After the Frail Top-Tier Star Is Forced to Marry

[Scheming, sweet-on-the-outside, black-hearted dog-like top x Flirtatious, uninhibited, proud beauty bottom]

[Don't stir up drama or label me with a fandom affiliation. It's disrespectful. Whoever you project onto, may they fade into obscurity. Just so you know.]

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☆ Preorders: I Made It Big in Showbiz by Solving Crimes and The Max-Level Translator Reborn as Everyone's Most Hated Person. Please check them out. Blurbs below. ☆

Top-tier star Lin Zijin has suffered from insomnia for years. Neither melatonin nor sleeping pills help, and his health is getting worse, with one ailment after another.

But at an awards ceremony, he slept like a log beside the little nobody Pei Ming.

After waking up, Lin Zijin was lost in thought, while his private doctor exclaimed that it was a medical miracle.

His agent tentatively suggested, "For the sake of your health, why don't you two... get married?"

Lin Zijin is a rising star who regularly earns nominations for the biggest awards in film and television.

Pei Ming is a dancer in an obscure idol group with no acting skills and no notable work.

His haters all firmly believed Pei Ming was marrying up.

Until the paparazzi finally dug into his background:

His grandfather is a national-level Go player, his uncle is a financial tycoon, and his older sister is a top translator.

Pei Ming himself graduated from a prestigious university, and his company is growing rapidly, with his career booming.

Haters: This is hilarious. There's nothing to hate him for. Wishing you two a lifetime of happiness.

Lin Zijin planned to cut ties with Pei Ming completely when their contract ended, but somehow Pei Ming kept bringing him in front of the cameras to show off their love.

Visiting him on set, going on their honeymoon, caring for him in every possible way...

And so his image as a man with no interest in sex collapsed overnight. He successfully became the "husband-spoiling maniac" in everyone's eyes, and there was no getting out of this marriage now.

Lin Zijin confronted Pei Ming: "What exactly do you want from me?"

The usually docile big dog finally dropped his act and pulled him forcefully into his arms. His breath was hot and hurried. "I want you."

"Actually, I've wanted you for a long time."

"They say the person you fall in love with at sixteen will affect you for the rest of your life."

Tips:

1. Younger top. Pei Ming is the top, so don't get it wrong. The top spoils the bottom, a lot.

2. One-on-one, happy ending, first time for both, in a world where same-sex marriage is legal.

3. Marriage first, love later. The top isn't a doormat. He's been secretly in love for years and finally gets his dream. (See the author's note in Chapter 2 for an explanation.)

4. The bottom has a bad temper at first because of his personal experiences, but he'll gradually get better. Orz

Preorder blurbs

★ I Made It Big in Showbiz by Solving Crimes

[Fresh take on second-chance romance / fake pursuit-and-repentance trope / dual rebirth / younger top]

[Scheming, taciturn undercover-agent top x Sharp-tongued beauty director bottom]

[The story of a couple joining forces to fight corruption in the entertainment industry]

Renowned director Luo Zhihuai personally turned top-tier star Cen Zhi into a sensation, but Cen Zhi cruelly broke up with him on his birthday. Then, for no apparent reason, Luo Zhihuai suddenly died at a gathering with friends.

When he woke up again, he had been reborn seven years earlier, during winter break in his sophomore year of college.

This time, Luo Zhihuai decided never to have anything to do with his ex again. But the boy he rescued while stepping in to help someone turned out to be Cen Zhi, who had just turned eighteen.

Luo Zhihuai: Fate is a wondrous thing.

This time, not only did he fail to cut ties with his ex, he also gained a clingy little shadow ahead of schedule.

Luo Zhihuai: You're growing up now. You shouldn't be so clingy. You should...

Cen Zhi's eyes were red, tears welling up: "My parents are dead, and my aunt kicked me out. Are you going to abandon me too?"

Luo Zhihuai: ...

Everyone knew Cen Zhi's boss was someone important. He had taken an unknown actor from the bottom of the industry and turned him into a top-tier star.

Cen Zhi landed a role in a big-budget movie.

Passerby: What kind of untalented nepo baby gets such a role through connections?

After the movie was released, it became a box office hit, and Cen Zhi's undercover character's death brought even the most critical reviewers to tears.

