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Upcoming: Fantasy danmei, He Became a God Among Top-Tier Stars Through His Beautiful, Strong, and Tragic Persona

The slightly world-weary, beautiful-strong-and-tragic bottom, Li Jingxing, × the sweet, puppy-like top, Wen Zhi. The blurb is below. Please add it to your reading list!

Blurb:

Workaholic, clueless “straight guy” top Zhu Buyao vs. “no big ambitions,” mildly socially anxious, flirtatious little-fox bottom Wu Qi

Wu Qi went to a class reunion and never expected that, on top of a trip to the police station, he’d bring home his ex-boyfriend. That very night, his ex said he wanted to pursue him all over again.

Wu Qi: Thanks for asking. This is mortifying, and it came completely out of nowhere.

Zhu Buyao is a workaholic who believes work comes before everything and pushes himself to the brink as long as it won’t kill him. Wu Qi is a carefree, unconventional freedom-lover who takes life as it comes and resists the grind. Everyone said they weren’t right for each other, and Wu Qi agreed. So they made it through seven years together before finally breaking up three years ago.

Three years later, society has taught Wu Qi a lesson and sanded down his rough edges. When he runs into his ex again, he somehow ends up bringing him home for the night, and the man refuses to leave. He says he wants to win Wu Qi back, but also keeps trying to manage every little thing. Wu Qi feels like he’s found himself a dad.

Zhu Buyao grew up without friends, until he met Wu Qi at university and later became his boyfriend. The little liar once promised they’d be together forever, but three years ago he left without looking back.

Three years later, Zhu Buyao, who once swore he’d let Wu Qi go, has come to reclaim him. Why? Because he’s eating his words.

At its heart, this is a sweet little love story about an emotionally clueless, straightforward man coming back to win someone over, and the two of them finally learning to make things work.

Upcoming novel: He Became a God Among Top-Tier Stars Through His Beautiful, Strong, and Tragic Persona

Li Jingxing is the center of a boy band, a newly popular young idol with a stunning face, shaky singing and dancing skills, third-rate popularity, eighteenth-rate acting, and top-tier scandals and bad press.

After an advertising board knocked him into the hospital, where he lay unconscious for a month, he suddenly woke up.

And the entertainment industry was shaken to its core.

That wooden, expressionless, arrogant, kept man, teammate-sabotaging, ungrateful, unfilial schemer had been cleared of all accusations!

After he dramatically exposed one scandal after another, laying countless shady deals bare for all to see, everyone thought he was done with the industry and would be permanently blacklisted. But all sorts of unexpected, irrefutable evidence kept him firmly afloat amid the storm. Overnight, he became a household name for defying the powerful and rooting out corruption.

Framed, persecuted, and exploited, yet still true to himself. What a beautiful, strong, and tragic character.

We thought that was the end of it, but then he was trending again.

In the entertainment industry's first battle-royale reality show, he wielded a gun with dashing poise. A streak of blood bloomed into dazzling brilliance, and his radiant smile showed everyone what a rose in the smoke of battle looked like.

His fight scenes were superb, his historical costumes breathtaking, his acting first-rate, and his performances gorgeous. He made everyone who had told him to get out of the entertainment industry eat their words.

What other surprises have we been missing?

Oh, and there are enthusiastic messages of praise and gratitude from scientists, musicians, university students, children, and people from every walk of life. They even trade barbs to compete for the position of head of his fan club.

They all say Li Jingxing saved them.

In response to all the speculation online, Li Jingxing says people have wildly overactive imaginations. He merely chatted with these friends through brainwaves and helped them stand up to some awful parents, awful men, awful boyfriends, and awful siblings and classmates.

Just as everyone was arguing themselves red in the face, Li Jingxing met a nineteen-year-old on the battle-royale show. The young man was about to be blacklisted for offending a top-tier star, and he came bounding over like a puppy, tail wagging.

The puppy's eyes were bright, and his heart and gaze were full of Li Jingxing. He was pure and kind, but too timid and soft-hearted, and always got bullied.

“They're so fanatical. I'm not like them. I only worry about you, gege.”

Li Jingxing's heart overflowed with affection. Even though this was a wolf pup, he thought the little guy couldn't be any sweeter.

Later, Li Jingxing remembered a piece of his past that he had forgotten.

The wolf pup: QAQ, gege, I really didn't mean to lie to you. Am I not your most beloved little System anymore?

“A little System isn't allowed to get handsy with me. Do you still want to be one?”

“Then let me be the one who pampers you, gege.”

Romance: After returning, the word Li Jingxing says most often is “whatever.” Alone in the world and born without much interest in anything, he does as he pleases. He never expected someone to brush away the dust and frost that had long settled in his heart, and want to shield him from every hurt.

Maybe life is interesting after all?

Li Jingxing is the salvation of those people, but only one person is his salvation, brushing away the dust and frost that have long settled in his heart and wanting to shield him from every hurt.

Wen Zhi knows that there is only one person like him in the world. World-weariness is his camouflage, but embracing the world is his instinct.

The slightly world-weary, beautiful-strong-and-tragic bottom, Li Jingxing, × the sweet, puppy-like top, Wen Zhi

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