[BL Romance] [Pretend Relationship Turns Real] [Straight Man Turns Gay] [Husband-Chasing Burnout] [Everyday Romance] [Devoted 1v1]
Overbearing CEO vs. Scheming Secretary
Zhao Xingqiao, an overworked wage slave who died suddenly from working overtime, opened his eyes in the body of the ultimate scumbag from a tragic romance novel.
The original owner had cheated people out of their money and bodies, and abandoned his fiancée after seducing her. He was the character every reader most wanted to see killed off.
Before Zhao Xingqiao could run, his brother-in-law showed up at his door. “Stay away from my sister, or I'll make you wish you were dead.”
But the tense scene was misunderstood by his hopelessly lovesick fiancée, who thought Zhao Xingqiao had a crush on her brother, Qin Baishen.
Far from getting angry, his fiancée's eyes lit up. “You're secretly in love with my brother? Oh my god, you two are perfect together! I'm going to set you up!”
She wrote love letters for him, booked dates for them, and even locked him in Qin Baishen's bedroom to “help them get closer.”
From then on, Zhao Xingqiao had to deal with Qin Baishen threatening him to break up with his fiancée, while she kept pushing the two men together and shipping them.
Zhao Xingqiao was at his wit's end. Then inspiration struck: If your sister thinks I'm in love with you, I'll just play along.
So he flirted shamelessly with Qin Baishen in front of his fiancée: making him heart-shaped lunchboxes, massaging his shoulders, and gazing into his eyes.
Every time, Qin Baishen would scowl and reject him with a cutting remark, while Zhao Xingqiao rejoiced inwardly. The more convincing he made it, the sooner he'd get to break up with his fiancée.
What he didn't know was that Qin Baishen's gaze had long since changed from disgust to something else.
Then one day, with his fiancée nowhere around, Qin Baishen cornered him against a wall and asked in a hoarse voice, “You've been flirting with me for so long. When are you going to take responsibility?”
Zhao Xingqiao: “Wait, I was only acting!”
Qin Baishen sneered. “Acting? I wasn't pretending.”
