After Running Away with His Child, I Joined a Dating Show with My Ex-Husband

Handsome, dominant gong x beautiful, submissive shou; both sexually inexperienced, one-on-one romance, pregnancy, and a kept lover turning into true love. The shou is an actor, and there are some scenes of putting on an act for work.

Poisonously toxic, domineering gong x earthy, honest shou. Mind the semi-forced romance.

Zhou Mingxi was the entertainment industry's classic case of a child prodigy who failed to live up to his promise. At just nineteen, he starred in the country's first quick transmigration TV series, A Hundred Ways for the Male Lead to Die, and became an overnight sensation.

Unfortunately, he had no brains to match his fame. He threw tantrums, sniped at senior actors, drank heavily, shoved reporters, and committed countless other offenses. In the end, a scandal about entertaining clients drove him completely out of the public eye.

When he returned, he repeatedly tested the waters on the verge of selling out by playing up a same-sex romance. He joined the all-male celebrity dating reality show The Rules of Falling in Love Through Transmigration, where he became the foil to the irresistible third male lead.

In a wealthy-family romance about the cruel love between a real young master and a fake one, he played the foolish, vicious fake young master. He worked and worked for nothing, and all his wicked schemes ended up helping the real young master, the third male lead, get his happy ending.

Comments: Don't hurt my mother!

Zhou Mingxi: I'll do it anyway!

Then, on the livestream, he kept pulling little tricks and flirted with all the backup guys in the irresistible third male lead's harem, though none of his attempts succeeded. A universally hated foil who doesn't want to be a playboy is no good foil!

Comments: Don't touch my father, s! [Plural + s]

Zhou Mingxi: I'll do it anyway!

The haters couldn't stand it. They dug up photos of him looking bloated during pregnancy and dubbed him "Pig Mingxi."

Who ever heard of a villain with an animal persona? Surprisingly, it suited him. This pig might look mean, but he really wasn't very bright. Before long, the insult had effortlessly turned into a pet name.

Just as this pig was diligently, if adorably foolishly, playing his role as the foil, his ex-husband, no, his former sugar daddy, Mr. Mu Qingyu, suddenly showed up on set after investing in the production, and made a request for forced love, meaning he wanted to catch the pig.

On the show, Mu Qingyu was always half a wall between Zhou Mingxi and everyone else, keeping him half boxed in. He also competed for his attention at every turn, leaving him practically no chance to flirt with the other cast members, much less a moment to catch his breath.

Sometimes all it takes to turn a playboy into an honest man is a domineering CEO. Now everyone could see just how much Zhou Mingxi was all bark and no bite, and how miserable his lot was.

The carefully crafted persona of a universally hated playboy collapsed completely, and he became the domineering CEO's little piggy.

The online crowd suddenly realized that in this life, not only can friends change and lovers change, but even parents can change...

Comment: Put Qingyu as my father and Mingxi as my mother in the chat, please!

Over-the-top melodrama version: If you don't want your lover to look down on you, just stop looking into his eyes.

Theme: Once you start down the wrong path, it's hard to turn back. Don't count on getting lucky.