Let Me Borrow You for a While, Tool

While staking out a celebrity interview, entertainment reporter Gu Nian accidentally found herself at the center of the gossip.

Seeing her almost-fiancé cuddling and flirting with a C-list star, she saw red and wanted nothing more than to march over and slap them both.

Even after Gu Nian caught them red-handed, the mistress was still brazen, nestling in the man's arms with a smug look on her face.

Well, she'd show them what it meant when karma hadn't come around yet!

She wanted to tear the cheating scumbag to shreds and crush his mistress, too. After a moment's thought, Gu Nian slowly turned her gaze toward one person.

Fu Nanchuan: the scumbag's distant uncle, and the mistress's cold-blooded boss.

If she could get in his good graces, wouldn't she have the two of them wrapped around her finger?

With a connection this useful, it would be a waste not to borrow his name and throw her weight around.

But when she was done borrowing, he coolly told her, "You borrowed me. You can't return me."

#Don't force someone to buy what they don't want!#

#As the saying goes, it's easy to invite a god in but hard to send one away. The ancients weren't wrong TAT#

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Zhong Nian was always the runner-up at school.

Debate competitions, choir performances, school plays: she was always the understudy behind the star, never given a chance to take the stage.

Even in her family's political marriage arrangement, she was the stand-in, pushed forward only after the intended bride refused.

Maybe she was simply destined never to shine.

But one day, her fiancé, who had always been lukewarm toward her, suddenly lost his memory.

Lu Heqin was in a car accident and lost some of his memories when he woke up.

He remembered no one, except Zhong Nian, who had rushed over with a worried look and protected him in the moment before the accident.

Lu Heqin hugged Zhong Nian. "We must be in love."

Zhong Nian: "No, that's a huge misunderstanding."

Watching Lu Heqin treat her as the love of his life, Zhong Nian had a bold idea.

Why not take the chance to enjoy herself for once?

The good times didn't last. Zhong Keyi, Lu Heqin's intended bride, returned from abroad, and Lu Heqin recovered his memories.

Mocked as "Zhong Nian, the eternal stand-in, trying to make herself the leading lady," she slunk away with her belongings.

But one day, Lu Heqin suddenly came looking for her. "You used me and then left. Do you have a heart?"

Zhong Nian: "Don't make things up. I never used you."

#What goes around comes around. Even a stand-in gets a chance to take center stage#

Theme: Stay true to your original aspirations and shoulder your responsibilities.