entertainment Industry, Famous Love Interest, Happy Ending, Managers, Modern Day, Multiple Couples, Naive Protagonist, Showbiz, Television, Variety Shows, Workplace Romance, 1v1

Content: 81 Main Chapters + Extras

Status: Original Complete | Translation Ongoing

Synopsis:

Zeng Bai has one very simple ambition in life:

Make money.

Preferably enough money to buy back Xinglong Butcher Shop, the little shop that once belonged to the man who gave him a home.

Becoming a celebrity was never part of the plan.

Unfortunately, plans have very little power over a man who wanders into a television station looking for a job interview, asks the wrong person for directions, and somehow gets shoved in front of a live camera as an emergency replacement host.

That is how Xiao Bai enters show business.

It is also how he meets Yan Su Ang.

Yan Su Ang is everything Xiao Bai is not: a dazzling superstar at the very top of the entertainment industry, successful across film, television, and music, surrounded by fans, cameras, managers, gossip, and the sort of reputation that makes entire studios rearrange themselves when he walks through the door.

Everyone calls him Great God.

Xiao Bai compares him to the auntie who lives upstairs.

Things deteriorate beautifully from there.

Xiao Bai is not calculating.

He is not secretly pretending to be innocent.

He does not possess a hidden genius plan for conquering the entertainment industry.

He is simply, catastrophically sincere.

He answers exactly the question he thinks someone asked. He takes jokes seriously, misses insinuations completely, walks through celebrity feuds without noticing them, and has an extraordinary ability to say the one perfectly truthful thing guaranteed to destroy another person’s composure.

To reporters, he looks like a master at playing dumb.

To his manager, Jia Zhi Qing, he is a walking occupational hazard.

To Yan Su Ang, he gradually becomes something much more troublesome.

Because Great God is accustomed to people flattering him, chasing him, fearing him, admiring him, and carefully calculating every interaction they have with him.

Xiao Bai does none of those things.

He barely seems to understand that Yan Su Ang is someone he is supposed to be impressed by.

And unfortunately for Yan Su Ang, that makes Xiao Bai increasingly difficult to ignore.

What begins with an accidental television appearance soon pulls Xiao Bai deeper into the entertainment industry. He signs with Yimate, gains Jia Zhi Qing as his extremely inexperienced but fiercely protective manager, takes classes alongside teenage trainees, stumbles into modeling work, becomes tangled in celebrity scandals, and eventually lands a permanent position beside veteran host Shi Da Ming on GO! GO! SU… SUPER STAR.

Along the way, every ordinary interaction seems capable of becoming tomorrow’s headline.

Shopping with Feng Ya Lun becomes a gay love scandal.

Standing beside Yan Su Ang in a magazine shoot creates a new fandom pairing.

A press conference intended to kill one rumor somehow produces entirely different news.

And while the people around Xiao Bai scheme, panic, manipulate reporters, protect careers, create cover stories, fight over contracts, and desperately attempt to understand what he will say next, Xiao Bai remains focused on the truly important questions:

When is he getting paid?

How much money can he make?

And exactly how long will it take before he can buy back that butcher shop?

Behind him is Jia Zhi Qing, who begins the story knowing almost nothing about managing celebrities but is determined to prove that he can turn Xiao Bai into the next Feng Ya Lun.

Around them are Feng Ya Lun and his terrifyingly competent manager Gao Qin, whose relationship is considerably more complicated than either professional boundaries or common sense would suggest.

And waiting directly in Xiao Bai’s path is Yan Su Ang—a man with enough fame, confidence, charm, and competitive instinct to handle almost anyone in the entertainment industry.

Almost.

Superstar and Ordinary People is a lighthearted modern showbiz BL built around misunderstandings, celebrity gossip, variety shows, managers behaving badly, reporters suffering for their profession, fandom shipping, accidental scandals, and one remarkably straightforward newcomer repeatedly defeating experienced entertainment-industry veterans simply by telling the truth.

The author describes the premise as a little white rabbit who wants to make a fortune accidentally entering show business and encountering a big bad wolf who very much wants to eat rabbit meat.

That is, surprisingly, an accurate summary.

At its center is the increasingly ridiculous collision between an ordinary young man who does not understand celebrity logic and a superstar who gradually discovers that being called “Great God” by everyone else does absolutely nothing to protect him from Xiao Bai.

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