Your Gorgeous Ex Is Mine Now

[New love interest. Gentle, calculating, green-tea seme x beautiful academic who has shut his heart to love] [Please read the pinned post for content warnings before starting.] ☆ Upcoming contemporary romance novels: My Coughing-Blood Guide for a Sickly Team Captain [New love interest] and Bro, I've Wanted to Get Ahead for Ages. Blurbs are at the bottom ↓ Visit my profile to see them. -- Blurb -- Gu Qingyan and Chu Hao were childhood friends who had been dating for four years. Gu Qingyan used his own allowance to order Chu Hao takeout and stayed up late organizing notes for him. Even though Chu Hao had a bad temper, Gu Qingyan carefully placated him every day. He had always thought their relationship was solid, until he happened to look at Chu Hao's phone and saw that Chu Hao had pinned a chat with a younger fellow student from his department. His boyfriend shared his daily life and feelings with someone else, and even missed Gu Qingyan's birthday because of a problem with the junior student's experiment. But Chu Hao had told him the excuse that day was that he had an important research project. Right then and there, Gu Qingyan used Chu Hao's phone to block himself on every account and walked out of Chu Hao's life. Chu Hao thought Gu Qingyan was just throwing a little tantrum. He bet his friends, "Who's been spoiling him like that? Give it two weeks, tops, and he'll come crawling back." But nearly two months went by, and Gu Qingyan still hadn't said a word to him. Chu Hao finally panicked. He stood outside the building, shouting Gu Qingyan's name and begging him to come back, only to have a bucket of water dumped on him from above. The person who poured it had striking features and was wearing Gu Qingyan's pajamas. His voice dripped with scorn. "My wife's asleep, bro... No, my wife's ex. Make one more noise and I'll call the cops." Chu Hao exploded on the spot. The person who'd poured the water was his own younger brother! "Bro, I've put up with you for four years," his brother said. "Happy breakup, you scumbag." Chu Shanye was the highest-paid player in the professional league, the star jungler for a powerhouse S-tier team. A month ago, he streamed an entire day of the song Happy Breakup. His fans were baffled and asked if he'd broken up with someone and was feeling down and in need of comfort. Chu Shanye's smile grew even smugger. "I'm playing it for my love rival. He just broke up today." "Now that he's single, his wife is mine. What a tasteless loser." One day, Gu Qingyan happened to walk past behind him wearing his team jersey, with an intimate red mark on the side of his neck. Fans screenshotted the stream and shared it online. That night, it topped the trending topics: #WildGod'sWifeIsReallyBeautiful# #WildGod'sScumbagLoveRivalHasNoTaste# -- Upcoming books -- ★ Bro, I've Wanted to Get Ahead for Ages Jiang Wen felt he was born to be hated. The Jiang family adopted him, and he thought he'd finally found a home. But he turned out to be a fake young master, adopted for appearances. The only person who treated him well was his unrelated older brother, Jiang Chi, who was kind to him in secret. Under the guise of brotherhood, Jiang Wen loved Jiang Chi for ten years. He stayed up late to review Jiang Chi's matches with him and willingly gave up his tournament spot for him. Even when Jiang Chi lost his temper, Jiang Wen carefully soothed him. Then, on one birthday, Jiang Wen finally confessed his feelings. Jiang Chi slipped a soda-can tab onto his ring finger and kissed the corner of his mouth. "I love you too. Will you do one thing for your big brother?" Jiang Chi said there could only be one heir to the Jiang family, so the returned biological young master, Lu Wei, had to be disgraced. He wanted Jiang Wen to seduce Lu Wei, promising that once it was done, he would marry Jiang Wen. After a long silence, Jiang Wen agreed. He thought that if he did even better, Jiang Chi would love him more. Then one day, he saw flirtatious messages between Jiang Chi and the person who had bullied him: "If Jiang Wen weren't still useful, he'd be too pathetic to deserve me." "He's not worth one strand of your hair. You're the only one I love." When Jiang Wen confronted him, a building caught fire. The man who had