After Online Dating My Secret Crush

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Secret crush turns into true love / Online romance, identity revealed / Winning her back after rejecting her / Both leads have only ever loved each other / Happy ending

Quiet, refined legal beauty X aloof, upright investment tycoon. The untouchable beauty lowers his head for love.

1. In college, Leng Xia did everything she could to pursue Jiang Kai. In the end, she succeeded only in passing through his world.

Years later, they meet again at work. He is still devastatingly handsome, but now carries the poise and confidence of a successful man.

Her long-dormant girlish heart grows wild like weeds. Leng Xia summons the courage to pursue him, confessing twice in a row, only to receive the same polite but indifferent rejection from Jiang Kai: "I'm sorry, we're not right for each other."

That was when Leng Xia realized that effort alone couldn't make everything work out.

Her youthful dream was completely shattered, and she decisively deleted him from WeChat.

2. Jiang Kai has had an online gaming friend for years, a gentle light in his otherwise monotonous life.

On the night he is preparing a birthday surprise for her, he receives a WeChat message from his female colleague Leng Xia, the woman he once rejected.

"I'm sorry for causing you trouble lately. I won't bother you again. I hope everything goes well for you."

To Jiang Kai, the message is nothing out of the ordinary.

With a cool, strikingly handsome face fit for a movie star, he was a campus heartthrob in college and became a finance-world idol after graduation. Admirers have never been in short supply.

Even when Leng Xia blocked him, he didn't think much of it. He only felt a little uncertain when someone mentioned that the day she sent the message was also her birthday.

It isn't until later, when the gaming friend he longs for disappears without a trace, that he happens upon her social media account and discovers the years of heartbreak and little moments from her long-standing secret crush on her dream man.

That message was Leng Xia's farewell to a decade-long unrequited love, and the beginning of Jiang Kai's long journey to win her back.

#I rejected my online love twice in real life#

#Can I still find a sweet romance#

--- Upcoming: "My Daughter Can't Possibly Be a Drama Queen". Please add it to your collection! ---

As the heir to a top wealthy family, Nan Ge is stunningly beautiful, poised, and composed, but she despises marriage. Just as she is planning to sidestep the marriage her family arranged and have a child without the father, her five-year-old daughter arrives from more than a decade in the future.

The little girl is sweet and adorable, breathtakingly beautiful even at her young age, and speaks in a soft, babyish voice. But she's devious, and will launch into a full-blown performance anywhere at the slightest provocation.

Nan Ge is so exasperated she can't help laughing. "Sweetie, tell Mommy honestly. Is your dad a drama queen?"

"Yes! Daddy is really good at acting." The girl excitedly points at a handsome, newly popular top-tier star on the TV.

"Mommy likes watching Daddy act, too. She even bought him a film company and gave him a huge villa. At night, they pretend to be demons fighting in the swimming pool, and they never let me join. Hmph."

Nan Ge: ...Her eyes widen in shock!

Her child's father is her fiance's cousin!

The woman she becomes feels like a stranger. What on earth happened over the next decade?!

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Lu Jingyi is the heir to the Lu family, but he gave up a trillion-yuan fortune to enter show business. With his impossibly good looks and mature acting, he has won countless fans and become the hottest rising star.

Yet deep in his heart, there is a line he cannot cross.

Until one night at a banquet, he sees the woman from his dreams walking toward him.

With a reserved smile, Nan Ge politely asks, "Xiao Suimiao Kindergarten is putting on a parent-child fairy tale play. Would you be interested in making a guest appearance, Mr. Lu?"

Lu Jingyi: ...

Not long afterward, the man is photographed lifting a little girl high in his arms on a castle lawn and letting her ride on his back. His eyes are so tender they seem to overflow.

The whole internet erupts!

The trending topics "Lu Jingyi Secretly Married and Has a Daughter" and "The Child's Mother" explode.

His agency tells him to make a public statement.

