After We Broke Up, My Actress Ex Went Straight to the Crematorium

Reading Guide:

[Cool on the outside, devoted and passionate on the inside, 1 x stubborn and all talk, 0]

[Two female leads, a three-year age gap and height difference, both physically and emotionally pure, happy ending]

[A second chance after a breakup, a Mary Sue-style sugary romance where 1 chases 0]

[No real-life inspirations; an entirely fictional setting. Everything serves the story and should not be scrutinized. Any similarities in names or places are purely coincidental.]

The darling of the heavens, Shi Lu, reached the peak of her career the moment she debuted. Her acting career went smoothly, and she became an internationally renowned Golden Lion Best Actress. Her future should have been dazzling.

Lu Xizhi debuted at a young age but never quite made it big. Though she was nominated several times, she became a legendary also-ran in the entertainment industry.

Everyone in the industry knew that whenever Lu Xizhi showed up somewhere, Shi Lu would be there too, and would inevitably outshine her.

People once thought the two women, constantly set against each other, were like fire and water. In reality, they had already started a secret relationship.

No one knew that after they broke up, the darling of the heavens retired from acting, consumed by regret.

Two years later, at the prestigious Golden Jue Awards ceremony in China,

Lu Xizhi, the legendary also-ran, finally fulfilled her dream, with Shi Lu presenting her with the trophy.

It was their first appearance together since the breakup, and Shi Lu's first public appearance since retiring two years earlier.

Yet the biggest news that day was that the former Grand Slam Best Actress was engaged to a business prodigy, shocking both the film and business worlds...

Soon after, reliable sources confirmed that the two women who had always been pitted against each other would co-star in a renowned director's latest film.

Their fans collectively crashed. Only the fans who had always shipped them as a crack pairing shed their usual restraint and finally rose up to sing their victory song...