said he loved him shoved him into the flames and ran away. As the fire swallowed him, Jiang Wen realized he was the universally despised character in a melodramatic novel, and no one would ever truly love him. News that Jiang Wen had apparently died was widely reported, and the world suddenly changed. Those who had bullied him repented, those who had slandered him apologized, and the Jiang family offered a huge reward just to see him once. Not long afterward, an artistic skating blogger went viral. In the videos, Jiang Wen wore silk over his eyes and moved with elegant grace, like a sprite on ice. Even the national team invited him to join. In pouring rain, Jiang Chi knelt outside Jiang Wen's home and begged him to come back. After two hours, a bucket of hot water came crashing down from above, scalding him until he rolled around on the ground. When he looked up, he was stunned. It was Lu Wei, the younger brother he hated with all his heart! Lu Wei drawled lazily, "Thanks, bro. Just as you wanted, I'm with your sister-in-law." A faint red kiss mark on his neck left Jiang Chi staring in shock and fury. Lu Wei, the Jiang family's biological young master and a newly crowned world champion in racing. When the Jiang family went bankrupt, he played the song Good Days on stream all day and gave away three luxury cars to celebrate with everyone. Later, he won another championship. The racer who never let anyone near him knelt before a beauty and solemnly placed his champion's ring on the beauty's ring finger. The beauty wore Luo Yu's team jersey, removed the silk covering his eyes, grabbed Luo Yu by the collar, and kissed him. #RumorHasItTheRacingChampionFellOutWithTheJiangFamilyOverAMan# #NotARumor# ★ My Coughing-Blood Guide for a Sickly Team Captain [New love interest] From the youth training camp to the FGS starting lineup, Shang Tingchao and Song Liang had played together for nearly four years. He spent day and night helping Song Liang review matches and train, while his own health kept deteriorating. But this season, FGS failed to make the playoffs. Under mounting pressure, Shang Tingchao coughed up blood and collapsed during a match. When he woke up, he learned that Song Liang had transferred to another team. The increasingly half-hearted practice matches, the phone numbers of other clubs saved in his contacts, and Song Liang not visiting him during this hospital stay: the signs had all been there. When Shang Tingchao returned to the team base, Song Liang was playing ranked doubles with someone else. Asked for an explanation, he sneered, "That promise to win a championship together? I was just humoring you. You actually believed me?" "Can't win a championship, so you replace your teammates. You think you're good enough to play professionally?" Shang Tingchao was so furious his vision went black. Just as he was about to slap Song Liang, the doorbell rang. A white-haired young man stood at the door. He shot Song Liang a cold glance, then looked at Shang Tingchao. "Shang Tingchao, I'm Lu Zhou, the new jungler FGS just signed. I'm here to win a championship with you." FGS rebuilt its roster for the new season. At first, nobody had faith in them, but the new team surged ahead, defeated the established team led by Song Liang, and won the championship. At the celebration banquet, Song Liang shamelessly approached Shang Tingchao, the Finals MVP support player, to make up. Lu Zhou stopped him. Song Liang flew into a rage. "What gives you the right to stop me? I'm his old teammate..." Before he could finish, a cup of cola was poured over his head. Lu Zhou narrowed his eyes. "You, the scrub I solo-killed five times in the Finals, are saying he doesn't belong in the pros?" Seeing Song Liang's disheveled, horrified expression, he smiled even more brightly. "You're his old teammate, and I'm his new love. Don't you think I have the right to stop you?" During the Finals interview, the host asked, "Lu Zhou, did you know that the anniversary of your KPL debut is Shang Tingchao's birthday?" Lu Zhou's lips curved. "I've known for a long time." More than just a long time. After carefully choosing from all the possibilities, he'd picked that day so their lives could become intertwined. Theme: Take control of your own fate and realize your worth.