Where's Your Childhood Sweetheart?

Su Ran spent a long time chasing after Chi Hailin.

He thought that once they finally got together, their love would be sweet.

But Mr. Chi and Su Ran kept their relationship private.

Mr. Chi was frequently away, and spent less and less time with him.

He took off the luxury watch Su Ran had given him and put on a cheap bracelet from someone else.

On Valentine's Day, Mr. Chi ignored Su Ran's injury and said coldly, "You're not as important as him."

Su Ran felt that their love was a ridiculous joke.

Even more ridiculous was discovering that he was just a cannon-fodder character in a book.

In the book, Mr. Chi cared about his white moonlight.

Su Ran was merely a pretty vase, the supporting character meant to highlight the protagonists' love.

No matter how much he did for the male lead, it was useless. In the end, he would be abandoned.

The book and reality confirmed each other. Su Ran finally understood and decisively asked Chi Hailin to break up.

Mr. Chi said, "Suit yourself."

*

On the night he left Mr. Chi, Su Ran lost his memory.

After losing his memory, Su Ran was carefree and happy.

He was handsome and rich, with countless admirers. Every day, a new puppy-like young man tried to win his favor.

That day, Su Ran attended a banquet with one of his admirers. A handsome stranger stopped him and demanded, "Have you had enough of this?"

Su Ran glanced at him in confusion. "I don't know you. Who are you?"

*

Ever since his youth, Chi Hailin had had a childhood sweetheart following him around.

His sweetheart was a crybaby, timid and spoiled, but always sweet and obedient in front of Mr. Chi.

He treated Chi Hailin as the most important person in the world and did everything he said.

Mr. Chi took all of this for granted and kept his sweetheart coddled and sheltered.

One day, his sweetheart said he wanted to break up.

Chi Hailin thought he was just throwing a tantrum and didn't care at all. "Suit yourself."

That night, his sweetheart packed his bags and left.

Some time later, Chi Hailin was drinking with a friend at a bar.

His friend asked, "What's wrong? Why isn't your little lover here?"

Chi Hailin replied casually, "He's throwing a tantrum. He'll be back after a while."

He waited and waited, but his sweetheart never came back. Instead, he blocked him.

When Chi Hailin saw his sweetheart again, the other man was laughing and flirting with someone else in public.

Chi Hailin stepped forward to stop him, his face dark as he demanded, "Have you had enough of this?"

His sweetheart looked up at him with the eyes of a stranger. "I don't know you. Who are you?"

1. A groveling-after-the-breakup story, full of melodrama.

2. They are each other's first love.

3. The male lead will not change. The male lead will not change. The male lead will not change. Important things should be said three times: this is a one-on-one romance, and the male lead will not change.

4. Thank you for your support.

(Cover art: Cover design by Shen Yi)

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1. Reborn Director, Hated by Everyone, Gets Divorced

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3. My Cat Self Might Be in Over Its Head. Please add it to your collection~(*^_^*)]

Ongoing work recommendation:

A melodramatic story about a widowed heartthrob: The Heartthrob Widower Is Coveted by Mad Dogs

A melodramatic groveling-after-the-breakup story: The Substitute Game

Before Shen Zhu left his agency and went solo, he was an idol in a boy band that had debuted through an influencer talent agency.

His first steps in the entertainment industry were difficult, but thankfully his first love, Lu Mingyi, was always by his side. Their relationship was secret, but their time together was sweet and happy. Shen Zhu had once hoped they would be together forever.

Later, however, he learned from his nemesis that he was only a substitute, and that Lu Mingyi's true love was someone else.

Shen Zhu confronted Lu Mingyi. He broke down and struggled, trying to deceive himself into turning a blind eye.

At their final farewell concert before disbanding, he sang until his voice gave out, but his boyfriend, who had promised to be there with him, never showed up.

When he returned to their place, Shen Zhu found Lu Mingyi's application to study abroad, and discovered that Lu Mingyi had been hiding his true identity all along.

The heir to the prestigious Lu family had actually been playing at being poor to test people's true colors!

Remembering how his boyfriend had cheerfully comforted him when he terminated his contract and was saddled with a staggering penalty, Shen Zhu felt bitterly mocked and utterly disillusioned.

That night, he told Lu Mingyi, "Let's break up. From now on, let's pretend we never knew each other."

The breakup was painful, but Shen Zhu threw away the ring that marked their love and left without looking back.

Lu Mingyi regretted it.

*

On a day when snow swirled through the air, Lu Mingyi came to Shen Zhu's film set with a fever to ask for forgiveness.

But amid the wind and snow, he saw Shen Zhu kissing and embracing another man on set, with no camera tricks to fake it.

Lu Mingyi was struck as if by lightning!

After filming wrapped, Shen Zhu passed Lu Mingyi without a word, treating him like a stranger.

His love rival stopped and looked at Lu Mingyi coldly. "You're already in the past. Stay away from him."

*

Lu Mingyi, a rising commercial director whose films had topped the box office for six consecutive months, suddenly joined a dating reality show.

When he crossed paths with Shen Zhu, a famous traffic-star actor, many netizens said Shen Zhu was surely in for trouble.

Lu Mingyi was known for hating traffic-star actors. He often said that many of them weren't professional performers.

Besides, although Shen Zhu was somewhat famous, he had recently been dogged by negative news.

As netizens watched the drama unfold, anticipating a scene of kicking someone when they were down and giving the traffic star a good beating, Shen Zhu calmly looked at his ex and pretended they were strangers. "Nice to meet you, Director Lu."

Lu Mingyi flipped the table without batting an eye. "Let me introduce myself again. I'm not a director now, but your ex and your first love."

Shen Zhu seethed inwardly: ...

What a lunatic.

The netizens watching the drama were stunned. "Huh?"

Those two actually had a history?

*

After their breakup, each of them traveled a long road on their own.

Later, Lu Mingyi finally realized that the fourth year after he and Shen Zhu broke up was the seventh year he had been in love with him.

He could never forget him and wanted to win him back.

But Shen Zhu rejected him and stood beside another man.

That man had a face remarkably similar to his. He was Lu Mingyi's cousin, Qin Yan, the heir to the Qin family.

Lu Mingyi couldn't accept it. "Why would you rather find a substitute than take me back?"

Shen Zhu's voice was icy. "You're not worthy."

Reader's guide:

1. A seemingly innocent but calculating, hypocritical, somewhat affected, conflicted, and obsessive top × a beautiful, sensitive, money-loving, vain, and playfully troublesome bottom.

2. The bottom has had other partners; the top has not. When the bottom loved him, the top didn't love him enough. When the bottom stopped loving him, the top regretted it. Then the bottom got together with someone else, and the top came back to break them up and pursue him. A melodramatic groveling-after-the-breakup story.

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Theme: Healthy love isn't about flying into the fire like a moth. It's about becoming each other's starlight and illuminating the road ahead.]