I Personally Broke Up the Couple I Shipped

[My next novel: Won't You Please Call Off the Engagement? Coming in October. If you're interested, please add it to your collection~]

As a top-tier star, Gu Shuci is never short on controversy or scandals.

Rumors and publicity stunts about her are everywhere.

She and her team are also considered the entertainment industry's most persistent pests.

Fans of other stars hate them with a passion.

Then a variety show revealed the truth.

Everyone learned that Gu Shuci, the rising star, was a superfan of the CP fan forum for Movie Emperor Fu and top-tier star Wen.

For a time, fans of both stars quietly breathed a sigh of relief, while remaining secretly on guard.

Only Movie Emperor Fu's fans were furious, and got into a fierce online fight with her fans all over again.

But no one knew that before all this, the aloof beauty they admired had once blocked Gu Shuci's doorway and smiled as he asked her, "Would you like to like only me?"

And no one knew he'd secretly made a fan forum called "One Glance, Allure" and led the charge in shipping them.

But even fewer knew that, in the barren years of her past,

Gu Shuci had once met someone.

He had barged forcefully into her dark, bottomless world, bringing a ray of light with him.

From then on, she too couldn't help growing attached to this world.

Please note:

1. There are original elements!

2. No real-life inspirations! No real-life inspirations! No real-life inspirations!

3. A slow-burn story.

First version: 2019.10.05

Finalized: 2020.07.09

[Weibo: @Ye Axian]

My next novel: Won't You Please Call Off the Engagement?

The eldest daughter of the Jiang family, Jiang Yuan, is defiant, radiant, and carefree. She has no interest in marriage.

Just as she was imagining all the ways she could enjoy life on her own, her parents forcefully arranged a marriage for her.

Her match is the mysterious, distinguished young master of the Fu family.

To make him call off the engagement, Jiang Yuan tries every trick in the book. When none of them work, she follows the example of her no-good friends and makes a big show of keeping a little-known actor with barely any screen time.

Jiang Yuan spends lavishly on her new lover, making waves throughout high society.

Everyone bets that the Fu family's young master will be so furious he'll go to the Jiang family to break off the engagement.

But the young master of the Fu family sends back a single message: "The wedding date stands."

Jiang Yuan, upon hearing the news: "...?"

Is this guy sick? Does he want the whole world to know he's got a giant green hat over his head?

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Later, one day after they get together,

Jiang Yuan suddenly asks him, "If I hadn't taken a liking to you that day and brought you home, do you think we'd still be together now?"

"We would," he answers with absolute conviction.

Jiang Yuan can't help laughing. "You're that confident?"

He says, "You probably don't know this, but I was the only one you could have taken home that day."

Jiang Yuan: "..."

She'd been thinking too small.

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Yuan Yuan,

you probably don't know that even the proud and cold Fu Zhiyu is just a poor soul who can't have the one he wants.

*

Radiant, defiant heiress X gentle, scheming young master

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Coming soon: When I Transmigrated into a Book's Female Supporting Character

Nan Ying transmigrates into a book.

She becomes the villainess from an old-fashioned novel, the male lead's ex-wife, whom he personally sent to a psychiatric hospital.

Nan Ying, who knows the whole story by heart: Oh, crap.

The heroine is naive, lively, and kind, the little sun of all the powerful men.

The male lead is steady, reserved, and upright, the light the heroine would follow at any cost.

And she is the brainless, thoroughly ordinary villainess whose fate has already been written.

Nan Ying: Can't do it, can't win. I'm out of here.

Unwilling to become a plot device, Nan Ying secretly gets married and keeps a low profile in show business, making a great success of herself. Just as she's about to become a rising star...

A huge pile of blame lands squarely on her.

Rumors and abuse flood the internet, and everyone is quick to distance themselves from her.

She looks at the heroine's hypocritical, triumphant face.

She watches the male lead's sinister, unfathomable tactics.

Fine.

If they want to force her into becoming a villainess,

she knows this road well.

Nan Ying turns around and hands the male lead a huge present, dragging him down from his pedestal and covering him in mud.

But in response...

The whole internet: Aaaah! They're real! I knew it!

Rumor-Debunking Expert Nan Ying: Sorry, this is my freshly issued divorce certificate. It's still warm.

The whole internet: QAQ I won't listen, I don't believe it! My ship is the sweetest in the world!

But as Nan Ying keeps stirring things up, she discovers that her relationship with the male lead, who in the original story only had eyes for the heroine, is getting more and more complicated.

Then one day, the two unexpectedly meet again on a variety show.

Nan Ying looks at the male lead, who has appeared out of nowhere. Refined and restrained, distinguished and aloof, he's still like the moon in the heavens.

Nan Ying: What a nuisance.

The male lead simply gives her a calm, faint smile, his face full of affection.

A guest asks, "Teacher Lu, could you tell us why you decided to join our show?"

The male lead: "Because Teacher Nan is here."

The whole internet: Sob! My ship is back together!!

[Sweet, satisfying story.]

Theme: Love drives me forward and helps me become someone as excellent as you.