After the Cunning Her Joined a Dating Show

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One day, Xia Mozhu got a call from her top-tier star older brother: "My unrequited love is going on a dating show. Keep an eye on her for me." (Meaning: If she starts getting close to another male guest, jump in and mess things up.)

Xia Mozhu: "I'm great at that!"

Ever since she was little, she was number one at messing around during meals.

But as Xia Mozhu kept looking after her... she ended up falling for her herself.

Her brother, who'd just been stolen away from under his nose: "Is this what you call looking after her?"

On a dating show called Celebrity Dating Guide, the original script was supposed to be a melodramatic battlefield, with four men competing for three women. Somehow, though, the girl-girl pairing of Xia Mozhu and Su Qin became a hit, and their fans hailed the show as the greatest lesbian dating show of all time.

Su Qin was a child star who'd been famous for over a decade, and was the unattainable dream girl of half the entertainment industry. When Xia Mozhu competed on a girl-group survival show, the media often called her "Little Su Qin." When she first debuted, their fan groups even clashed online.

Fans of the pairing: "They're made for each other! This is so good!"

The two stars reached an amicable agreement and played along for publicity.

After the show ended, the two had no more public interactions.

Onlookers: "Of course it was just a publicity pairing."

But later, the two appeared on the same variety show again.

Fans of the pairing, being force-fed sweetness: "Oh my god, this is real! Somebody help hold the closet door shut!"

Later, after being hit with countless displays of affection from the couple, the fans said: "We're tired. We can't hold it shut anymore. Let's just give up together."

At an international awards ceremony, Su Qin held her Best Actress trophy. A reporter asked, "What's the thing you most want to do next?"

Su Qin replied, "Get married."

Hearts broke all over the internet, and the trending topic crashed the servers.

The fan club for Xia Mozhu and Su Qin's pairing nearly disbanded overnight. Their fan forum was a battlefield of heartbreak. Then one of the stars herself appeared that very day.

@Su Qin: "I mean, get married to my wife."

Years later, when fans looked back on the dating show that brought them together, they realized all the signs had been there from the start.

#Xia Mozhu thought she first met Su Qin on the survival show where she made her debut, but actually, it was even earlier.

#Also known as The Devious 0 Sweeps the Internet's Dream Girl Off Her Feet

A little excerpt:

The two worked together on a short film. On its release day, they livestreamed their reactions at the crew's invitation. When certain scenes came on, Xia Mozhu blushed from head to toe and burrowed into Su Qin's arms.

Fans watching the livestream: "Help, help, help! Am I even allowed to see this?!"

A few things to know before reading:

1. A goofy, puppy-like, very much alive 0-bottom x a cold, double-standard, sharp-tongued goddess of an ace

2. Straightforward romance between a 19-year-old and a 24-year-old

3. Light, fluffy, no-brainer sweetness

A preview of my upcoming story: Reborn: Hidden Currents After Marriage

When she reached marrying age, Sang Hanzhi was tossed aside like a weed and married off to Yue Zhige, the sickly granddaughter of the Yue family who was the only one in her generation never to enter the business world. Only later did she discover that Yue Zhige was the most beloved child of Grandma Yue, the head of the family.

Sang Hanzhi thought she felt nothing but a desire to use Yue Zhige. And indeed, she used Yue Zhige's unconditional love and acceptance to win a perfect battle for her inheritance.

But in the seventh year after her wife Yue Zhige's death, she missed her so terribly.

She knew it was punishment from Heaven for a sinner like her.

Everything has its cause and consequence. She thought her bitter reward was a lifetime of loneliness, spent lying awake at night.

After a plane crash sent her back to the night she married Yue Zhige, she learned that her bitter reward was to be tormented night after night by the person beside her, once as gentle and fragile as moonlight.

Given another life, she wanted to sow good and reap good, and change the regrets she hadn't been able to make right in her previous life.

**

One thought can make a Buddha, one thought can make a demon.

Yue Zhige had lived a pure and blameless life, only to end up with the person she most revered and cherished, her grandmother, murdered. She had failed to see it coming and could do nothing to change the outcome. Given another life, she didn't want to be a Buddha.

If her family treated her with malice, she would return it in kind.

Only when it came to the person beside her, after two lifetimes of hatred, resentment, obsession, and entanglement, was the love she could never let go of still there.

**

After the heartbreak of her previous life, whenever Yue Zhige faced Sang Hanzhi's advances, she would only sneer and say, "What do you want me to do for you this time?"

Sang Hanzhi missed the wife from her previous life so terribly, the one who always responded to her every need and treasured her above all else.

Finally, on a rainy night, she looked at Yue Zhige with red-rimmed eyes and said, "Will you hold me? I just want you to love me."

Weibo: @Xiaoshui Xuange

(The last character is pronounced ge, third tone.)

Theme: Everyone will one day find the light that saves them.