I Became Everyone's Darling After Taking the Bride's Place

The Ming family has two peerlessly handsome young masters. The elder brother, Ming Yantang, is a controversial top-tier star, a charming beauty with countless exes. The younger brother, Ming Huaizhi, is an innocent, straightforward, sickly beauty who has never dated. One day, when his brother becomes seriously ill, the younger brother takes his place for a year, compelled by a bet agreement and an imminent business marriage. It doesn't take long for everyone to notice that the dazzling, alluring top-tier star looks the same, but has become an adorably clueless, well-behaved beauty. His admirers stretch all the way to France, and wealthy heirs, award-winning actors, genius painters, and famous directors are all fighting tooth and nail to make him smile. With no experience in love, the younger brother can only lower his shy eyes and stammer out his refusals. The admirers: "What a sweet, well-behaved darling! Hngh, hngh!" One day, when Admirer No. N confesses to him with heartfelt sincerity, the younger brother grabs a handsome guy in a luxury car across the street to help him out. He whistles at the man. "Hey, handsome, can you take me for a spin in your sports car?" He expects the man to turn him down. Instead, the man's expression darkens, and he orders his bodyguards to tie him up and take him to a luxurious, mysterious estate. At the estate, the handsome man smirks. "Don't you think it's time we settled the score over that green hat you put on me?" The younger brother suddenly realizes that this handsome man must be the powerful tycoon he married in his brother's place. So he awkwardly flutters his eyelashes at him. "I swear, I'm faithful to you, " Before he can finish, a confession text from Admirer No. 108 pops up on his phone. The handsome man stares at him impassively. "One hundred and eight admirers? Why don't you just go join the outlaws on Liangshan?" * When Sang Yu learned he was expected to marry the eldest young master of the Ming family, he refused. The other man was notorious for being a playboy, capricious and arrogant. So Sang Yu proposed a marriage of convenience. After the wedding, however, the eldest young master of the Ming family seemed like a different person: innocent, cheerful, and sweet, like a little piece of candy that healed him. His friends urged him, "Why don't you two just get together?" Sang, who was worried that a flirtatious beauty would dump him someday: "No." Until one day, Sang Yu learned the truth about the Ming brothers switching identities. His gaze toward the younger brother slowly changed. When the marriage agreement ended, the younger brother completed his stand-in marriage assignment, tidied his room, packed his little bundle, and happily left. Sang Yu, who was preparing to propose, searched the entire city without finding him. The usually proud and composed Young Master Sang got drunk and demanded of his friend, "What, am I not as good as his 108 admirers?!" * Meanwhile, the elder brother recovered and returned home. Introducing the man by his side to his family, he said, "He's the intern doctor in charge of my ward. He took such meticulous care of me, so I brought him home." Looking at the tall, cool, elegant doctor before them, Father Ming furrowed his brow. Had the business tycoon who once dominated the world, and existed only in legends, changed careers to become a doctor? A clueless, silly, straightforward beauty VS a secretly calculating, self-conquering B-king ★ The older brother gets a couple too, probably an arrogant, flirtatious beauty (the older brother) VS a steady, scheming big puppy. They won't take up space in the main story, so feel free to dive in! Pre-release novel 1: After Falling in Love Online with My Wealthy Boss, I Messed Up In the hit online game Moonlit Swordheart, there is a beloved celebrity couple. Player Chu Yunji, the server's top beauty, became famous throughout the gaming world with nothing but a photo showing his eyes. Player Jiang YunyU is a famous big spender with top-notch skills, and he dotes on Chu Yunji like no other. Just yesterday, Chu Yunji brought all his precious gear and high-level magic pets to meet Jiang Yunyu by the Marriage Tree. "Let's get divorced. You can have the kids and all the property. I'll leave with nothing." Jiang Yunyu didn't say a word. * After quitting the game for good, Chu Bai has recently run into a huge problem while preparing to become a full-time employee. At the annual party, he won the grand prize: a spot on an amateur dating reality show sponsored by his company. Looking at the 200,000 yuan prize for first place, Chu Bai tries hard to keep himself from passing out. The dating show's contestants are all important people. Chu Bai struggles to get by until he hears the name of his group's boss, Song Bojian. Song Bojian graduated from an Ivy League university and took charge of the entire group at a young age. At 189 centimeters tall, with a model's build and handsome, striking features, he's an extraordinary man. Just as all the contestants begin to take a keen interest in Song Bojian, he looks coolly at Chu Bai. "I hear you're an intern at the Song Group?" Chu Bai obediently lowers his eyes. "Yes." Song Bojian: "I'll evaluate you for full-time employment, while I'm at it." Chu Bai's heart skips a beat. So he's calling me out, huh? * And so Chu Bai becomes Song Bojian's little sidekick on the dating show. The two are together not only on dates, but even when choosing their couples' dorms, Chu Bai obediently picks Song Bojian under his gentle gaze, carrying his little bundle on his back. One day, while chatting on a date with Song Bojian, Chu Bai asks, "Boss, you're so busy. How did you end up on a dating show?" Song Bojian answers calmly, "My spouse of three years dumped me, so I wanted a change of pace." Chu Bai: "???" Song Bojian: "I got the property and the kids. He left with nothing." [Bonus