Excuse Me, Who Are You?

1.

Just before her promotion, Yao Muyang found herself pregnant. The father's identity was unknown, and his whereabouts were uncertain.

At the hospital, she waited anxiously for surgery, only for the middle-aged woman beside her to snatch the ultrasound scan from her hand. "Spare my grandchild!"

Yao Muyang was baffled. "May I ask who you are?"

The woman pointed at the tiny, two-centimeter oval. "Don't deny it. It looks exactly like my son did as a child!"

2.

Chi Suining was summoned home by his mother in a hurry. She pointed at Yao Muyang, who sat across from him looking bewildered. "Give her five million and a villa. I'll raise the baby after it's born."

He refused flatly. "No. I don't want this child."

Yao Muyang had finally met someone who understood. She nodded repeatedly. "I feel the same way."

Chi Suining pondered for a moment. "Let's get married first. We can have a child later."

Yao Muyang was stunned. "May I ask who you are, then?!"

3.

Chi Suining's life followed a precise trajectory: an outstanding graduate of a science and engineering university, the youngest senior manager at an accounting firm, then the man who led his family business from losses to profits in a year, took it public in two, and made it internationally renowned in three.

Yet at every major turning point in his life, there was one unpredictable variable.

That variable was named Yao Muyang.

And in the end, she asked him who he was?

He laid out the household registration booklet, bankbook, and house keys in a row. "You can't be this irresponsible."

Yao Muyang bolted in fright. Oh no, someone was trying to pin this on her!

[Synopsis of Stop Pretending]

1.

Jin Taixi's family were residents of a neighborhood slated for demolition and relocation.

Ever since she learned this secret, all she wanted was to lie flat and collect rent.

Her father looked at his good-for-nothing daughter and sighed. "With you acting like this, when will our family go from nouveau riche to true upper-class?"

Jin Taixi sucked on a popsicle while gaming. "Don't worry. I'll find you a cultured, tasteful live-in son-in-law one of these days."

The next day, a man showed up at the door with a rental advertisement.

He stood tall and carried himself with impeccable manners. "We're classmates. Could you give me a discount?"

The popsicle made Jin Taixi's teeth ache. "Zhou Muye, did your family go bankrupt?"

2.

Jin Taixi had been Zhou Muye's classmate for three years. Everyone said he was an aloof, snow-covered plum blossom atop a lofty peak. Only Jin Taixi knew he never told the truth.

He slept through class yet ranked first in every subject. In reality, he had hired eight tutors and studied hard every night.

He got MVP the first time he played a game. In reality, he had practiced for hundreds of matches on an alternate account, with a 37% win rate.

He sat by the window, quietly reading Kafka. In reality, he had a girls' manga hidden underneath.

The king of bluffing had fallen. If she didn't take advantage of him, who would?

Jin Taixi pointed at the cramped storage room. "These are the conditions. Take it or leave it. Do the laundry and cook, and I'll cut the rent in half."

Zhou Muye obediently picked up a mop. "Where should I start?"

Jin Taixi thought, "Sure enough, poverty makes people virtuous."

Later, when he was short on money, Jin Taixi took pity on him. "Help me put on a good show in front of my dad, and I'll halve your rent again."

Zhou Muye immediately called him Dad, praised him for having the bearing of a man of letters, and chatted with him about the scenery of the North Carolina coast and the art of the Louvre. They hit it off like old friends.

Jin Taixi thought, "Would you really do all that for this little money??"

3.

When the lease expired, Zhou Muye became the young master Zhou once more. Not only did he refuse to leave, he also pushed his luck. "It's too cramped for two people in the storage room. Could we move into a bigger one?"

Jin Taixi threw his luggage out the door. "Get out. Don't interfere with my rent collection!"

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