Falling in Love on a Breakup Reality Show

The simplified Chinese print edition is out now! Thank you to all the sweethearts who have supported Pudding. I hope you’ll enjoy the new bonus stories and easter eggs in the book! You can find the preorder link on Pudding’s Weibo, @Xi Cheng Pudding. Sending you all hearts! Also, thanks to the lovely Taozhi for creating the supertopic. You can find lots of Wei Yi merchandise handmade by Taozhi’s little fans there. All you sweet treats are welcome to check it out! (P.S. Let me also plug my ongoing romance, the school-life sweet treat A Mad Dog Kisses Summer, my completed companion story, the sweet treat I Got a Happy Ending in My Ex’s Love-Reality-Show Battlefield, and my upcoming danmei novel Burning. Their blurbs are below. I hope you’ll like and add them to your collections. *Bows* ) A famous video platform has launched a new variety show called Breakup Trip, inviting several celebrity ex-couples the whole internet still wishes had worked out. The show’s popularity is unprecedented, but viewers find themselves drawn to the only ordinary couple on the cast. Before the premiere: [Who are these nobodies, showing up to mooch off the hype? Please get out of the entertainment industry. We pay for VIP, not to watch ordinary people break up.] After the premiere: [Holy crap, what kind of heavenly couple is this?! Please get back together already! I’m crying, it’s so bittersweet! TT] [Daily question: Have my beloved Wei Yi couple gotten back together today? If not, I’m going to the Matchmaking Temple again to tie a red string around them.] [Never thought I’d ship a couple on a breakup show. Jiang Cao is incredible, turning a breakup show into a dating show all by himself. Let’s go!] In the final episode, Jiang Yi, the “devoted ex who chases his wife” who captured the hearts of countless young women, posted on Weibo and tagged Yu Weiyi: “Marry me.” His location was the Civil Affairs Bureau. Ten minutes later, Yu Weiyi reposted it: “Okay.” * When Jiang Yi was young and reckless, he accidentally lost the girl he loved. When they met again, it was on a breakup reality show. They shared a room, yet were strangers to each other. Leaning against the wall, the man still had that wild, unruly, infuriatingly handsome face. “Yu Weiwei, when are you going to look at your ex-boyfriend? The book says the more you care, the less you dare to make eye contact. Don’t tell me you still love me?” Yu Weiyi tamped down her anger and turned to him. “It’s Yi, not Wei. I can’t still love an illiterate who can’t even get my name right.” Jiang Yi’s face darkened. He took off his jacket and covered the camera, then closed in on her, his imposing presence as aggressively overwhelming as ever. “You know better than anyone whether I’m illiterate or a hooligan. Yu Weiyi, I told you, your Yi can only be my Yi.” You are the dazzling starlight hidden in my eyes, and the one and only lush green carved deep into my blood. [Proud, stubborn, independent, but can be soft] Yu Weiyi x [Wild and doting, spoiled young master, but will grow up] Jiang Yi. Each other’s first love, both chaste; they broke up, but there’s no one else. They have only ever loved each other. Another warm, sweet treat. I hope you’ll enjoy it and add it to your collection! Note: The idea came from the Korean variety show We Got Divorced, but all the show details and characters in this novel are fictional. Please don’t overanalyze it, sweethearts. Mwah! --- Here’s the divider for my ongoing school-life romance, A Mad Dog Kisses Summer. Bowing in gratitude to everyone who adds it to their collection! --- The day Ku Xia returns to her old school to repeat her senior year after withdrawing from a prestigious school amid rumors of “deliberate assault and falsified grades,” Pei Qiye is onstage receiving an award for placing first in the citywide exams. The boy stands in the silent shadows, his coldness at odds with the noisy crowd gazing up at him. Asked to share his study tips with students from a rival school visiting the campus, he says only, flatly, “The competition was too weak.” “Holy crap, what an arrogant jerk! Who knows if his grades are real? His school has been caught faking results before. That genius girl who just got exposed online graduated from there. Genius? More like a cheating prodigy.” The boy, who has never cared about his reputation, picks up the trophy he was about to throw away and hurls it at the people pointing at Ku Xia, mocking her without restraint. Blood still marks his lips. He ignores the agonized reprimand from the dean of discipline, who rushed over after hearing what happened, and the punishment for “a student honored by the school getting into a fight in public.” He simply