Cen Zhi appeared as a guest on a public legal education program.

Passerby: What does some pretty boy influencer know about the law? Did he even finish elementary school?

On the program, Cen Zhi sparred with a martial arts instructor and expertly explained the Criminal Law, silencing all his haters.

Meanwhile, a string of disgraced celebrities were exposed for drug use, falsifying their credentials, cheating, and money laundering. The whole entertainment industry was on edge, while Cen Zhi's wholesome image remained untarnished.

Netizens became fans: Cen Zhi, the six-sided warrior who never falls from grace, is the superstar who came out of nowhere to save the entertainment industry!

Luo Zhihuai, his boss, snorted: That's because I have good taste.

Cen Zhi, the wholesome idol and Director Luo's boyfriend, kissed the man in his arms. "Director Luo has good taste."

Luo Zhihuai had gone back to his ex and gotten together with top-tier star Cen Zhi, but because of what happened in his previous life, he could never feel secure. All he could do was keep an eye on his boyfriend's every move in secret.

Then he saw gruesome crime-scene photos on his boyfriend's phone, a voice changer hidden beneath his bow tie, a bug taped under the table, and a dagger disguised as a belt. Luo Zhihuai lost three nights of sleep, wondering how he could persuade Cen Zhi to turn himself in.

Later, a major case in the entertainment industry was solved, and Director Luo, who had somehow become an informant, sat in the police station looking utterly bewildered.

He heard footsteps behind him and turned around to see his young man standing before him in a crisp police uniform, no longer a callow boy. He said softly:

"Director, actually, I'm an undercover agent."

★ After Reborn as the Fake Young Master in a Period Novel

[Gentle, secretly passionate straight man top x Scheming, sickly beauty bottom]

Xie Feibai, a renowned Polish translator, transmigrated into a twisted, heartbreaking period novel and became the character everyone hated.

According to the plot, he would drop out of school, live frugally, and keep the household running, only for the protagonist bottom to use his golden finger to steal everything from him.

Not only that, he would stand in the way of the protagonist bottom and the protagonist top, Lu Jiaxing, getting their happy ending. They would take revenge on him, and he would die a tragic death.

Xie Feibai bought a standing-room train ticket that very night and ran.

Whatever. Let Lu and the protagonist bottom go be lovey-dovey together.

He used his perfect English exam results to win a scholarship to study in Poland and planned to get far away and stay safe.

But what Xie Feibai didn't expect was that the other person going to study abroad with him was Lu Jiaxing.

Xie Feibai stayed on guard, expecting Lu Jiaxing to mock and bully him in every possible way. Instead, the story gradually strayed from the original plot.

In the book, the original character got hurt in a minor accident, and Lu Jiaxing mocked him for being a pampered brat.

But now, Lu Jiaxing took such tender care of him that he might as well have put the finger Xie Feibai had slightly cut on a pedestal.

In the book, someone framed the original character, and Lu Jiaxing kicked him while he was down.

But now, Lu Jiaxing was even angrier than Xie Feibai and went straight to confront the culprit, demanding justice for him.

In the book, the protagonist bottom used his golden finger to outshine the original character in every way and win Lu Jiaxing's favor.

But now, no matter how much the real young master showed off, Lu Jiaxing had eyes only for Xie Feibai.

And that wasn't all.

All the affection the protagonist bottom had taken from the original character returned to Xie Feibai.

Until one winter night in a foreign land,

Xie Feibai finally decided to cut ties with Lu Jiaxing completely, to protect himself.

He walked alone through the streets of Poznan when he heard hurried footsteps behind him.

The man who had always been calm and self-controlled pulled him tightly into his arms, his voice choked with tears. "You can't leave me all alone."

Xie Feibai: "Why? I'm supposed to be someone everyone hates."

Lu Jiaxing was a rich second-generation heir who could have anything he wanted, yet some unknown dark horse had beaten him for first place.

His pride was wounded, and he vowed to make that person pay.

But when that handsome young man stood at the lectern, delivering a spirited speech, Lu Jiaxing calmly looked him up and down and thought:

This person really is quite good-looking.

Theme: Dream big when you're young, and let love bloom in your youth.