After Divorcing My Scumbag Ex, I Found Out I Was His White Moonlight

[Starting from Chapter 20, this story switched to a paid, reversed-charge format on March 4.]

In the eyes of the world:

Pei Qisuo is peerlessly handsome, second to none.

Yu Huan is gentle and delicate, a sweet, demure beauty.

From school uniforms to wedding gowns, Yu Huan accepted everything about Pei Qisuo. But after they married, all he got was inexplicable cold treatment, neglect, and one humiliation after another...

Pei Qisuo was forcing him to be the one to ask for a divorce.

They'd dated for six years and been married for three. To please his partner, Yu Huan had remade himself into someone else. Who could have guessed his sincere love would go to a dog? Disgusted to the core, Yu Huan walked away without hesitation.

In Young Master Pei's eyes, Yu Huan was dull, stiff, and quiet. He had a white moonlight in his heart: the sexy, fiery rock singer from The Masked Singer. Only someone like that could make life interesting.

*

Everyone thought Yu Huan was all looks and no substance, unworthy of the ethereal Young Master Pei. He loved Pei Qisuo desperately, so he would surely return to his side, put aside any claim to their marriage, and live under his roof...

That way, Pei Qisuo could openly pursue his "white moonlight."

But no one expected Yu Huan to vanish without a trace after leaving.

That very night, the normally impassive head of the Pei family smashed a full-length mirror, leaving himself covered in blood.

To cheer Pei Qisuo up, his friends took him to the newly opened Jiudu. They'd heard the bar's owner was young and beautiful, alluring and charming, just his type of "white moonlight."

Under the dazzling neon lights, the young man lounged casually among the crowd, leaning against the sofa by the bar. He swirled a glass of dark red wine in one hand. His half-long blond hair framed his hazy eyes, softened by drink, and set a raging fire in Pei Qisuo's heart.

It was Yu Huan.

At first, Pei Qisuo thought Yu Huan had once again changed himself to fit his preferences.

In the end, the young man stood onstage, his smile more dazzling than the spotlight. His rock performance took the whole country by storm.

Only then did Pei Qisuo realize he'd been wrong.

Please add my ongoing novel, I'll Win an Oscar on the Nightmare Dating Show, to your library. It will be my next book.

On the nightmare dating show, everyone is rated on their looks from the moment they're born.

"Your appearance score is perfect. Congratulations, you've received a new identity: the Rose Killer. With your beautiful looks and terrible acting, you can coast your way to the top and become one of the elite."

Ji Lie used his golden finger to breeze through the task assigned by the System. The next moment, a cold mechanical voice rang in his ear: "The nightmare dating show is a two-person challenge. You must complete it together with your partner."

Ji Lie stared at the corpses of all the players he'd just killed strewn across the floor: ?

The other players all backed away from him in unspoken agreement. No one dared to team up with him.

Only the leader of the game's biggest guild, the Gunman, head of the Assassins' Guild, extended an olive branch to the Rose Killer. The man spoke with mocking amusement: "Only your score is high enough to match mine. Join my guild. This isn't a discussion, I'm telling you. You don't get to refuse."

Ji Lie smiled and readily agreed, then recruited his own underlings and founded his own faction. While undercover, he plundered the Assassins' Guild of all its resources.

In the real world, he was a wanted criminal who'd committed every kind of evil.

What was stopping him from slaughtering his way to the top? The Gunman, the Assassins' Guild.

What should he do? Crush them, absorb the guild, and rule the world.

Unfortunately, his opponent was no pushover either.

While other players were timidly muddling through the virtual game, these two were stabbing each other in the back on livestream.

Everyone waited for them to mess up, sure they'd get themselves killed while trying to sabotage each other.

Gradually, their pairing rose to the top of countless leaderboards.

"Fair-Weather Partners Leaderboard" (ranked by how often partners betray each other after agreeing to cooperate)

"Bitter Enemies Leaderboard" (ranked by the total health lost to attacks from your partner in dungeons)

"Awkward Silence Leaderboard" (ranked by the total time partners spend without interacting in dungeons)

And also...

"Perfect Match Leaderboard" (total points ranking)

In one dungeon, the monsters were the players' deepest emotional impulses, and the dungeon boss looked exactly like the player in the real world.

Ji Lie stared silently at the boss. It was none other than his longtime nemesis in the real world, Zhou Youzhi, the special forces commander who had been trying to arrest him for years.

After shedding his secret identity, Zhou Youzhi pressed his gun to Ji Lie's slender waist and murmured, "How does it feel to be shocked, my cute Rose Killer?"

In the deepest darkness, a bloodstained rose stood beside thorns and white bones.

But the next moment, Zhou Youzhi, the embodiment of justice, knelt on the ground and began kissing Ji Lie's toes.

Zhou Youzhi: "..."

The Rose Killer's expression tightened. He automatically ignored the previous topic, turning his gaze to the Adam's apple bobbing beneath the Gunman's pale face.

"Commander, so when you were plotting against me every day, were you actually going to such lengths to figure out how to get me to step on you?"

Theme: Whether life is ordinary or prosperous, cherish the people by your side.