After My Childhood Friend and I Went on a 'Rival' Reality Show, He Became a Love-Struck Fool

The story is now complete. Thank you for your support. My new novel, He Is Guilty of Abandoning a Puppy, a danmei second-chance romance with an age-gap pairing, and Forum Thread Collection are both currently serializing. Feel free to add them to your reading list. Possessive, gloomy top × sharp-tongued, soft-hearted, easily riled bottom When Ji Jiashu was seven, his parents died in a car accident, and a friend of his father's took him in. During his years living with the Sheng family, Ji Jiashu fell for the cold, arrogant Sheng Mu. But Sheng Mu already had someone else in his heart, and repeatedly left Ji Jiashu behind for that person. When Ji Jiashu was attacked because of that person and taken to the hospital with injuries, Sheng Mu was protecting that person and keeping the reporters away. Before Ji Jiashu even had time to feel sad, he awakened to the truth. It turned out he was merely a villainous supporting character in an old-fashioned wealthy-family novel. In the book, he had a crush on the male lead, Sheng Mu, and grew jealous of the other male lead, Lu Feibai. He did everything he could to frame him, sow discord between the two, and even hired people to kidnap him and try to kill him... Calling him a lawless criminal would be no exaggeration. In the end, he got what he deserved. Sheng Mu personally sent him to prison, where he was left disfigured and disabled and would spend the rest of his life behind bars. Ji Jiashu: ??? What kind of dogshit plot is this? Get lost!!! Once he recovered from his injuries, he bought a plane ticket and went abroad to study. Two years later, he went from an obscure, washed-up entertainer to a hugely popular star, adored by half the internet and hated by the other half. Because of his years-long feud with Lu Feibai, netizens voted him onto a troublemaking variety show packed with "rivals." As he grimaced at the results and cursed under his breath, he discovered that Sheng Mu was participating too. Ji Jiashu: ... Damn, now I want to curse even more. * After years of being together day and night, Sheng Mu had long grown used to Ji Jiashu's presence. It had never occurred to him that one day Ji Jiashu might leave him. After they reunited, Ji Jiashu no longer looked at him at all. Watching him laugh and chat with other people drove Sheng Mu mad with jealousy. He wanted to drag Ji Jiashu home right then and lock him away, so Ji Jiashu could look at no one but him. He suppressed his deeply twisted, dark feelings and pretended nothing was wrong as he joined the variety show Ji Jiashu was on. Then everyone watched as a nasty variety show, which they had expected to feature bitter rivals constantly sabotaging each other until they were old and gray, turned into a massive campaign to win back an ex. Netizens said: "The way he looks at him is definitely not innocent." "I'm actually crying at how hard he's trying to pretend they don't know each other." "Would you believe they have nothing going on, or that I'm Qin Shi Huang?" "Come on, he loves him so much!" * Nobody ever thought the proud and supremely arrogant Sheng Mu, born into a prominent family, would lower himself for anyone. Not even Ji Jiashu. But Sheng Mu came down from his pedestal for him. Childhood friends. The bottom has a crush on the top. The top doesn't realize he's in love at first, then goes through hell to win him back. He Is Guilty of Abandoning a Puppy Moody, scheming, green-tea puppy top × seemingly arrogant but actually gentle, soft-hearted, slow-to-catch-on bottom On an ordinary, uneventful night, the internet went into a frenzy over a video. In it, the tall, popular actor Zhou Keran had cornered another handsome actor, Wen Ningxu, against a wall, bracing one hand against it to stop him from leaving. Wen Ningxu merely glanced at him calmly and straightened his collar. The tension was so thick it seemed they were about to fight. They had once been a hugely popular CP. Then Wen Ningxu posted online and revealed that the CP was fake and all for show, leading to a spectacular, earth-shattering collapse. It became a notorious case of failed publicity in the entertainment industry, and even led to a new rule in contracts forbidding either member of a CP from publicly revealing that it was fake. After that, netizens would occasionally drag them out and roast them. They were mocked relentlessly, while their fans saw each other as mortal enemies and every encounter sparked a bloodbath. The two actors' relationship became so tense that it was a case of one or the other, and they never appeared together again. At first, netizens thought it was just an accidental encounter. But then they realized something was off: those two seemed to be getting serious. Six years ago, when Wen Ningxu was still an obscure nobody, he took a role in a drama with two male leads. His costar was a newcomer four years younger than him. To get famous, the two signed a contract to promote themselves as a couple. To help them get into character and lay the groundwork for their future fanservice, the production team and Wen Ningxu's agency hit upon a big idea: have the two live together while filming. Wen Ningxu wanted to ask his boss if they were crazy, but his pockets were empty, so he had no choice but to put up with it. As they spent time together, he gradually came to feel sorry for Zhou Keran, who was so young and had to struggle in the industry, suffering neglect. He couldn't help treating him like a little brother, never realizing that he was raising a little wolf cub. A few months into their relationship, Wen Ningxu and Zhou Keran broke up abruptly. After they reunited, Zhou Keran taunted him. "Have you been doing well since you left me?" Wen Ningxu gave a mocking smile. The red at the corner of his eye bloomed like a beautiful flower in Zhou Keran's gaze. "What answer do you want to hear? Or should I ask, do you want me to be doing well or badly after breaking up with you, when you hate me?" Theme: Break through prejudice and ride the wind and waves through adversity