A Dream of Pride and Passion

[The main story of A Dream of Glorious Days is complete. Extra chapters will be updated from time to time.]

[Upcoming story: Chasing the Sunbeam, entertainment industry, marriage first and love later. Go add it to your collection!]

[This story]

--------- [A Guide to the Unchaste Love Affairs of Hopeless Romantics] ------------

Xie Yichuan, born into a family of art dealers, was a hopeless romantic whose life went smoothly in every way except love.

She had spent ten years in a romance with the boy next door, who was eight years older than her, going through puppy love, unrequited love, mutual love, and bitter love.

Then one day, he “announced his relationship,” and she was instantly heartbroken across the Atlantic, drowning her sorrows in alcohol.

Until she met a man at the gym who looked a little like her first love...

The hopeless romantic decided to let loose for once. She planned to seduce a stand-in lover and take out her years of pent-up yearning on him.

But while the stand-in lover was poor, his ambitions were anything but small;

He was hard-tempered, surly, and even more difficult than the original.

He Qi, the “runaway” eldest young master of a business empire, had retreated to his ancestral home. But at the gym he owned, someone signed him up for a year and made him the personal trainer of a ditzy, unhinged young heiress.

He had initially refused, but she kept setting him up and trying to seduce him. On top of that, she was determined to “help the poor” out of boundless compassion.

Their little game became real. The aloof young master “fell into a ditch,” turned into a lovesick puppy, and began a sweet, sickeningly romantic relationship with the ditzy, unhinged hopeless romantic.

A story about one hopeless romantic getting over her obsession, leaving her white moonlight behind, and rushing toward another hopeless romantic.

A pampered, beautiful, rich peacock of a woman + a proud, straight-laced fake phoenix of a man = two hopeless romantics++

This story could also be called The Days I Spent as a Hopeless Romantic’s Stand-In.

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[BOLD] Read for fun. There’s no need to get worked up over it. If it’s not your thing, click X. See you next time. Much love and thanks! [BOLD]

1. Both are each other’s first and only, happy ending, mature, fake stepsiblings.

2. Silly, everyday life, and unchaste.

------------ Next up: Chasing the Sunbeam (Entertainment Industry) ------------

[Blurb]

Ning Jia, the eldest daughter of the Hai Group, is a little-known actress with a terrible reputation.

For years, she has barely scraped by in the entertainment industry by using her connections to get cast, taking the fall for others, and trading insults with her haters to stay in the spotlight.

Who could have expected that fate would drop a huge opportunity in her lap? A top-budget variety show about revisiting the past and returning to school, Chasing the Sunbeam, landed right on her doorstep. The requirement was for her to act “inappropriately” with Han Sui, a top-tier star who ran a capital empire and had the aura of an imperial heir, in front of viewers across the country. Put simply, she had to play the ultimate scheming, shameless doormat, a lovesick fool who could stretch her neck a hundred times longer and still never get to lick the boots of the person she loved.

With enough money, you could lick even the stratosphere clean.

Guided by her principles of honest business and fair dealing, Miss Ning gave it her all. After just two episodes aired, she became the hottest topic of the moment: she acted so well that her name became an adjective.

Netizen: Director, Ning (you) are way too Jia (shameless)! Isn’t Chasing the Sunbeam a school-themed show? Keep this up and even the dating shows next door won’t be this blatant. (60,000+ likes)

Netizen B: Say it with me: Blue Vision is going bankrupt, Blue Vision is going bankrupt! (30,000+ likes)

Netizen C: I just want to ask one thing, Miss Ning, could you stop ruining all the handsome men in our entertainment industry? Why not just pick one and marry him? You’ve ruined enough of them! Go home and enjoy being a rich man’s wife, a little princess! Even if we fans are green with envy, please don’t get divorced. Let us watch you live in luxury and flaunt your loving relationship. As long as you stop casting your net wide and picking up every man you see, and instead devote yourself to one person for life, consider it a good deed for us poor fans, whose idols’ careers collapse every other day. (110,000+ likes) (The celebrity you follow, @Han Sui, liked this post.)

Netizen DEFGHIJK commented: Did I read that right? Han Sui, the young master himself, actually liked a post calling NJ a shameless schemer?

Netizen LMNOPQRS replied: You read that right. I saw this exact post six months ago, word for word. Han Sui liked it back then too.

Netizen TUVWSYZ replied: They’re sworn enemies. I remember, it was even trending back then. The young master jumped in to start a fight himself again. What a badass! So satisfying.

... (Over 2,000 more spam comments omitted.)

Ten minutes later

Han Sui replied to that comment: Thanks for your kind words. She, @Ning Jia NJ, has no plans to divorce me just yet. (1,000,000+ likes)

Netizens: ...

Theme: The everyday life of a romance.