Your Wife Is Gone

[The main story is free. The 26 bonus chapters will start going behind a paywall on the 14th and will be available to read to the end. The bonus chapters will pair Duan Que with someone, so please don't buy them if that bothers you. Hope you all have a lovely time reading.]

[Coming soon: My Nemesis Is Back for Revenge, about a gorgeous, brash, down-on-his-luck entertainer and a worldly, smooth-talking actor.]

[Coming soon: The Foolish Bottom Awakens After Being Reborn, a story about a little fool and an arrogant child prodigy.]

Duan Que was beautiful and gentle, the sort of person who seemed made to be controlled.

A dodder vine, clinging to a tree and relying on others to survive.

Yet after three years of swallowing his anger and staying by Zhong Yunyan's side, Duan Que finally left without looking back.

Only then did Zhong Yunyan see the indifference in his eyes, the way he felt neither joy nor sorrow.

In Zhong Yunyan's eyes, Duan Que was nothing more than a lover kept by his side with a contract, an enemy who deserved to be humiliated and punished by him.

He hated this man, the culprit who had caused the death of the person he truly loved.

He hated him, hated those calm, unruffled eyes that never reflected his image.

And yet, day after day, he fell in love with his hypocrisy, and with the truth beneath it.

But Duan Que wanted neither his compensation nor his love...

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As Duan Que saw it, Zhong Yunyan's revenge barely even stung.

He was willing to stay by his side only because Zhong Yunyan was still useful to him.

He had spent the first half of his life struggling in a mire. Zhong Yunyan's arrival had brought a turning point to his life.

He had used Zhong Yunyan as a stepping stone to escape that mire, so he did not hate him.

As for love?

Heh. Who falls in love with a stepping stone, with a tool?

Coming soon

My Nemesis Is Back for Revenge

[No one can sand down my rough edges. Society can try to beat me down all it wants!]

A gorgeous, brash, down-on-his-luck entertainer x a supremely talented, two-faced actor

The day his group disbanded, the Chu Group officially declared bankruptcy. Overnight, Chu Yin went from being the haughty, highborn heir to a business empire to an ordinary entertainer without anyone powerful backing him.

Executives at a company who coveted his looks quickly approached him, claiming they could show him a way forward. "With looks and a figure like yours, all you have to do is bow your head and be a little accommodating..."

Chu Yin left them with one word, "Disgusting," then went abroad with his family after they had finished liquidating their assets.

Seven years later, Chu Yin returned to his homeland and took a role in a drama, only to run into the nemesis from his old group.

Back then, Chu Yin had looked down on Ji Zhanyu for being worldly and fake. He never held back from berating and mocking him in front of everyone, and had even deliberately started a fight just to slap him and see what he looked like with his mask off. Chu Yin had been high and mighty, never afraid of anyone's revenge or tricks, and utterly reckless.

But when they met again, his nemesis was an acclaimed actor playing the male lead, while Chu Yin was a has-been no one in the entertainment industry, working as the female lead's body double...

Fortunes really did change. The man who once would never take off his mask had finally shown his true face in front of him.

Ji Zhanyu used the scene as an excuse to get close, casually gripping Chu Yin around the waist. His eyes held an inscrutable smile. "A tipsy traveler roams the Jianghu, his waist slender as a dancer's in the palm?"

This guy really was no good. If Chu Yin couldn't keep his temper in check, Ji Zhanyu would seize the chance to get revenge!

Chu Yin lowered his eyes, telling himself he had to hold it in...

But his hand was itching.

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In an interview, Ji Zhanyu seemed to tell a joke. The audience wasn't sure, so they decided to keep watching.

Ji Zhanyu said, "Seven years ago, he was the group's darling and a popular star, while I was the backup dancer. I accidentally touched his waist, and he slapped me in front of everyone."

"Seven years later, I'd worked my way up to become an acclaimed actor, while he'd faded into obscurity and fallen on hard times. I couldn't help teasing him, so I touched his waist again..."

The audience held their breath, waiting for a satisfying ending.

After a brief pause, Ji Zhanyu continued with a chuckle.

"He slapped me in front of everyone again."

The audience: "Tsk..."

Where was the promised twist?!

The Foolish Bottom Awakens After Being Reborn

[If I'm not right in the head, don't you dare toy with my feelings.]

Cheng Haojing was the son of Cheng Feng, a famous variety-show producer, but he was a little fool with an intellectual disability.

In his previous life, Cheng Haojing's father was so busy with work that he neglected his health. When Cheng Haojing was five, he had a fever for a day and a night, and it left him with brain damage.

Cheng's father loved him dearly, but was filled with guilt. He planned to produce a variety show featuring only children, hoping others would recognize Cheng Haojing's good qualities and that he would make friends on the show.

But before production could begin, Cheng's father died in an accident while on his way to do charity work in the mountains. A new producer took over the show, and Cheng Haojing became a prop for someone else's success.

Worse still, after the show aired, he was flooded with malice. The hate and insults never stopped.

Like a little dog fallen into the water, Cheng Haojing was helpless. Luckily, his uncle, who wasn't related to him by blood, appeared and took him home.

When Cheng Haojing turned eighteen, he got drunk and slept with a man, the son of his uncle's friend. His uncle called him shameless, but eventually agreed to let him get engaged to the man.

He loved that man. He was always so steady and reliable, so calm and distinguished, like an unreachable god.

Cheng Haojing thought he was happy enough, until the day they went to register their marriage...

A car accident took his life, and he woke up inside his five-year-old body!

Under the light of his newly clear mind, the beautiful memories of the past were finally exposed as lies.

Beneath them lay the stinking truth:

His father hadn't died in an accident.

His uncle only wanted his family's wealth.

The man had deliberately approached him.

His uncle had insulted him that day to manipulate him. He and the man had already conspired to take his fortune.

The man didn't love him, either. He was just a substitute the man used to pass the time.

In the end, he hadn't died in a car accident. He had died in a scheme.

After being reborn, the first thing Cheng Haojing did was save his father.

The second was to plan with his father: one of them would pretend to be sick, the other to be foolish.

Set the hook, and catch the fish.

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This Book's Tags Are All Wrong

[The main story is told in third person.]

I transmigrated into a political intrigue novel as the cannon-fodder crown prince who dies in the very first chapter!

The male leads are Huo Tingchao, a general and prince with a different surname who commands the army, and Sheng Xuanyue, a young chancellor who controls the court and the hearts of the people.

They fought for power and loved and hated each other for three whole years. In the end, they came to admire each other and decided to install a puppet emperor and rule the realm together.

And me, the legitimate crown prince, had only one bar of health from the start.

I was sickly and unfit to inherit the throne. On the day Huo Tingchao launched his coup, I planned to sneak out of the underground palace, only to be caught by Sheng Xuanyue's men, flayed and dismembered, and left to die in the dungeon.

Escape meant death. Staying meant death, too...

After I transmigrated into a book, I couldn't sleep at night. I thought about it day and night, constantly trying to figure out how to stay alive. After considering every angle, I decided I was best suited to become the puppet emperor three years from now!

The only problem was that I had to live until then.

So I began my desperate struggle to stay alive, caught between two powerful men. One day I'd flatter one, the next I'd act like the other's devoted lackey.

At last, the three-year deadline arrived...

The good news was that I made it to the end on a sliver of health.

The not-so-good news was that I had lost my chastity, and I had no idea whose baby I was carrying...

Help! This was an mpreg story all along?

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Theme: Stand firm and remain resolute, free of desire.