Seven-Year Itch

In the seventh year of their marriage,

actress Wen Zhan finally learned that her beloved, Lu Tan, had a cherished white moonlight from hundreds of years ago.

Every one of Lu Tan's paintings featured that white moonlight.

Lu Tan had given her token of love to that white moonlight.

Even the woman Lu Tan called her "fated love" turned out to have been the white moonlight's name in a past life.

Unwilling to accept it, Wen Zhan went to seek the truth, only to be met with suspicion: "After pretending to be her for seven years, what were you hoping to get from me? Fame or money?"

What could she have gotten? The seven years she had devoted to Lu Tan with all her heart ended with a divorce agreement.

Wen Zhan handled the divorce paperwork, moved out, and blocked every means of contact without the slightest hesitation.

So why, when she ran into the two of them being intimate in public and thoughtfully stepped aside to give them room, did the department head who should have been explaining things to her white moonlight run over and grab her wrist?

“A-Zhan, can we please not get divorced...”

“Have you mistaken me for someone else, Director Lu?” Wen Zhan pried Lu Tan's hand away and kindly reminded her, “Your white moonlight is eagerly waiting to grow old with you, yet here you are entangling yourself with me, your ‘imitation’... That's not very nice.”

Seven hundred years ago, the ancient immortal Lu Tan was injured and saved by a mortal.

To repay the debt, she helped the other woman overcome one calamity after another. But the woman used her good deed to demand more, and clung to Lu Tan for hundreds of years.

Now, in this life, there was even someone pretending to be that woman and taking her place? Lu Tan was thoroughly fed up.

But much later, she finally realized that she had mistaken one person for another from the very beginning.

☆ Sometimes blind and slow-to-catch-on ancient immortal x radiant, straightforward, quick-tempered superstar

Reader's guide:

[1] Entertainment industry, evenly matched leads, 1v1, both leads have no prior romantic or sexual relationships, happy ending

[2] Fake replacement romance. Lots of misunderstandings at first, but both leads speak their minds. The groveling arc is inevitable.

[3] Modern alternate universe, with gods, ghosts, supernatural arts, and past and present lives. Don't expect historical accuracy (please don't fact-check this!!!)

[4] Same-sex marriage is legal. The setting is entirely made up, with no real people as reference (please don't compare them to real people!)

[5] The writing is amateurish. I hope everyone enjoys reading (feel free to discuss the characters, but please don't be nitpicky about the wording!!)

[6] Another gender exists (the one referred to as “it”)

Please add my next story, If Love Had a Shape, to your reading list. If you're interested, check it out on my author page~

Blurb:

Wei Jinglan has synesthesia. When she talks with strangers, frightening shapes appear before her eyes, making her independent, withdrawn, and difficult to approach.

That is, until she meets Chi Xin.

The girl who stood in front of her and protected her when they were young, promising to become the person closest to her, became a ray of sunlight breaking through the clouds, illuminating her childhood.

She treasured those words, and from then on, did everything she could to become the person closest to Chi Xin. She willingly stepped down from her pedestal and let herself fall into the dust.

Chi Xin was a superstar, so Wei Jinglan became her little assistant. She ignored the insults of others, took care of Chi Xin's daily life, and warmed her bed.

Chi Xin was passive, so Wei Jinglan overcame her condition and confessed first, putting up with every one of Chi Xin's unreasonable little moods.

Chi Xin was busy with work and had no time to prepare for their engagement after proposing, so Wei Jinglan quietly took care of both families' elders and arranged a surprise engagement party for her.

But later, she learned that Chi Xin had never fallen for her. Chi Xin had only been affectionate because Wei Jinglan's body was still useful to her.

The so-called person closest to her had never even considered a future together...

It turned out that from beginning to end, she was the only one who had taken that childhood promise seriously.

At the lavish engagement party, while everyone thought the two families were joining forces in a powerful union, Wei Jinglan set fire to the gown she had spent countless nights painstakingly designing.

She took off the mask of the considerate little assistant and returned to the position no one else could reach.

Elegant and aloof, peerless and otherworldly, she spoke like a god returning from ascension: “Everyone is welcome to witness the end of my engagement to Chi Xin.”

Much later, the superstar Chi Xin, admired and pursued by all, would disregard everyone's eyes, drop to one knee, and beg her: “Lanlan, will you love me one more time?”

Theme: Perseverance is a fine quality passed down by humanity over thousands of years.