I Became a Couple with My Ex on a Dating Show

After refusing an arranged marriage, Qiao Wantang's family cuts off her allowance.

Needing money to get by, she joins a dating reality show pairing celebrities with ordinary people. To her surprise, the show's director is her ex-boyfriend.

Qiao Wantang decides to ignore Chi Yi, but he shows no sign of acting like an ex. Instead, he keeps trying to get her attention.

A friend advises Chi Yi: "An ex is like sugarcane you've already spat out. You need to swallow your pride, shamelessly sweet-talk her, and play the poor, pitiful guy. Then she'll think you're worth chewing on again."

So...

Qiao Wantang flirts with an ordinary contestant, who looks alarmed. "Chi Yi's my bro!"

She flirts with an award-winning actor, and Chi Yi corners her in a blind spot of the cameras to warn her: "He's only playing along to maintain his public image."

Qiao Wantang finally snaps. "Didn't we break up pretty decisively? Why are you acting all pitiful now?"

He stays silent for a long time before saying, "Wantang, I regret it."

In the more than half a year since their breakup, when he couldn't find her, he'd regretted it countless times.

The male guest scheduled to join the next episode backs out.

Chi Yi, the director, steps in at the last minute as a male contestant.

Then netizens dig up the works he directed in college.

Netizens: Guys, is that... Qiao Wantang as the female lead?

Qiao Wantang posts a statement in the middle of the night: We worked together. We haven't kept in touch.

Chi Yi replies: Wantang, when can I get off your blocklist?

Netizens: I'm shipping them! Get on with it!

Talented, haughty sweetheart x aloof heartthrob who comes down from his pedestal and shamelessly pursues her

Theme: Love means trusting and communicating with each other.