After Mistaking My Archrival for My Crush

[My column, I Feel Much Better After My Terminal Diagnosis, is now open for follows!]

Huo Rong and his sworn enemy, Ying Rushui, had been at each other's throats for years.

Then Huo Rong discovered that the person he had a crush on actually liked Ying Rushui! Their relationship grew even more strained.

Until an accident on set left Huo Rong injured and with scrambled memories. He remembered having a crush on someone, though.

In the end, he looked at all the things in his home related to Ying Rushui and the diary full of entries about him.

Huo Rong became convinced that Ying Rushui was the one he had a crush on.

But having a crush was so exhausting. Huo Rong couldn't take this suffering anymore, so he decided to pursue him.

*

Ying Rushui noticed that Huo Rong had changed lately.

Whenever they met, Huo Rong no longer acted like a feisty little rooster. He actually chatted with him obediently. Huo Rong sent him a friend request on WeChat, despite never having added him before, and from then on never missed a single good morning, good afternoon, or good night. He even brought him meals made with love.

The assistant was stunned, the fans went wild, and even Ying Rushui grew more and more confused.

After a shoot, Ying Rushui pinned him down and said bluntly, "Huo Rong, why don't you just tell me what you want? I'll go along with anything."

Huo Rong was a little dizzy, but his eyes lit up. "Really? Then I want to date you. I've liked you for a long time."

Ying Rushui froze. He thought Huo Rong had mistaken him for someone else, or perhaps... was simply using him as a substitute to pass the time.

But he still couldn't stop himself from answering, "...All right."

*

Several months later, Huo Rong fell out of bed in the middle of the night. When he woke and saw Ying Rushui in bed, his memories suddenly came rushing back.

He remembered every last embarrassing thing he'd done over the past few months. Just a few hours earlier, he'd even cried and called that bastard "hubby."

So mortified that his heart rate went haywire, Huo Rong wanted them both to die together.

The next morning, Huo Rong's first words were, "We're breaking up. Right now."

Ying Rushui frowned. "Why?"

Just looking at him made Huo Rong angry. Through gritted teeth, he said, "I was messing with you before, and now I'm done!"

"Is that so?" Ying Rushui's eyes darkened, like a storm was about to break. "You're bored of playing already?"

- One-on-one romance. The crush was a mistaken belief, and the love triangle is Schrodinger's.

- A prickly sweetheart x an aloof beauty

- Note added on November 21, 2022

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I Feel Much Better After My Terminal Diagnosis

After Cheng Yuan learned he had a terminal illness and only six months to live, he took three minutes to think it over and decided to forgo treatment.

He immediately handed in his resignation to his awful boss, demanded repayment from his deadbeat friend, and cut off his financial support for the ungrateful parasite he'd been sponsoring...

Faced with a Cheng Yuan who no longer meekly took whatever came his way and had suddenly gone so crazy he seemed ready to run them all over, everyone was horrified and stopped trying to push him around.

Cheng Yuan: Now that I've lost my manners, I feel so much better ^_^

Maybe he'd suppressed himself for too long in the first half of his life. With death approaching, Cheng Yuan decided to go completely off the rails.

He returned to the home of his scumbag father and his mistress, and made sure they couldn't enjoy any peace either. Yet his half-brother deliberately came to flaunt himself in front of him: "If you like it, Brother, I'll give it all to you."

Later, Cheng Yuan discovered that his half-brother had long pined for someone he could never have: Xu Shixuan, a heaven-blessed prodigy admired and revered by everyone. Unfortunately, Xu Shixuan was so cold and unapproachable that no one could get close to him.

Yet Cheng Yuan ended up in bed with Xu Shixuan without even trying.

When his half-brother found out, he completely lost it. His face twisted with rage as he spewed insults, so Cheng Yuan beat him up on the spot.

Soon, someone came knocking, ready to settle the score. Cheng Yuan simply called Xu Shixuan and said, "I miss you."

There was a brief silence on the other end, then Xu Shixuan replied, "Wait for me."

The others turned pale and fled in a panic.

From then on, Cheng Yuan grew even more arrogant. With Xu Shixuan behind him, the young rich brats who suffered at his hands could only grit their teeth and put up with it.

At last, his half-brother managed to record Cheng Yuan saying he was only using Xu Shixuan and just playing around with him. He sneered that Cheng Yuan's good days were finally over!

Cheng Yuan: Oh, I'm going to die soon anyway. Who cares?

But... why was he still alive after seven months?

When he went back for a checkup, the doctor only said, "You're a little weak. Take it easy."

The doctor meant take it easy, not accept his condolences.

#He went crazy and offended a ton of people because he thought he was going to die, but now it turns out he won't. What should he do? Help!#

#Including his powerful, bad-tempered boyfriend!#

Especially after what he'd said, Xu Shixuan would never let him off.

Cheng Yuan had no choice but to flee overnight.

He never expected Xu Shixuan to find him in less than three days. Looking at the man before him, who seemed like a demon from hell, Cheng Yuan felt miserable and dread crept over him.

What he didn't know was that when his half-brother played the recording for Xu Shixuan,

Xu Shixuan hadn't even raised an eyebrow. "Is that so? You're using me? I'd be delighted. What's it to you?"

Theme: Let go of your prejudice.