The Flirtatious Playboy Acts Well-Behaved on a Dating Show

● New story: Help! The Little Merman Is Trying to Jump into the Sea Again! Please add it to your reading list, dear readers~ [Blurb] Shi Qi was the dream guy of the gay scene: his hair was pink enough, he hit hard enough, he looked sweet enough, and he played wild enough. After he once again spent a fortune chasing someone, his father finally had enough, canceled thirteen of his gold cards, and signed him up for a dating reality show. The show had a script. Shi Qi's role was to play a poor, shy male college student holding a werewolf card on a dating show called Love Hunt, without blowing his cover. Shi Qi thought of the Armani suits he'd lost, the four rings on his hand, and the thirteen dead cards. Hah. Life was hard, so the spoiled rich kid would have to earn his keep with a performance. The moment Shi Qi dyed his hair black, the most well-behaved male college student in the history of dating shows was born. Because he was so shy, on his first night there, Shi Qi couldn't fit in with the group activities and happened to run into the gentle male lead who was taking a breather in the living room. Because he was so poor, on the second night, Shi Qi, who had never even seen an oven before, was paired with the cool second male lead, a master chef. Because he was so innocent, on the third night, Shi Qi went off to quietly pitch a tent because he was afraid he had nothing juicy to reveal during Truth or Dare, and caught the attention of the puppy-like third male lead, who loved photography. Because he was so kind, on the fourth night, Shi Qi couldn't decide whom to send a heart-fluttering text to without hurting anyone, and instantly melted the viewers' hearts. On the final choice night, the male leads stood in a row. Just as everyone was about to come to blows over who should be paired with Shi Qi, someone suddenly noticed the scheming CEO, Male Lead No. 7, standing off to the side. No. 7 never fought for attention, yet somehow always ran into Shi Qi when he was on a date with someone. No. 7 never said much, yet somehow always gave Shi Qi just the right advice when he hesitated over which card to choose. No. 7 acted as though he barely knew Shi Qi, but a video suddenly went viral late one night. Shi Qi was sitting on the kitchen counter, propping his chin on his hand with a troubled expression. "Gu Tingke, Gu Tingke, you're my childhood friend, so tell me. I like No. 1's aura, No. 3's body, No. 2's cooking, and No. 4's face. Who should I pursue?" Gu Tingke, who was cooking, had eight-pack abs, and had just appeared on the cover of a fashion magazine, silently wiped his hands. He deftly unlocked Shi Qi's phone with his fingerprint and deleted all the heart-fluttering texts except the one to himself. Then he offered his advice with complete sincerity: "I think you should find someone who takes the initiative and pursues you." The official couple: a flirtatious, teasing, scheming bottom x a devoted, teasing, cunning top. The bottom is a magnet for admirers. The romantic rivalry gets intense early on. A werewolf-killer dating show with eight people who have nine thousand tricks between them. Everyone's a schemer. Dating shows referenced: Love Catcher, Heart Signal, Single's Inferno New story: Help! The Little Merman Is Trying to Jump into the Sea Again! [Blurb] At four in the morning, beside a cross-sea bridge, retired assassin Lu Ze saved a boy who was trying to end his life. The boy was sweet and adorable, clever and bright. Lu Ze had looked after him for over half a year, but the boy's desire to die had not faded at all. Lu Ze only had to fall asleep for the boy to lie in the bathtub and pretend to be seafood. When Lu Ze took him to the aquarium, he would jump into the tank to swim alongside the sharks. Even when Lu Ze was exchanging fire with his old organization, the boy dared to stand in front of him and grab the barrel of his gun. To bring back the boy's love for life, Lu Ze could only hold him every night and tell him bedtime stories, set up beautiful fish tanks at home, and lock his weapons room tight. But the boy's passion for life never returned. Instead, Lu Ze fell hopelessly in love. In the year he loved the boy most, after he tried to jump into the sea once again, Lu Ze said, "You jump, I jump," and leaped with him from