scene] After Chu Yunji and Jiang Yunyu got divorced, the players of Moonlit Swordheart argued endlessly. Some said Chu Yunji had played with Jiang Yunyu's feelings; others said Jiang Yunyu had quit the game to inherit the family business. Then one day, an announcement appeared across the server: [Congratulations to players Chu Yunji and Jiang Yunyu on their happy marriage]. Every player shuddered three times. In an intimate room, Chu Bai's eyes grow misty as Song Bojian holds him tightly in place. "Still want a divorce?" Pre-release novel 2: The Sickly Beauty Can't Escape the Obsessed Top Everyone in Ning City knows that Jing Yuan is the apple of Young Master Ji's eye. Though an orphan, he calls the shots in the Ji family. But Jing Yuan is a bona fide invalid, so fragile he might break at a touch, with nothing to offer but his looks. Ji Yan's favoritism toward Jing Yuan has made many people jealous. Ji Yan's childhood friend mocks him. "A childhood friend beats a sudden new arrival. You get that, right?" Jing Yuan's beautiful eyes fill with tears. Clutching his chest, he looks ready to faint. Ji Yan anxiously pulls him into his arms. "Be good, Yuanyuan. The one who came later is the one fate destined for me." Ji Yan's white moonlight sneers at him. "I'm the one he loves most. He even played my husband in kindergarten." Jing Yuan coughs until he looks like a tearful pear blossom, his palm-sized face drained of color. Ji Yan coldly drives his white moonlight away and kisses Jing Yuan's forehead. "I was playing his father. I only love Yuanyuan." Everyone says Jing Yuan must have had his ancestors' graves smoking for Ji Yan to love him, but it's a shame his body is too frail to enjoy it. Little do they know, every night Jing Yuan puts on dark sunglasses and goes parkour running, DJing, and breakdancing while Ji Yan is away at meetings. As it turns out, Jing Yuan transmigrated into a melodramatic novel. He is the sickly cannon-fodder character who, because he has a crush on the original protagonist, is tormented by the book's super-obsessive villain Ji Yan and dies in despair. To change his fate, Jing Yuan trains despite his frail body and wins over the great villain Ji Yan, planning to secretly leave with his stash of private savings once he recovers. That's what Jing Yuan plans, and that's exactly what he does. Just as he leaves a breakup letter and prepares to live freely in a secluded paradise, he is kidnapped. Staring at the unfamiliar man before him, whose expression is twisted and whose methods are vicious, and who shares Ji Yan's name, Jing Yuan thinks: "I'm done for. This is the real villain! I got the wrong guy!" The great villain is vicious and cruel, and is about to deal with Jing Yuan when Ji Yan rushes to the rescue. Jing Yuan, who had been performing some sort of mysterious Eastern martial art, instantly falls to the ground with tears in his eyes. "Honey, save me~" Ji Yan swiftly takes down the great villain and tightly embraces the long-yearned-for Ruan Sui. "Yuanyuan, as long as you're back, that's all that matters." Jing Yuan's eyes sparkle. "Honey, you're so good to me." On the ride home, Jing Yuan sleeps soundly, curled up on Ji Yan's lap like a little cat, completely unguarded. Ji Yan's gaze is obsessive and shadowed. Holding Jing Yuan's diary, he says impassively, "After seeing that fake 'Ji Yan,' Yuanyuan shouldn't suspect that I'm the villain anymore." ★★ Pre-release novel 3: After Giving Up, I Became the Villain's Childhood-Friend Wife The transmigration world has a rule: the more little stars you collect, the more choices you get when picking a high-quality role in a book. Yu Chen, who spends every day giving up and doing nothing, has one star and doesn't believe in the rule. Then he transmigrates into the gloomy villain He Zhen's little sidekick. In the book, the sidekick is an orphan with no one to rely on, always striving to outdo others. He grows up alongside the villain and encourages him to commit a terrible crime, leading to the company's bankruptcy. Yu Chen props his chubby cheek in his hand. "Why don't we just slack off together?" And so When He Zhen is abandoned by his philandering father and wants revenge, Yu Chen takes He Zhen's hand. "Uncle left us loads of money. Should we buy a castle or an estate?" When He Zhen grows gloomy and depressed under pressure to study French, fencing, and horseback riding, Yu Chen leans limply against him. "I booked tickets for the amusement park and the movies. Let's skip class." When He Zhen is raised from childhood by his family elders to harbor hatred and is about to get involved in their infighting, Yu Chen clings to his arm. "We could watch several episodes of cartoons with all that time." After careful consideration, He Zhen decides: Yu Chen is right. Everyone thinks the He family's orphan, abandoned by his father, is a good-for-nothing who spends his days slacking off. But when He Zhen takes complete control of the family at twenty-one, everyone falls silent. What seemed like slacking off was actually biding his time and staying clear of those ill-intentioned traps. At the chairman's inauguration ceremony, the dashing and extraordinary He Zhen commands everyone's attention. Behind him, his little sidekick has become a handsome young man with delicate features, standing at his side as they give an interview. As it nears the end, Yu Chen yawns. "Can we wrap this up? I want to go home and sleep." Remembering the tenderness of the previous night, He Zhen's expression softens. "I'll go with you." The first time He Zhen saw Yu Chen, the other boy was fair and pretty, his lively eyes full of smiles, with no idea he had been abandoned there. His youthful taste for mischief made him want to bully Yu Chen mercilessly, but he never expected to get distracted. By the time he came back to his senses, Yu Chen was already riding on his neck. Theme: Turn your life around and bravely keep moving forward.