The main story is complete. I'll update the bonus chapters whenever inspiration strikes.
Gorgeous, spoiled celebrity who only cares about money x calculating CEO and family patriarch / old flame reignited / groveling-to-win-her-back arc
1. When the Xiang family went bankrupt, Xiang Zhao was still an obscure, barely-known actress in the entertainment industry.
To get out of their financial troubles, her father wanted to offer her to a powerful man.
In her moment of need, she set her sights on Xie Beilan.
Rumor had it that this heir to a top-tier wealthy family was cold, solitary, and ruthless, even toward his own relatives.
He certainly wouldn't care about Xiang Zhao, a woman he'd never met.
She repeatedly went out of her way to ingratiate herself with him, but he never even spared her a glance.
Until one night, after she was drugged, Xiang Zhao clung to the man's clothing with the last of her strength, her voice soft. "Please..."
A storm suddenly rose at sea, waves sweeping over the deck as the cruise ship rocked.
"You're asking me?" Xie Beilan's brows twitched as he looked down at her, still wearing his usual superior air. "Do you know what I want?"
2. After that, Xie Beilan had an obscure, unknown girlfriend by his side. He gave her as many resources and as much money as she wanted, provoking endless gossip and jealousy.
Just as everyone thought Xie Beilan was truly going to fall for Xiang Zhao, news suddenly broke that he was about to marry someone else.
At the banquet, Xiang Zhao instantly became a laughingstock among high society, infamous for all the wrong reasons.
"Did she really think she mattered?"
"Did she come here just to humiliate herself?"
The mocking words reached Xiang Zhao's ears. She turned pale as she looked toward Xie Beilan in the distance.
The man had his back to her, apparently bending down to comfort his fiancee.
3. After they broke up, Xiang Zhao cut off her feelings and relied on her beauty to get ahead, but her career remained lukewarm.
The only thing people found worth gossiping about was her past relationship with Xie Beilan.
When news of Xie Beilan's engagement broke, Xiang Zhao's comment section was instantly flooded:
Everyone laughed at her for being foolish. She'd been with Xie Beilan for so long and had gotten neither fame nor fortune out of it.
Just as the whole internet was mocking her, a video quietly started trending.
On set, a delicate, pampered young woman held a parasol and leaned back in a chair, leisurely lifting her foot in front of a man.
It turned out her shoelace had come undone.
The shot panned upward, and everyone saw that Xie Beilan, who was usually so dignified, had bent down to tie her shoelace.
Netizens: !!!
So the engagement was fake, and you two are the real couple?!
1. The final version of this blurb was written on 2024.4.13 and has been archived. Please don't borrow it.
2. The author wrote this novel using magic, so it making no sense is perfectly normal.
3. If you notice something that doesn't seem right, don't doubt yourself. The author just has an overactive imagination and no sense of logic. Everything is made up.
The next short novel, "Love Mix-Up," is looking for readers. Here's the blurb:
Su Ying takes bus 13 to school every day. In the morning, the bus is always crowded and packed.
By chance, someone gets off, and Su Ying seizes the opportunity to sit down, landing right on Chen Chuan's lap.
Su Ying blushes, while her classmates on the bus cheer and tease them.
Amid the commotion, Chen Chuan looks at Su Ying.
But Su Ying is looking at Chen Chuan's younger brother, Chen Xi.
Theme: Personal growth
The male protagonist should be replaced. The insult, contempt, and sarcasm towards the female protagonist in the early stage, and the indifference and ruthlessness of the female protagonist when she committed suicide are simply not worth it.
So how does the male protagonist treat the female protagonist? A bird in a cage? While being engaged to another woman, and then stimulating the heroine with another woman, you don't let the heroine go? Why are you so curious?
Thank you to heaven, thank you to earth, thank you for your hard work~
I don't know why I want to see the follow-up. Will there be a follow-up?
🌈🌈 Recommend my pre-collection article ~ "Spring" The cowardly and unyielding little white flower 1. When Chu Ya was 23 years old, she married an old man for money and had a four-year-old child. She thought she would only do this one outrageous thing in her life, until a few months later, the old man's illegitimate son came to her door. The man was blond and blue-eyed, sitting on the corner of the sofa, smoking cigarettes. The old man said: "This is your aunt." Du Jingxi glanced at her with a disdainful expression, almost looking at an ant. Chu Ya's body stiffened slightly, and she shrank and hid behind the old man. He sneered: "Is she even worthy?" 2. Du Jingxi hates herself, Chu Ya has always known it. She followed the rules and didn't dare to mess with him. Until that day, Chu Ya saw Du Jingxi changing her husband's medicine in the middle of the night. Du Jingxi smiled half-heartedly, grabbed Chu Ya, and stuffed the medicine into her hand. "Dear Aunt Chu, how could you do this to my father?" Chuya trembled all over, and Du Jingxi bit her earlobe. "Tell me, will he believe you or me?" Chuya didn't dare to gamble. 3. After working with Du Jingxi for a while, the old man found out. The night he found out, his energy and blood rushed to his heart, and his time had come. From then on, Du Jingxi became the master of the Xie family. Chu Ya saw countless wealthy families wanting to make friends with Du Jingxi. The funeral was like a wedding banquet, and he was in a moment of glory. The day after the funeral, Chuya escaped and was never heard from again. 4. At the wealthy banquet, countless ladies tried to gain Du Jingxi's favor and bring new opportunities to the family. Halfway through the banquet, Du Jingxi arrived belatedly with Chu Ya. The young master pointed at Chuya and asked, "Master Du, do you really regard this person as your elder?" Chuya remained silent. Du Jingxi put out the cigarette at the corner of his mouth and said, "What do you call elder? This is my fiancée." Everyone was in an uproar. "Here, how long has the old man been dead, and Du Jingxi is so rampant??" The day Du Jingxi found Chuya was a rainy day. Chuya saw him through the crack of the old door, with a beautiful smile and blood on the corner of his mouth, like a ghost. "Honey, where are you running away to?"
The author writes well!! Xiang Zhao is beautiful.
Now this cover is quite nice 🤩
The author's writing is very good, can't you read enough? Can you urge me to update more???
Looking forward to the torture of the male protagonist in the crematorium (quietly asking if the male protagonist really didn't love the female protagonist at all before) 😭
Does the male protagonist really not love the female protagonist? Damn it, he's so cruel that I want to cry⊙⊙The female protagonist must torture him, torture him hard, ah ah ah