The Minister Beneath His Lips

The hottest gossip at a cosmetics company lately: Lin Xinghe, a team leader in the lipstick sales department, got incredibly lucky when an advertiser picked him to be a lip model. He wouldn't have to work himself to the bone in sales anymore.

Little did they know that Lin Xinghe felt as if he'd stepped in dog poop.

Because it was his ex-boyfriend's advertising agency...

Lin Xinghe decided to keep a low profile while shooting the ads and make absolutely sure Shen Mu didn't see him. He had to avoid that pervert who was obsessed with applying lipstick to him with his own hands, then kissing it right off...

*

They were called ex-boyfriends, but they'd never actually confirmed their relationship.

Back when Lin Xinghe was excitedly preparing to confess, he heard Shen Mu introducing him to a friend: "He's my regular fuck buddy."

It was like getting a bucket of cold water dumped over him. Lin Xinghe quickly pulled himself out of that relationship and filled his life with work and new romances.

But barely a few days later, that man turned his life upside down all over again...

While grabbing fast food with a romantic prospect, Lin Xinghe caught sight of a mysterious man wearing a wig, glasses, and a fake mustache, dressed up as the character from the restaurant's logo.

He'd nailed the face, but he was also wearing an expensive custom-made three-piece suit. Behind those glasses, he fixed Lin Xinghe's table with an openly murderous stare.

Lin Xinghe: ...He looks kind of familiar.

His date ordered a drink with two straws in it.

The lousy cosplayer changed into a fast-food worker's cap, carried over a tray with a drink, and ground out, "This is on the house. One! Drink! Each!"

Lin Xinghe: ...Sir, what do you actually do for a living?

As they ate their fries, Lin Xinghe accidentally got ketchup on the corner of his mouth. The man across from him gently wiped it away with his thumb, just like Shen Mu used to rub his lips obsessively...

Shen Mu finally couldn't take it anymore. He tore off his disguise and slammed his hand on the table, looking ready to smash that romantic prospect to pieces.

"Sir, watch what you're doing! Lin Xinghe is a lip model for our company. What if you make his lips swell up?"

Lin Xinghe was stunned. You used to make my lips swell up every night, so why didn't you care then!?

Flustered, he hurriedly shooed the man away. "Stop bothering us while we're eating... Hey, wait, don't cry!"

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Later, Shen Mu shamelessly won his wife back. As he applied lipstick, he pleaded with a pitiful expression, "I'm sorry. Please don't leave me..."

Dazed from all the kissing, Lin Xinghe suddenly tasted something salty on his tongue. He bit back a soft moan and gritted his teeth.

"Don't do this while you're crying!"

P.S.

A carefree, adorable beauty uke x a love-struck seme who pretends to be carefree but occasionally cries like a baby.

Sweet and sour romance, with a groveling ex trying to win his wife back.

Theme: Passionate love is deeply moving.