My Ex Lured Me Into a Pit on a Dating Show

Blurb: Wenren Zou has dreamed countless times late at night about that woman, but she never expected to run into her ex-girlfriend Jiang Zhongyi, whom she hasn't seen in four years, on a dating show.

In the eyes of netizens, they're former bandmates who've fallen out completely, sworn enemies who never want to see each other again;

In the eyes of their fans, they're battlefield roses, whose solo stans fight bloody wars while their shippers have propelled them to the top of the rankings;

In the eyes of people who know them, they're exes who tore at each other until they were both battered and bruised, with a truly ugly ending.

Countless people are waiting to see whether this couple, with all their undeniable tension, will fight or pretend on the dating show.

Wenren Zou only sneers. She's already put all those intimate whispers beneath the silver moon, the Bach piano pieces that rang through the night, the acacia flowers held between their lips after flamenco dances, and the other leading lady, Jiang Zhongyi, completely out of her mind.

But on the show:

Jiang Zhongyi gives an interview, smiling with elegant poise. Wenren Zou appears cool and indifferent, but secretly clutches her chest, as though the acacia flower Jiang Zhongyi tossed her when they first met ten years ago has hit her right between the eyes all over again.

Jiang Zhongyi attends a banquet in a floor-length gown, dazzling everyone. Wenren Zou acts as though she couldn't care less, but keeps stealing glances while performing, causing her contact lens to slip and throwing off the rhythm of the signature piece she's played for half her life.

Jiang Zhongyi chooses someone else as her crush, and Wenren Zou is so furious she could go mad.

But when they return to their room, a pair of snow-white arms wrap around her neck. The fragrance between their lips and tongues leaves her reeling, and the woman's eyes pour out all their tender, lingering love for her.

"Don't be mad. I only love you."

The next morning, Jiang Zhongyi wakes as if nothing happened, still smiling and charming everyone around her.

Wenren Zou grits her teeth and swears that if she falls for Jiang Zhongyi one more time, she won't respect herself!

"Wenren Zou, Zoey, Zou..." Jiang Zhongyi calls from a distance.

"Coming!" Wenren Zou hurries over, drops to one knee, picks up the woman's high heel, and helps her put it on. "When are you going to agree to get back together with me?"

Jiang Zhongyi only smiles without answering.

The onlookers sigh. "Alas, she doesn't even know she's been played like a fish on a hook."

Thanks to their popularity as a couple, Jiang Zhongyi lands the female lead role in a new film by a renowned director.

Only then does Wenren Zou realize Jiang Zhongyi has been using her all along. Heartbroken, she returns to her hometown.

Meanwhile, Jiang Zhongyi wins an award for her new role and is riding high, ready to make her international debut, when a red wedding invitation arrives in front of her.

The tears falling onto the invitation look like blood shed by a prisoner being tortured to death.

Jiang Zhongyi calmly and resolutely wipes away her tears, then tells her manager to cancel all her work.

Her manager loses it. "Are you crazy? What are you going to do?"

Jiang Zhongyi replies hoarsely, "I'm going to crash the wedding."

Mixed-race, proud, delicate romantic × gentle, doting, flirtatious master of the chase

-------------------New completed novel-------------------

She's Alluring and Bewitching

My dear Qi Chi, I can't be your aunt, life mentor, artistic muse, most hated enemy, and sexiest lover all at once, even though I've already become all of those things. - Qu Lingyun

1. Huo Qichi is six years old, bullied at the orphanage, when she is luckily adopted by the Huo family, a famous family of directors, and becomes a much-admired third-generation star.

But the one who raises her isn't her adoptive mother, but her adoptive mother's unrequited love: Qu Lingyun, the song queen and an icon of the silver screen.

Huo Qichi is eighteen, shining like a star, with a limitless future ahead of her.

No one knows that every night she kneels beneath the skirt of the goddess no one in the entertainment industry would dare to dream of, making her lose herself in pleasure, her light-colored eyes full of an almost pathological willingness.

The moon hanging alone in the distant sky, so far out of reach, is being made scorching hot by her burning body temperature, melting into watery moonlight that runs over her palms.

"Aunt Yun, do you really love me?"

The woman's body is as passionate as a blooming white rose, but her eyes hold a thin-ice, nonchalant smile.

"No. I love your mother."

Huo Qichi smiles and kisses her more deeply. "Liar. If you really loved her, you would have accepted her proposal long ago."

But she never expected that Qu Lingyun was talking about her birth mother, who had long since passed away, not her adoptive mother.

Huo Qichi is nineteen, caught in a scandal and abandoned by everyone.

News of her infatuation with Qu Lingyun comes to light, and countless people curse her for defying convention and lusting after an elder. To quell the backlash, she's sent to Los Angeles, supposedly to study, but really to be exiled. And her beloved Qu Lingyun is wearing someone else's engagement ring.

In Los Angeles, a living hell, she meets the red rose of Sha Lun: Weida, a professor in the film directing department.

Weida looks remarkably like Qu Lingyun, but acts very differently. Gossips say she's playing "the stand-in for her beloved" in LA. Huo Qichi scoffs; she would never look for a replacement the way Qu Lingyun does.

Weida teaches her filmmaking and how to conduct herself, and stakes her entire fortune on Huo Qichi when she has nothing to her name.

Weida is like the city of Los Angeles: prosperous and lively, captivating and glamorous. Though she's notorious for her love affairs, she is truly someone Huo Qichi can entrust her life to: a confidante, a career partner, and a soulmate.

Huo Qichi is twenty-two and wins her first directing award with Weida's help.

That night, she confesses to Weida: "You're the best woman in the world to me, hundreds of times better than Qu Lingyun."

The woman, usually so skilled at teasing and seduction, melts into a puddle in Huo Qichi's hands.

As her clothes fall open, Huo Qichi stares at the cinnabar mole on the woman's chest, dazed.

"Why do you have the exact same cinnabar mole on your chest as Qu Lingyun?"

2. Qu Lingyun has told a colossal lie.

Defying all convention, she has traveled back and forth to Los Angeles countless times, disguising herself as Weida, a professor in the film directing department, all for the girl she loves.

Now she faces the most serious crisis of her life: How can she keep up her role as Weida when Qichi despises Qu Lingyun, while also enduring Qichi's advances?

She can fake anything else, but how can she fake her body's reactions? The moment Qichi touches her, she'll definitely give herself away.

Outwardly proud and narcissistic, like a daffodil; inwardly steady and ambitious. Younger woman.

Outwardly cool and elegant, like the moon in the heavens; inwardly seductive and bewitching, deceiving the world. Older woman.

Theme: The light of our ideals will always shine