Pretending Not to Know My Ex on a Music Variety Show

[Reborn, I Became My Ex-Boyfriend’s Moonlight (Not Really)]

[Career-focused, independent pianist × Obsessive, broken, devoted top-tier star ex-boyfriend]

[Both reborn, old flames rekindled, bittersweet romance, music variety show, intense push and pull, male lead secretly losing his mind]

Before being reborn, Shu Li was a pampered rich heiress and the brightest prodigy in the piano world. For Cheng Yue, she tore up her acceptance letter from Juilliard and willingly became the shadow behind him.

But after he became an overnight sensation, she was forced to be his secret girlfriend, hidden from the public, and had to endure his management company forcing him to fake a couple image with someone else.

The day she broke up with him, he fell apart like a madman.

Given another chance, Shu Li decides to keep her secret identity under wraps, stay away from Cheng Yue, the top-tier star who broke her heart in her previous life, and focus on the music career she never got to pursue.

Who could have guessed that the music variety show Across the Sound, which she joined to promote classical music, would bring them together as partners by sheer coincidence, then have the production team quietly edit their footage to make them look like a couple?

At their first meeting on camera, Cheng Yue politely holds out his hand, distant and courteous. “Ms. Shu, I’ve heard so much about you.”

Shu Li returns the handshake with equal politeness, her smile flawless. “A pleasure, Mr. Cheng.”

The two of them are perfectly in sync as they pretend to be strangers.

Shu Li originally thought that once they made it through the show, they could go their separate ways and never cross paths again.

But during rehearsals, Cheng Yue not only tests her with the chords she casually played in her previous life and her habitual fingering, he also says this in a public interview:

“This song is about someone who means a lot to me. It’s a shame that back then, I didn’t know how to make her stay.”

Shu Li had always thought that if she kept denying it, she could bring their ill-fated relationship from her previous life to a dignified end.

Until an unexpected power outage during rehearsal, when the normally aloof and restrained top-tier star pinpoints her wrist in the darkness and pins her against the Steinway.

His eyes are red, his voice trembling with despair:

“Shu Li, why did you stop wanting me...?”

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*My delicious upcoming story, What? I Have to Play a Couple with My Nemesis?, is now listed on my author page. I’ll start it as soon as this one is finished. No! Break! In between!!

It’s the second book in the same series: bickering rivals + rekindled old flame. Add it to your library!

New story preview: Blunt and outspoken beauty Ni Duo × sharp-tongued, haughty peacock Lu Ye

Everyone in the entertainment industry knows they can’t stand each other, but no one knows they once lived together as a couple for three years.

On the day they broke up, Lu Ye blocked the doorway, eyes red. “Go ahead, leave! If you do, don’t come back!”

Ni Duo rolled her eyes and walked away without looking back.

Three years later, they’re forced to play a couple in an international director’s period drama.

On their first day on set, reporters come to visit:

Lu Ye (coldly): “We’re not that close. She has a terrible temper.”

Ni Duo (smiling): “Likewise. He does all his acting with his eyes. Must be a real strain on the eye drops.”

Just as expected, you two. That unbearable tension!

But! Then! That night, in the set’s break room...

Lu Ye corners her against the wall. “I have a terrible temper? That’s not what you said when you were chasing me!”

After the director calls cut on their kissing scene, he still won’t let go, begging her to take him back. “Ni Duo, can we start over?”

“Take your hand off my waist first.”

“No. If I let go, you’ll run away.”

The whole crew: ??? Weren’t they supposed to be nemeses???

Theme: True love isn’t self-sacrificing compromise, but two people meeting each other as equals and choosing one another.