It's All Because of You That I Can't Perform!

Zhao Haoyu and Yu Lingbo are the male and female leads of a story about two chaste characters.

Because of this role, before they meet each other, they have to be tied to the idea of being single, and they can't date anyone!

Ever since middle school, school-beauty-level Yu Lingbo has received confessions from countless people. But every time she blushes and is about to say yes, degrading, slut-shaming comments appear in her mind.

Yu Lingbo, who really, really wants to fall in love: ???

Zhao Haoyu comes from a wealthy family that desperately wants a girl. His nickname nearly ended up being "Bring Home a Sister."

But whenever he tries to help a girl with some little thing, terrifying images flash through his mind before he can even touch her, and his buddies laugh at him for being afraid of women.

When winter comes, Zhao Haoyu sees a couple walking down the street. The man is tall, and the woman is slightly plump.

Zhao Haoyu muses: It's getting cold. Having a slightly plump girlfriend would be really nice...

Then, for no apparent reason, a memory appears in his mind of being bullied by a plump girl, and he spends a cold (miserable) winter!

Zhao Haoyu: ????

Later, they finally realize that there's someone in the world causing all their misfortune, keeping them from living like normal people!

Yu Lingbo & Zhao Haoyu: Then let's find that person and take them out!

And so the two set out to find each other, hoping to secretly take each other out.

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She Thought She Was an Ugly Duckling

Blurb:

As the winner of three Golden Broom Awards for Worst Actress, Yao Siqing is not exactly stunning.

But she loves acting in dramas and roles where "the whole world loves me" and "I'm the most beautiful woman of all time."

She won't take a role unless it's Mary Sue enough.

This acting career, where her looks don't match her role, has earned her a barrage of mockery from netizens.

What makes many people grind their teeth in hatred is that every time she acts in a drama, she promotes a couple pairing with one of her male co-stars!

Last year's heartthrob, the year before's heartthrob, and the one from the year before that.

Not to mention this year's two heartthrobs. Not one of them managed to "escape"!

Now she's fallen on hard times!

Powerful men have tried to take advantage of her, only to be rejected in the harshest possible terms. It has happened three times.

Yao Siqing has finally been blacklisted by all three powerful men!

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At twenty-two, Yao Siqing swept all the major awards with a film she wrote and starred in alongside her childhood sweetheart, becoming the most astonishing newcomer in the industry.

After that, she and her childhood sweetheart went their separate ways. One went to Hollywood, while the other stayed in China and gradually became a specialist in female-led dramas.

Now it's time for her to look back at where it all began.

Then the gossip-hungry crowd discovers...

The heartthrob celebrities she'd promoted pairings with... really had all been her boyfriends, and she'd made every one of them fall for her.

When she falls on hard times, offers of work come pouring in from every direction!

Her heartthrob ex-boyfriends & childhood sweetheart: Siqing's in trouble. I'm the only one who can save her!

Yao Siqing: Wait! Can you let me... let me save myself first? Please?!

Theme: If freedom is at stake, even love can be cast aside