Fang Yu finally saved enough money to retire from the Quick Transmigration Bureau.
His retirement package offered four choices: [Wealth] [Freedom] [Health] [Love]. He had to give one up.
Fang Yu frantically clicked [Love]. And so he became the stand-in in a stand-in romance.
He lived a happy, fulfilling life, but his husband still had a moonlight-white first love hidden in his heart.
Fang Yu: This is fantastic!
A successful career, health in body and mind, financial freedom, and a handsome, fit husband who was great in bed.
Fang Yu enjoyed this comfortable life for five years. Then things started getting difficult.
His husband grew clingier and clingier. Fang Yu cried until he couldn't take it anymore and wished he could put a lock on his husband's underwear. He managed to put up with that, at least.
And there were always people trying to ruin his retirement. In the original story, the unwitting stand-in exposed the truth that he was a substitute, which led to career setbacks, crushing debt, and finally dying of depression.
So when a business partner asked him, "Haven't you noticed? He only likes the way you look in sportswear."
Fang Yu took his husband's hand and smiled gently. "Who wears a shirt when they're not at work?"
His husband's cousin tearfully asked him, "The meals you have every Friday and Saturday, the things you do, they're all part of a fixed routine. Yu-ge, haven't you ever wondered why?"
Fang Yu gritted his teeth and smiled. "Of course. It's because I like it, and he goes along with me."
His husband's childhood friend exposed the truth: "These are photos of your husband from before, from his old social media account. See the person beside him?"
The protagonist accidentally tossed the photo into the river, reported the social media account with one click, then ran a hand through his hair and said, "Next time, tell Doubao to make the edit more realistic. My husband loves me. He's always been hopelessly devoted to me."
The childhood friend looked devastated. "Does it have to be him?"
Fang Yu cursed inwardly: Why do they have to disturb my retirement!
That night, Fang Yu, who'd been bullied, cried and kicked his husband. So much for being a domineering CEO. He couldn't keep his business partner in check, or his cousin and childhood friend either!
Thanks to Fang Yu's efforts, he managed to preserve his retirement, more or less. His husband just grew even clingier, his needs increasing by the day, never leaving his side.
They went to an island to celebrate their anniversary, but when it was time to leave, the boat never came.
The wind blew and the waves crashed. Fang Yu was being held so tightly he could hardly breathe.
His husband buried his face in the crook of Fang Yu's neck, his voice scattered by the wind. "You really never suspected a thing? Do you really... love me?"
Theme: Live in the present.
