Sweet Schemes [Entertainment Industry]

- The entire novel is being revised from Chapter One, but the overall plot remains unchanged

1.

Recently, a dating reality show featuring celebrities and ordinary people has taken the internet by storm.

Nan Shu, a D-list actress known for her pretty face, was forced by her manager to join the second season of Choose Me, I'm Super Sweet. She made a dazzling entrance as the third female contestant and won everyone's affection.

That included her ex-boyfriend's younger brother.

As luck would have it, her ex-boyfriend, Qin Chaohe, was one of the show's off-camera relationship observers.

Nan Shu: ...Flirting with my ex's younger brother right in front of my ex. This is thrilling.

By the end of the third episode, the CP pairing of Nan Shu and Qin Jia, dubbed "Love Letter," was already a huge hit. Nan Shu's seemingly meaningful, smiling glances had the audience collectively shipping them like crazy.

During a break in filming, Nan Shu leaned against a corner with her phone, grinning boldly as she sent Qin Chaohe a taunting message: "Observer, are you shipping us yet?"

Before he could reply, she felt a tight grip on her shoulder and was pulled by Qin Chaohe into a blind spot beyond the cameras.

"Having fun acting?"

Nan Shu stubbornly lifted her chin and said:

"I'm not acting."

He chuckled without getting angry.

"If you really liked someone, you wouldn't look at them that way."

"Then what would that look look like?"

"Like the way you're looking at me right now."

2.

Just as the Love Letter CP fans were growing in number and had taken the top spot on the CP supertopic rankings, Nan Shu destroyed their ship with a line on the show: "Even dogs won't go back to an old flame."

A year later, Nan Shu's Weibo post about winning Best Actress at the Yulan Awards set off another frenzy: "I have a fiance now. I don't want to talk to people who don't have one."

The attached photo showed her beaming, with a huge diamond ring revealed as she deliberately brushed back her hair.

The all-knowing netizens enlarged the photo to hunt for clues. It didn't take long for industry insiders to identify the ring as being made from the same exceptionally rare gemstone that had sold for a sky-high price at this year's auction.

Then another netizen posted a photo of Qin Chaohe's chief assistant bidding higher over the phone without changing expression.

The animated image of Nan Shu arrogantly declaring, "Even dogs won't go back to an old flame," was immediately pushed to the top of the comments.

The discussion grew and continued into the night. Only then did Nan Shu reluctantly log in to Weibo and admit: "Woof."

P.S.:

Both leads are each other's first love, and neither has been with anyone else.

Next is the advance preview for my next novel. If you like it, feel free to add it to your reading list.

Just to make this clear in advance: The male lead was fostered in the family, and the two are not related by blood!

Title: Caged Feathers

Blurb:

1.

At eighteen, after receiving the first beating of her life, Liu Chaoyan decided to take Zhou Qingji and leave this home.

She gazed at Zhou Qingji with clear, bright eyes and asked with the fearless innocence of youth, "Will you elope with me, big brother?"

The young man ignored the child's crazy talk. Frowning, he spread ointment evenly across her reddened palm.

The girl was unhappy that she hadn't gotten his attention and rubbed her head against him. Only then did Zhou Qingji look up at her coolly. "Have you thought it through, Yanyan?"

Liu Chaoyan beamed and nodded hard.

This was her only chance to steal away the little princess.

Zhou Qingji's cold, sharp features softened slightly. Unhurriedly, he tied a pretty bow in her hair. "Pack your Stacy bag and come see me in half an hour."

Two days later, Liu Chaoyan returned, wrapped in Zhou Qingji's clothes.

She smiled as she hugged her father and said how much she'd missed him. From then on, she never mentioned Zhou Qingji again.

2.

When Liu Chaoyan met Zhou Qingji again, she was packing her luggage with her head bowed and didn't see him.

The man stood in the doorway of the dressing room, his gaze heavy as he watched her carelessly stuff skirts and coats into her luggage, then bury her face in a fur coat and cry.

"Yanyan."

At the sound of his voice, Liu Chaoyan lifted her tear-streaked face. Zhou Qingji bent down to meet her eyes, his breath brushing against her.

"Don't be afraid. Big brother will take good care of you."

Relieved to have escaped the fate of a stray dog driven from its home, the girl wrapped her arms around the man's neck and leaped happily into his embrace.

After that, servants dressed her every day as though she were a gift. Wherever Zhou Qingji went, she had to follow like a little tail. In the end, she became a rose nurtured inside a glass case.

"Yanyan, don't be picky about your food."

"It's only a dress. Yanyan, I'll give you plenty more."

"Yanyan is always at her sweetest when she's asleep."

-If your only choice is to become a pampered bird in a cage, what dazzling treasure should be used to lure you inside?

Theme: Love one another and strive to improve.