In front of the flashing cameras, the man lowers his long lashes. Even his sharp jawline seems to express grievance. "If only it were true. I wish a certain someone would give me a proper title."

People speculate wildly about which powerful figure could possibly have no interest in Young Master Lu.

Nan Ge, watching in front of the TV: ...

I knew it. His theatrical, manipulative ways must be hereditary.

At first, Nan Ge's impression of Lu Jingyi: a quiet, reserved, beautiful man.

Later, she discovers that he has incredible stamina, is intensely jealous, even gets jealous of his own daughter, and is so addicted to acting that he puts on a performance even when they're doing it. If he doesn't act well enough, he gets made to do it all over again.

Nan Ge is limp as a puddle of mud and can barely stand.

The man supports her waist and patiently murmurs by her ear:

"Sweetie, hold on a little longer. After all, you don't want to add another scene tomorrow night, do you?"

--- Upcoming: "His Heart Burns with Desire" ---

1. Nancheng Drama Academy is a breeding ground for stars, and the two most talked-about students in this year's acting department are Jiang Yu and Hua Yuran.

Jiang Yu is upright and often plays righteous characters. Hua Yuran was born with a seductive allure and often plays bewitching women who bring kingdoms to ruin. When they first perform together onstage, they come to admire each other for their diligence and professionalism.

One day, Hua Yuran sneakily hands Jiang Yu a love letter and presses down on his hand when he tries to open it. "Read it when you get home."

After reading the letter, which is overflowing with suggestive, passionate words, Jiang Yu politely declines. "I want to focus on my studies."

Hua Yuran nods.

Jiang Yu: "Are you okay?"

Hua Yuran: "Why wouldn't I be...?" She wasn't the one who wrote the letter.

"It's just a little disappointing, that's all."

Jiang Yu: .

2. After rejecting Hua Yuran, Jiang Yu can't eat or sleep.

His roommate points out that he's fallen for her without realizing it, and Jiang Yu agrees wholeheartedly.

So when he hears that Hua Yuran has gone to a bar with another guy, Jiang Yu rushes over in a panic, pulls her out of the dance floor, and pins her against the wall.

"Don't go with him. I'll let you kiss me, okay?"

Hua Yuran: ?

3. Jiang Yu begins a passionate pursuit, leaving the entire acting department stunned.

Everyone says that this man, as righteous and virtuous as Liu Xiahui, is surprisingly passionate when it comes to love.

In the theater, Hua Yuran, whose legs have gone weak after being dragged into rehearsing a kissing scene, pushes him away with flushed cheeks. "Jiang Yu, don't go too far."

Jiang Yu gazes at her full, crimson lips. "You have to take it seriously if you want to hone your acting skills."

4. A natural-born actor, Jiang Yu reaches the peak of his career right after graduating, sweeping awards at home and abroad and becoming the youngest Best Actor in mainland China.

Meanwhile, Hua Yuran goes from playing maids to wicked supporting characters, spending years in bit parts in the entertainment industry. No one would ever think to compare them.

Until one awards ceremony, when the usually composed and aloof man makes an exception and wears a black stud earring.

A reporter asks him about it, and Jiang Yu replies with a faint smile, "My wife likes it."

The entire room erupts.

The trending topic "Jiang Yu Secretly Married" keeps climbing.

While everyone is still guessing who the mysterious Mrs. Jiang might be, Jiang Yu posts on Weibo:

"Congratulations to my wife on winning an award. @Hua Yuran"

The photo shows the two of them in their wedding attire.

The internet goes wild, and Weibo nearly crashes.

[Am I seeing things? The Best Actor is married, and his wife is Hua Yuran]

[Ahh, I want to know what it feels like to be Hua Yuran, tempting the celibate Buddhist into the mortal world]

[Am I the only one who thinks the Best Actor's gaze in the photo is clearly even more seductive?]

#I never imagined I could fall so deeply in love with someone that I couldn't control myself#

Theme: Be yourself, and fate will reward you generously.