It's Hard to Be a Substitute

Gong with a replacement-lover plotline x shou with a marriage-first, love-later plotline

Pitiful long-haired beauty x scheming, fatherly CEO

The first time they met, Su Yimian was so drunk that he accidentally ended up in Rong Yu's bed. The next morning, Rong Yu handed him an agreement, and the two became contract husbands.

Rong Yu paid, Su Yimian did the job. Even after learning he'd been taken for a substitute, Su Yimian felt nothing. A substitute was fine as long as he got paid.

Su Yimian treated Rong Yu like his boss and played the replacement-lover to a T

When his boss attended a party, he dressed up so beautifully that he outshone everyone, making sure not to embarrass him.

When his boss worked late and came home, he had a midnight snack ready so his boss's stomach wouldn't suffer.

When his boss went home to see his elders, he instantly became a thoughtful little wife, calling him “hubby” at every opportunity to show how loving they were.

Even in bed, when his boss said he wanted to see him cry, Su Yimian didn't hesitate to pretend... Ah, the crying part wasn't pretend.

Their agreement was for three years. As the term was about to end, Rong Yu's true love returned from overseas. By then, Su Yimian had saved enough money, and with a heart full of gratitude and good wishes, he prepared to say goodbye to his boss and start a new life.

But...

Could someone tell him...

They'd agreed to go their separate ways after three years, so why had Rong Yu suddenly changed his mind? His true love was standing right there, so why was he kissing Su Yimian in front of him?

Reader's guide:

1. The replacement-lover situation is a misunderstanding. The shou has no white moonlight.

2. Weak gong, strong shou, in every way. ovo

3. One-on-one romance, happy ending.

[Coming soon]

"Hey, Don't Cry"

- Why are you such a crybaby?

- If you cry again, I'll kiss you.

Clingy, spoiled crybaby x cold, aloof, secretly flirtatious tough guy

1.

Yun Zhi moved with his remarried mother into a little house in a villa compound in Nancheng. Next door lived a guy who lived alone, Shen Huaijin. He looked fierce and like someone you shouldn't mess with.

One afternoon, Yun Zhi climbed a ladder to pick wild fruit from a tree. Over the wall, he saw Shen Huaijin sitting in his yard, looking up at him.

Nervous under his gaze, Yun Zhi stammered when he said hello, and his eyes turned red.

Shen Huaijin merely glanced at him and said nothing.

2.

The next time Yun Zhi spoke to Shen Huaijin was on a stormy day.

He'd forgotten his keys, and soaked through, he huddled under the narrow eaves of the villa to shelter from the rain.

The cold rain had left him feverish. As his consciousness grew hazy, Yun Zhi heard a door open. Then a broad umbrella appeared overhead, shielding him from the rain, and a cool, expressionless voice spoke beside him. “Come inside.”

Yun Zhi looked up into Shen Huaijin's dark eyes. When he thanked him, his voice was muffled, as though he were crying. “...Thank you.”

3.

Whenever Yun Zhi saw Shen Huaijin, he had a cold expression. Yun Zhi assumed the other boy disliked him. So when he learned that Shen Huaijin was the new classmate assigned to the perpetually empty seat beside him, he proactively asked the teacher to move him somewhere else, not wanting to be a nuisance.

That evening, after asking the teacher to change his seat, Yun Zhi was stopped at the door by Shen Huaijin when he got home.

“You don't want to sit with me?”

Shen Huaijin seemed angry. His cool features darkened, making him look even fiercer than usual.

“Yun Zhi, who do you want to sit with?”

“Hmm?”

-

Shen Huaijin had left the Shen family in the capital for the remote city of Nancheng. He was only staying briefly and didn't care about anything around him, until

A pretty, pale-skinned boy who cried all the time moved in next door, and somehow kept making his heart race.

Whenever the boy looked at him with those almond-shaped eyes, often tinged red, Shen Huaijin felt like he was about to cry.

He cried so much that Shen Huaijin just wanted to shut him up with a kiss.

Theme: Everything should be done to perfection.