After Reuniting with My Gravity-Type Childhood Friend

[Originally titled The Tenth Year After My Childhood Friend Abandoned Me]

[Both leads are each other's only partners, and their relationship is intense. Enter at your own risk if that bothers you.]

[Angsty melodrama / a fake mistress and reconciliation in the first half / an obsessive, domineering pursuit in the second half / honest heroine x dark, obsessive hero]

Qiu Yi knows she's the villainess in a secret-crush novel.

She's the male lead's childhood friend and has loved him for over a decade. When she learns he has special feelings for the heroine, she starts relentlessly framing her, ultimately bringing ruin upon her own family.

Qiu Yi has fought back and tried her best, but she can never resist the power of the plot.

Ten years pass, and Qiu Yi seems to have accepted her fate.

To outsiders, Qiu Yi's life is a mess, just the sort of ending a "villainess" deserves: an evil mother-in-law, a sick child, and a cowardly husband.

But whatever else happens, Qiu Yi is married and doing her best to live her life.

Until one day, Qiu Yi returns home from buying groceries and finds a Rolls-Royce parked outside her house.

Her childhood friend, Shang Quezhi, whom she hasn't seen in years, opens the car door and gives her the same smile as ever.

"Qiu Yi, long time no see."

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Before meeting the fated heroine, Shang Quezhi was every bit the favored son of heaven.

The only thing on his mind was when to confess to Qiu Yi and when to marry her.

But after meeting the fated heroine, Shang Quezhi learns he's the handsome, tragic male lead in a campus novel.

He fought against the so-called original plot and even tried self-harm, but he wasn't hurt in the slightest. Qiu Yi, however, was always falling ill.

Shang Quezhi tried countless methods and made a bet with the System.

If he won, Qiu Yi would be able to stay by his side.

But Shang Quezhi lost.

Still, the System finally promised that once the novel's major plot points were complete, it would stop controlling anyone.

So, after the novel's ending,

Shang Quezhi could finally go find Qiu Yi.

Even though he knew Qiu Yi had long since married.

But so what if she was married?

She'd get divorced eventually.

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A short scene

Qiu Yi returns from buying groceries with her husband Song Yan's boss, Shang Quezhi.

When Song Yan hears that Qiu Yi and Shang Quezhi know each other, he's taken aback for a moment. He greets Shang Quezhi, then naturally lowers his head and kisses Qiu Yi on the forehead.

While Song Yan is in the bathroom for a few minutes, Shang Quezhi suddenly stands up and touches Qiu Yi's forehead. Already at a loss, Qiu Yi tucks her head in like an ostrich. Her slender, pale shoulders tremble as she looks at Shang Quezhi in terror.

Shang Quezhi tilts his head, puzzled. "Why can he kiss you, but I can't even touch you?"

His gaze is innocent and confused, as though propositioning a married woman were perfectly normal.

Reading Guide:

1. The male lead is chaste and a virgin, and has nothing to do with the original heroine. The relevant plot details are spoilers. The honest heroine remembers him as a boy full of youthful spirit, but in reality he's an obsessive, voyeuristic stalker.

2. The heroine is timid and weak-willed, a truly honest person. She was born to be the male lead's fiancee. The relevant characterization details are spoilers. The male lead has never done anything to harm her.

3. At the beginning, the heroine and the second male lead have already received their divorce papers. The heroine and the second male lead never consummated their marriage. The child is neither the heroine's nor the second male lead's, and isn't the male lead's either.

Theme: Love is the greatest force in the world.