The Most Hated Guest Enters a Dating Show and Sparks a Love Triangle

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Han Rong was once universally despised and blacklisted across the internet. After lying low for a long time, fortune suddenly fell into his lap: the hottest travel dating show invited him to join the cast.

Eager to watch the drama unfold in person, Han Rong agreed.

But on the very first day, he found himself in a living hell: someone in the group chat was an old acquaintance!

Seeing the contact name, "That Idiot Who Sells Tea," Han Rong nearly died on the spot.

How could his former online boyfriend, the tea-selling scammer, be here?!

He looked around at the cast. Every single one of them seemed suspicious.

Before he could react, another stroke of luck fell into his lap.

Leng Lie, the show's biggest draw, a multiple-award-winning Best Actor who would have to go home and inherit a trillion-yuan tea estate if he didn't win an acting award, asked him on a date.

Following the show's instructions, he calmly asked, "What's the most memorable gift you've ever received?"

Leng Lie's face darkened, his eyes turned cold, and his voice chilled: "For my eighteenth birthday, my first love gave me a box of giant cockroaches."

Han Rong: "?!"

Was "That Idiot Who Sells Tea" actually Leng Lie?!

Help! My knees are getting weak...

After finally sorting out his old romance, Han Rong was ready to kick back, enjoy the show, and make money by shipping couples. But the chaotic love triangle came for him again:

An international model with blond hair and blue eyes affectionately calls him "big brother," yet uses bitter, lovesick prose to express his feelings for him.

A wild and unruly silver-haired singing sensation treats everyone with icy disdain, but is exceptionally gentle and considerate when they go on a date.

The aloof, domineering, multiple-award-winning Best Actor is indifferent to the whole world, yet always looks after him and dotes on him...

Han Rong: What have I done to deserve this, dear heavens?! Why not just have three horses tear me apart!

Whoever wants this lucky break can have it. He just wants to get away from this hellish love triangle!!!

A guide to the story:

※ Unpredictable bottom x aloof, domineering Best Actor top

※ A sweet, mutually doting 1v1 romance, possibly a little silly

※ An original setting and parallel world, where men can marry and join dating shows

※ No real-life inspirations. Please, please don't associate the characters with real people

※ The author's notes include bonus scenes for extra fun

※ Live comments are open with no restrictions. Use them to send comments as you read

★★★★★★★★

--- "The Substitute Bottom Goes on a Killing Spree" ---

My name is Gao Xin, and I'm a disposable substitute in a melodramatic novel.

Because I resembled the protagonist bottom, my adoptive father sold me to the protagonist top, Chen Xueli.

For two whole years, Chen Xueli wantonly humiliated and abused me.

When he was happy, I was his unattainable first love.

When he was furious, I was his punching bag.

Only after the protagonist bottom, Zhu Ruichen, accepted his confession did Chen Xueli decide to let me go.

But in the author's story, I fell in love with Chen Xueli because of Stockholm syndrome.

To stay by his side, I turned down money and status, going from substitute to secret lover, spending every day waiting for a man whose heart and eyes belonged only to Zhu Ruichen.

Think that's the ending?

It gets even worse.

Zhu Ruichen had a congenital heart condition and panda blood.

When he was in critical condition, Chen Xueli discovered that we had the same blood type and forced me to give up my heart.

The kindhearted Zhu Ruichen pretended he knew nothing about it.

The cold operating table became my final resting place.

Meanwhile, the two of them got their happy ending and grew old together.

Why should I?!

One second before signing the substitute contract, I awakened.

Everyone who ever hurt me will pay a terrible price!

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Chen Xueli was desperately in love with Gao Xin and willing to do anything for him, only to learn that Gao Xin had a boyfriend.

Heartbroken, he got drunk in the middle of the night and decided to steal him away.

He knocked on Gao Xin's door, holding a bouquet and gazing at him tenderly. "Xin Xin, marry, "

Before he could finish, Gong Zhengning stepped to the door and shielded Gao Xin.

Water dripped from his hair onto his bathrobe. His dark eyes were bone-chillingly cold as he demanded, displeased, "Is that how you address your elders?"

Chen Xueli sobered up in an instant. "U-Uncle?! W-What are you doing here?"

-

As the head of the Gong Group, Gong Zhengning was an untouchable top-tier power player.

He knew Gao Xin had approached him with ulterior motives, yet he remained clearheaded as he fell deeper and deeper...

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Douzhi's friendly reminder:

※ Beautiful bottom who always gets even x clearheaded yet hopelessly devoted CEO top

※ 1v1, both are virgins, and they dote on each other

※ Eleven-year age gap: bottom is 18, top is 29

※ Gong and Chen are uncle and nephew. The reason they have different surnames is explained in the story

※ Third-person narration

※ Original setting, where same-sex marriage is legal

Theme: People in love will never miss each other