Wasn't This Supposed to Be a Marriage of Convenience?

A pampered young master who blows his top at the slightest provocation x a devoted husband who always carries a lighter and a comb to smooth his hair

When Ming Zhaoyue, a hugely popular A-list actor, announced his marriage, the news trended for a day and a night.

His fans cried over their beautiful, talented wife being married, then promptly dug up information about his spouse.

Sheng Yuheng, the newly appointed heir to the Sheng Group.

A ruthless and decisive man, famed for being a smiling fox.

With his polished manners and handsome looks, he was also the dream partner every young master and young lady from a prominent family longed for but could never have.

They also dug up the rankings from all the competitions Ming Zhaoyue had entered over the years. The two had been rivals, evenly matched, since childhood.

Someone even released a recording of Ming Zhaoyue snorting and telling a friend,

“I'd rather die than fall for Sheng Yuheng. Marry him? He should be grateful I married him.”

Afterward, Ming Zhaoyue personally responded to the marriage announcement: “Mr. Sheng and I don't get along. It's only a marriage of convenience.”

Fans who learned the inside story: “Okay, wifey, we believe you, mwah! Looking forward to your new movie~”

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Until one day, Sheng Yuheng was asked by the media in front of everyone, “If you hadn't entered this business marriage, Mr. Sheng, what would your ideal partner be like?”

Sheng Yuheng smiled faintly at the camera and was about to answer when the studio suddenly went dark.

Backstage, Ming Zhaoyue had just pulled the circuit breaker. He grabbed Sheng Yuheng by the tie and shoved him against the wall, his voice tinged with anger as he demanded,

“Sheng Yuheng! I'm not dead yet. Who said you could remarry!?”

Sheng Yuheng's lips curled. “I won't.”

The next moment, he kissed Ming Zhaoyue's fingertips and gently coaxed him.

“Dead or alive, you'll be my wife for the rest of your life. Is that okay?”

Unexpectedly, someone secretly recorded the whole thing and uploaded it. The video went viral.

Everyone: ???

What happened to that marriage of convenience where they supposedly didn't get along?

P.S.:

1. The recipient sometimes wears women's clothing for work, but not often.

2. Both are each other's first and only, happy ending.

3. The author is busy with real life and may not respond properly to comments. Sorry in advance.

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“Just as I Wished [Changing Partners]”

Lu Guiyan had been secretly in love with Shen Que for ten years. He watched Shen Que cycle through countless partners and spend years playing the field, always managing to walk away unscathed.

He thought that after becoming Mrs. Shen, Shen Que would at least show him some favor.

Then, after countless nights of being sent to sleep in the study, he heard his legal husband making love to someone else in their bedroom. Looking at the diamond ring on his hand, Lu Guiyan could only think that his youth had been a joke.

The night he decided to divorce Shen Que, Lu Guiyan went alone to a bar and drank himself into a stupor.

When he woke up in a hotel, he saw a man with a vaguely familiar face lying beside him. Trembling, he called out the name of his high school deskmate.

“...Fu Yuan?”

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Fu Yuan, a professor at one of China's top law schools, was blessed with striking good looks and known to the public as a stern, decisive professor.

He never imagined that a business trip would lead him to find the high school classmate he'd secretly loved for nearly ten years in a hotel hallway.

The night before, Lu Guiyan had been drunk in his arms, crying and calling Shen Que's name for half the night. Now, Fu Yuan calmly looked at the ring finger of the man before him. The diamond ring was long gone.

He took out a business card and handed it to Lu Guiyan. “If you need help with divorce proceedings, Mr. Lu, you can come to me anytime.”

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Shen Que never expected to run into his ex-husband at the birthday party of one of their high school teachers, six months after their divorce.

Lu Guiyan was dressed in a tailored suit, brimming with confidence. The insecurity and timidity that had once shown in his eyes were gone.

What especially stung Shen Que was the fading hickey on his fair neck, and Fu Yuan's hand resting on his waist as if staking a claim.

