The Best Actress and Her Archrival Made Their Relationship Official

My new novel, After Leaving in Style, My Sugar Mommy Regrets It, is now underway! Fake playgirl vs. faux sweet ingenue. The blurb is at the very bottom, so if you're interested, visit my author page and add it to your collection~

This novel: Devoted actress vs. glamorous star

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Three years ago, Shen Luoyan, an amateur with no formal acting background, made a sudden entrance into show business. Promoted as a cool beauty rarely seen in years, she “snatched” a role from rising star Su Cancan in her debut and set a record for winning Best Actress in the shortest time ever.

Around the same time, gossip accounts spread rumors, and the two fanbases dragged each other. Su Cancan repeatedly landed on the trending blacklist and lost a million followers. The two women became enemies from then on.

Early this summer, the pair were unexpectedly voted the couple viewers most wanted to see on the dating show FOR U.

The whole internet was sure these sworn enemies would never appear together on a dating show. But when the production team announced the guest list, both of them were on it, and they had even landed the center spots.

Onlookers settled in to watch the drama and ship the unlikely couple, while the two fanbases tore into each other.

After the show aired, rumors of the pair's bad blood repeatedly trended.

But halfway through the broadcast, the production team leaked a photo of Shen Luoyan secretly kissing Su Cancan. The Best Actress's eyes were full of love.

Their relationship became a mystery. Netizens launched a poll to guess whether it was real, and most voted “fake.”

When the show wrapped, two Weibo posts set the internet ablaze.

[Volcano Lady v: I've got some good news for everyone~ @Shen Sweetie v

Shen Sweetie v: The good news is that we're together~ @Volcano Lady v]

Individual fans: ???

Ship fans: !!!

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Shen Luoyan had a secret crush that no one knew about. It had lasted ten years, and finally, in the summer of the tenth year, she found the courage to take one step after another toward her.

Buying fake followers to boost her votes was step one.

Getting the screenwriter to rewrite the dating show's script was step two.

Showing off her charms was step three.

The final step had to be winning her over.

Setting: No discrimination against same-sex relationships

A few reading tips: The pacing is a little slow. The Best Actress is a totally devoted puppy. The role-stealing was a misunderstanding! One-sided love, sweet story with no angst. If some content appears to have been replaced, it's probably a typo fix. No unsolicited writing advice, please. Feel free to stay or go!

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After Leaving in Style, My Sugar Mommy Regrets It

Short version:

At eighteen, Xu You received an absurd offer from a woman to become her kept lover. Even more absurdly, she accepted.

She fell in love at first sight and willingly became the woman's caged bird, spending night after night in her arms until she lost herself.

But companionship couldn't buy her a future. After her hopes were dashed again and again, she made the decisive choice to leave.

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The sweetest fruit Zhou Siyu had ever tasted came from Xu You. She thought money could solve everything.

Who could have known Xu You wasn't a money-loving songbird, but a phoenix even more privileged than her?

Little by little, she pushed Xu You away. Once Xu You really left, Zhou Siyu felt as if her heart had been hollowed out, with no room left in it for anyone else.

Four years later, they met again. This time, Zhou Siyu offered her sincere heart and let Xu You trample on it, asking only that she change her mind and love her once more.

Full version:

Everyone in their circle knew Xu You was Zhou Siyu's outlet for lust, tangled up with her for four years without a name or commitment.

Xu You knew she had entered Zhou Siyu's life by chance. But Zhou Siyu treated her very well, and treated no one else that way.

For four years, she hid her true nature and willingly became a bird in Zhou Siyu's cage, hoping that one day Zhou Siyu would settle down and spend the rest of her life with her.

But that day never seemed to come.

The company annual party happened to fall on Xu You's birthday. She watched Zhou Siyu walk onto the stage hand in hand with another person, while the chatter around her wormed its way into her mind.

Xu You heard only one thing: that person was the one Zhou Siyu would marry.

And this supposed future spouse was exactly like the woman in the photograph Zhou Siyu kept at home.

Her dream was over. She refused to keep herself locked in that cage. She doubled the “maintenance fees” Zhou Siyu had transferred to her over the years, marked the transfer “payment for sex,” sent it back, and disappeared from everyone's sight.

Four years later, at another annual party, Zhou Siyu came across the woman she had yearned for day and night in the smoking room.

The woman had shed her former innocent, pristine look. Her hot, strappy dress barely reached her upper thighs. She crossed her slender, pale legs and leaned against the wall, neither hiding nor retreating as Zhou Siyu approached.

Zhou Siyu's voice was hoarse and uncertain. Afraid of startling this bird away, she still tried desperately to keep her there.

“Can you... forgive me and hear me out? I...”

Smoke from Xu You's vivid red lips slowly blew across Zhou Siyu's face. Xu You smiled brightly. “Don't be ridiculous, Ms. Zhou. When it's just a financial arrangement, there's no need to talk about feelings.”

Zhou Siyu couldn't believe it. The woman who had called her “Sis” countless times was describing their four years together like this.

Xu You stubbed out half her cigarette and casually brushed the loose hair from her forehead. A diamond ring the size of a pigeon's egg glittered on her ring finger, dazzling and blinding.

“Please don't tell anyone about it, either. My wife wouldn't take it well.”

Theme: Love gives meaning to everything.