a pitch-black cliff into the sea below. Just as Lu Ze closed his eyes, certain he was about to die, someone slapped him across the face. The boy opened his azure eyes and spat out two words underwater: "You idiot." Then a pair of long legs slowly turned into a fish tail before his eyes. * The little merman Ning Che really, really, really hated humans (especially Lu Ze!!!). This man had fished him out of a comfortable river three times, pulled him out of a hot tub four times, and foiled his plan to meet up with a shark once! He'd also tried to murder him with his scorching hot body, scared him with stories about mermaids who'd lost their tails, and imprisoned him in an apartment full of firearms and surveillance cameras! He made him all kinds of weird food, bought him all kinds of weird clothes, and was always inexplicably wiping tears on him. Sneaky, arrogant human. If Ning Che weren't so kindhearted, the hateful Lu Ze would have died horribly countless times over! He graciously agreed to share a bed with Lu Ze, for the sake of the delicious ice pops. He graciously kissed Lu Ze as a blessing, because Lu Ze had replaced his storybook with a new one. He graciously helped Lu Ze clear out the assassins who suddenly showed up at the villa, since he'd secretly eaten the fish from the aquarium. Ning Che thought he was already spoiling the human enough, but one night, Lu Ze suddenly said a bunch of incomprehensible things and jumped off a cliff with him! Stupid, stupid, stupid human! Ning Che used his beautiful tail to bind Lu Ze tightly to his throne and served him disgusting seafood and terrifying mermaid fairy tales! "Do you understand how awful you are now?!" "I do. So are you going to imprison me now, Your Majesty the Merman?" Retired bounty hunter and emotionally repressed assassin top x hidden merman powerhouse bottom. Bottom's point of view, one-on-one romance. ● Coming Soon 2: I Slept with My Ex After Getting a Terminal Illness [Blurb] On the day he received his diagnosis, Jiang Gu crouched in the hospital corridor and deleted items from his bucket list. Get a kitten (crossed out) See the northern lights in Tromso (crossed out) Hold an art exhibition on my thirtieth birthday (crossed out) By the time he reached the last item, only one wish remained: Sleep with Zhao Zhiyu. Zhao Zhiyu was his family, his older brother, and his ex-boyfriend. He was the most hypocritical, cold-hearted, and despicable person Jiang Gu had ever met. It took Jiang Gu three years to win him over. Zhao Zhiyu took only three days to send him abroad. Now that Jiang Gu was going to die, why should Zhao Zhiyu get off easy? With only one wish left on his list, Jiang Gu took a twenty-hour flight back home. At a banquet, he held Zhao Zhiyu's hand and called him "Brother," acting innocent and naive. After an argument, he casually revealed the scars on his wrist, looking pitiful and fragile. When he was drunk, he fell into Zhao Zhiyu's arms, beautiful and alluring. The morning after, he hooked an arm around Zhao Zhiyu's neck and asked, "Brother, do you love me?" "I do." Blood welled from the corner of his mouth. Jiang Gu closed his eyes in satisfaction. Zhao Zhiyu, of course you have to love me. Then when I die, you'll be sad for me forever. Then when I die, every moment, every minute, every second of your life, you'll know what those five years were like for me. "Zhao Zhiyu, have you ever regretted it?" The hospital room was quiet and white. Zhao Zhiyu looked at the cold eyes of the person lying in the bed. Of course I have. I've regretted so many things in this life. Losing your glass marble when you were five, doing your homework for you when you were ten, secretly kissing you while you slept when you were fifteen, waiting all night outside your apartment when you were twenty but forgetting to warn you that it would snow that day... But only if you were alive. "It's okay." The knife slipped from his palm. Jiang Gu saw the self-mocking smile at the corner of Zhao Zhiyu's mouth. "But if you die, why should your brother get off easy?" A ruthless, obsessive, deeply devoted top x a sickly, scheming, possessive bottom. Not blood-related stepbrothers; they aren't on the same household register. The top isn't a jerk. The bottom will recover. Happy ending, happy ending, happy ending!!!! Theme: Work hard to change your fate