Rekindling Romance with My Ex, the Actress, on a Reunion Dating Show

[This story is on hiatus. If inspiration strikes again someday, I'll continue it.] Rising star Ying Shuang joins a reunion dating show, only to be paired with Lin Su, an award-winning actress she supposedly hasn't interacted with once in the eight years since her debut. Bystanders refuse to believe it. One of them is constantly courting controversy, so infamous she's become a sensation, while the other quietly focuses on her craft and has won every major international award. They seem to have nothing whatsoever to do with each other. There's no way they ever dated. Ying Shuang must be trying to ride Lin Su's coattails again! But no one knows that years ago, when they were both at their lowest, they huddled together in one bed to keep warm. In that cramped nest of blankets, all they could hear was the snow outside and each other's heartbeat. When they had nothing, each other was their only treasure. Even fewer people know that Lin Su, the famously untouchable beauty of the entertainment industry, once stood outside a door with red-rimmed eyes for an entire night, from dusk until dawn, begging Ying Shuang not to break up with her. ...For all sorts of reasons, Ying Shuang is terrified of seeing her ex. Sure enough, the moment she speaks on the show, Lin Su looks at her and coolly asks, "After all these years, you still haven't kicked that habit of kissing people at random?" Ying Shuang is mortified, but sharp-eyed fans spot something else. The supposedly aloof Lin Su immediately fires back whenever someone takes a dig at Ying Shuang, earnestly sticks up for her when she gets criticized, and even runs a secret account that's a famous Ying Shuang superfan. What's more, whenever Ying Shuang keeps spouting shameless flirtations and asks for kisses, hugs, and hand-holding, Lin Su may act cool, but she never refuses. She goes along with it all! "Shuang-Su Soaring Together" shoots straight to the top of the ship rankings. · After the show ends, rumors break that the "Shuang-Su Soaring Together" ship is real. A recording surfaces at the same time, capturing the usually composed Lin Su with a trembling voice: "Frost Flower, will we ever see each other again?" The internet crashes, and the shippers go wild. Ying Shuang, though, is overcome with bitterness. She thinks Lin Su won't take her back. But when she opens the door, Lin Su is already waiting outside. She says, "Frost Flower, I've been waiting a long time." Eight years later, Lin Su finally takes the hand of Ying Shuang, who had also waited all night on the other side of the door on the night they broke up. For many years afterward, Ying Shuang would remember the fragrance drifting from Lin Su's hair that day. It was exactly the same as the scent she'd stolen a kiss from after the senior year lunch bell. Couple: Romantic, uninhibited, super passionate scandal magnet of a rising star vs. sensitive, gentle, occasionally sharp-tongued, cool award-winning actress · An entertainment-industry reunion romance, fictional setting, same-sex marriage is legal, childhood sweethearts · Flashbacks, a mix of sweet and angsty, happy ending, slow burn Coming soon: My Lady's Got My Back Overworked office worker Lian Suichuan dies after another all-nighter, only to wake up as the villainess with the same name in an old-school Mary Sue novel. The novel is a classic Mary Sue fantasy. The heroine is the heiress of the world's foremost family, and the hero is the young master of the top conglomerate. All their friends are young masters and ladies from the top ten families. As the story's sole villainess, Lian Suichuan is the daughter of the third-ranked family. She's been in love with the hero since childhood, and she'll stop at nothing to ruin things for him, even pushing the heroine off a cliff. Naturally, the story ends with the heroine returning for revenge and joining forces with the hero to destroy her family. Lian Suichuan has no interest in playing a cannon-fodder, white-lotus heiress at an elite school. But the plot won't let her transfer out, and she has to keep sticking close to the heroine, Nangong Ying. With the whole school about to turn against her, Lian Suichuan has a flash of inspiration and starts shamelessly fawning over Miss Nangong. · At first, Nangong Ying can't stand Lian Suichuan, the delicate, pitiful white lotus. It annoys her to see Lian Suichuan ingratiating herself and hovering nearby. ...Hmph. She has no interest in dating or anything like that. But gradually, she watches Lian Suichuan stand up for her, even cursing out those nasty boys; care for her with tenderness when she falls ill; and carry her back up from the bottom of a cliff... Before long, Miss Nangong simply accepts that she has a girlfriend. · Everyone at the elite academy thinks Nangong Ying could never be interested in a toady like Lian Suichuan. So when several young masters sneer at Lian Suichuan again, they can't believe it when Miss Nangong slaps every one of them. "Lian Suichuan is under my protection. Got it?" Lian Suichuan is so grateful her eyes fill with tears. She thinks her toady career has finally paid off, but then Miss Nangong gives a little cough and looks at her with a strangely shy expression. "Um, what time should we go on our date tonight?" Lian Suichuan, who only wanted to be a toady: "???" Couple: A devoted girlfriend who only means to be a toady but is actually capable of everything vs. a proud, haughty Mary Sue heiress with a soft heart Theme: Anything is possible