After the Face-Blind Beauty Mistook Someone for Her Boyfriend

This novel goes VIP on 2022.11.07. A ten-thousand-word VIP chapter is on the way. Thank you for your support. My new novel next door is now underway: My Wealthy Dad After Becoming the Rebellious Brat’s Stepfather. Coming soon: After the Ultimate Backup Boyfriend Awakens [Book Transmigration]. If you’re in the mood for an old-school hzc story, check out my other upcoming novel, After the Snake-Snake Beauty’s Heart Turns to Ash. Visit my author profile. A silly, sweet slice-of-life story. Here’s to love! []~(￣▽￣)~* A fierce, possessive, wolfish-top-meets-doggy-top secret admirer x a sweet, soft, teary-eyed, face-blind bottom The Li family went through two heads of the family in six months, and both died in accidents. The new head, Li Xueyang, was adopted from a collateral branch of the family. The penny-pinching Li Xueyang has a clear goal: coast as a pretty, useless ornament for three months, then enjoy wealth and glory for the rest of his life. Who knew he’d run into the Ji family’s alpha wolf, Ji Qinglin, on his very first day! Ji Qinglin is the sort of man everyone passing by has to praise with: “What a nasty bird!” Yet he sticks to Li Xueyang like a wolf-skin plaster, and no matter how hard Li kicks, he can’t shake him off. Li Xueyang grits his teeth: “Ji Qinglin, you’re like a wolf, but you act like a dog!” * Li Xueyang has a secret: he’s face-blind. His doctor says he’ll only be able to see the person he loves clearly after they become intimate. So at the banquet celebrating his appointment as head of the family, he decides to take things to the next level with the boyfriend he’s been dating for three years and make him the only person he can see clearly in his life. After a night together, Li Xueyang runs his hand over the bedsheet, still warm from his boyfriend’s body, and reminisces... His boyfriend was great in bed. He’s very satisfied. * At a wedding he shouldn’t have attended, Li Xueyang unexpectedly spots his boyfriend, wearing a custom-made watch, cuddling and flirting with a woman with a sinuous figure. When he confronts him, his boyfriend drops all pretenses on the spot. Li turns around and meets a gloomy gaze. The tall alpha wolf of the Ji family presses his thin lips together, watching him with a faint, knowing smile. For the first time in his life, Li Xueyang sees a face clearly: a flawless one. He walks over and takes Ji Qinglin by the arm. “Help me.” Ji Qinglin’s voice is low. “Beg me, like you did that night.” * Li Xueyang tosses the expensive watch into a glass of champagne on the spot, then leaves with Ji Qinglin, head held high. But the moment they turn their backs on the crowd, he can’t stop the tears from falling. He cries all the way home. Ji Qinglin lifts his chin, gazing into those beautiful, rabbit-red eyes. “Young Master Li, if you cry for one more minute, I’ll give you 3% on the deal we discussed last week.” Li Xueyang sniffles as golden tears fall. “Then if I cry for two minutes, make it 10%.” Ji Qinglin: “...” * Everyone says it’s too unlucky that two heads of the Li family have died in a row, and that an alliance through marriage with the Ji family is probably out of the question. Ji Qinglin rubs the fading bite mark on his finger and says coolly, “Someone once forced me to come home overnight and inherit the family business with three letters in reply. Do you know who it was?” Li Xueyang QAQ: “Say another word and I’ll cry!!!” Ji Qinglin wraps an arm around Li Xueyang and glares. “What are you looking at? Don’t any of you have a wife who cries this adorably?!” Cover character designs by the artist Tang Jiuxi. My new novel next door is now underway: My Wealthy Dad After Becoming the Rebellious Brat’s Stepfather. Zhuang Shu is a star employee in the madman division of the Book Transmigration Bureau. He specializes in near-total world destruction, turning evil, love turning to hate, and physical and psychological disorders. Thanks to his hard work and outstanding results, he’s been specially approved for retirement. His retirement reward is to enter a power-fantasy novel about a male lead’s career as a background character and enjoy a life of luxury. The reward description reads: “Good looks, money, a family, and a