Celebrating Our Rival’s Downfall

Xia Shu was happily watching his fans and those of his rival, Jiang Lian, tear into each other online. The two were rivals with similar popularity, but Xia Shu's reputation was far worse than Jiang Lian's. Most people lamented that he was wasting his beautiful voice on generic pop songs. More people still criticized him for being rich and yet choosing to make a quick buck this way. Xia Shu didn't care. His songs might be awful, but every one of them became a hit. Jiang Lian, meanwhile, was a thoroughly respectable musician, a violin prodigy recognized by all and a regular performer at the world's top concert halls. It was obvious Jiang Lian looked down on Xia Shu's lowbrow style, and Xia Shu's fans usually felt they were a cut below Jiang Lian's. But this time, Xia Shu was pleased to see his fans win by a hair. They dug up the story of Jiang Lian's college romance, where he was cruelly dumped and spent an entire night standing in the cold beneath his ex's apartment. The internet was stunned: 【Jiang Lian, that cold, seemingly heartless guy, has been in a relationship? Nooo, I won't allow it!】 【Who could make the great ice mountain so humble for love?】 【Who on earth was it? Is Jiang Lian so cold and closed off now because he was hurt too badly? Give us back our warm Jiang-ge!】 Meanwhile, over on Xia Shu's Weibo, the mood was celebratory. Xia Shu: “Hahaha, let's celebrate our rival's career imploding!” “I don't know what happened. I didn't do anything and he just imploded all on his own.” “Come get your rival-imploding luck here. Your rival can implode without any pain too.” After celebrating, Xia Shu switched to his alt account and replied to a comment calling Jiang Lian warm: “Warm, my ass. You have no idea how twisted that guy is!” “Who said anyone cruelly dumped him? Nobody even said it was a relationship. He was pretending to be pitiful, and you actually believed him?” Only after letting it all out did he realize something was wrong. Why were so many people replying to an account with only a few dozen followers? Then he looked up and nearly blacked out. He'd failed to switch accounts! Everyone online was stunned. 【??】 【You two, seriously...?】 【Are you saying you were the one who dumped my icy Jiang-ge and left him waiting downstairs all night?】 【Hahaha, celebrating already? If this is true, you're both in trouble!】 “Bonus scene” After nearly exposing himself by failing to switch accounts, Xia Shu scrambled to get ahead of the scandal. His studio posted a statement saying, “The account was hacked. Please don't believe the fake rumors.” To his surprise, Jiang Lian responded almost at the same time. He reposted Xia Shu's words, “Nobody even said it was a relationship,” and replied in a voice cold as frost: “Then who were you dating back then?” - Both leads are first-time lovers; the entertainment-industry setting is fictional 【Coming next】 Soft-Boned, please add it to your favorites~ Pei Zhaohan didn't like Wen Yu. It started when they were ten, at the orphanage. Wen Yu's deliberately pitiful gaze moved Pei Zhaohan's parents to choose him out of all the children to sponsor, then bring him home to the Pei family. Wen Yu was quiet, but it didn't take long for him to learn all of Pei Zhaohan's likes and dislikes. He brought him water at exactly the temperature he liked. At night, he made no sound at all, yet whenever Pei Zhaohan got up, he was ready to turn on the bedside lamp. Pei Zhaohan tested him in secret, sometimes acting so cruelly he nearly crossed the line. Wen Yu still kept his head down and accepted everything, as if nothing Pei Zhaohan did could ever anger him. Whether he was after the Pei family's wealth and influence or had some other agenda, Wen Yu was exactly the sort of spineless person Pei Zhaohan despised most. - Wen Yu had known since childhood that Pei Zhaohan was his whole world. The orphanage was falling into disrepair. When the older boy who had always protected him shared most of the food he'd managed to grab, Wen Yu saw the hideous wounds on his hands, hidden away after the struggle for food. So when the Pei family came to the orphanage looking for someone to keep their reclusive eldest son company, Wen Yu fought hard for the chance. He made a promise to his big brother: once his contract with the Pei family was over, he would take the money he'd earned and be with him forever. So Wen Yu put up with Pei Zhaohan, counting down the days on his fingers. But when the contract finally ended, he still couldn't get out. - Only then did Pei Zhaohan finally understand how strong Wen Yu's backbone was. For some man outside the family, he actually dared to risk his life by jumping from Pei Zhaohan's car to escape. - Both leads are first-time lovers. They are not registered under the same household, and there was no adoption, only a sponsorship relationship. - The top thinks he's already got his future bride lined up, but doesn't realize his wife has been counting down the days until she can leave and marry someone else. 【Coming soon】 How Did My Ex-Husband Get Reborn Too?! Back then, Jiang Zhi went to great lengths to marry Shen Wu for two reasons. First, he wanted to beat his younger brother in the fight over the family fortune, and the Shen family's standing made them a good match. Second, he had his own private reasons: Shen Wu was exactly his type, and Jiang Zhi really liked him. That's why he did something so stupid. Though Jiang Zhi resorted to a few tricks and succeeded in marrying Shen Wu, they remained distant throughout their marriage. Then one day, Jiang Zhi accidentally found photos of his younger brother that Shen Wu had secretly saved on his phone. Suddenly, Jiang Zhi felt it was all pointless. Was marrying someone who didn't love him, exhausting himself to hold together a failing company full of relatives with their own agendas, and sacrificing all his time and his life really what he wanted? The good news was, Heaven had given him another chance to choose. Jiang Zhi was reborn before the arranged marriage, back on the night his younger brother drugged him and planted a college guy in his bed to frame him. Last time, Jiang Zhi had played along, pretending to be out of his mind from the drugs, lured Shen Wu into the room, locked the door, and gotten straight to the point. This time, Jiang Zhi glanced at the handsome college guy his brother had carefully picked out for him, and found him pretty appealing. Maybe he could stop worrying about the nearly bankrupt company, reclaim his core formula, and enjoy a comfortable life with a little money, good food, and a handsome college guy by his side. That actually sounded pretty good. To be safe, and make sure his younger brother ended up stuck with that worthless company full of pitfalls, Jiang Zhi even swapped his brother's room card with Shen Wu's. Then he went back to his own room, ready to welcome his new life and handsome college guy. But as soon as he opened the door, he met Shen Wu's icy gaze. The bad news was: Shen Wu seemed to have been reborn too. Theme: Be brave and keep moving forward