Name: Stop Acting
Author: Yishui Thirteen

Synopsis

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If Wen Shi had known that Xie Shucheng was her student's older brother, she thinks she might have considered a gentler approach when she first met him.

Instead of hurling a drumstick straight at his head.

Everyone in Qingcheng's second-generation social circle knows that no one is as unruly and hard to tame as Xie Shucheng.

Wen Shi knows better than to make an enemy of someone like him. At the very least, she can avoid him...

"Would you consider it?" The man folded his arms and asked, looking perfectly at ease.

Gazing at the glittering bank card on the table, Wen Shi swallowed her last reservations and gave him a smile. "Deal."

All she had to do was help him sabotage his blind dates. It couldn't be that hard... right?

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Seduced by the lure of money, Wen Shi dutifully played the role she'd been assigned: his "secret lover." She accompanied him to all kinds of blind dates, playing the weepy, teary-eyed mistress to perfection and helping Xie Shucheng look every bit the scumbag.

If you ignored the occasional malicious script edits from the man himself, working together was actually pretty pleasant.

As time went on, all his friends knew that a delicate little girl was always at Xie Shucheng's side. They teased her for clinging to him and not knowing when to quit.

A heartless man like Xie Shucheng would only play around for a while. Once he got bored, there'd be no going back.

Until one day, someone saw the supposedly "fragile little girl" pin Xie Shucheng against a wall with one hand. Her eyes were red at the corners, her expression furious. "Xie Shucheng, don't push it!"

The man bent down and kissed the corner of her eye, his gaze full of indulgence. He smiled faintly. "If I don't push it, when are you going to give me a proper title?"

Everyone: ...?

#Wait, is something wrong here?#

#So the one who wouldn't take no for an answer was...? #

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Xie Shucheng considered himself a decent person.

After meeting Wen Shi, though, he sometimes felt he could stand to be a little more of a bastard.

-Stubborn but softhearted band drummer x carefree, scheming rich heir / Cat x Fox

-1v1 / mutually exclusive / happy ending

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Everyone in Beijing's second-generation social circle knows that Xia Fengwei likes Lu Juesheng. She has pursued him for years, but to no avail.

He was a spirited, carefree young man, changing partners over and over, yet never giving her so much as a glance.

Then the Lu family fell. The once-proud, flamboyant young man disappeared overnight. When he returned, he was a changed person.

They say Lu Juesheng, the business world's newest rising star, is a gentleman on the surface but ruthless and extreme in his methods, stopping at nothing. No one can see his true feelings.

Such a coldhearted man, yet he has kept away from women for years for one woman.

Xia Fengwei knows full well who that woman is: his first love, the white moonlight he can't forget, the only woman he ever truly loved.

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She sees Lu Juesheng again at his first love's wedding.

The man raises his glass toward the bride onstage, smiling with cold despair.

Xia Fengwei edges closer without drawing attention, only to hear him ask in a cool voice:

"Miss Xia, getting in the way of someone else's marriage shouldn't count as a crime, should it?"

At that, Xia Fengwei's eyes turn red. She leaves in a huff, suddenly realizing that the person she had pursued for so long was nothing but a joke.

Time had moved on, and he would rather ruin his first love's happiness than spare her a second glance.

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That night, a friend asks Lu Juesheng, "You finally got to see her. Why didn't you tell her?"

"I'll wait a little longer."