After Our Divorce, My Ex-Husband and I Joined a Dating Show

Blurb:

Song Youzhang is gorgeous, has a terrible personality, poor manners, and tons of fans. Every year, the traffic generated by gossip and scandals about him is enough to keep dozens of marketing accounts afloat.

The hottest story by far is that he secretly married award-winning actor Shen Huai.

Song Youzhang is young, flamboyant, and beautiful.

Shen Huai, meanwhile, is famous as an untouchable, principled star.

Fans and passersby alike are waiting for them to break up, mocking them: How could a thousand-year-old log ever have a happy ending with a narcissus flower?

This ridiculous marriage, which no one believed in, lasted only five months.

When he asked for a divorce, Song Youzhang felt terribly guilty. "I'm sorry. I don't like you."

Shen Huai looked at him without saying a word.

Song Youzhang was relieved. "Good thing you're straight and don't like me either. I haven't been a jerk to you, have I?"

Shen Huai still said nothing.

After their divorce went through, they were invited to appear on a dating show.

On the night filming began, the cameras had long since been switched off.

In the darkness, Shen Huai covered Song Youzhang's eyes and pinned him in a bed that was short on air.

He only let go once Song Youzhang's eyes were watery and the corners of them red.

Keeping his usual cool expression, Shen Huai leaned against Song Youzhang's shoulder and asked softly, "Do the viewers know a straight man can kiss you like that?"

Shen Huai had been retired for a long time. His return to the public eye came when he announced that he would appear on a dating show with his top-tier star partner, Song Youzhang. Gossip rags, however, claimed the two had already divorced.

The delightfully messy netizens flocked to see the contract-bound exes.

On day one, Shen Huai scowled.

On day two, Song Youzhang scowled, and Shen Huai had a black eye.

On day three, both of them were scowling. They seemed to have gotten into a fight the night before, and Song Youzhang's lip was split.

Netizens: So shippable. They're shippable because they're doomed. They must secretly fight all the time. Who understands the thrill of exes being forced to act lovey-dovey?

Later, someone dug up Shen Huai's secret account.

This aloof award-winning actor had been scandal-free for ten years, spending his time either filming or studying ancient texts. Lately, he had been learning how to defend Song Youzhang from online attacks.

He had signed in to Song Youzhang's fan community for over a thousand days in a row.

He had also commented under a post that said, "I'm dying of laughter. Shen Huai is playing the doting-wife role, isn't he? The kind who goes around telling everyone her husband is a civil servant."

[Song Youzhang isn't a civil servant. He's a superstar. But Song Youzhang is six feet tall and handsome, too.]

[Every freebie that comes with buying coffee goes to Shen Huai.]

[Lots of people pursue him, but he says they remind him of someone else. Ah, Shen Huai is that someone.]

[Also, Shen Huai is the top.]

Theme: Secret love cannot last forever