After the Divorce, My Ex-Husband Volunteered for the Crematorium

Ji Queqin took two years to fall in love with his arranged-marriage partner. The other man shattered his hopes for the future in just one night.

At an elder's birthday banquet, a stranger arrived with Bai Ting on his arm. They were so intimate that they looked like the couple.

Only then did Ji Queqin learn that the man who looked seven-tenths like him was Bai Ting's unforgettable first love.

He was also the reason Bai Ting had agreed to marry him.

Ji Queqin had thought that two years of love would leave a mark on Bai Ting's heart.

But when he traveled a great distance to visit Bai Ting on set,

when he prepared a whole table of food for Bai Ting's birthday,

and when he lay alone in a hospital room after a car accident,

Bai Ting was busy being sweet with his first love, attending parties, and watching those damn fireworks displays.

Ji Queqin had always been good-tempered and had intended to part on amicable terms.

But on the night Bai Ting won the Best Actor award, he overheard him speaking to his first love outside the backstage lounge: "I'm not interested in playing out some marriage-first, love-later story with him."

"It's cliched and beneath me."

Ji Queqin's hand froze as he was about to knock. He turned around and tossed the flowers he'd brought into the trash.

*

On their third wedding anniversary, Bai Ting returned home for the first time in ages.

But when he opened the door, the house was dark and empty. All that awaited him was a ring and a divorce agreement.

Ji Queqin was gone. Panicking, Bai Ting searched high and low for him.

When they met again, Bai Ting faced the cold man like a dog with no leash, frantic with desperation.

"You can't put a ring on me and then stop wanting me!"

Ji Queqin smiled, revealing his bare ring finger.

"You're too wild. I could never keep you tied down."

Reader's guide:

1. 1v1, happy ending.

2. Angsty groveling arc, no switching tops.

3. Six-year age gap, with a younger top!

4. Same-sex marriage is legal in this setting.

5. After separating from the top, the bottom gets together with someone else [highlighted!!!]

6. Feel free to criticize the characters, but not the author. Not the author, not the author (muttering to myself.jpg)

Theme: Only firm resolve can lead you out of the confusion before you