career. No need to risk your life. A peaceful, pleasant retirement paradise!” Zhuang Shu is delighted and immediately drops in. At the school gates, a man casually tosses him a velvet ring box. “Take good care of the kid when you get home.” Then he rolls up the car window and drives off without looking back to conquer the world. Zhuang Shu: “???” Only then does Zhuang Shu learn that his brief, two-hundred-word bio in the novel covers being rich, having a husband; having a family, as a stepfather; and having a career, which is a complete flop... Most importantly, his son is sixteen, and he’s twenty! Zhuang Shu: “Don’t think I can’t still wield a knife just because I’m retired! I’ll flatten the Book Transmigration Bureau!” * At their first meeting, his stepson He Lan is being beaten up by a group. His eyes are full of knives, his heart full of resentment. Zhuang Shu effortlessly pins He Lan to the ground when he tries to vent his anger on him. What a promising little psychopath. Since I have nothing else to do, why not raise a successor for fun? He grips He Lan’s chin. “Hate it? Resent it? Why not start with a small goal: take down your dad and inherit his billions?” He Lan is dumbfounded: Does Old He know what kind of person he married? * He learns his stepson has been getting thrashed in the hottest mobile game, Martial War, first online and then in real life, utterly and comprehensively outclassed. Zhuang Shu casually registers an account, logs in politely, then spends money like a madman, killing the other side until they quit the game and rising to second place in the server rankings. He Lan and his buddies: “The guild leader is awesome!” Zhuang Shu: “Second place is nothing to brag about.” Under the gaze of the crowd, the number-one player sends Zhuang Shu an invitation: [Heaven and earth bear witness, sun and light shine as one. The number-one swordsman, “Bianzhuo Has Retired,” seeks to wed “Zhuang Shu Is Number One in the World.”] Movie star Bianzhuo! The server explodes! As the entire game world waits to collect red envelopes, He Lan jumps out and yells: [Stop messing around! “Zhuang Shu Is Number One in the World” is my dad! My father is alive and well!] Old He, who has received a black-and-gold co-branded card with a million yuan in game purchases: Why does this card look kind of green? * After Zhuang Shu becomes famous through the game, the company invites him to join a parent-child variety show. Zhuang Shu’s reputation in the industry was already in ruins. He’s being attacked from all sides and mocked from every direction. [Flop Zhuang Shu, stop trying to ride on my brother’s coattails!] [Is Bianzhuo’s company dead or what? Sue this flop!] [Gross! A total nobody washing his face with red wine, trying to act like some wealthy lady!] To raise his successor, He Lan, Zhuang Shu gives the show his all. The father and son carve out a path to victory, winning countless fans. They become wildly popular, and even more wildly hated. People keep shipping them, and rumors spread: Zhuang Shu remarried and is raising a kid as a widower. Totally shippable! He Lan grits his teeth and tags his real dad: @Dad, wake up! You’re about to lose your wife! The richest man, lawyer He Zheng, issues a stern statement: Any slander against He Zheng’s beloved, Mr. Zhuang Shu, will be dealt with through legal action. [My brother is the real flop! Get on your knees and apologize!] [Bianzhuo isn’t worthy. He’s not worthy even if he throws himself at him! Leave him alone!] [The richest man’s wife only washes his face with red wine. So frugal and such a good homemaker!] * A bonus livestream from the show. The director asks: “Mr. He Zheng, what kind of Zhuang Shu do you find most attractive?” He Zheng answers frankly: “Zhuang Shu is very alluring when he’s forceful.” The director asks: “Then, Mr. Zhuang Shu, could you show us how alluringly forceful you can be?” Zhuang Shu thinks for a moment, then looks at He Zheng. “Darling, come here and get on your knees!” He Zheng reaches out and covers the camera. The audience: “Imagining them having a great time. Nice! :)” Note: In this world, same-sex marriage is legal, and the child is not biologically related to him. Theme: Effort may not pay off right away, but it will shine at every moment in life!