After Breaking Off the Engagement with a Scumbag, My Wealthy Parents Found Me

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On the verge of death, Ye Xinian finally learned that his fiancé had been secretly seeing his best friend for a long time. Everyone knew, and he was the only one kept in the dark.

After being reborn, Ye Xinian brought reporters to catch the cheating pair in the act, ruining the scumbag and his mistress's reputations.

Having come to his senses, Ye Xinian decided to enjoy life and focus on his career. Taking his manager's advice, he joined a variety show and shot to fame overnight.

What he didn't know was that as soon as filming wrapped, the show's biggest investor took a photo of him home to show his parents.

“Mom, Dad, don't you think he looks like the younger brother who went missing years ago?”

Ye Xinian: ?

The Chi family had finally found the young master who had gone missing years ago, and everyone wanted to make up for all the lost years many times over.

The Chi parents: “Would a hundred million in annual pocket money be enough?”

The Chi family's older brother: “How about I give you my entertainment company?”

Even a famous actor he'd never met before reached out to him: “My movie still needs a leading man.”

Ye Xinian: “...I suppose I could consider it.”

Later, after the movie aired, more and more fans online began shipping the Zhi-Xing CP. Duan Zhiyan's fans spread the word and debunked the rumors, firmly insisting the two were only childhood friends.

But during a variety show penalty, someone called Chi Yunxing, and a somewhat indistinct voice came through the phone: “...Gege.”

Duan Zhiyan: “Hm?”

Chi Yunxing cleared his throat. “Your sweetheart?”

And just like that, the whole internet erupted.

Content warnings:

1. This is not a switched-at-birth story. In this setting, people of the same sex can marry.

2. A feel-good entertainment-industry story about revenge, taking down scumbags, and face-slapping.

3. None of the characters are based on real people.

4. The protagonist is the type to repay every grudge, not some helpless little flower.

5. I'll do my best to keep the story logical. If it's really not for you, feel free to leave. Criticize the characters if you want, but don't attack the author! (Bouncing it right back at you, pew pew pew!)

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Title: The Hated Stand-In Is Reborn

Blurb:

In his previous life, when the Fang family came to find him, Ye Chaoran said goodbye to his adoptive parents and went home with them, full of anticipation and unease. He thought he would finally have a family of his own.

Instead, the Fang family had taken him in only to use his heart to save his twin brother, Fang Yan.

The Fang parents: “Once the heart transplant is successful, tell him his adoptive parents died suddenly.”

The eldest Fang brother: “Stop trying to imitate him in front of me. You're disgusting.”

Even the man Ye Chaoran held dearest treated him only as a stand-in for Fang Yan.

When Ye Chaoran opened his eyes again, he had returned to the very day the Fang family came looking for him.

Looking at the Fang parents' hypocritical faces, Ye Chaoran coldly sent them packing. Then, with red-rimmed eyes, he looked at his adoptive parents. “Mom, Dad, are you going to abandon me?”

His adoptive parents' eyes immediately reddened too.

How could they ever abandon him?

He was the treasure they had always cherished above all else!

To persuade Ye Chaoran to change his mind, the Fang family sent him luxury cars and mansions, then finally tried to take him away by force.

Just as Ye Chaoran was about to give up and let the chips fall where they may, a group of bodyguards suddenly appeared and tossed the trash aside.

Ye Chaoran stared in confusion at the elderly man holding his hand and affectionately calling him “darling,” completely at a loss.

Only after returning home did Ye Chaoran learn that the elderly man who had suddenly appeared was the chairman of the Ye Group, the most powerful family-owned corporation in A City.

And his father was the chairman's biological son, who had run away from home.

Ye Chaoran: ?

Theme: Your family will always shield you from life's storms