Me or Your Moonlight? Who Will You Choose?

Entertainment-industry romance + contract relationship + stand-in + first love + true love born from a contract

Lin Yu is a triple-crown film emperor, handsome, talented, and emotionally intelligent, the nation’s dream man. Everyone from the age of seven to seventy knows him.

Many people in the industry know Lin Yu is bound by a contract, but they don’t know that he’s fallen in love with the person on the other side of it.

Eleven years ago, Lin Yu unexpectedly entered into a contract relationship with Shao Yan, the head of Tiansheng Group. As they spent time together, he was won over by Shao Yan’s gentle attentiveness and fell in love with him, carefully and in secret.

He could have left Shao Yan long ago, but let the contract continue for eleven years. He thought this was already good enough, and wanting anything more would be wishful thinking.

Lin Yu thought he could accept Shao Yan having someone else by his side, and in fact, he did manage it.

Until he saw a young man move into Shao Yan’s home.

Shao Yan never allowed anyone bound to him by a contract into his home. Lin Yu had never been inside, either.

That day, Lin Yu smiled at Shao Yan and said, "Mr. Shao, let’s end this."

Then he walked away with an easy stride, leaving only his back in view.

Later, Shao Yan held him close and choked out, "I’m sorry, Lin Yu. Could you look at me one more time?"

Note: The love interest is not the protagonist’s first. The story begins after they’ve already been together for many years.

Coming soon: After the Parasitic Flower Is Abandoned

A possessive, unhinged seme 1 / a smiling sadist seme 2 x a frail, devoted househusband uke like a parasitic flower

Ruan Tangqing is Zhou Yichuan’s caged songbird, kept in a gilded cage, a flower that lives by clinging to another.

For ten years, Ruan Tangqing has been a flower belonging to Zhou Yichuan alone: the little thorns on its stem, the thick, soft petals, the heady fragrance...

Everything about him is exactly the way Zhou Yichuan likes it.

Zhou Yichuan raised him, and aside from acting weak and ingratiating himself, he knows nothing. Without Zhou Yichuan, he can’t survive in the mire.

But Zhou Yichuan doesn’t want him anymore.

Ruan Tangqing kneels at Zhou Yichuan’s feet and looks up. Tears gather at his chin and wet his collar. He trembles, his soft cheek pressed against Zhou Yichuan’s knee. The words in his mouth come out in a jumbled, incoherent rush. He has clearly fallen apart.

He looks just as pitiful as he did ten years ago, when his family abandoned him.

Ten years ago, Zhou Yichuan took him home. Ten years later, Zhou Yichuan abandons him.

The man kicks him away and gets up without even looking back.

*

When Ruan Tangqing meets Song Sili, a rich young master is holding his chin and pouring liquor into his mouth. The drink spills down his face before he can swallow it.

Song Sili smiles faintly, takes the bottle away, and asks Ruan Tangqing, "Want to go?"

Ruan Tangqing nods, dazed.

He thinks he can catch his breath for a moment among a pack of wolves, but never imagined he’d fall into an even deeper abyss.

*

Zhou Yichuan was born at the top of the pyramid. His only regret is Ruan Tangqing.

That afternoon, he kicks open the door. The scent of shameless flowers in the room hits him, and Ruan Tangqing lies limp in another man’s arms. Startled, he sits up slightly, the thin blanket slipping to reveal a few glaring red marks.

Ruan Tangqing looks at him, apparently still lost in the afterglow, and says gently, "What brings you here?"

Zhou Yichuan’s eyes turn bloodshot, and he nearly kills someone.

The man on the bed looks at him, keeps a firm hold on Ruan Tangqing, and gives him a satisfied, taunting smile.

Ruan Tangqing is a good person. None of them deserves to have him all to themselves.

Theme: Everyone should have their own convictions and goals, and strive tirelessly to achieve them