After Marrying My Archrival for a Variety Show, Our Pretend Romance Became Real

New novel: The Beautiful Star Shines with a Baby on a Variety Show. Click through to my author page to read more.

Blurb: On the day wealthy-family fake young master Jiang Siyan married his sworn enemy He Yanshu, the plot of a dating reality show landed in his hands. They were invited to appear on the show as a couple.

Four couples would flirt on the variety show, and the audience would ultimately choose which of them was a real couple.

Jiang Siyan: Whatever. Even if the sky fell, no one would guess He Yanshu and I were a couple.

There was no way he and He Yanshu could flirt with each other. They were famous for not getting along.

At first, that was exactly how it went.

Fans: We don't even need to guess about this pair. Cross them off right away. He actually rolled his eyes at my favorite star. Six points, definitely fake!

But slowly... the cold, icy one started saying things like, "Yanyan, you have to feel my heartbeat. Can I let you feel it? Yanyan, the show card says you have to kiss me."

He Yanshu withdrew his warning about Jiang Siyan's eye-roll and returned a loving gaze.

Jiang Siyan: "."

At first, the fans only dared to ship them with their hearts in their throats. After all, who knew which couple on this crazy show was real?

Until Jiang Siyan and He Yanshu both had swollen, reddened lips, kept disappearing from the cameras, and Jiang Siyan, with his haughty personality, somehow turned the cold, icy one into a clingy puppy!

One day, after having another nightmare, Jiang Siyan made a phone call in full view of the audience.

The call was answered instantly, but He Yanshu's voice came from the other end.

Everything seemed perfectly normal at first.

"Yanyan, what's wrong?" He spoke with a tenderness he'd never shown before.

"I had a nightmare, Brother Yanshu."

Jiang Siyan sounded terribly aggrieved, as if he were crying.

He Yanshu's voice was urgent yet gentle. "Don't be afraid. I'll be back to keep you company soon."

"Good night, wife. Give me a kiss."

Half-asleep, Jiang Siyan kissed his phone. "Miss you. Good night, hubby."

The production crew: "?!" They hurriedly cut the livestream, but it was too late.

Fans: Yanshu... brother? Wife? Hubby?! We're completely stunned.

And then, in quick succession:

#Publicly Funded Romance! The Yan-Yan CP Is Real! Trending!#

#We Thought They Were Just Dating, But They Were Actually Married!#

#We Kept Your Secret for You and Look Like Idiots#

[Mastermind seme who pursues his wife with max-level tricks and devotion x proud, coy, mixed-signals, easily flustered uke. Two kissing fiends]

Reading note: The term "sworn enemies" should be in quotation marks in this story. There is a supporting couple!

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Up next: After Going on a Parenting Variety Show with a Top-Tier Star, the Stunning Beauty Couldn't Escape. Please add it to your collection! ↓

Rising entertainment star Huai Yu has two secrets:

1. He's from planet W, not Earth.

2. He has a four-year-old child, whose father is unknown.

But when Huai Yu took his child to an amusement park, they were photographed, and his second secret was exposed. The little one tightly hugged a man's leg at the amusement park and sweetly called him "Daddy."

Huai Yu: Is it still in time to deny this kid...

As luck would have it, that man was the popular top-tier star Si Yunze.

Huai Yu: ...

Then, right away: #Si Yunze and Huai Yu Secretly Married and Had a Child!# Trending!

The two agencies saw the adorable little one and immediately hit it off, arranging for the two men to go on a parenting variety show and escape the other rumors surrounding them.

Huai Yu: It's a good plan, but I...

Looking at that familiar face, Huai Yu's pretty, delicate face turned from red to pale, and his fingers clenched his clothes.

Before they went on the parenting show, the "family of three" officially met. One person was delighted, one was worried, and one was calm.

After they joined the show, the sharp-eyed netizens said:

Oh my god, this kid is a miniature version of Si Yunze!

What? Men can really give birth now?! And this is Huai Yu and Si Yunze's child!

We lost a wife and a husband overnight and got a kid instead, sob sob sob!

Huai Yu: Stop talking, or I won't be able to keep my child...

One night, the child's father finally realized something was off.

"Where were you on the winter solstice four years ago?" Si Yunze stared into Huai Yu's eyes and demanded.

Huai Yu held the child in his arms and tried to stay calm. "I, I was asleep..."

Si Yunze suffered from severe sleep anxiety. Then one night, he actually slept soundly and even dreamed that...

After waking, his insomnia had clearly improved, but soon he was back to struggling. Lately, however, he could not only fall asleep when he was in the same room as Huai Yu, but sleep very soundly, too.

Si Yunze moved closer to Huai Yu. "You know, I can always..." He hadn't even finished saying, "stop working with you," when...

Huai Yu curled up with a troubled, heartbroken expression. His face flushed pink, his eyes reddened, and he choked out softly, "Are you going to take the baby away from me?"

QAQ.

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Coming soon: After the Wealthy Family's Adopted Son Saves the Gloomy Mogul

Everyone knew Shen Yanyu was the adopted son of the wealthy Gu family. He lived under their roof and would eventually be discarded as a pawn in a marriage alliance, simply because he was a stand-in for the sickly real young master, the book's beloved by all.

When Shen Yanyu transmigrated into the book, he happened to arrive at a crucial plot point: the wedding for the marriage alliance.

The original host was being used by the Gu family and treated Young Master Fu coldly throughout, so everyone was waiting to see how long the marriage would last.

Shen Yanyu looked at his marriage partner, Fu Shengyun: perfect body and looks, excellent bearing, except that he was blind.

Shen Yanyu lay flat in peace: ...What more could I want?

