Reuniting with My Powerful Ex After Joining a Dating Show

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Xie Qiao was an utterly ordinary graduate student. Every day was a relentless grind, and that was how he spent six perfectly ordinary years as a workaholic student.

Everyone thought he'd never dated anyone. Even his advisor couldn't stand it and worried about his mental health:

"Wouldn't joining a dating show help you relax? It'd be even better if you found someone and started dating. It'd be fine if you didn't find anyone, right?"

Xie Qiao actually believed him, and treated it as a chance to unwind.

Then he discovered that his ex, whom he'd broken up with six years ago, was on the show too.

Xie Qiao: "???"

This can't be right, can it?

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After steeling himself and joining the dating show, Xie Qiao didn't want anyone to realize he had any history with his ex. He just wanted to make it through peacefully and do his kind advisor a favor.

But his ex was Jian Qi, the CEO of an entertainment company who had made countless celebrities famous. Anyone familiar with the entertainment industry respectfully called him a big shot.

At first, the audience only noticed how handsome he was.

Then they realized the big shot was acting strangely toward Xie Qiao.

[The way the big shot looks at that handsome amateur seems kind of suspicious???]

[Why do I feel like there's a little chemistry here???]

During introductions, Jian Qi calmly told Xie Qiao, without blushing or missing a beat, "Hi, I'm Jian Qi. I'm 25, a director, and I used to run a company. I own five properties..."

Xie Qiao: "?"

Was this really the aloof ex he knew?

Comments: [Big shot... Are you here on a matchmaking show?]

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As the dating show continued, the audience found more and more things that didn't add up.

For example, why did Xie Qiao, who seemed so distant around Jian Qi, know all of Jian Qi's preferences?

And why did Jian Qi keep making unconscious physical gestures toward Xie Qiao? Even when Xie Qiao dodged them, they still seemed incredibly flirtatious.

The viewers kept shipping them and digging up hints, until one morning they saw Xie Qiao come out of his room in the dating-show house, his exposed skin covered in suggestive marks.

Another contestant noticed. "Your neck... Is that a skin allergy?"

Xie Qiao lied and said it was.

But all he could think about was that night, when, with tears in his voice, he'd kissed Jian Qi's nose and chin with feverish desperation. "I want us to get back together. Jian Qi, I love you."

Jian Qi buried his face against the side of Xie Qiao's neck and breathed in recklessly, greedily. "Qiaoqiao, I love you too."

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*A biology grad-student workaholic Shou x a hugely powerful entertainment-industry big-shot Gong

* One-on-one, happy ending. A sweet treat with more sweetness than angst, though they do rekindle an old romance (sort of)

* A dating show for ordinary people! The show's premise doesn't reveal contestants' sexual orientations, so it's a big mix of orientations. There are lots of creative liberties, so don't take it too seriously. Everyone ships everyone, even the official couples (not really), but the story is mainly about the Gong and Shou

* The author isn't an expert, so there may be some inaccuracies about the four major fields notorious for being hard to study. Please be understanding.

Theme: Face your heart, untie the knots, and meet again at the summit