Being a Couch Potato on a Reality Dating Show

(My new novel, Pretty Omega Doesn't Want to Go Legit, is now available. Please support it!) As the child of superstar parents and a second-generation rich kid, Mu Jian only wants to live off his parents, not work. But his celebrity parents use every means at their disposal to force him to debut on the online variety show Sunshine Boys. Mu Jian goes to great lengths to make himself flop, so why is he getting more and more popular?! * Mu Jian meets Tang Zong on the show's audition program. Eighteen-year-old Tang Zong bears a grudge and struggles within his troubled family. He's poor but stubborn, proud, and never gives in. Mu Jian's heart softens, and he can't help reaching out to him. “Don't be afraid. Your big brother Mu's got your back!” Because of those words, the two become a hugely popular CP, and Mu Jian's fame skyrockets. Mu Jian doesn't want any of this attention and denies it three times over: “I don't know him. We're not close. We don't get along.” For eighteen years, Tang Zong's life has been nothing but darkness. Then, on the audition show, he meets Mu Jian. The young man's hand reaches through the darkness and pulls him out of hell. From then on, wherever Mu Jian is, there's warmth and salvation. Tang Zong just smiles silently at Mu Jian's denials. Until one late night, Tang Zong is livestreaming for a brand when a very petulant complaint comes from behind him: “Tang Zong, you beast! My back is killing me!” It's unmistakably Mu Jian's voice. The comments explode: Aaaaaah, they're really together! Reader's Guide: 1. A laid-back, lazy, eccentric rich-kid uke who only wants to flop × a positive, hardworking, driven cool-guy seme. They heal and save each other. 2. Basically a collection of ridiculous comedy bits, full of absurd humor. Don't expect the logic to hold up. (July release: Pretty Omega Doesn't Want to Go Legit. Please add it to your want-to-read list!) Xia Ye got into this prestigious school by doing far better than expected. Struggling with the academic pressure, he starts writing fanfiction about an Alpha and himself in a private diary. Before long, writing about it isn't enough. He starts pursuing the Alpha. Someone like Ye Jingmo, an exceptionally handsome Alpha with excellent grades and a wealthy family, would naturally never be interested in an ordinary, low-quality Omega like Xia Ye. He politely turns Xia Ye down, just as he does all the other Omegas. Unlike the others, Xia Ye is gloomy, obsessive, and a little twisted. He doesn't care that the Alpha has rejected him. He keeps pestering and clinging to him. The Alpha coldly rejects him, sternly warns him, and blocks him. Xia Ye isn't discouraged. He starts offering himself to the Alpha, sending his medical checkup results through direct messages on every social media platform and creating alternate accounts to add him, hinting that the Alpha can do whatever he wants with him. He gets blocked and deleted every time. Ye Jingmo is unquestionably an upright Alpha who is serious about romance and never sleeps around, fully deserving of his “heavenly beauty” reputation. Just when Ye Jingmo is at a low point in life, disillusioned and down on his luck, Xia Ye appears in front of him and asks, “Wanna hook up?” The “heavenly beauty” begins to fall: “Where?” Xia Ye succeeds in getting him. It works amazingly well. Way more satisfying than writing about it himself. * In the first year of sleeping around with Xia Ye, Ye Jingmo fiercely reproaches himself: You should face life with a positive attitude, not give in to decadence and sleep around with an Omega. In the third year of sleeping around with Xia Ye Sleeping around with an Omega. In the seventh year of sleeping around with Xia Ye Sleeping around. In the tenth year of sleeping around with Xia Ye Getting some. He likes him. He wants to make their relationship official. * After ten years, even a heart of ice like Ye Jingmo's has been warmed. He's fallen for the Omega and can't live without him. He wants to date the Omega and spend the rest of his life with him. Then the Omega ruthlessly rejects him: “Isn't what we have fine as it is? Dating and marriage would be such a hassle.” Ye Jingmo suddenly realizes that maybe the Omega only likes him... in bed. Reader's Guide: 1. An Alpha who looks heavenly but has a terrible temper × an Omega who seems gentle but is a little twisted. It opens ten years later, with an Alpha who wants to make things official and an Omega who doesn't. A groveling romance. 2. Lots of melodrama, with a slight scum-and-doormat flavor. Not very sweet. Friends-with-benefits to lovers, each other's first love, one-on-one, happy ending. 3. It's a melodramatic story. Of course both leads are a bit unhinged. (Next sweet story: Only You Can Touch Me. Please add it to your want-to-read list!) Five-year-old Lin Xiaoye has a small beauty mark at the corner of his eye. He looks cool and cocky, but has a terrible temper. He develops a strange illness that makes him throw up whenever anyone touches him, and it also causes a severe case of touch starvation. Whenever the illness flares up, the adults are helpless, left to watch the young master suffer and throw tantrums. Until Lin Xiaoye meets Xu Yaoran. Xu Yaoran is gentle and well-behaved, graceful and quiet, the kind of person people can't help wanting to get close to. Lin Xiaoye discovers that he doesn't mind Xu Yaoran touching him at all. Unable to resist, he reaches out and quietly pleads, “Big Brother, touch me.” * Xu Yaoran is the real young master who was switched at birth. He isn't brought back to the Xu family until he's six, but his parents clearly favor the fake young master they raised themselves and feel little affection for him. When the Xu family needs something from the Lin family for business, they simply send Xu Yaoran to the Lin household to treat their young master's illness. Xu Yaoran feels hurt and sad, but he has no choice but to accept his parents' decision. Looking at Lin Xiaoye, who's a year younger than him, he decides to raise him like a little brother. As he raises him, his little brother starts acting strange. Eighteen-year-old Lin Xiaoye hugs him from behind and licks the edge of his ear, his eyes filled with madness. “Big Brother, you're the only one who's allowed to touch me, so I'm the only one who's allowed to touch you. Understand?” Reader's Guide: 1. A younger seme with the possessiveness of a rabid dog × a gentle, easygoing uke. The uke is one year older than the seme. At first the uke dotes on the seme and raises him as a little brother, but later his little brother turns him gay. The younger brother is extremely possessive. 2. Childhood friends who depend on each other. 3. Flashback scenes. Theme: Risk your life for the brilliant moments