lifts his clear, untamable eyes and smiles at her. “Big sis, now we’re the same.” This is the second time Ku Xia has seen him. But the way the boy looks at her is as if he has known her for years. No one knows that the dark summer ten years ago, in a psychiatric hospital, holds the past that only Pei Qiye knows about her. She is a bright moon fallen into the mire, and he is a mad dog who has always been lost in the abyss. Later: In a small town thousands of miles from the place where they parted, with no chance to meet again, a typhoon rages. The young man’s drenched silhouette in the darkness is as sincere as it was in his youth. His proud, untamed spirit, never once broken, is willing to shatter. He lowers his eyes, his voice hoarse and restrained. “Big sis, could you let me in?” “I’d even be your dog. As long as I can stay by your side, I’ll do anything.” Ku Xia once believed that, because of the flaw she was born with, she would never be able to get close to this noisy, chaotic world. Until the boy stands on a dazzling stage, his gaze cutting through the countless screams and the sea of voices to land on the platform in the corner where she alone is sitting, burning with conviction. “Big sis, I see you.” Pei Qiye, I see you too. You’re the only one I can see. The world is noisy and colorless to her, and he is the only vivid color in her eyes. [Disgraced, socially anxious autistic genius girl] Ku Xia x [A fake aloof type who never mends his ways, secretly a mad obsessive] Pei Qiye. Each other’s first love, no third parties or melodramatic misunderstandings. Sweet, an unconventional older-girl-younger-boy romance, with only a small age gap! ----- Here’s the divider for my completed romance sweet treat, I Got a Happy Ending in My Ex’s Love-Reality-Show Battlefield ----- Blurb: A video platform launches a second season of its even more dramatic breakup dating show. Four ordinary ex-couples who have already broken up are invited to travel together, date other people in front of their exes, and create a spectacular battlefield. The whole show is livestreamed. Netizens: [Does a reality show this shocking and morally bankrupt really exist?! If anyone finds true love on it, I’ll eat my words.] Not long after: [Waaah, Shen Jingci is so good at this! He’s sharp-tongued but devoted, and it’s incredible! Watching him pretend he doesn’t like Qiao Nian hurts so much! When will Qiao Nian realize Brother Ci is just acting along with her?!] [Did Qiao Nian, who doesn’t want to date, ask Shen Jingci to pretend to be her date again today? Has my fake couple become a real one? I want to see Shen the Fox, the walking factory of dirty jokes, hurry up and chase Qiao Nian!] [Brother Ci, the king of seduction, is the best! Is this kind of steamy content something I can watch without paying?! Waaah, Qiao Nian’s totally unmoved. Does she have no heart? (T_T)] * Qiao Nian joins a breakup “dating show” with her first boyfriend, whom she dated for only half a month, because she needs money. She keeps a low profile and just wants to stick it out until she gets paid. But can someone tell her why she ends up at the center of the whole battlefield? The three male contestants who all said they still had feelings for their ex-girlfriends before the show began all give their crush votes to her. Qiao Nian: “...” Get lost. Dating will only slow down my eating. To avoid trouble, Qiao Nian has no choice but to pair up with Shen Jingci, the only male contestant who isn’t interested in her. He looks handsome and nonchalant, with a cold personality. “I can be your shield, but how are you going to pay me back?” Qiao Nian: “...” Young master, take a look at your situation. With that face that says you don’t want to date, do you really have a choice among the female contestants who are obviously interested in you? “We’re partners. Neither of us owes the other anything.” The man arches a brow and looks at her with a faintly amused smile. His sharp tongue is completely at odds with his appearance. “How do I know you really want to work with me, and aren’t just into me while pretending to play hard to get?” Qiao Nian sneers, meets his handsome face, which has every right to be arrogant, and lays down a harsh ultimatum. “If I ever fall for you, I’ll write my name backward.” Later: Qiao Nian quietly changes her name on all her social media accounts and tags @NianQiaoIsAlsoQiaoNian: Hello, everyone. I’m Qiao Nian, and Shen Jingci is my boyfriend. I really did fall for him. Netizens: [!!! I can’t believe I actually shipped a real couple!] Someone has loved you for many years, before you ever knew it. [Doesn’t want romance, just wants money, but her looks won’t let her, center of the battlefield] Qiao Nian x [Plans every