I'm Done Pretending [Entertainment Industry]

Coming soon: "Mock Trial [Everyone's Favorite]." Please add it to your reading list! Blurb below~

[Cool, proud, soft-hearted bottom x Scheming, teasing, secretly flirtatious top]

One day, Jiang Yuchu, a hugely popular singer, suddenly appeared in the livestream of an unknown entertainment streamer and unexpectedly sent a 100,000-yuan Super Chat, stunning everyone in the room.

Fans: ???

Lin Zuofeng: ???

Top trending topic: Jiang Yuchu splashes 100,000 yuan on a message to pursue his former CP!

Lin Zuofeng's response: What a weirdo. Can't you tell he's just playing up their CP? It's been years and he's still buying trending topics? Whoever gives him the time of day is a dog.

Everyone knew the two had been so close five years ago they could share a pair of pants. But after they debuted on a music competition show, Lin Zuofeng played the "I'm going abroad" card and dumped Jiang Yuchu.

Jiang Yuchu's name even became forbidden for a while. Anyone who mentioned it was done for.

But the day after Lin Zuofeng had just threatened to have nothing to do with him, he discovered that Jiang Yuchu was the sponsor of his first job after returning to the country. He nearly died on the spot.

Jiang Yuchu merely raised his eyes. "Don't dare come?"

Lin Zuofeng sneered. Don't dare my ass. Whoever's feeling guilty knows who they are.

"I'll come."

After five years without a hit or any real presence in the entertainment industry, the has-been singer Lin Zuofeng could only make a living as an entertainment streamer after graduating and returning home.

His fans wanted to help his career, so they left messages on all kinds of shows, begging sponsors to give their boy a chance.

Then, during a League of Legends fan match, a famous esports player and a jungler legend who'd been out of the spotlight for five years streamed a duo game. The person using the legend's ID was an entertainment streamer with white hair.

Viewers: ??? Why is the legend in showbiz?

Fans: Damn! The team offered you an eight-figure salary to start as their star player, and you said you were too bad at the game? And now you're an entertainment streamer?

Lin Zuofeng said calmly and arrogantly, "I'm done pretending. I'm just a little good, that's all."

After the stream ended that evening, the white-haired streamer was pinned in a dim corner.

The straight-shooting player who'd been stone-faced in the livestream and a killing machine in the game was now blushing. "I just... didn't want to see you get bullied."

"I can't do that either."

*No real-life models! No real-life models! No real-life models! Please don't associate this with anyone.

*No detailed depictions of esports gameplay.

*This is a writing-practice story, working on characterization and romance. It's all about the sweetness.

*Thanks for adding it to your reading list, and comments are welcome!

Coming soon: "Mock Trial [Everyone's Favorite]." Blurb:

[Beautiful, powerful, tragic, life-on-the-line mad judge bottom x Arrogant, ruthless, gun-happy playboy enforcer top]

Though he was an ordinary human, Lu Mianxing was the boss all higher-tier humans bowed to and their unshakable nemesis, for two reasons that made their teeth grind:

First, he had absolute power over life and death, wielded with a chillingly ruthless hand.

Second, his beautiful face could bewitch everyone, yet he looked down on them all equally.

Then a burst of gunfire turned everything into rumor.

One rumor even claimed that Cheng Weiqian, the enforcer who personally carried out the execution, still believed Lu Mianxing was alive. He was supposedly so consumed by madness that he sealed away all of Lu Mianxing's belongings and spent an entire night in his office every month.

Everyone knew Cheng Weiqian hated Lu Mianxing more than anyone among the tens of thousands of higher-tier humans. Even after his death, he would have loved to dig up the body and whip it.

And yet Cheng Weiqian really did succeed in summoning his spirit.

The judge who once ruled the Mock Trial woke up again, but under a new name and as his nemesis's assistant.

Strangely, after a taciturn assistant appeared at Cheng Weiqian's side, he stopped obsessively searching for Lu Mianxing's body and wouldn't let anyone speak ill of him.

Everyone at the Mock Trial thought he'd finally let go of their old feud. But when the mask came off, that cold, resurrected face appeared in the courtroom. "Since I'm not dead, and nobody else would dare take this seat..."

He let his smile fade. "Then I'm still the one in charge here. You'll all answer to me."

In a world with advanced genetic technology, humans could gain an eagle's keen eyesight, a leopard's speed, and more through genetic fusion. They could even transform and acquire supernatural abilities. As a result, all kinds of crimes emerged, and the world established the Mock Trial to handle such cases.

Lu Mianxing, the world's highest-ranking judge, was besieged from all sides and condemned by everyone. In the end, he was sentenced to death for allegedly murdering the highest-ranking enforcer for personal gain.

The new highest-ranking enforcer, Cheng Weiqian, discovered that the truth was more complicated. But when he turned around...

Lu Mianxing had his gun pointed at Cheng Weiqian's heart. His beautiful face was cold and merciless. "Thanks for clearing my name and helping me regain my power. Did you really think you could kill me three years ago? I gave you your chance."

Before entering the Mock Trial's central System, Cheng Weiqian thought the man sitting in the middle of the courtroom with his cool expression was a rigid ascetic. But later, when he saw the other's eyes reddened with desire as he begged beneath him like a mad dog, he realized that even that icy seat of power held a trace of something human.

"You're afraid I'll die, and even more afraid I won't! You want my power, but you dread how things will end. When I was unarmed and surrounded on all sides, Cheng Weiqian was the only one who dared take me in, a life everyone else had thrown away. I was reviled while alive and worshipped after death. And even now, standing here alone, you're still terrified of a ghost with little time left, afraid I'll come for you. What ethics? What laws? I am the law of heaven!"

He fell into the abyss. He had no past, no future, no family, no lover. He stood against everyone, silently watching the enemies who were devouring him, body and soul.

"The moment the world cast me out of the courtroom, the snow and wind clung to my soul, and blood and tears soaked my spirit. But back then... all I wanted was a good night's sleep."

In the year 4324 of the Mock Trial era, a righteous, wronged soul from the mortal world appeared at the center of the courtroom.

(The bottom is everyone's favorite but also everyone's enemy, because he doesn't give anyone the time of day. The top is the kind of guy who thinks he can rule the world, only to end up groveling and handing his gun to his lover in atonement because he pointed it at him early on. A real "I want him so bad" kind of guy 😋)

Theme: Music is endlessly romantic