The Obsessive Maniac Pretending to Be Good Has Turned Dark Again [Entertainment Industry]

[Sweet, laid-back beauty shou vs. secretly dark, obsessive, brooding, pretend-good-boy gong]

Actor Chi Fei, who was barely a blip on the radar, had a crush on campus heartthrob Shi Yanzhou back in school. But after he finally won over that unattainable beauty, he discovered that beneath his refined, gentle exterior lurked an intense possessiveness and need for control. To save his own skin, Chi Fei fled overnight on graduation day.

Years later, just when he thought they would never cross paths again, Shi Yanzhou reappeared before him as an entertainment-industry top-tier star.

Chi Fei, who had been lying flat in the entertainment industry, had no idea why his career suddenly took off. The male lead in the drama he landed was Shi Yanzhou, the star guest on the variety show was Shi Yanzhou, his advertising partner was Shi Yanzhou, and the person rumored to be dating him was also Shi Yanzhou...

Faced with all these coincidences, Shi Yanzhou sneered, "You think you can use the same trick twice?"

Chi Fei felt completely wronged: ...It really wasn't me this time.

In the end, the two were forced into a contractual CP arrangement, and Chi Fei had no choice but to move into Shi Yanzhou's home. The Shi Yanzhou of today was warm, polite, cool, and distant, with not a trace of the person he used to be.

Just as Chi Fei was planning to end their contract and leave...

The cold and distant Shi Yanzhou suddenly acted completely out of character, pinning him against the door with a brooding gaze.

"Where are you planning to run this time?"

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"The Bureau of Non-Natural Creatures" by Yanshu

Blurb:

After working as a laid-back civil servant at the Bureau of Non-Natural Creatures for so long, Shi Jin heard that the bureau was expanding its staff. He had thought this iron rice bowl, where he could coast along until retirement unless he got killed off, would be in high demand. He didn't expect to hit a brick wall on his very first assignment.

"The Bureau of Non-Natural Creatures is a supernatural-crime agency that handles anything beyond the law or inexplicable by natural science." Shi Jin sized up the man in front of him, Qu Yihuai, and found him quite satisfactory.

Qu Yihuai was sizing him up, too. Raising an eyebrow, he asked with a faint smile, "So what do you do?"

Shi Jin hadn't expected the other man to be so unreceptive, so he explained again:

"Anything that natural science can't solve falls within my area of work."

No one knew that Qu Yihuai kept someone hidden in his heart.

Years ago, that person had saved him from danger twice and changed the course of his life, only to erase his memories one after another. His childhood admiration and the feelings he'd harbored as a youth were carefully concealed, until that person came walking toward him again.

"Oh." When he raised his eyes again, they were as still as a placid lake. He casually fished a handful of coins from his pocket. "Then tell my fortune in love."

"..."

****** Thanks to the cover artist @ChangshanXY for permission to use the artwork. *******

Saved on June 17, 2020

Theme: Pretending to be good.