Deliberate Secret Crush

[Upcoming stories in my collection: You Can Stop Pretending and He’s Not My Childhood Friend. Please add them to your collection.]

[Reckless heiress X ruthless illegitimate son]

1.

Everyone said Jing Xin, the eldest daughter of the Jing family, was beautiful and capricious, a woman with no heart. She changed boyfriends as often as she turned a calendar page, breaking up as soon as she got bored, without a trace of regret or sadness.

But few knew she had carried a certain unrequited love in her heart for ten years.

2.

Taking advantage of the fact that her unrequited love was single, Jing Xin finally gathered the courage to confess. To her dismay, she was rejected. After drinking herself silly late that night, she finally broke down in tears.

In the booth next door, the assistant accompanying someone nearby couldn’t hold back and whispered, “Mr. Xi?”

After watching coldly for a while, Xi Jizhou stood up, straightened his coat, and left, only saying, “When she’s done crying, take her home.”

3.

Xi Jizhou had a complicated background and little sense of morality. Through ruthless methods, he climbed step by step from illegitimate son to the rightful head of the family. He had never believed for even a second in gods, ghosts, or karmic retribution.

The only exception was the night he finally won Jing Xin after carefully plotting at every turn. He pressed one hand to his chest and solemnly thanked Heaven for granting him such mercy.

To him, Jing Xin was a miraculous gift he had dreamed of for half his life.

4.

Later, Jing Xin discovered that she had mistaken someone else for her unrequited love from the very beginning.

Tips:

* A melodramatic domineering CEO story

* The supposed unrequited love has no interest in the heroine

* Neither lead is perfect; fake enemies-to-lovers

My love is like flowers blooming in the mortal world, flourishing beneath an endless wilderness.

Please add my upcoming story, My Favorite CP Came Back to Life, to your collection!

Rekindled romance / two actors / no real-life inspirations, please don’t speculate about real people

[Everyone’s unrequited love X mad-dog top-tier star]

Song Zhuye and Zhong Yining were known as the most tragically doomed screen couple in the entertainment industry.

At nineteen, the two played a supporting couple in a hit drama. Their explosive chemistry and dazzling acting had audiences shipping them like crazy. They even outshone the leads and became the undisputed Best CP of the Year.

But just when everyone was happily waiting for them to fall in love while filming and get together off-screen, barely six months later, the two began distancing themselves from the pairing in unison.

They unfollowed each other on all their social media accounts, and even each other’s names became taboo at work.

Then Song Zhuye’s remark in an interview, “We’re not close,” sent the CP fans straight to the depths of despair and extinguished their last shred of hope.

…

…

Now, seven years later, there was no trace left of either in the other’s life. Each had another hugely popular CP, and the once-bustling CP fan forum had long since gone quiet, with barely anyone visiting.

Then one day, the overgrown forum suddenly came back to life.

Post after post flooded in, pushing the “Ming Zhong Zhu Ding” CP forum to the top of the rankings, as glorious as it had been back then.

It all began when Zhong Yining, who had recently cleared up rumors of a relationship, posted a simple picture on her social media.

[Zhong Yining: Sharing a picture]

The picture was unmistakably a screenshot from Song Zhuye’s latest movie.

#Mom, my favorite CP came back to life!!!#

#The original CP of the CP world is here, everyone move aside#

#Repost this, and even a CP that broke up seven years ago can start handing out sweets again#

#If you live long enough, you’ll see anything, as long as you’re willing to wait#

[Bonus scene]

Zhong Yining finally gave up on Song Zhuye in the third year after their breakup, the day she discovered he had removed the matching tattoos they got when they were nineteen.

She touched the two intertwined initials on her shoulder blade, ground her teeth, and blocked every one of Song Zhuye’s contact details.

But in the fifth year after their breakup, she realized she had been wrong.

Song Zhuye had removed the tattoo from his shoulder blade.

He had tattooed it above his chest, even closer to his heart.

Theme: Fall for you ten thousand times.