Who Takes Whom for a Substitute?

[Next up: Immersively Playing a Degrading Bottom for Ninety Days. Please add it to your reading list OvO] [There are two other upcoming stories on my page. Feel free to check them out if you're interested!] Blurb: Shao Langxing, an internet celebrity in the street dance section of a popular video-sharing site, got himself a boyfriend. Ning Zhi was gentle and accommodating, never once saying a word against him. His friends all said Ning Zhi was so devoted that he was practically holding out his whole heart, but Shao Langxing had never really cared much about him. At the end of the day, Ning Zhi was just a stand-in he had found, with a face that happened to resemble his beloved first love. Ning Zhi would drink with him when his first love wouldn't. Ning Zhi would cook for him when his first love wouldn't. Ning Zhi wouldn't say he loved him when his first love wouldn't. Because Shao Langxing didn't want to hear those words from a stand-in. As time passed, Ning Zhi took the place of Shao Langxing's first love in his heart, and he gradually thought it might be nice to stay together like this. But just then, Ning Zhi suddenly knocked the bouquet of flowers declaring Shao Langxing's love out of his hands. As he gave him a gentle rejection, he smiled and proposed they break up. "You're so much like my ex. Now I can finally let him go... Thank you so much for keeping me company all this time." Shao Langxing: ??? [I heard you made me your stand-in. What a coincidence, I did the same to you.] [Sharp-tongued but soft-hearted top × turns cold and denies everything bottom] *Same-sex marriage is legal in this story. *Warning: an old-school mutual stand-in relationship where they both treat each other badly. This is not a typical groveling-for-forgiveness story. *No angst, just have fun. Next up: Immersively Playing a Degrading Bottom for Ninety Days. Blurb below OvO Shu Yu is a method actor. He can't get into character unless he understands the role, and all of the characters who have made him famous over the years have been just like him: gloomy, capricious, and mercurial. One day, his agent got him a script in which he plays a submissive bottom with a people-pleasing personality, one whose partner treats him as a stand-in. Shu Yu's first reaction was that he couldn't do it, but his agent told him the film could win awards. Shu Yu: I'll give it a try. But stepping out of his comfort zone was hard, so Shu Yu went to a bar to drown his sorrows and accidentally slept with a handsome guy. The next day, the handsome guy tossed a bank card at him. Shu Yu was about to lose his temper, but the guy told him that what happened the night before was an accident. He had mistaken Shu Yu for the first love he had longed for but could never have. Shu Yu: ...Hold on. Shu Yu volunteered to be the handsome guy's substitute lover, just so he could personally experience the circumstances and state of mind of a degrading bottom. And Gu Songnian didn't disappoint him. Every word and action was just like a scumbag top straight out of the script, often making Shu Yu want to slap him. But it was all for work, so he put up with it. Three months later, Gu Songnian felt his love for his first love slowly fading, and found himself falling for his stand-in instead. But Shu Yu said: Sorry, but my part's wrapped. Gu Songnian: ??? Theme: In a relationship, sincerity comes first.