The Try-Hard Couple on a Dating Reality Show

My next book will be The Heiress Doesn't Want to Go Bankrupt. Check it out in my author profile and add it to your collection!

[Blurb]

Chu Yu dreams that she's living in a sweet romance novel. Of course, she isn't the heroine. She's the heroine's foil.

The heroine, Song Yanran, has the perfect rich-girl romance plot. She's a top-tier star in the entertainment industry, and she's happily married to Shen Chi, the CEO of Starlight Entertainment. Her career takes off even further after marriage.

As the heroine's foil, Chu Yu is a spoiled heiress who makes trouble wherever she goes. After her family falls on hard times, she enters a business marriage with Huo Sui to save the family, then becomes a full-time housewife.

People in their circle are always comparing Song Yanran and Chu Yu, praising one while putting the other down.

But what truly leaves Chu Yu at the bottom of the heap is a couples' reality show called After We Married.

Shen Chi invested in the show just so he and Song Yanran could flaunt their love in public.

After people in their circle get under Chu Yu's skin, she threatens to kill herself and forces Huo Sui to join her on the show so they can flaunt their love, too.

But once filming begins, she can't stand the poor living conditions and nitpicks everything the production crew does. When Huo Sui won't play along with her public displays of affection, she throws a fit. By the end of filming, she has only made things worse: public opinion hasn't turned in her favor, and online commenters are ridiculing her.

Her marriage to Huo Sui is also on the verge of collapse.

When Chu Yu wakes up, she discovers the story has already reached the point where she forced Huo Sui to join the show.

Chu Yu: Seriously, what the heck?

But to keep her cushy position as Mrs. Huo, she decides to lie flat and let people mock her.

So what if they're a fake couple? As long as the money keeps coming, a few snide comments won't hurt her.

And so, she decides to lie flat and give up trying.

While the other guests work themselves to the bone on their daily tasks, she spends her days lounging in the courtyard and teasing the geese. When she gets hungry, she calls for her husband: "Huo Sui, I'm hungry."

Huo Sui, sleeves rolled up as he works by the stove, turns to her anxiously. "It'll be ready soon."

While the other guests warm up enthusiastically for the competition, she glances at the mud pit below and says with a look of utter reluctance, "I don't want to get in."

"Okay," Huo Sui replies without hesitation, then tells her to find a shady spot and rest.

After a while, the viewers who'd tuned in hoping to see them make fools of themselves start thinking: Why is this couple kind of adorable?

#AnAllPowerfulBigShotWhoOnlyDotesOnHisBeautifulLittleDeadweight#

[Cover art courtesy of Gulu Lulü from the BS Art Gallery; character designs courtesy of Xiao Haozi from the BS Art Gallery]

The upcoming book The Heiress Doesn't Want to Go Bankrupt is in my author profile. Please add it to your collection!

[Money-scarred reborn heiress x outwardly refined man with impaired mobility]

Xu Weilai wakes up one morning to find she's twenty again, with two years left before the Xu family goes bankrupt.

A mysterious voice sounds in her mind: "Do you want to defy fate and change your future?"

Xu Weilai thinks of her future self, eating instant noodles in a place less than twenty square meters, and starts trembling. Through gritted teeth, she says, "I do!!!"

"Bind yourself to me, and in two years, you'll get two billion."

Soon, people around her notice that the Xu family's spoiled heiress has suddenly changed her ways. She's become obsessed with posting videos of her homemade monstrosities on all sorts of websites, and she's also become incredibly stingy in private.

Everyone else: Is the Xu family going bankrupt???

Xu Weilai: Shut up!

"Do you want to defy fate and change your future?"

Shi Yanbai expressionlessly closes his book and presses the button on his wheelchair to leave the study.

"Don't you want to stand up again?"

Shi Yanbai's back stiffens, and his expression darkens before your eyes.

"Bind yourself to me, and in two years, you'll be able to stand again."

Shi Yanbai taps his long fingers on the wheelchair. His voice is so calm it's frightening. "The terms?"

"Just a little money."

#ThisSystemIsSoSlyIWorkMyselfToTheBoneAndGetNothingInReturn#

Theme: Someone will always love you passionately