A Divorce Variety Show? My Powerful Husband and I Might as Well Take Down the Villains

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[Entertainment industry + equally matched leads + marriage before love + variety show livestream + face-slapping revenge]

Lu Qingyuan, a popular star in China's entertainment industry, is beautiful and sharp-tongued, and specializes in dealing with green tea bitches and fake sweethearts. During a red-carpet livestream, she tore into her rival, crushed the haters, and revealed that she was married. One line, “I'm allergic to high-grade green tea,” made her an overnight sensation across the internet.

Everyone mocked her mysterious “perfect husband,” certain he'd be an embarrassment in public, and waited for her to become the laughingstock of the entertainment world.

Then the divorce variety show Please, Ex, Start Your Performance premiered. Her husband, rumored to be “old and frail,” made his first appearance, and turned out to be Fu Chengyu, a business tycoon with both stunning looks and an imposing presence.

On the show, other couples put on displays of affection and staged tearjerking scenes. These two, by contrast, had one partner who clapped back at the whole world, keeping it real and unpretentious, and another who was cool-headed, devious, and quietly protective.

From their “dinosaur pajamas first meeting” to the “desert island phone-charger romance,” the whole internet gradually realized:

How is this a marriage falling apart? This is top-tier flirtation!

#IsPresidentFuWorriedHisWifeWillFallToday#

#DidSisterLu'sMouthGetBlessedOrWhat#

#Wasn'tThisSupposedToBeADivorceShowWhyIsItADatingShow#

Her green-tea rival put on a coy act. “Sister Qingyuan, your husband's not in good health. It must be so hard for you.”

Before Lu Qingyuan could answer, Fu Chengyu looked up coolly. “Thanks for your concern. I'm in excellent health, and my eyesight is great too. I can spot a green tea from a mile away.”

Comments: [??? Brother-in-law, there's more to that than meets the eye!]