After Online Dating a Top-Tier Star

Next up: "Nasu Xu Mi" and "Limited-Time Control"

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1.

Xing You, a C-list actress, has a little secret she can hardly bring herself to talk about: she’s in an online relationship.

Once she started dating online, it was like she’d developed a split personality.

The straight-as-an-arrow girl she used to be could turn into a sweet, soft-voiced darling, completely absorbed in role-playing games.

She was just planning how to meet her online boyfriend in person when he, the one who’d always played the devoted lover, suddenly asked to break up!

2.

He Qi, a top-tier star, made his debut ten years ago. For all these years, he’s been as pure and untouchable as a cool breeze and bright moon. His fans joke that if he could, he’d marry music.

No one knows that he’s been secretly in love with an underclassman for ten years. To get close to her, he can only use games to win her over, even going so far as to expose his own scandals to get her attention.

He’s sunk deep into his obsession, unable to pull himself free.

As for his underclassman...

She doesn’t seem to care about him at all.

3.

After the award ceremony, Xing You personally came forward to break up the "He Qi and Xing You" ship, and the story shot to the top of the trending topics.

Before she could clarify things, a video appeared of a certain rising actress playing games on a voice call.

In it, Xing You sweetly cried, "Hubby, save me!" Her voice was dripping with sugar, nothing like the cool and aloof image she’d presented at the awards ceremony.

Onlookers quickly dug up her gaming account. A year-long couples’ badge was prominently displayed on her profile, and a staff member rumored to be involved even confirmed it in person.

#XingYouRejectedHeQiBecauseOfHerOnlineRomance

#XingYouBrokeUpTheShipForLove

The moment the topics appeared, they exploded in popularity.

The next second, He Qi, who hadn’t posted in ages, put up a new update.

@He Qi: Official announcement: Online romance? My hubby turns out to be me.

@Xing You: ???

Onlookers: ????????

Much later, He Qi told the story of his painful unrequited love at a concert:

Ten years ago, the moon he adored never shone on him.

Ten years later, she finally became the moon that belonged to him alone.

C-list actress x top-tier star

Reading Guide:

1. Online romance at first, then the truth comes out. He’s been plotting this for a long time.

2. My author page has Ji Beichu’s free tragic short story "I Heard It from Someone Else," Lin Si’s story "Parting the Clouds," and Ji Weiwei’s story "The Twenty-Fourth Rainy Season."

Next up: "Nasu Xu Mi," a bickering couple in an arranged marriage who fall in love.

In Xu Mi’s eyes, the first promise he made to Cheng Xuandu, the obedient young lady from the Cheng family he married through an arrangement, was: "Don’t worry about it. We’ll get divorced in a year."

In Cheng Xuandu’s eyes, this cheap husband of hers, who looked respectable but was especially good at acting, made her this first promise:

"Help me win over the hottest girl on S17, and I’ll introduce you to the wildest man on the racing team."

Much later, the pair of fake spouses failed to play their roles convincingly. Instead, they became each other’s wingmen at the bar.

Xu Mi looked at Cheng Xuandu, whose sly, foxlike eyes were full of mischief, and asked with a half-smile, "The hottest girl?"

Cheng Xuandu raised her brows, looking as innocent as a mischievous but naive little demon. "All of S17 belongs to me. I have the final say on what that means."

Xu Mi chuckled and casually spun the wedding ring he’d worn only on their wedding day, never putting it on again afterward. He seemed to do it absentmindedly, but carefully found the perfect angle to show the matching design on the ring to the curious onlookers behind him.

"What a coincidence. The racing team is mine too, and I’m the wildest one."

Bonus Scene:

Later, a fan interviewed Xu Mi and asked why he’d chosen to retire at the height of his career.

Xu Mi smiled, glancing at his wedding ring. His voice was wistful. "I’ve never really been passionate about anything. But when I was a kid, my best friend told me her dream was to become a racing driver. We went our separate ways afterward, so I thought I’d try pursuing her dream. Maybe one day, racing would bring us together again."

The fan asked, "Did you meet again?"

Xu Mi shook his head. "I didn’t expect that years later, she’d have forgotten what she said back then, and stopped liking racing. We didn’t reunite because of our shared passion..."

The young fan sighed. "What a shame..."

Xu Mi agreed solemnly. "Yeah, what a shame. So there wasn’t anything to keep me going anymore."

Cheng Xuandu, standing to the side, watched Xu Mi spout nonsense until the young fan’s eyes filled with tears. She could only tug at the corner of her mouth helplessly, walk over, and punch him. "That’s enough. Back then I just mentioned it in passing. I never said I liked racing. And you..."

He’d kept it in his heart, and turned it into his passion.

She was the only friend he had during his darkest days, and the only love of his life.

She was also the passion he would cherish forever.

Arranged marriage to love, both virgins. They’re only sweet-talkers when they play around, with no feelings and no sex.

Also known as The Birth of Two Drama Queens, or After Being Forced into an Arranged Marriage.

Theme: Strive for what you want, and love with all your heart.