I Love You, I’m Just Pretending

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[Blurb]

Shu Yu, the top courtesan of Manyuan House, loves Xiao Heng, heir to the marquis's estate.

The young master has eyes bright as stars, an elegant and otherworldly air, and an aloofness that puts him beyond reach. He has all the backbone and pride of a scholar.

Shu Yu falls in love at first sight, his mind full of the young master's noble, proud bearing.

Then, in a moment of carelessness, he slips and falls into the water, dying forever at the bottom of the icy lake.

When Shu Yu opens his eyes again, he finds himself in an unfamiliar era. Everything before him keeps challenging his understanding of the world, while someone beside him chatters nonstop:

He is the young master of the Shu family. After disaster struck his household, his relatives sent him to Xiao Heng's bed in exchange for Xiao Heng's protection of the Shu family.

Shu Yu's head is still spinning, and he hasn't taken in a word. But the instant he hears the name "Xiao Heng," his eyes light up.

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Xiao Heng, a newly risen tycoon among the capital's elite.

Cold and sinister, with a mercurial temperament.

He swallowed up the Shu Group and kept the Shu family's prized young master.

He seems to be born full of malice, watching Shu Yu fall into the mud and struggle to survive, closing in on him step by step until he becomes Xiao Heng's plaything.

But this plaything seems a little different from what he expected.

Shu Yu, who once resisted to the bitter end, suddenly seems like a different person. He's become obedient, gentle, and compliant.

He even curls up on Xiao Heng's lap like a kitten, neither making a fuss nor causing trouble, just quietly watching him.

When Xiao Heng looks down, all he sees in those eyes is boundless affection.

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Xiao Heng has changed.

That violent, tyrannical man with the temperament of a monster suddenly puts away his fangs, hides his claws, and dons a gentle, refined exterior.

Everyone around him is terrified.

Xiao Heng himself doesn't care.

Shu Yu says he's afraid when Xiao Heng's face is expressionless, likes him in a white shirt, and loves how he looks when he's elegant but not aloof.

They're all trivial things, so Xiao Heng indulges him.

Until one day, Xiao Heng finds a diary beneath Shu Yu's pillow.

"He looks similar, but his temper is way worse."

"The young master looks good in white, but Xiao Heng always wears black shirts. I have to find a way to make him change."

Xiao Heng's face darkens as he flips straight to the last page.

The date is yesterday.

"That damn Xiao Heng is finally starting to act like the young master. ●v● Keep it up!"

Both leads are virgins.

Also known as "Precious Footage of a Pretty Ancient-Era Darling Taming a Wild Scumbag."

The cover is an artist's original character design, so it's normal if it resembles someone else's.

There are a few livestream scenes, but not many.

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My author page also has the completed story "The Little Dragon Cub Only Wants to Repay a Kindness."

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"I Crashed and Burned After Winning Over the Aloof Villain":

Xia Xingyue dreams that he's in a face-slapping novel about punishing scumbags.

He's the cannon-fodder ex-husband of the male lead, stuck with a vicious villain script. He bullies the protagonist shou and ends up with a miserable fate.

After waking up, Xia Xingyue discovers that it's all real.

Xia Xingyue: What? This makes no sense!

So, at the wedding, Xia Xingyue kicks the male lead aside, grabs Lu Jin, the younger uncle of the Lu family, and confesses his love to him on the spot.

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Lu Jin, the younger uncle of the Lu family, is warm and refined, like a noble young gentleman in an ink painting: graceful, elegant, and handsome.

But that's all a front!

In truth, Lu Jin is cold-hearted and utterly indifferent, and would never fall for anyone.

He was switched at birth and returned to his family just two months ago, after more than a decade away. Now he plans to take revenge.

Xia Xingyue knows that three months from now, Lu Jin will fake his death due to illness.

What could be more perfect?

Once Lu Jin fakes his death, Xia Xingyue will be free.

After they marry, he acts deeply devoted, as if he loves Lu Jin to the depths of his soul.

For Lu Jin's "illness," he climbs mountains to pray to the gods and Buddha.

In reality, he's getting into trouble outside and hiding from his brother's scolding.

For Lu Jin, he gets into a fight with someone at a bar.

The fight had already happened. He just dragged Lu Jin's name into it.

Xia Xingyue even folds 9,999 wishing stars for Lu Jin and personally plants a whole roomful of longevity flowers.

He keeps coming up with new ways to show his devotion, and even he believes it eight-tenths of the way.

Three months later, he finally gets to see Lu Jin "pass away."

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After Lu Jin dies, Xia Xingyue cries for three days and three nights, unable to pull himself together.

On the fourth day, he can't resist going out for a chicken leg, then sneaks back into the mourning hall in the middle of the night.

But the moment he steps inside, he freezes.

A man is leaning against the wall in the mourning hall, calmly watching Xia Xingyue climb through the window with practiced ease.

The room is hazy with smoke. The man has clearly been there for a while.

???

Xia Xingyue is so startled that he gets stuck in the window, unable to go in or back out. He stares blankly at Lu Jin, who should be a thousand miles away.

Lu Jin, meanwhile, meets his eyes, steps forward, grabs Xia Xingyue by the neck, hauls him off the window, and pins him against the wall.

The man's rough fingertips repeatedly rub Xia Xingyue's pale cheek. He sneers, "I heard Young Master Xia loves me so much he can't help himself, and cried for three whole days without even drinking a drop of water. How come you look like you've put on weight?"

Thud.

The chicken leg falls from Xia Xingyue's hand.

QAQ I, I overdid it.

Theme: Treat others sincerely, and you will receive sincerity in return.