Every Scumbag Top Is My Substitute Lover

Everyone says Ji Fansheng loves Pei Yu to the point of obsession. Even knowing Pei Yu only sees him as a substitute, he still offers up his whole heart without complaint, letting the other man trample all over it.

But Pei Yu had grown tired of him. He took a drag on his cigarette and said to Ji Fansheng, "Yangyang is back in the country. I can't let him know you exist. Let's break up."

The desperate pleading Pei Yu expected never came. Ji Fansheng merely nodded calmly. "All right."

Pei Yu watched Ji Fansheng leave with a gloomy expression. Worried he might do something reckless over the breakup, Pei Yu eventually chased after him.

He followed in his car, imagining eighteen different ways to rescue him, only to witness Ji Fansheng seamlessly arrange a date with someone else.

They chatted and laughed, getting along wonderfully, as if Pei Yu didn't exist.

But what made Pei Yu's scalp tingle most was this:

Ji Fansheng's new lover looked almost exactly like him!

At first, Pei Yu thought everyone else was just a substitute for him, and that one day Ji Fansheng would come back to his side.

He tried every way he could think of to win Ji Fansheng back, sabotaging his chances with other people and keeping himself wonderfully busy.

In the end, Ji Fansheng got married, and Pei Yu wasn't the groom.

Pei Yu cried.

The torrential rain drenched him. His tears mingled with the rain, and his regret was deeper than the sea.

Only then did he learn that he, too, had merely been a substitute lover:

And the one who had squandered the most goodwill.

Reader's Guide:

1. A scummy gong pursues his wife after losing him, but no matter what, he never wins him back.

2. 1v1, the true white moonlight Li Yinchen and Ji Fansheng, happy ending.

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