Set the Entertainment World Ablaze

[Please add my upcoming stories, My Early-Dying Ex-Wife, Who Became the Dark and Cruel Villain, and Kill That Female Lead, to your wish list!]

[Arrogant, free-spirited heiress VS scheming femme fatale]

Just after Chu Xiyue became an A-list star, she was suddenly told she had only three months to live. The only way to extend her life was to get physically close to a specific person.

That person was Su Yan, the one woman in the entertainment industry she liked least.

Back then, Chu Xiyue had entered show business to escape her family's arranged marriage. Her flawless face made her an overnight sensation, but she accidentally offended the newly crowned Best Actress Su Yan on a variety show.

Su Yan came from humble beginnings and had worked her way up step by step. She'd been in the industry for years without a single scandal, and she hated spoiled heiresses like Chu Xiyue most of all.

Chu Xiyue hated how rigid and wooden Su Yan was. But to stay alive, she had no choice but to sign a "humiliating agreement" and fake a relationship with her nemesis for a limited time.

On a variety show where they played a couple, the director set up a "racing hearts" segment. While the other guests coyly tested the waters, Su Yan wrapped her arms around Chu Xiyue from behind and took the Pocky stick between Chu Xiyue's lips into her own. They were close enough to touch. Su Yan lifted Chu Xiyue's chin with her jade-like fingertips. Her heart pounding, Chu Xiyue accused her of crossing a line.

Su Yan calmly stepped away. "We were just completing the task. I'm straight."

After the show ended, they met again on set. Chu Xiyue had seven NGs during a kissing scene, so Su Yan stepped in to teach her personally. They kissed until their hair was tousled and they couldn't bear to part.

Su Yan still explained that it was all for the sake of the performance.

For Su Yan's birthday, Chu Xiyue arranged a mall-wide fan event and a coffee truck. The woman rumored to be cold and chaste was, inexplicably, all charm and allure around her. When Chu Xiyue had no appetite, she even climbed into her bed to comfort her tenderly, all to get her to drink a couple more mouthfuls of seafood congee.

At first, Chu Xiyue told herself, "It's just acting." But she still fell helplessly into the game of pretending to be a couple. On the day their promotional stint ended, Chu Xiyue no longer had to worry about extending her life. She carefully prepared a confession, only to be met with Su Yan's completely untroubled farewell.

That day, Chu Xiyue tasted the defeat of heartbreak and came to hate straight women's games. From then on, she and Su Yan became the most irreconcilable pure-hate nemeses in the industry. After their ship was disbanded, they were never seen together again, and their fans couldn't stand each other.

Later, a gossip account broke the news that double Best Actress Su Yan and top-tier star Chu Xiyue would appear together again in a historic reunion, setting off a storm online. Before long, the two women, who never crossed paths, appeared on a dating reality show, facing each other coldly.

By day, Chu Xiyue watched Su Yan chatting happily with a female painter. That night, her arranged-marriage match, whom she had never met, messaged her: "Shall we meet?"

Chu Xiyue replied, "Marriage isn't right for me. I'm committed to being single. Sorry."

As soon as she sent the final word, she heard her phone vibrate. Chu Xiyue turned around and glimpsed a familiar figure in the doorway. Her pitch-black eyes reflected Chu Xiyue's face. The woman walked over slowly and, right in front of her, unhurriedly typed:

"What a coincidence. Me too."

In a corner of the balcony, the famously aloof and chaste Su Yan dipped her slender fingers into the red wine in her glass. The wine gleamed on her fingertips. Her other hand slowly covered Chu Xiyue's neck, threading through her hair and pressing her against the railing as she tempted her into a kiss.

"Lick it clean, and I'll go with you."

[What do I do when my arranged-marriage match is the nemesis I've been tangled up with for years? Asking online, it's pretty urgent!]

[She thinks she's pursuing freedom, but the other woman has been laying her trap step by step. She takes the bait, all aflame.]

**

Su Yan had a secret.

At the lowest, most helpless point in her life, Chu Xiyue had reached out to her from the mud.

From then on, Su Yan was haunted by her, unable to let go.

Greedy and insatiable, she schemed and maneuvered at every turn.

But the moment that woman walked toward her, Su Yan was the first to surrender.

[Reader's notes]

1. They take turns topping. Neither is particularly dominant. They're four years apart in age, with Chu Xiyue the younger one.

