My Variety Show Partner Is My Archrival

[Enemies-to-lovers / bickering like schoolkids / livestreamed variety show]

Sharp-tongued, sunny French chef x sharp-tongued but pure-hearted young master

After graduating from culinary school, Tan Ning joins a restaurant-management variety show in hopes of winning the money she needs to open her own restaurant. But on the very first day of filming, things go disastrously wrong.

The restaurant she's supposed to work at is owned by Lu Yue, a rude, cutting jerk. More importantly... they were bitter rivals all three years of high school!

The kind who'd throw punches over the smallest disagreement!

For the prize money, Tan Ning decides to put up with the humiliation. It's only three months. Put up with it and things will calm down; take a step back... and she gets angrier the more she thinks about it!

And so begins their chaotic day-to-day life.

In the first week, right in the middle of an argument, Tan Ning suddenly realizes the guy has a pretty straight nose. It'd make a great slide... Wait, what was she saying just now?

In the second week, he pats the top of her head. Tan Ning is about to blow up, but when she looks up and meets his deep, bright eyes, her temper somehow fizzles out.

Then one day, her hand ends up somewhere it shouldn't. She swears she's not a pervert. The road was slippery, the wind was strong, and her hand had a mind of its own...

She inexplicably gives it a squeeze...

So soft, so bouncy, so lovable!

[Little scene]

In a hotel room, Lu Yue looks at her, mortified and indignant. "Just admit it. You're only after my body."

Tan Ning licks her lips and looks surprised. "How could that be? Are you so unsure of your soul? Hey! Why are you putting your clothes back on? Aren't you hot?"

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Young heiress who only follows obscure stars x scheming, twisted top-tier star

Possessive pursuit / a groveling ex's redemption

[Blurb]

Ni Zhenxin is lazy, uneducated, and idle, with a family rich enough to own a mine in the literal sense.

Her greatest hobby is following unpopular idols. Spend a little money and you get handsome guys fawning over you, gazing at you with sparkling eyes and saying, "Big sis, you're so nice." It's delightful.

Then she met Shi Xu.

Shi Xu is cold and taciturn. He doesn't even blink at the luxury goods Ni Zhenxin gives him, and after accidentally touching her, he wipes his hand three times in front of her, as if she were something filthy he mustn't touch.

But his looks hit every one of Ni Zhenxin's preferences. In tight pants, his legs are longer than life itself. He's practically a member of a top-tier boy band in its third generation.

Ni Zhenxin grits her teeth and pursues Shi Xu for three years, watching him go from an obscure idol buried in debt to a top-tier star.

She thinks it's time to bow out after accomplishing her mission.

Out of Shi Xu's sight, she continues following the next obscure idol, thriving in the fan community.

Until one day, while following an obscure idol at the airport, she takes off her mask, looks up, and meets a pair of pitch-black eyes.

Ni Zhenxin feels as if she's fallen into an ice cellar. She doesn't even have time to put her mask back on before turning and running.

That night, she wakes from a nightmare with a silk blindfold over her eyes and cold iron chains binding her hands and feet.

The mattress dips beside her, and a familiar presence washes over her. A rough thumb gently strokes her fragile ankle, while scorching lips press against her ear and a hoarse voice murmurs,

"You call him big brother. Then what am I?"

No real-life inspirations.

Theme: Food is power!