The Top-Tier Stars Get Back Together

Three years after their breakup, Wen Pingbai runs into Shen Guihe again at the launch party for the TV series Moon Over the West River.

At the time, Shen Guihe is a hot top-tier star and the leading man in an S+ project.

The hotel lights glitter brilliantly. With his sculpted features and fair skin, Shen Guihe looks like a god descended from heaven.

Wen Pingbai stares at him, lost in thought. For no reason, he remembers a dark corner from three years ago, where the man held him close as they made love with desperate abandon.

Shen Guihe notices his gaze and looks over from across the room, drink in hand. Then he asks quietly, "And this is..."

His manager quickly introduces them. "Wen Pingbai, your former teammate."

Shen Guihe's voice is cool and detached. "Sorry. I don't remember him."

Wen Pingbai remains calm. Smiling faintly, he raises his glass, clinks it with Shen Guihe's across the crowd, and drains it in one go.

They only dated for a little over a month. It's normal that he doesn't remember...

Besides, Wen Pingbai was the one who dumped him.

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The next time Wen Pingbai sees Shen Guihe is at the hotel where the Moon Over the West River cast is staying. As he walks down the dim corridor toward his room, he spots Shen Guihe leaning drunkenly against the tiled wall. His face is flushed and his expression hazy. Who knows what he's just been up to?

Hearing the noise, Shen Guihe glares over, fierce and dangerous. "Go away. Don't bother me and my boyfriend."

Wen Pingbai freezes in place, his heart aching as if pierced by a needle.

He's about to leave when Shen Guihe pulls an old photo from his coat. It's one Wen Pingbai gave him three years ago. Shen Guihe gazes at it without blinking, his eyes full of tenderness and affection. Slowly, he lifts the photo to his lips and kisses it, murmuring softly as he does. "Baibai, ignore him. Let's keep kissing."

Wen Pingbai: "?"

You won't kiss the real person, but you'll kiss a photo?!

Wait, so your boyfriend is a photo of me...!

#How did you spend the three years after we broke up#

#With your photo#

#We never broke up. I always had a boyfriend, and my boyfriend was your photo#

Reading guide:

1. A BKing cool guy x an elegant, handsome guy. The gong has been a top-tier star all along, while the shou left for three years and comes back to become a top-tier star too. A well-matched romance.

2. Two top-tier stars reunite after breaking up. Come get a taste of that ex, almost-ex-husband vibe.

3. The gong is tsundere, awkward, and hopelessly lovesick. The shou is great at comforting him and smoothing his ruffled feathers. Both want to get back together, making this a super-sweet story, though the gong's logic is a mystery and his ridiculous antics never stop. You can also read it as a comedy.

Theme: Let's start over.