After the Teasing Film Emperor and the Tsundere Star Joined a Dating Show

[Marriage Before Love]

[Tsundere, jealous, stubborn top x reluctant flirtatious, universally adored bottom]

After winning Best Actor for the second year in a row, Chu Yao got into an accident and found himself inside a novel.

In the book, he was an award-winning workaholic actor who never took a day off, but he was also a hapless supporting character: the protagonist shou's ATM, backer, and backup lover. He spent money and effort on the protagonist shou, then died in a car accident while protecting him.

All of the original character's connections, resources, and enough money to last several lifetimes would eventually go to the protagonist shou, too.

Chu Yao: ...Climbed onto a train roof in the middle of the night and fled.

*

After transmigrating, Chu Yao was done with being an exhausted actor. He dropped every project and went straight into extreme homebody mode.

One day, after a drunken night, he unexpectedly ended up married.

Not long after their engagement, Gu Chengyun, his one-night-stand-turned-husband, coldly produced a prenuptial agreement:

"Before we get married, let's be clear. We each get what we want. If you want resources or connections, I can give you those. I just hope that if we ever split up, we can do it cleanly."

Chu Yao signed without hesitation. "We're adults, so let's be straightforward. I don't need anything else. Just give me money."

Gu Chengyun had always heard that Chu Yao was ambitious and would do anything dirty to climb the ladder. He hesitated for a moment. "..."

*

After more than a decade in the industry without a single dating rumor, the workaholic actor announced without warning that he was getting married. His partner was a bona fide wealthy third-generation heir, and the news immediately crashed several social media platforms.

But then rumors surfaced that the newlyweds had a strained relationship.

They were distant on the red carpet, coldly polite at parties, and paparazzi even caught them sleeping in separate rooms at home.

It wasn't until a popular reality show about married couples aired that netizens realized how wrong they'd been!

Gu Chengyun was nothing like his cold and impatient self in interviews!

When the middle-aged man next door, who was still as charming as ever after years of marriage, reached out to help Chu Yao, Gu Chengyun curtly stepped between them. "Don't you have a wife of your own?"

When the adorable young man next door, who was about to marry his boyfriend, clung to Chu Yao and said he was a huge fan, Gu Chengyun said, "Fans should keep their distance from their idols. We need to have married life."

The rest of the time, he made sure Chu Yao could sit instead of stand, and never let him lift a finger if he could do the task himself. He was the very picture of a devoted husband.

Netizens: ???

Later, a segment of audio cut from the show leaked.

Gu Chengyun's voice sounded aggrieved and resentful, like a big dog who'd lost his master's favor. "Baby, can't you stop looking at other people like that?"

Chu Yao was baffled. What kind of look? He was just having a normal conversation.

Theme: Learn to love each other properly!