Deep Blue Forest

Next up: Dream Lover [Entertainment Industry]. Please add it to your reading list! Blurb at the very end

[Rekindled Romance]

"Because I believe in pure love almost obsessively, it could only ever be you."

1.

"Zhu Youxu, shouldn't singers take better care of their voices? You smoke so much."

"Me? I'm just an amateur."

Back then, the boy's carefree smile put Yin Yu completely at ease.

But later, Zhu Youxu gained a whole lot of fans. He was no longer Zhu Youxu who belonged to Yin Yu alone. The boy's smile was shared with everyone, while the boy's lover was attacked by a storm of rumors.

When the rumors were flying, Zhu Youxu said, "Yin Yu, be good and go abroad."

The last of Yin Yu's defenses crumbled. "Zhu Youxu, why can't you choose me with the same conviction?"

2.

Three years later, Yin Yu buried herself in observation research at a scientific research institute. One day, a tent was pitched beneath her dormitory building. The person living inside was someone she remembered all too well and resented. He still smiled at her as he always had, smoked right in front of her, and gave her every bit of his tenderness and care.

But Yin Yu would never again tell him that singers should take good care of their voices.

She said coldly, "Once you're done making a scene, go home. A singer doesn't belong here."

She wanted no part of what wasn't hers.

3.

Singer SL has always been like an untouchable flower on a high peak in the music scene, a work machine who never has any unnecessary contact with other female stars. His fans have always felt reassured by this. The strange thing is that every spring, he turns down his engagements and disappears for a while.

Then one day, SL, who had tens of millions of fans, vanished for a long time. Everyone began to panic. What was going on? No matter how hard his fans tried to dig up his schedule, they couldn't find a thing, and his manager refused to comment. In reality, he couldn't get in touch with Zhu Youxu either, and was ready to tear the place apart looking for him.

But that very untouchable flower who had vanished spent the whole night standing beneath Yin Yu's dormitory building in the pouring rain. He didn't even wait for the dormitory's front doors to open.

"Yin Yu, every spring I go to Grandpa's place to grow watermelons. We promised we'd grow watermelons for you every year."

"Yin Yu, could you please... pay attention to me?"

Cool, distinctive singer x cheerful, justice-minded forestry worker

Content warnings: 1. All the settings are there to support the romance. If you spot any errors in common knowledge or professional details, please let me know! Please go easy on me.

2. He pursues his wife, but it isn't quite a full-blown hellfire of regret.

3. An unconventional take on the entertainment industry.

4. The male lead has an ex-girlfriend, and they break up for real in Chapter 1. Both leads are virgins.

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Blurb for Dream Lover [Entertainment Industry]:

Launching in April / Weibo: Qiuqiu DT

★ Entertainment industry / marriage first, love later / true and fake heiresses / male lead has a secret crush / both leads are virgins

★ Hardworking, flirtatious sweetheart x cool, abstinent dog-like movie star

1. Yuan Yi is an award-winning actor who found fame at a young age. A well-known untouchable flower in the entertainment industry, he grew up with top actress Zhong Yu. Everyone called them a perfect match, and fans of both families had shipped them for years, insisting they were destined to marry young.

One day, a dating reality show announced its guests. To everyone's surprise, Yuan Yi was on it with Zhong Xia! Not Zhong Yu!

Yuan Yi then posted on Weibo: My dream lover @Zhong Xia

Zhong Xia didn't respond, but Yuan Yi pinned the post to the top of his profile. Countless people mocked him, openly and behind his back, for being a lovesick puppy.

2. Best Actress Zhong Xia is dazzlingly beautiful, an incomparable beauty and the entertainment industry's femme fatale, the dream girl of every man. Unlike Yuan Yi, whose romantic history is spotless and whose family background is impeccable, her reputation in the industry is terrible, and scandals follow her everywhere.

Everyone berated Zhong Xia for taking what belonged to Zhong Yu and said she wasn't good enough for Yuan Yi.

But Zhong Xia didn't care. Three years ago, she'd gone to great lengths to take Yuan Yi away, not because she loved him, but because she detested him. Even after their marriage, she continued living it up and let herself be surrounded by rumors, all so that she could make this day public.

3. Zhong Xia even shamelessly flirted with a male guest on the show, then got drunk. Zhong Yu and Yuan Yi's fans watching at home wanted nothing more than to charge through the screen and tear her apart.

But Yuan Yi said nothing. He simply carried Zhong Xia into the room.

"Do you regret marrying me?" Zhong Xia laughed at him. "Do you have no self-respect? Three years ago, I crooked a finger at you and you agreed to marry me... You know, beating Zhong Yu doesn't make me all that happy when you make it this easy."

"They say I stole what belonged to Zhong Yu..." Zhong Xia wept silently. "But can Zhong Yu give me back my mother and the father's love I could have had?"

Zhong Xia cried herself to sleep. Yuan Yi gently kissed the tears that fell as she dreamed. "I don't regret it. From the day I met you at fifteen, I've never regretted it."

4. Later, Zhong Xia felt terribly guilty about not responding to that Weibo post at the time. She began posting daily love diaries about herself and Yuan Yi, and the Best Actress turned into a relationship blogger.

"I've lost so many followers. You'd better support me from now on."

Yuan Yi thoughtfully brought her breakfast. "Okay~"

/Dream lover, how I wish you'd become real. I can't help wishing for it in my heart/

--From Faye Wong's "Dream Lover"

Theme: Always love your dreams