He Insists on Taking Me Back [Entertainment Industry]

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"Rekindled romance | Showbiz | Angsty push and pull"

Scandal-plagued actress × actor from a film dynasty

Shi Qi's marriage to Lin Yizhou began as part of her plan to escape.

She had spent ten years in show business, and had been called a wicked woman for all ten. Her reputation was in tatters.

Lin Yizhou was to blame for it all.

He was her first love, and the one who brought her into the industry.

During a wrap-up scene, the horse bolted and they fell from its back.

Trying to protect her, Lin Yizhou suffered a fractured lumbar spine and fell into a coma.

Everyone thought she would stay by his bedside, weeping uncontrollably.

But then the news reported that she had left without a word and disappeared for over half a year.

When she reappeared, rumors claimed she and Jiang Yuzhi, the Jiang family's second young master, had bought matching phone numbers.

Her new drama with Lin Yizhou unexpectedly became a hit and was nominated for a Dika Award.

The man who won Best Actor was still overseas recovering from his injuries, with no word from him.

Everyone thought she wouldn't dare show her face at the gala, but she strode back into the public eye in impossibly high heels.

Over the past ten years, she'd worked across film, music, and variety shows, pushing her commercial value to an untouchable level.

The entertainment company Jiang Yuzhi had opened for her was making a fortune.

With only three months left on their contract, the clause he'd tricked her into signing years ago was coming due.

Once the contract ended, she would have to marry him, retire from the industry, and go home to become Mrs. Jiang.

Shi Qi didn't want to retire. She still wanted to compete for this year's Dika Award and win the grand slam! Her acting career couldn't, shouldn't, end here!

With nowhere else to turn, the variety show promoting her new drama, which had been scheduled long ago, suddenly hit a snag.

In the early hours of the morning, the show's guest list was leaked.

Her ex-boyfriend, the ex-boyfriend she had abandoned, Lin Yizhou, was on it!

In no time, trending topics featuring their names had taken over the entire list.

A wicked idea suddenly occurred to her.

If she married before the contract ended, what could Jiang Yuzhi do to her? At worst, she'd pay the penalty for breaking the contract.

That night, she stood outside Lin Yizhou's bathroom and grabbed his arm, still beaded with water.

"Lin Yizhou, will you marry me? Your ex-girlfriend."

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Lin Yizhou thought she had to be crazy to ask him that.

He coldly rejected her tempting offer:

"Shi Qi, not everyone is as self-serving as you are."

"You left ten years ago. You don't get to come back now."

Yet, as if possessed, he sat at the bar and spent the entire night drafting a prenuptial agreement.

The next evening, Shi Qi was woken by his voice.

"The marriage bureau closes at five. You have half an hour."

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Shi Qi had thought a marriage of convenience would mean freedom and an easy life.

But after they married, she had to take responsibility for making sure Lin Yizhou slept.

She couldn't believe that a cold, heartless man like him could have a sleepwalking disorder, and one that made him hurt himself while sleepwalking, at that!

During filming, she sneaked into his room each night like a thief to "sleep beside him."

Later, she saw for herself that Lin Yizhou really was a madman, a madman who would give up his life for her.

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Their fake marriage was exposed before it had even lasted three months.

At the same time, her career took a devastating blow, and her reputation was ruined.

Her peers, the ones she'd once trampled underfoot, applauded and wished they could grind her into the dirt and make sure she never got back up.

The media hounded Lin Yizhou, and even his friends were convinced he would cruelly abandon her at such a critical moment, avenging the pain she'd caused him years ago!

"Zhou, you really went all out. That whole elaborate scheme was just to ruin her?"

"We're behind you, man. You nearly died in that hospital bed, and she didn't even come to see you. She deserves everything she's got!"

Amid the clamor, Lin Yizhou posted this on Weibo:

"I married her. I never planned on divorcing her."

The photo was from ten years ago:

She had cried on set until her eyes were swollen, then wrapped herself in his coat and fallen asleep, drowsy. He held the engagement ring he'd prepared in advance in his lap.

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Theme: When you love someone, you love them. From beginning to end, love is never a choice.