For the first time in his life, Shen Que felt intense regret for abandoning someone.

After the party, Shen Que arranged to meet Fu Yuan alone and waited at the agreed location, smoking in silence.

Five minutes later, a long, slender finger bearing a diamond ring gently tapped the glass table before him.

“Shen Que, please put out your cigarette while you're talking to me.”

“My Lu doesn't like the smell of smoke.”

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Lu Guiyan had always thought he would never be anyone's favorite.

Only after reuniting with Fu Yuan did he learn that breaking a glass was a small matter that didn't warrant a scolding, and that he didn't have to watch everyone else's mood before doing anything.

The youth he had thought of as a “joke” had once shone like the stars and lit up someone else's life.

“One-Click Check on the Protagonist's Mental State [Book Transmigration]”

Le Huiqiu was a perfectly stable college student. One moment, he was thinking, “Screw eight a.m. classes! Every group project in the world should go to hell! I want to destroy the whole world!!!”

The next, he was hit and killed by a construction truck brought in to renovate his campus, and transmigrated into a melodramatic BL novel. He became a fake young master forced to marry a crazy, obsessive villain, only to die miserably in the end.

Le Huiqiu: “...”

The world kisses me with pain, so I respond with a six.

According to the original owner's memories, the protagonist had everything he could want. His only regret was that his brain had been damaged in a childhood accident, leaving him genuinely mentally ill.

But here, he had no eight a.m. classes, no group projects, no mandatory Youth University Study check-ins, and no one messaging him every Thursday with a KFC promo code, demanding he send fifty yuan to prove his worth.

All he had to do was stay in character and not give himself away. When there was nothing to do, he could sleep on an eight-hundred-square-meter bed. When something came up, he could go berserk and wreck the whole world.

Le Huiqiu: “Excellent. This fulfills every fantasy I've ever had about being a young master. It'd be even better if I could get a secure government job someday~ (^з^)”

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After his identity as a fake young master was exposed, Le Huiqiu was mocked by a waiter at a banquet. He stared in shock, then threw himself on the floor, rolling and wailing. In the chaos, he knocked over a glass of red wine, which spilled right onto the waiter's face.

At a business dinner, Le Huiqiu eagerly wolfed down three bowls of rice. When his rival quietly called him ill-mannered, the protagonist heard. Le Huiqiu started crawling all over the floor, accidentally flipped the table, and cried, “You actually insulted me! Fine! Then nobody gets to eat!!!”

And so, with his life motto, “Rather than anxiously wearing yourself out, go crazy and wear everyone else out,” Le Huiqiu made a comfortable life for himself. No one dared mess with him anymore.

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Unfortunately, the plot still had to follow the original book. Le Huiqiu was forced to marry the crazy villain. On the wedding day, he stared pensively at the copy of “Advanced Mathematics” on the villain's desk.

No way. Could this villain be in the same line of work as me?

He leaned close to the villain's ear and asked, “Bro, are you worried about failing advanced math too?”

The crazy villain looked confused. “Who do you want to die?”

Well, if this crazy guy wanted someone dead, that would be easy. “Cancel the meeting. Send my elite team of assassins to kill them!”

Le Huiqiu smiled confidently. “It's fine. When I crawl all over the floor in the future, there'll be a place for you too!”

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And so, Le Huiqiu and the crazy villain grew closer, their madness drawing them toward each other.

Everything was going well, until one day Le Huiqiu got tired of going berserk and spent a few days crawling around less than usual.

When he opened his eyes, he found himself tied up in a basement. The crazy villain stared at him with a dark expression and asked, “Darling, you haven't crawled into my room lately when you're crawling around the house. Do you not love me anymore?”

The next moment, the villain's team of assassins lined up in a circle and dropped to their knees. “Boss! We've rounded up everyone in the city named Gaoshu! Who do you want us to go after first?”

Le Huiqiu: ?

Holy crap, no, seriously, are you actually doing this?!

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