Top-Tier

[The neighboring story, Non-Typical Marriage Alliance, is now underway: a story about a resilient, clear-headed media mogul x a cool, refined business tycoon.]

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---Blurb:

Zhan Li has two childhood friends.

One is a top-tier star in the music scene, and the other is a well-known esports player.

Meanwhile, she keeps a low profile in the entertainment industry, hiding the secrets of her girlish heart. That is, until a gossip account leaks a set of photos and their relationship becomes public knowledge.

Qi Yixiao rose to fame at a young age, wild and flamboyant. He personally steps in to clap back at her antis and handpicks her to star in his music video.

Everyone says Qi Yixiao blatantly favors Zhan Li. But Zhan Li knows that the intimacy between them has nothing to do with love.

For sixteen years, her life revolved around Qi Yixiao. After testing the waters twice and waking from her dream in an instant, she finally learns what it means to be trapped by her own feelings.

Zhan Li decisively walks away. Without hesitation, she blocks him and cuts Qi Yixiao out of her life.

Only when she turns around does she realize someone has been watching her all along.

At last, she understands: of her two childhood friends, she may never have treated them equally.

/

Deng Jingmo has a secret he keeps in his heart.

He used to be terribly, terribly jealous of Qi Yixiao.

He envied Qi Yixiao for being able to walk alongside Zhan Li, while he could only play the part of the unruffled third person, silently watching from behind.

In outsiders' eyes, the three of them are childhood friends who grew up together.

But Deng Jingmo knows that all of Zhan Li's girlish feelings have to do with Qi Yixiao.

Zhan Li says he is always composed and reserved, but Deng Jingmo knows he is crazier inside than anyone.

The day Zhan Li and Qi Yixiao fell out, Deng Jingmo made an unprecedented post on his social media:

"The moon is coming to me."

Since Qi Yixiao was the one who pushed her away, Deng Jingmo will make sure the shattered mirror breaks into even smaller pieces.

A second chance after a breakup? Not a chance.

He wants the moon to belong to him alone, shining on him and no one else.

/

Qi Yixiao notices Zhan Li growing distant and sees her frequently coming and going with Deng Jingmo.

Deng Jingmo has taken his place, and he has become the third person who can't get a word in.

Qi Yixiao has always been slow to recognize his feelings. Now, at last, he loses control and demands an explanation.

He thought Zhan Li would never leave, and that being childhood friends would keep her by his side forever.

But Deng Jingmo smiles and says, "I'm her childhood friend too, you know."

[Non-Typical Marriage Alliance launches in March~]

Blurb:

1

A family-arranged marriage gives Xu Tingsong a fiance she has never met.

She hears he is cool and refined, notorious on Wall Street. He has returned to China solely to honor the marriage promise made by their elders.

The public's verdict on the match: a typical arranged marriage, with no love involved.

Before meeting Jin Yanzhi, Xu Tingsong thought so too.

But on the day of their engagement, a famous actress suddenly barges in.

She claims to be the real daughter, and insists that she, naturally, should be the one to marry into the Jin family.

A high-profile engagement turns into a melodramatic spectacle, and everyone watches for the fun of it.

They wait to see how Xu Tingsong, once a dazzling jewel, will fall to rock bottom and make a fool of herself.

She stays calm, turns slightly, and says to Jin Yanzhi beside her:

"Help me."

Jin Yanzhi glances at Xu Tingsong, his gaze lingering almost imperceptibly on her slender waist.

He knows there's a tattoo there, one he personally designed back then.

In front of everyone, he fixes the hair hanging beside Xu Tingsong's ear.

His fingertips brush her earlobe, rubbing it once with an ambiguous touch, and he leans close to whisper:

"You never think of me unless you're in trouble."

2

Xu Tingsong owed a debt three years ago.

She was the one who started things and then walked away, and the person she did it to was Jin Yanzhi.

Back then, he had yet to return to the Jin family and was a poor student working his way through school.

She had gone abroad without her family's knowledge, and they cut off all her cards.

In a foreign country, she was on the verge of sleeping on the street.

Amid the crowd, she grabbed Jin Yanzhi, who had just finished his part-time job.

"Can you help me?"

Later, one morning.

She left behind a bank card and boarded a flight back to China without even saying goodbye.

Xu Tingsong thought their connection had ended there.

Until she saw a familiar face at the engagement banquet.

Jin Yanzhi had shed his boyish air. With the sharpness of a man in power, he fixed his gaze on her, inch by inch.

3

After their engagement, Jin Yanzhi only calls her by name or "Miss Xu" in public.

Xu Tingsong is busy with her company and dealing with the "younger sister" her parents have forced on her. When she hears how he addresses her, her expression barely changes.

She thinks: This is fine. A typical arranged marriage, with no love involved.

Until one day, in a torrential downpour, she is forced to return to the Xu family home. Just as they are giving her a hard time, someone lays a hand on her shoulder.

Jin Yanzhi is dressed in a black suit that radiates menace, having just stepped away from a business battle.

He takes Xu Tingsong's hand and says only two things.

"Would you mind if I called you something else?"

"Mrs. Jin."

Theme: Face life head-on and keep moving forward