2. Same-sex marriage is not yet officially established in this world. For a certain reason, Su Yan pretends to be straight while dressing and acting like a woman. She has no contact with men (important). Sweet with a hint of sour, with plenty of romantic tension. Happy ending.

Upcoming story, My Early-Dying Ex-Wife, Who Became the Dark and Cruel Villain, blurb:

[Warm, caring older top with a maxed-out will to live x possessive, cold younger queen bottom]

Qiao Yuexi worked overtime until she suddenly died. When she opened her eyes, she had transmigrated into an old novel she'd read before, becoming the early-death cannon-fodder ex-wife of the story's greatest villain.

The villain, Sheng Wu, was born to a distinguished family and had a status beyond price. But the family fell in an instant, and on the way to exile, she was saved by her future wife. Her future wife was a hypocrite. They had agreed to use each other, but when she failed to forcibly mark Sheng Wu on their wedding night, she turned hostile. From then on, Sheng Wu endured two years of nightmares.

Driven to become thoroughly evil, Sheng Wu lay low for two years to win her trust. After drugging her with a muscle-relaxing poison, she had her dismembered and made into a human pig, then announced her death to the world. She inherited her wife's title and maneuvered her way to the highest position of power. That year, even the snow in the capital couldn't cover the heaps of white bones.

When Qiao Yuexi arrived, the hibiscus-red bed curtains swayed, and the bridal candles illuminated the villain's peerless, radiant beauty. Her mother-in-law had drugged her for refusing to consummate the marriage. Bracing herself against the bed, blood at the corner of her mouth more vivid than her red lips, the villain fixed her with a chilling stare and said:

"Come a little closer."

Qiao Yuexi, desperate to survive, dropped to her knees in front of her and grabbed her hand with tearful eyes.

"My dear wife, I'm here to cure your poison!"

**

Sheng Wu's previous life had been miserable from beginning to end.

Her entire family was falsely accused and sent into exile. A fallen noblewoman with despicable methods became her wife, subjecting her to endless abuse and doing everything possible to wring out her value. Sheng Wu endured it all along the way, destroyed her enemies, and made her way into the imperial palace to overturn the verdict. There, she learned that her mother's family had died during the exile.

With no heart left, Sheng Wu plunged the capital into chaos. The world called her tyrannical and wanton, and her hands were stained with countless deaths. In the end, the righteous hero and heroine captured her, and she died alone.

When she awoke, she planned to play along and keep her head down until she could make another plan. But the vicious, cruel woman who was her wife gently wiped the blood from the corner of her mouth, then dried her tears with a handkerchief and said softly:

"Good girl, don't be afraid. No one will ever bully you again."

Sheng Wu knew that Qiao Yuexi had beauty but no brains, and was cruel by nature. She watched coldly as Qiao Yuexi put on an act.

But when her mother-in-law insulted and beat her, Qiao Yuexi lashed out in her place. Before long, she took Sheng Wu away to set up a separate household.

When enemies kept watch like hungry tigers, Qiao Yuexi opened a clinic to earn money while shouldering the empty title. She even healed Sheng Wu's swollen, chapped hands in winter. When Sheng Wu's fever wouldn't break and pursuers caught up with them, Qiao Yuexi stayed by her side, carried her ten miles, took up a weapon, and shared life and death with her.

With Qiao Yuexi's help, Sheng Wu not only cleared her family's name early and saved her mother's clan, but ascended the throne and became a great empress.

Qiao Yuexi watched the plot veer further and further off course. The person turned into a human pig in this life was actually the male lead the villain had originally loved!?

Afraid of meeting her early death, Qiao Yuexi quietly packed up and ran away when Sheng Wu ascended the throne.

That day, the Imperial Guards searched every inch of the land and surrounded the area, finally finding Qiao Yuexi and quelling the empress's furious rage. That night, the beautiful woman with raven-black hair and red lips nestled against her in the bath. Her eyes shimmered, her expression inscrutable.

Only when the corners of her eyes turned a damp, rosy red did her voice tremble, yet she still held on tightly.

Qiao Yuexi was the road Sheng Wu traveled to and from, the stars above her head, and an unfading light.

[Qianyuan = Alpha, Kunze = Omega, Zhongyong = Beta. This story contains ABO elements, but no pregnancy or childbearing in the main story.]

Theme: True love can smooth away a person's rough edges and help them become better