After Signing a Dating-Reality-Show Pact with My Possessive Ex

Complete

Tang Yi fell in love at first sight with a man during college, and the two of them started dating.

Not long after they got together, he learned that his world was a novel, and he was merely the male lead Lu Xiao's white moonlight.

Worse, the male lead was an obsessive man with an overwhelming need to possess him. Lu Xiao drove Tang Yi's family to ruin, and Tang Yi himself met a tragic, premature end.

You can offend anyone but a lunatic.

To stay safe, Tang Yi had no choice but to steel himself and break things off with Lu Xiao before it was too late, then run for it.

Three years later, Tang Yi was a nobody in the entertainment industry, scrambling to make money, while his ex-boyfriend Lu Xiao had become a top-tier star admired by everyone. Beautiful people surrounded him. Everyone knew him as cold and chaste, but nobody knew about the madness deep inside him.

Tang Yi had avoided Lu Xiao at every turn, but never expected to be found anyway. Just as he thought he was about to die on the spot, a miracle happened.

The good news: Lu Xiao had amnesia.

The bad news: Lu Xiao had amnesia and was still clinging to him.

He showed up with a contract for a dating reality show. Tang Yi thought it over and decisively chose money over his life, but he also laid down two conditions.

"First, we're only pretending. We don't interfere with each other's lives off-camera. Second, once the show is over, we'll publicly announce our breakup."

Tang Yi had it all figured out. Lu Xiao had amnesia, after all. Once the three months were up, he'd take the money and disappear.

Who knew the money would be so hard to earn? Not only did they have to live together, but there were also kisses, hugs, and being lifted up in someone's arms.

On the dating show, everyone thought Lu Xiao was getting the raw end of the deal by being paired with Tang Yi.

[So he really did bow to capital in the end? Poor Lu Xiao!]

[Who is this Tang Yi, anyway?]

But once the show aired, not only were viewers dumbfounded, the fans could barely take it, either.

Who was this man who gave Tang Yi the cold shoulder whenever he spoke to someone else?

Who was this nagging, fussy boyfriend who worried about everything?

And who was this henpecked husband, all aggrieved whenever Tang Yi scolded him?

Was this really the same Lu Xiao who was stunning onstage and aloof and elegant offstage? What? What?!

The fans felt like their idol had fallen off his pedestal, while Tang Yi was completely baffled, too.

Once again, with Lu Xiao pinning him to the bed, Tang Yi couldn't help breaking down. "Did you really lose your memory?"

Why are you even more "fierce" than before?

The handsome man chuckled softly. His answer melted between Tang Yi's lips and teeth.

"What does losing my memory have to do with loving you?"

Deep down, Tang Yi thought:

Don't love me. I'm scared.

Bonus scene:

One day, a piece of gossip about Tang Yi spread across the internet. Lu Xiao came to drag him back that very day, radiating a murderous chill.

He gripped Tang Yi's chin hard.

"Explain."

Tang Yi was angry, too. "There's nothing to explain. Didn't we agree not to interfere with each other's lives off-camera?"

Lu Xiao stared at him coldly, the corner of his mouth curling into a cruel smile. He leaned in and murmured in Tang Yi's ear, "If you want to find someone else, don't even think about it. I won't give you a second chance to leave me!"

At that moment, Tang Yi's heart leaped into his throat.

"You remember everything?"

Madness gleamed in Lu Xiao's eyes, but his hand gently stroked Tang Yi's slender neck. "I've remembered for a long time, my ex-boyfriend. Look, in the end, you're still mine. You left so decisively back then. Did you ever think about what would happen if I caught you?"

Reader's guide: 1. Both are each other's first and only love, and neither has been with anyone else.

+++++++++++++++ 2. The male lead genuinely has amnesia at first, then only pretends to have it.

Coming soon: Reborn as a Sickly Beauty, I Marry the Villainous Tycoon

Ye Chen'an was reborn, returning four years into the past as a beautiful, fair-skinned, minor actor, and a sickly beauty at that.

But he couldn't be happy, because he was about to be pushed into a drinking party, where the man in attendance was the very same one he'd forcibly taken for himself in his previous life.

Only after he died did he learn that the man was the novel's major villain: ruthless, vindictive, and the heir to an elite family.

And Ye Chen'an had forced him into a relationship.

According to the novel's timeline, Fu Tingchuan had already been taken back by his elite family and begun his life of power and influence. If Fu Tingchuan discovered that Ye Chen'an was still alive, Ye Chen'an would die horribly.

At the head table, the boy from back then had already grown into a wolf. He sat there, proud and dangerous.

Ye Chen'an could only pretend not to know him. He knew what Fu Tingchuan hated, so he immediately threw himself at him.

As expected, Fu Tingchuan had him thrown out on the spot. Ye Chen'an happily went home.

After that, he avoided Fu Tingchuan at every turn. But then, by accident, a photo of the two of them kissing was exposed, causing an uproar online.

Ye Chen'an looked at the photo and wanted to curse. He'd only done it to disgust Fu Tingchuan, okay?

He was about to clear things up when Fu Tingchuan came straight to him.

"Marry me. Name whatever conditions you want."

Ye Chen'an was stunned. As if he'd marry him! He turned him down on the spot, but was soon forced to agree to this game of love.

As a straight man, he wasn't worried in the least. He kept flirting with Fu Tingchuan, acting cute, asking for hugs, and being as difficult as he could. He called him "Hubby" at every turn, getting so carried away that even he started to believe it. All he wanted was for Fu Tingchuan to kick him out as soon as possible.

"Hubby~ I really like that diamond. Buy it for me."

That very day, he received a whole box of diamonds, sparkling so brightly they nearly blinded him.

"Hubby~ I think my illness is acting up. My whole body hurts. Feed me."

That very day, Fu Tingchuan even personally bathed him.

"Hubby~ Are you sure you can perform?"

That night, Ye Chen'an learned exactly what it meant to be able to perform.

The next morning, Ye Chen'an couldn't even get out of bed. Nothing had gone the way he'd expected. He even wondered whether the person inside his body had been switched, too.

Everyone knew that Fu Tingchuan loved Ye Chen'an to the point of madness. Anyone who dared touch him would be in for trouble. Ye Chen'an was the only one who didn't believe it.

After Fu Tingchuan ruthlessly dealt with someone who had hurt him, Ye Chen'an finally decided to leave.

But before long, he was dragged back. For the first time, Ye Chen'an saw Fu Tingchuan wearing an expression like that: his face was dark with menace, his eyes bloodshot. Those icy hands slithered over Ye Chen'an's cheek like a snake's tongue.

"Ye Chen'an, no one in this world can abandon me twice and still stand here unscathed."

Ye Chen'an's face went deathly pale. So Fu Tingchuan had known who he was all along.

Theme: Learning to accept one another is the key to loving someone better.