[Pre-release: After Living with My Green-Tea Rival] Please add it to your favorites! Blurb below!
[Blurb for this story]
*No real-life inspiration / both are each other's only one / happy ending / exes reunited / seme-focused / romance
*Top-tier star x gravekeeper
*Passive x straightforward
1.
Xu Qinghe debuted as a child star and found fame at a young age. In his early twenties, he had already won every major award. He never appeared on variety shows, took endorsements, or chased publicity, focusing wholeheartedly on his acting career. His reputation was excellent both on and off screen.
Just after his twenty-fourth birthday, an explosive news story shot to the top of the trending searches:
[Breaking! Popular top-tier star Xu Can has a chaotic private life]
Within just one hour, Xu Qinghe dominated the trending page.
[Insider claims Xu Can slapped his biological younger brother]
[Rose Prince Xu Can smokes and gambles]
[The star who lost fans the fastest]
[The Rose Prince's disgusting sexual fetish]
[The Rose Prince is actually the Chrysanthemum Prince]
[An award-winning actor who stole his award]
[Disgraced entertainer]...
In a single day, top-tier star Xu Can was utterly ruined.
2.
Xu Qinghe knew he was useless without his assistant and that it was only natural for people to hate him. But Gu Minghua said to him, "Xu Qinghe, may I pursue you?"
Xu Qinghe: "Are you sick?"
Gu Minghua: "Yes. I'm sick with love for you."
Xu Qinghe: This guy must be one of my stalker fans.
[Blurb for the pre-release story]
In the peaceful twenty-first century, the online world changes with the wind, shifting in the blink of an eye. There are two male stars who can't stand each other. Whenever the media brings them up together, their fans draw swords and curse each other's ancestors back eighteen generations, leaving both sides battered.
Fans call them "rivals."
Though everyone calls them rivals, Chen Beihua is actually a cut above Li Yi, and netizens are heavily biased in his favor. Li Yi is always the first to be cursed out.
Why?
Because Li Yi, after debuting at the peak of his career and going from a nobody straight to the second tier, managed to stay at the top for less than two months before... losing his mind.
He went from a versatile, handsome heartthrob to a minor celebrity whose only trending topics were #StarWhoInsultsHisFans and #UglyWhenYawning.
Yet somehow, he managed to stay afloat in show business. He had neither good looks nor talent to rely on, just a rich father, the head of Kangjian Pictures.
Li Yi: You laugh at me for being a nobody. I laugh at you for earning 2,500 a month and not even having a stable job.
He was already used to being criticized, and at least his life was carefree. Whenever he felt like it, he'd ride his electric scooter around the capital and chew out any random passerby who badmouthed him. And then, of course, he started trending.
That was until the Cauliflower couple suddenly exploded onto the scene.
Li Yi: "Who the hell started that rumor about me and that green tea? Don't you know I'm famously homophobic?! I refuse to believe anyone would buy it!"
His assistant timidly rose onto her tiptoes and held up her phone for him to see:
- "Why am I suddenly kind of into this pairing..."
- "The gentle little prince and the short-tempered young master! Aaaaa, I'm going crazy shipping them!!!"
- "Everyone, don't mind me. I'm going to ship Cauliflower first."
Li Yi made a horrified face and recoiled, saying that even through the internet he was afraid of catching this twisted trend. He even declared, "When I meet that green tea, I'm going to, "
His assistant hurriedly reminded him, "Young master, Chen Beihua is here."
"..." Perfect. He swore he'd put on the air of a domineering CEO's mother throwing money at her son's future spouse.
But Chen Beihua looked completely innocent, clasped Li Yi's hands in both of his, and spoke softly, with a hint of shy awkwardness: "Teacher Li, I've liked you for years. Could I get your autograph?"
Li Yi suddenly felt that maybe he'd been too hard on the guy. Instantly forgetting that he was homophobic, he waved his hand grandly. "Bring me a pen."
Chen Beihua: Smiling.jpg. Got what I wanted.gif.
Assistant: ...
[Reading Guide]
1. Scheming green-tea prince seme x silly, oblivious uke
2. Both are each other's only one, one-on-one, happy ending
3. No real-life inspiration, mostly sweet
Theme: Finding freedom.
Personally, I am very unhappy that Huang Huan vented his anger on Mr. Huang on Qing He. Although it is excusable, it was the old men who asked Qing He to take them to the amusement park. Qing He just agreed to his friend's request. Qing He didn't owe Huang Huan anything. He was also a human being, and he still had psychological problems, extremely low self-esteem and lack of self-confidence. Even if Huang Huan looked down on the "evil things" he had done, they just met by chance and didn't have a deep friendship. He had no reason to use him as a punching bag. From the perspective of the character himself, it is Huang Huan's impulsive and irritable personality and obsession with his relatives that makes him keep coming to find trouble with Qing He childishly. It feels like the protagonist has lived alone under the dark clouds of winter for a long time. After the two lonely people met, they hugged each other for warmth in the cold winter and became close friends. Now the way the two get along is like walking together, chasing their soul mate in the sky together, and Tang is like waiting for a ray of sunlight to shine through the dark clouds, so he stays warm under that precious sunshine. I think they all cherish these ordinary relationships very much, but on cloudy days, the dark clouds will always come back with pain, and the sunshine stolen by the protagonists is fragile and difficult to survive. Their hearts were still blown by the cold wind. As we prepare for the Spring Festival, I would like to express my best wishes to the protagonists. The cold winter will eventually pass and the sky will clear up. I hope that Gu Minghua and Xu Qinghe can survive their unhappiness together and welcome the warm sunshine of spring. One more thing to say to the author: Mr. Ye's writing is great, and Gu Minghua is so gentle! Qinghe is really cute too! (I was beaten hard. I hope I can see adults finish the story of these two little suns in my lifetime. Come on Mr. Ye!!!
Both of them are very good people. This is also the case in life. How nice it would be to be warm and gentle.
Waste of time. . . . . . Is it still not clarified? Outrageous
Oh my gosh, it was so well written, with many golden sentences, I was deeply inspired by it, but the emotional line at the end was a bit sad. I cried so much that I was out of breath. Big cheers for the author! Looking forward to the next good work!
"If you don't want to, then we will become strangers" is a big bug for the author~ Is it "we feel like strangers even when we think about it"? The question is "Do you want to miss me?"
"It" is a big thorn in the side of the author~ Him?
When I see this, I really like the way of writing "separate". Compared with the noisy, calm is more real.
It's not easy to find a novel that I can read. I really like this kind of feeling mixed with a touch of melancholy, but also slowly advancing, trying hard to be born in the sun, and always having good intentions.
Finished spreading flowers! Congratulations!!!!!!
The old man left, so suddenly, I felt empty... I felt like I saw him getting angry and crying in the last chapter