Rich, handsome, and unable to restrict my freedom. The perfect husband has dropped right out of the sky! I'm in love! This marriage was made for me!

Shen Yanyu broke the plot and personally pushed his husband's wheelchair, lowering his head shyly. "Hubby, I'll push you along~"

Fu Shengyun froze: ?

The Gu family: ?

Shen Yanyu played the role of a sweet wife while saving money in his private stash. Once his marriage was called off, he could lie flat in comfort and live freely. His own little home would be much more comfortable than either the Gu or Fu family.

So Shen Yanyu used the black card Fu Shengyun gave him to buy a car one day and a villa the next...

Shen Yanyu: I'll be divorced and kicked out anyway, so I might as well take what I can before it ends.

Later, less than a month after the wedding, Shen Yanyu looked at the ten properties, five luxury cars, and all kinds of luxury goods he'd acquired with ease, and felt thoroughly satisfied.

What do you mean, blind? This is my destined God of Wealth!

Shen Yanyu: "Hubby, I love you so much. You're the best!"

Fu Shengyun, bleeding money, sneered. "As long as you're happy."

Later still, Shen Yanyu waited every day to be divorced, so he could leave and live without restraint. But every night, Fu Shengyun held him close, kissing and cuddling him to build their relationship.

So he had to pretend he couldn't take it and try to escape. "Hubby, I can't anymore. I'm so sleepy, I can't take it. I want to sleep."

Fu Shengyun thought he was unhappy and felt terribly sorry for him. One day he bought him an entire street, and the next he bought him an entire building.

Shen Yanyu: ?

What happened to getting divorced?!

Everyone was waiting for Shen Yanyu to become a laughingstock. Plenty of people bet on him, wagering that he wouldn't last a month in the Fu family.

Even the sickly real young master fanned the flames wherever he went. "No, Yanyu-gege will definitely make it. He told me he likes that blind young master from the Fu family." He sneered. "They'll be together forever and live happily ever after." Everyone waited to laugh at him.

Until one day, at a gathering of elite investors and wealthy families, Fu Shengyun personally took Shen Yanyu by the hand and led him to the main hall. Standing in the place of honor, his eyes bright and full of affection, he said, "Congratulations, Madam. You've just acquired another publicly listed company."

"Thank you, hubby." Shen Yanyu kissed him.

Everyone who had been waiting to laugh: ?! How did he face-slap us?!

My second upcoming novel: After I Pretended to Be Crazy and Foolish in an Angst Novel

Ye Yi transmigrated into a book, becoming a devoted supporting male character who was cannon fodder in a melodramatic novel about a man beloved by all.

In the book, the male lead seme was devoted to the male lead uke, but the uke had a beloved first love. The original cannon-fodder character gave his love to the seme without complaint or regret, playing the devoted supporting male character who endured both physical and emotional abuse at the seme's hands, driving the romance and heartbreak between the two leads.

And his ending? He finally lost hope, went abroad, and inherited a huge family fortune.

This was a cannon-fodder character? Shocking...

Ye Yi: Got it. As long as I don't break character and finish the book's plot, I can quietly lie low and lie flat in peace.

So Ye Yi held the script in his hands and began acting, making a scene and doing whatever he wanted...

Everyone thought Ye Yi loved someone he couldn't have, was utterly pathetic, and was the seme's mindless simp.

That included the two leads and the first love.

Tears welled in Ye Yi's eyes, his lips trembled, and his voice was hoarse as he shouted as if he were going mad: "Xu Nianxing, what gives you the right? You love Chen Yunjing, but you still go after someone who's already taken!"

The male lead uke clenched his fists, his eyes red, then ran out crying to chase after his first love.

"Zhou Dichen, don't... please, don't... could you stop liking him? I'm the only one who loves you!"

The male lead seme didn't even look at him. He rushed out after the male lead uke.

Ye Yi watched the three of them leave, calmly wiped away the tears in his eyes, got up from the floor, sat on the sofa, and drank tea more expensive than gold with his legs crossed.

"Ah, my acting is so good that even an award-winning actor would hand me his trophy. The leads can't really think I'm pining over someone I can't have, turning bitter with jealousy, can they? Tsk, tsk, the scummy uke and the wretched seme deserve each other! The original cannon-fodder character must have been out of his mind to fall for Zhou Dichen. Unlike me, I only love money."

Then someone came downstairs.

He was dressed in a suit and had an extraordinary bearing. In the book, he was a ruthless, cold-blooded, decisive, black-hearted, and immensely wealthy supporting male character who appeared for only a few chapters.

The male lead seme's uncle.

The kind with no blood relation.

The two looked at each other.

The other man kept staring at him.

Ye Yi: ...

I'm done for.

Ye Yi: I can still act...

Someone: Let's see you keep pretending.

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A friend's novel: The CEO Became My Caged Songbird, by Mao Ba

What's it like to have a sworn enemy who thinks about your ass every single day?

Shen Zhihuan: Get to him first and r him, so he'll run away whenever he sees you.

Shen Zhihuan thought it, and did it, too.

He just accidentally r-ed him until he was an idiot.

To keep from being retaliated against by the other man's people, Shen Zhihuan kept the CEO at home.

From then on, the once all-conquering domineering protagonist became Shen Zhihuan's caged songbird.

Every day he washed his hands and cooked, like a beautiful and harmless delicate housewife.

Only Shen Zhihuan was on edge every day.

He felt that the songbird in his home was like a venomous snake in hibernation,

ready to wake up at any moment and bite him to death.

Notes:

1. A goofy, naturally devious seme versus a uke who seems like a housewife but is actually vicious and cruel.

Theme: Happiness must be created with your own hands.