My Rival and I Fell for Each Other on a Dating Show

Sun Shiye and the kid next door never got along. The other girl was a little older than her, the kind of "other people's child" everyone praised, and even her name sounded prettier!

Even though she was the older sister, she was always stealing Sun Shiye's things. First it was the little butterflies Sun Shiye had just caught, then her schoolbag, and later the classmate Sun Shiye had a crush on.

After that, they didn't speak another word to each other.

Sun Shiye always thought she hated Song Youming, until they met again years later and joined the same reality dating show.

Song Youming was at a loss. The kid next door had never liked her. When they were little, Song Youming wanted to keep one of the two butterflies they'd caught together as a memento, but the other girl cried and made a fuss even though there were two. At school, she tried to help carry the girl's heavy schoolbag, but the little girl sat down on the ground and cried. Later, when the kid said she wanted to date someone, Song Youming really did have to steal that person away.

Because... she really liked her. She wanted to be more than just neighbors.

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One day, Sun Shiye caught her mother secretly reading an explicit comic about two girls. So girls could do that sort of thing!

That was the day Sun Shiye realized her feelings for Song Youming had changed.

Later, she worked up the courage to ask her parents, "How do I bring home a sweet, lovely wife?" Her father patted her shoulder gravely and gave her several boxes of comics. "Your mom read these when she was pregnant with you. They're out of print now. Your prenatal education got you off to a head start, so make sure you're the top!"

Sun Shiye: You stole so many things from me. Is it really so wrong if I steal your heart?

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After being jealous of each other's supposed rivals for a long time, the two finally learned that the so-called love rivals had all been a misunderstanding.

Sun Shiye: I never liked that person.

Song Youming: We were never together either.

But fortunately, they managed to hold on to each other's hands.

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The two kept things extremely low-key on the show. Later, viewers figured out that one was a little princess who'd have to go home and inherit the family business if she failed to make it on her own, while the other was an inventive genius whom investors were lining up to fund.

Viewer 1: I have reason to suspect this show was designed to help someone win back their wife.

Viewer 2: Are we just part of your little game?

Reader's guide:

1. One-on-one romance, both leads are each other's first love.

2. Childhood friends, late to realize their feelings, mutually devoted.

3. Not a long novel.

Coming soon: Hidden Currents After Marriage [Reborn]---

When she reached marrying age, Sang Hanzhi was tossed aside like a blade of grass and married off to the Shang family. Her new partner was Yue Zhige, a sickly member of the Yue family's younger generation and the only one who had never set foot in the business world. Only later did Sang Hanzhi discover that Yue Zhige was the beloved child of the Shang family's matriarch, Old Madam Yue.

Sang Hanzhi thought she was only using Yue Zhige, and indeed, she used Yue Zhige's unconditional love and tolerance to win a perfect victory in the battle to inherit the family business.

But in the seventh year after her wife Yue Zhige died, Sang Hanzhi missed her so much.

She knew it was heaven's punishment for a wicked person like her.

Everything has a cause and a consequence. She thought her punishment would be to spend the rest of her life alone, unable to sleep at night.

After a plane crash, she returned to the night she married Yue Zhige. Only then did she learn that her punishment was to be tormented night after night by the person beside her, who had once been as gentle and fragile as moonlight.

Given another life, she wants to sow good seeds and reap good fruit, and change the regrets she couldn't make right in her previous life.

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With one thought, you become a Buddha; with another, a demon.

Yue Zhige lived a pure and blameless life, but in the end, the grandmother she cherished and respected most was murdered, and she had failed to see it coming, powerless to save her. Given another life, she doesn't want to be a Buddha.

If her family treats her cruelly, she will return their cruelty in kind.

Only when it comes to the person beside her, even after two lifetimes of hatred, resentment, obsession, and entanglement, she still can't let go of her love.

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Still wounded by the heartbreak of her previous life, whenever Yue Zhige faces Sang Hanzhi's advances, she only sneers, "What do you want me to do for you this time?"

Sang Hanzhi misses the wife she had in her previous life, the one who always responded to her and held her in the palm of her hand.

At last, on a rainy night, she looks at Yue Zhige with red-rimmed eyes and says, "Will you hold me? I just want you to love me."

Theme: Love takes courage.