My Ex Returned After Faking His Death Five Years Ago

Sunshine-filled, spirited young colt Cheng Chi × dark, obsessive old lunatic Lin Zhao

Five years ago, Cheng Chi dumped his lover Lin Zhao for no apparent reason, went overseas, and vanished without a trace.

Everyone in their circle knew Lin Zhao had once been crazy about Cheng Chi. After the breakup, he spent months in a slump, but now he was a rising star in business, ruthless and decisive.

No one dared mention Cheng Chi's name in front of him.

Until the Lin family's wedding, where Lin Zhao's uncle, Lin Yan, married a woman surnamed Cheng. Lin Zhao came face to face with his long-missing ex again.

On the wedding day, guests mingled over drinks.

Cheng Chi, the bride's younger brother, wore a dark suit and smiled with a warm but distant elegance amid the crowd.

Five years apart had left him much thinner. The youthful spirit had faded from the corners of his eyes, leaving only a gentle curve.

The one thing he had never taken off was the old silver ring on his left ring finger.

Lin Zhao walked past him with a glass of champagne, not breaking stride as he tossed out a single sentence.

“Second floor, third guest room on the left.”

Cheng Chi's fingertips trembled. He smiled and raised his glass to someone nearby.

The moment the door clicked shut, Lin Zhao pinned Cheng Chi against it.

His tie was loosened, his breath hot, and his eyes held all the unanswered questions of the past five years.

“Cheng Chi.” His voice was hoarse. He smiled through gritted teeth. “What should I call you?”

“My ex-boyfriend... or my little uncle?”

Cheng Chi looked up at him, the corners of his eyes red, yet still smiling.

“Call me whatever you want.”

After the wedding, everyone in their circle waited to see how Lin Zhao would retaliate.

Everyone knew how badly Lin Zhao had been dumped back then. Now Cheng Chi was his elder by marriage. Surely their feud would cause a huge uproar.

But all was peaceful in the Lin household.

Lin Zhao still came home on time every day, and there were always two place settings on the table.

Cheng Chi was sensitive to the cold, so a cashmere blanket appeared in the study.

When Lin Zhao's stomach trouble flared up, Cheng Chi stayed by his side all night. Lin Zhao fell asleep gripping his wrist, leaving a ring of bruises the next morning, but Cheng Chi didn't complain.

Someone asked Lin Yan whether he wasn't worried that his nephew's entanglement with Cheng Chi would become a laughingstock.

Lin Yan calmly rolled up his sleeve, revealing the bite mark Cheng Yun had left on his wrist, and smiled without answering.

Cheng Yun crunched on sunflower seeds nearby and said casually, “During the five years A Chi was gone, he cried every time he got drunk... Lin Zhao doesn't know, but we've got it all on video.”

Later, at another banquet, a busybody asked Lin Zhao in a snide tone, “That little uncle of yours sure likes to tell you what to do.”

Lin Zhao held his wineglass. His smile was gentle, but his eyes were cold.

“Cheng Chi is mine. He was mine before, and he is mine now.”

“As for our seniority...”

He turned to look at Cheng Chi, who was eating cake nearby, cream at the corner of his mouth as he smiled at Lin Zhao.

Lin Zhao added quietly,

“I'd be happy to let him boss me around for the rest of my life.”

Everyone: “...”

Coming soon: “My Playboy Husband Is Always Being So Coy”

A seemingly flirtatious and carefree schemer with a dark side, Gong × a seemingly fragile pushover who is actually ruthless and decisive, Shou

After being pushed off a cliff, Mo Xiaoyu's soul transmigrated.

The good news: he had become the person sharing his enemy's bed.

The bad news: that person was a cross-dressing, gay man.

The even worse news: the man wasn't quite dead. He could wake up any day, and then Mo Xiaoyu would be back to being a ghost.

Mo Xiaoyu's goal was to get his revenge before the man woke up.

Lu Xingxue was the youngest daughter of the Lu family, but in reality, he was a man.

At court, when he heard he was to be married to Bai Chiheng, Lu Xingxue got so worked up that he nearly died on the spot.

When he opened his eyes again, Mo Xiaoyu had become Lu Xingxue.

Staring at the enemy of his past life, who was about to become his husband, Lu Xingxue immediately kowtowed and refused the marriage.

Just when he thought the wedding was off,

Bai Chiheng stepped forward and said firmly, “This marriage cannot be called off. Xingxue is already carrying the Bai family's child. I, Chiheng, can't stand by and watch my wife and child become homeless.”

After the imperial physician confirmed that it was true,

the emperor demanded of Lu Xingxue, “Is the child in your womb surnamed Bai?”

How could a man possibly be pregnant?

Lu Xingxue met Bai Chiheng's confident gaze. “The child is indeed surnamed Bai.”

Then he changed tack. “But not Bai Er Gongzi's Bai. It's Bai Da Gongzi's Bai.”

Everyone in the capital knew Bai Junyue, the eldest young master of the Bai family: a notorious playboy, idle and debauched.

Lu Xingxue thought he had picked someone handsome but stupid, an easy mark. He never expected to dig himself into a hole he couldn't climb out of.

Bai Junyue was out enjoying himself at a tavern when he was suddenly ordered to marry.

The reason? He was going to be a father!

At first, Bai Junyue thought he was just one part of Bai Chiheng and Lu Xingxue's bedroom games.

Who knew they were serious?

On his wedding day, Bai Junyue patted his own handsome, beautiful face and wondered how many young women would now be left alone, weeping and heartbroken.

After successfully bringing Bai Chiheng down, Mo Xiaoyu unexpectedly returned to his own body.

He had thought he would never have anything to do with the Bai family again, but one day Bai Junyue cornered him against a wall.

Bai Junyue: “Wife, now can we consummate the marriage?”

Mo Xiaoyu: Who's your wife!

Bai Junyue: Don't pretend. You just changed bodies.

Mo Xiaoyu: I'm a man!

Bai Junyue: I know!

Mo Xiaoyu: You know and still say things like that? Pervert!

Bai Junyue: You're a man who dresses as a woman. Which one of us is the pervert?

Mo Xiaoyu: ...

Mo Xiaoyu resigned himself to it. Fine, he was the one who'd started this with him.

Content warnings:

1. Both leads are sexually inexperienced. Shou: Cheng Chi; Gong: Lin Zhao.

2. There is melodrama and a pursuit-after-the-breakup arc. The author aims for just a little angst and doesn't consider the story angsty.

3. The story has many different points of view. The more, the merrier...

4. This is an alternate reality. Please don't compare it to the real world.

5. In short, read with a level head, and may you all be happy every day!!!

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