step, retreats to advance, king of seduction who uses dirty talk to win the heroine over] Shen Jingci. The male lead has never dated anyone and only likes the heroine; the reason is explained in the story. The heroine has only this one technical ex, with no feelings or physical intimacy between them. A sweet treat with both leads chaste. Hope you’ll like it and add it to your collection! Note: The show format comes from the Korean variety show Transit Love, but the characters and events aren’t based on real people. The rules are all made up by Pudding, so please don’t look too closely. Sending hearts! ----- Here’s the divider for my next danmei sweet treat, Burning ----- Blurb: The first time Chi Yu met Yu Ran, his strongest impression was that the guy was crazy. So crazy that even his breathtakingly beautiful face didn’t register at first glance. Later, after the two became close and then parted ways, Chi Yu never imagined that someone he had wanted to push away countless times would become the longed-for cure to the torment that kept him awake for years. * A famous gaming company holds a competitive tournament, drawing a crowd of big names. But everyone’s attention is on an unfamiliar, striking young man in the middle of it all. Once they learn who he is, they scramble to curry favor with this industry mogul, who has made his first public appearance. Yu Ran stands at the back of the crowd. His gaze meets the unreachable man’s for a brief moment. Before he can look away, Chi Yu walks straight past him, acting as if he doesn’t know him, just as cold and proud as when they first met. Yu Ran lowers his head, calmly finishes his drink, and is about to leave when a force he can’t resist yanks him into a corner. “How does the pampered young master of the Yu family have time to be a game streamer everyone looks down on?” Yu Ran raises his eyes to meet Chi Yu’s cold, mocking gaze, then barely moves his Adam’s apple. “Long time no see, Chi Yu.” There’s a barely perceptible tremor in his voice on the last two words. “Chi Yu is dead.” He looks at him mockingly, his eyes colder and more unfamiliar than ever. “The day you turned me gay, he disappeared from this world. The man standing in front of you now is here to collect what you owe.” Yu Ran stays silent for a long time, as if the proud, unruly boy he used to be had died too. At last, he asks, “How do you want me to repay you?” Chi Yu leans in close, forcing him to meet his gaze. A blazing fire burns in his eyes, and the glacier that has stood lonely for millennia begins to melt. “I want you to stay by my side for the rest of your life. Don’t leave again, not even one step. That’s how you’ll repay your debt to me.” All I ask of this life is to burn the years I have left after meeting you, binding two adrift, lonely islands together until death. [A little socially awkward, cold as a glacier, quiet gong who loves more the more he denies it] Chi Yu x [Social butterfly, bold and sweet-tongued, spoiled shou who’s meek only in front of the gong] Yu Ran. Both chaste, each other’s first love! ------ Here’s the divider for my other completed romance sweet treats. Visit Pudding’s author page to check them out! ----- 1) Doctor romance: Doting on Me, Spoiling Me [Entertainment Industry]. [Arrogant, pampered, fallen heiress, superstar] Nan Xi x [Gentle as jade, low-key wealthy heir, orthopedic surgeon] Mo Zhengting. An extra-sweet, doting wish-fulfillment treat, and each other’s first love! 2) School romance: Want to Get Into Qingbei? The School Will Give You a Boyfriend. A pretty, well-behaved girl genius who’s hopeless with directions, [beautiful, good-natured, seemingly tough but actually soft], and a decisive academic genius, [ruthless, quiet, seemingly cold but actually cunning]. Two academic aces fall in love and head to Qingbei together! 3) CEO romance: Deep Love. [Strikingly beautiful on the outside, but soft and adorable, kindergarten teacher] Wen Yaoyao x [Refined and restrained on the outside, devoted and scheming, domineering CEO] Bo Shishen. A sweet story about marrying her childhood friend after going around in circles! 4) Designer romance: My Ex Went Viral and Asked Me to Form a Couple with Him. [Traded her intelligence for beauty, true enchantress, genius designer] Shi Qian x [Smart and handsome, calm and reserved, university physics professor] Xu Chengxi. She pursues him at first, then he goes through a long road of regret! 5) Girl group romance: Coveting. [Girl group dance lead, little fairy] Xia Zhaonan x [SWAT officer, rough boy] Jiang Su. A mutual pining story between two people with no blood relation! Theme: You are the dazzling starlight hidden in my eyes, and the one and only lush green carved deep into my blood.