The Business Agreement

[This novel will be completed on January 23. It will go premium, with chapters from Chapter 19 onward] Boy bands that don't queerbait should go home and grow sweet potatoes. Yu Qin, a member of Hua Country's number one boy band, understood that from the moment he debuted. As a six-member group, they were supposed to pair off and promote their ships in harmony. But Yu Qin had a cold-ship constitution. In the three years since his debut, he had only ever been someone's "good little brother," "good little sister," "good son," or "good daughter." He didn't have a single ship! Naturally, his popularity had sunk to rock bottom. Then, on his twenty-third birthday, Jing Yi, the group's most popular member, with an army of girlfriend fans and two hugely popular ships, leaned close to the team captain Yu Qin disliked most and whispered, "Want to promote a ship together?" Yu Qin's eyes widened. "Huh?" Jing Yi smiled. "I feel sorry for you. Why not promote a ship with me?" Yu Qin: "..." He already couldn't stand you, and now you're coming to mock him on his birthday? Done pretending to get along, he punched Jing Yi. "Go to hell." Jing Yi grinned as he took the punch and pulled him into his arms. "Happy birthday, gege." And so, a wild brawl ensued. The next day, video from the birthday party leaked. Just as Yu Qin thought Jing Yi's fans were about to come for him, he suddenly discovered their ship's super topic had climbed into the top three. The Yi Jian Qin Xin ship: "Our ship has risen!" "Who dares say they aren't close anymore? My ship is the real deal!" "A younger wolf-dog calling him gege, I'm dying!" "Is this a fight? This is them doing it!" Jing Yi tugged at his bruised lips. "Gege, want to promote a ship with me?" Yu Qin rubbed his swollen arm. "Fine, let's promote it. Who's scared?" Jing Yi had loved Yu Qin for two years, ever since love at first sight when he was sixteen, and then through three years as bandmates. He had never hoped for anything. Just being able to see him every day was enough. Until, trying to keep Yu Qin from leaving, he suggested they promote a ship together. Their bond grew deeper and deeper, and the desire within him opened like a bottomless pit, impossible to fill. Much later, Jing Yi held Yu Qin's head in his arms. His tone was flippant, but the hope in his eyes was nearly shattered. "Qin Qin, look at me. Date me." Yu Qin punched him in the shoulder. "Get lost!" Jing Yi's heart sank, but the person in his arms suddenly hugged him back. "What's wrong with your head? Haven't we been dating all this time?" #Three years of unrequited love, and the dream comes true# #How my most hated person and I went from fake ship promotion to actually dating# #My ship really is a real couple!# *Not based on real people. My ship is the best. *No one is perfect. *Both are each other's first love. ---Coming Soon 1: I Just Want to Be a Nobody--- After dying in an accident, Lu Yuan transmigrated into a book about a kept man, as the housekeeper. The protagonist of the book, Gu Chaoyi, was a rich young master, a heaven-blessed genius with peerless looks that drew countless men to him. One of them was Lu Yuan's employer, one of the crazy top protagonists. He used underhanded tactics to kidnap Gu Chaoyi and lock him up in a six-hundred-square-meter villa, where he had his way with him. But then the author won the lottery and stopped updating. The story ended with Gu Chaoyi being kidnapped, trapped in a dark room and subjected to endless torment. As his housekeeper, Lu Yuan only needed to take care of his daily needs. He wasn't allowed to do anything more. But seeing the wounds Gu Chaoyi suffered for refusing to submit softened Lu Yuan's heart. He secretly brought him medicine and even added Gu Chaoyi to his plan to quit and escape. Lu Yuan kept his head down in front of the crazy man, finally making it to the point where the story stopped updating. The crazy man planned to force himself on Gu Chaoyi. Gu Chaoyi had been drugged and was in a daze, and Lu Yuan couldn't hold back any longer. He came out, knocked the crazy man unconscious, and rescued Gu Chaoyi. Then Gu Chaoyi, eyes red, pinned him down. Lu Yuan: "...Don't come any closer!" Gu Chaoyi had been the darling of the world since birth: a business prodigy and the child of destiny. It took him only three years to become the head of the Gu family. His bright future was put on pause the day he was kidnapped and imprisoned. He was imprisoned, tormented, and trampled upon. His life descended into darkness. In those days without a glimmer of hope, a beam of light fell upon him. At first, Gu Chaoyi saw through Lu Yuan's soft-hearted nature and pretended to be pitiful in front of him, just to use him to escape. Later, he came to resent Lu Yuan's universal affection, how he even stopped to pet every stray dog he saw. He wanted that beam of light to shine on him alone. A soft-hearted, generous sweetheart who "just wants to give stray dogs a home" x a scheming, crazy top Coming Soon 2: The Genius Ghost Tamer [Please add this to your reading list, awooo! I'm going mad! _(:з"∠)_] Overnight, after transmigrating into a book, Zhu Xingqiao went from a renowned genius ghost tamer to a cannon-fodder young master in a supernatural novel. At the time, the young master had caused a death, killing the novel's male protagonist, Ling Yuchuan. After dying, Ling Yuchuan became a vengeful ghost and embarked on a path of revenge and power-ups, turning the Zhu family upside down. The young master was made into a puppet, and his soul was devoured by evil spirits. Zhu Xingqiao arrived just as the truth came to light. The Zhu family planned to take his bones to make soul nails, use his blood to draw talismans, and seal him in a spirit chamber as bait for the evil ghost. Then the great families would join forces to destroy it. Watching them draw useless, fancy-looking formations on him, Zhu Xingqiao felt his forehead twitch. "And you call yourselves a family of ghost hunters?" He used cinnabar to alter the formation and his blood as a lure, summoning the most terrifying evil ghost right in front of the assembled family members. It was filled with resentment and had lost all reason, its body wreathed in poisonous black mist. In an instant, it destroyed the spirit chamber that the great families had painstakingly built together. Zhu Xingqiao made a contract with it and walked out of the Zhu family unharmed. In the original world's occult community, ghost hunting, talisman drawing, feng shui, and formations all flourished side by side. The great families were locked in a delicate balance, each keeping the others in check. But after Zhu Xingqiao arrived, they realized their own methods were ridiculously weak. Vengeful ghosts that even the most powerful spells and formations couldn't subdue knelt before Zhu Xingqiao, begging to make a contract with him; A thousand-year-old building, thick with resentment and too dangerous for ordinary people to enter, opened its doors to Zhu Xingqiao of its own accord; Even the most mysterious big shot in the field came out in person to search for Zhu Xingqiao. Yet Zhu Xingqiao was tired and just wanted to earn enough to retire. * Zhu Xingqiao had high hopes for the first ghost he tamed after arriving in this world. He helped it dispel its resentment, expecting it to support him in his old age. But when the black mist cleared, the vengeful ghost's gloomy face was revealed. It was Ling Yuchuan. Ling Yuchuan wanted revenge on him, but the contract's backlash left him in agony; Zhu Xingqiao watched coldly. "If you behave, I can help you get your revenge." Ling Yuchuan refused to be controlled and plotted to escape. Zhu Xingqiao stayed calm. "He can't leave me." Later, after Ling Yuchuan defied him time and again, Zhu Xingqiao grew annoyed and tried to reason with him. "I'm your master, and I'm a ghost tamer. A ghost tamer can't have just one ghost." Ling Yuchuan tore apart the evil ghost that was about to make a contract with Zhu Xingqiao. A chain wreathed in black mist appeared around his neck, its other end wrapped around Zhu Xingqiao's wrist. "One ghost is enough for you. Me." A powerful sweetheart with maxed-out skills who only wants to retire x a ruthless, obsessive vengeful ghost who gets sulky in front of his beloved Theme: Learn to be independent and to tell good from evil in life.