I Made Believe with a Senior Who Didn't Want to Date, and It Became Real

[Showbiz + Rekindled Love + Ten-Year Age Gap + Mutual Pining Turns to Love]

No melodrama / fresh and sweet / a touch of bitterness / a little sugar

Well-behaved sweetheart × older bad boy

Chen Yin’an’s unrequited love never went smoothly. To meet his idol, he went to great lengths to audition for a role in his production.

He thought their first meeting would be full of heart-fluttering chemistry.

Instead, the other man let out a cold laugh and said:

“If you know you’re going to cause trouble for people, you should stay home and study like a good boy.”

Luckily, Chen Yin’an had always been an exceptionally sweet-tempered, well-behaved boy.

He didn’t get angry. He kept trying harder and harder, even while feeling wronged.

But the senior he’d had a crush on for years grew more and more outrageous: verbal bullying, cold treatment, possessiveness, and all kinds of groping!

Chen Yin’an didn’t find any of it strange.

Until one day, Shen Shi gripped him by the throat and said:

“Chen Yin’an, even though I’m so much older than you, even though I’m hypocritical, domineering, jealous, and narrow-minded, even though you’ll meet someone younger and more suitable for you in the future, even though your mother and friends will all disapprove, and being found out will ruin your future and earn you your fans’ resentment and all kinds of gossip, even though no one but me will support you, even though this has nothing to do with fledgling bird syndrome or getting too caught up in a role, you still choose me without hesitation. Won’t you regret it someday, Chen Yin’an?”

At last, Chen Yin’an slowly realized that Shen Shi seemed to have loved him all along, too.

The one who seemed to hold all the power was humbly begging for love, while the one who seemed hopelessly lovestruck was actually in control of everything.

My flaws keep me from saying I love you, but the instinct to love makes me desperate to possess you.

(The first five chapters use flashbacks; the story moves forward chronologically from Chapter Six.)