The Pretty Fall Guy's Fake Confession Backfires

Sweethearts, my next novel will be The Hapless Assistant in a Dog-Blooded Rich Family Drama. Please add it to your favorites!

One day, Pei Zheng transmigrated into a book and became a disposable male character who relentlessly pursued the protagonist on the receiving end.

To win the protagonist's heart, the original character had even joined forces with a competitor and gone undercover at the company run by the protagonist on the giving end.

So Pei Zheng carefully tried to stay alive under the fierce gaze of Li Yueting, the protagonist on the giving end.

With the plot halfway over and the original character about to be sent to prison by Li Yueting, Pei Zheng steeled himself and decided to "confess" to Li Yueting.

With his secret exposed and Li Yueting scrutinizing him, Pei Zheng calmly delivered the prepared line: "Actually, everything I did here was because I'm in love with you."

Li Yueting raised an eyebrow and studied Pei Zheng thoughtfully.

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To make Li Yueting believe him, Pei Zheng worked hard to cultivate an image of devoted love.

When Li Yueting went on a business trip, Pei Zheng fussed over him.

When Li Yueting was in danger, Pei Zheng charged into the fray.

When the protagonist on the receiving end confessed to Li Yueting, Pei Zheng had planned to help bring them together. But when he saw Li Yueting's deep gaze fixed on him, he gritted his teeth and said, "Li Yueting and I are the ones made for each other."

Seeing Li Yueting accept this, the protagonist on the receiving end fled in tears.

Silence fell, and the atmosphere grew awkward. Pei Zheng shifted his toes, ready to make a run for it, but a powerful hand grabbed him.

The next second, Pei Zheng was pulled into Li Yueting's arms. Warm breath brushed his ear. "Trying to take it back already?"

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It seemed he'd taken the joke too far. His act had become far too convincing.

Pei Zheng planned to find a chance to make a graceful exit.

But Li Yueting saw through him and trapped him in the crook of his arm. "Assistant Pei, you're so capable. You deserve a promotion and a raise. How about becoming the president's wife?"

Pei Zheng: ???

Li Yueting's fingers slid across Pei Zheng's slender waist. In a low voice, he said, "Since A-Zheng likes me so much, I shouldn't let him down."

Pei Zheng was on the verge of tears. No... Wait, weren't domineering CEOs supposed to be heartless?

#Nobody told me a promotion could make me the president's wife

#Who remembers that I was supposed to be his rival at first

#What if he finds out I was lying when I said I loved him

A quick-witted bottom who says "I love you" every day just to survive in the jaws of danger × a cold CEO who comes up with a thousand ways to trick him into saying "I love you"

My next novel will be The Hapless Assistant in a Dog-Blooded Rich Family Drama. Please add it to your favorites!

Liang Jing was a CEO's personal assistant, earning a high salary and doing his job diligently for three years.

His work revolved around three men: a scumbag CEO, the CEO's unattainable first love, and the first love's replacement.

In the morning, Liang Jing flew across the ocean to present a bouquet of red roses to the first love. "Mr. Qin, congratulations on your award. President Gu sent me to deliver these flowers."

At dusk, Liang Jing landed and hurried to an airport café, where he was meeting a young star to negotiate on the CEO's behalf. "There's ten million on this card. Take it and quietly disappear from President Gu's side."

At midnight, Liang Jing helped the pitiful replacement, who had just been ravaged, apply medicine with an expressionless face. "Relax. You're too tense, the medicine can't get in... If you can't take it, I can help you leave."

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One day, the unattainable first love said he had fallen for someone. The obsessive CEO ordered Liang Jing to find out who it was within three days, or he'd be fired.

Should he be grateful the CEO had given him three days instead of three hours?

Liang Jing stayed by the first love's side for three sleepless days and still couldn't even find out whether his beloved was a man or a woman.

The first love lifted Liang Jing's chin and took off his gold-rimmed glasses. "Assistant Liang, since you've worked so hard investigating me, why don't you ask me nicely?"

"If I ask, will you tell me everything about that person?"

The first love smiled maliciously. "Of course not. I'm waiting to see you get fired."

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Weren't first loves supposed to be gentle and aloof? Why was this one so different?

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The CEO couldn't have his first love, so he turned around and began forcing himself on the pitiful replacement.

In the midst of a storm, Liang Jing was thrown out of the car. Watching the vehicle rock, Liang Jing finally snapped. He adjusted his glasses and kicked the golden hood ornament off the car.

"You're all insane. I'm done serving you!"

The next day, Liang Jing was about to resign when he received a job offer from the first love: personal assistant.

Please add My Dead Husband Wants to Rekindle Our Romance to your favorites.

The Yu family wanted to marry Yu Rong off to the comatose son of the wealthy Yan family.

What era was this? Arranged marriages were still a thing?

Yu Rong decided to take matters into his own hands and fake a marriage with a terminally ill man he'd found.

He planned to care for the man until he passed away, after which he could be free again.

But before long, the man died in a maritime disaster, leaving no body behind.

At the funeral, Yu Rong wore mourning clothes and silently wept. His grief-stricken appearance moved everyone deeply.

Standing before the tombstone, he swore, "I will never marry again in this life. I only wish to rekindle my romance with my late husband in the next."

Under the name of a man devoted to his late husband, and on the pretext of reliving their love, Yu Rong traveled the world to soothe his sorrows.

Though the process hadn't gone quite as planned, the result was the same. No one could force him into marriage. Yu Rong sighed: being widowed is great.

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Two years later, the wealthy Yan family announced that their heir, Yan Sixu, who had been in a coma for a long time due to illness, had recovered.

Yu Rong inexplicably received an invitation to a Yan family banquet.

Beneath the dazzling lights, the handsome, peerless head of the Yan family had the same face as his dead husband...

Surrounded by handsome men and beautiful women, Yu Rong tried to run, but someone stopped him when he turned around.

"H-Husband? Did you come back from the dead?"

"Rongrong, I heard you wanted to rekindle our romance, so I borrowed a corpse to return and see you." Yan Sixu smiled, his eyes fixed gloomily on Yu Rong and the people around him. He asked, word by word, "Are these your new lovers?"

Yu Rong laughed awkwardly. "Husband, I'm thinking of you through them! Don't you think there's something about each of them that resembles you?"

How touching.

"Now that I'm back, these substitutes can leave."

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Yan Sixu survived the maritime disaster and assumed a new identity after recovering.

He went looking for the lover who had given him the will to live, but always arrived too late.

He heard that Yu Rong had appeared all over the world to commemorate his late husband: they met at a museum, fell in love at university, pledged their love in the Arctic Circle, and got engaged among ancient ruins.

Yan Sixu was so furious he laughed. How did he not know they had such a romantic love story?

He found Yu Rong in a bar, supposedly drinking away his sorrow over his late husband. Looking at the snacks and game pieces scattered across the table, Yan Sixu gently stroked the other's delicate, pale neck. "Rongrong, does our love story also include going clubbing in a bar?"

Yu Rong answered cautiously, "Uh, we didn't do that before... Husband, should we make up for it now?"

Theme: Say your love out loud.