I Ran Away After Flirting with the Big Shot

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Novel blurb:

During summer break, Shen Cong has just seen off a graduating class of seniors. He takes a part-time job as a zookeeper, but gets dragged off to a blind date instead. Apparently, the other guy is a programmer who cooks well. When Shen Cong arrives at the meeting place and takes a good look, he realizes it's his high school crush!

#What do you do when you run into your high school crush on a blind date? He likes people who are unruly and difficult to handle.#

Netizen: Give him what he wants. Pretend to be unruly.

So the well-behaved Shen Cong takes this advice to heart, changes his image, and turns over a new leaf, becoming a delinquent through and through.

Pei Sinian: Do you like strawberry yogurt?

Shen Cong, a sweets lover, pretending to be fierce: I don't eat sweet things! I want an espresso!

Pei Sinian: Pandas are so cute.

Shen Cong, a fan of fluffy things, sneering: ...They're nothing special.

Pretending to be unruly works. The refined and gentle Pei Sinian takes the bait and joins Shen Cong's fishpond. Shen Cong keeps up the act, performing a one-day-I-like-it, one-day-I-don't routine, switching back and forth between a domineering CEO's overbearing love and the spoiled little schemer from a tragic romance.

At last, the two fall in love, and Pei Sinian spoils him rotten.

But after pretending for so long, Shen Cong begins to feel that Pei Sinian doesn't love the real him.

He loves the idealized Shen Cong.

So when Pei Sinian proposes, Shen Cong turns him down and breaks up with him. He moves away that very night and vanishes, hoping they can at least leave each other with some good memories.

They must never see each other again.

But at a parent meeting for the new high school freshmen, Shen Cong walks into the classroom and sees Pei Sinian staring up at him, eyes bloodshot, as if he wants to devour him.

Shen Cong is stunned: !!!

After the meeting, Pei Sinian pins him in a shadowy corner, stroking his face again and again. In a low, bewitching voice, he whispers in Shen Cong's ear, "Congcong, you can't just tease me and run away. You don't get to have it that easy."

Question: I flirted with my crush and then dumped him. Now he's about to get revenge. What should I do? It's urgent.

Answer: Get revenge on him right back.

Shen Cong rubs his aching waist in bewilderment: QAQ... But how do I get revenge... back?

-- Upcoming novel: After the Sickly Stand-In Steals the Male Lead's System --

Fu Ruizhi (bottom) / Lu Xingzhou (top)

Lu Xingzhou, the circle's wealthy and uninhibited darling, has acquired an explosive beauty. Rumor has it that Lu Xingzhou pampers him to the heavens, giving him the stars when he asks for them and never settling for the moon. But the people around Lu Xingzhou know the truth: Fu Ruizhi is just a stand-in.

Lu Xingzhou thinks his little stand-in is pretty interesting. He isn't affected or clingy, and his stand-in etiquette is flawless. His everyday lines to Lu Xingzhou include:

I don't love you. What the hell are you imagining?

Who would fall for a stand-in? Don't be ridiculous.

A stand-in's job is to promptly get lost when the one he loves returns.

Before long, several TV dramas directed by Fu Ruizhi become huge hits, making him one of the entertainment world's most sought-after directors. Plenty of people feel sorry for Fu Ruizhi and are practically lining up to offer themselves to him.

His old flame, his nemesis, and the aloof movie star all ask, "Do you think we still have a chance?"

Lu Xingzhou comes with a diamond ring, ready to make their relationship official, only to receive... a huge breakup settlement from Fu Ruizhi?

Fu Ruizhi: Go on. My old flame is back.

Lu Xingzhou: ?!

#How the hell am I the stand-in?!# Who is your old flame?!##You said you were the stand-in, so why are you playing dirty?##

Fu Ruizhi's version:

[System: You are now bound to the Perfect CEO System. Complete the missions to be reborn. Refusal will result in your death.]

[System: 1. Force a tragic romance on the sickly stand-in. 2. Earn the old flame's 100% favor. 3. Ensure your assets remain at the top of the world in this setting.]

[System: Host's current assets: -145,885 RMB.]

[System: ...?]

Fu Ruizhi, an internationally renowned director who dies young, is reborn as a minor actor in a melodramatic stand-in novel. He gets a golden finger from the start and is ready to turn the tables and dominate the world.

Fu Ruizhi looks at Lu Xingzhou, whose face is wickedly handsome and whose lines are shameless: ?

The sickly stand-in looks like this?

Theme: Pursue yourself and realize your worth