After Going on a Dating Show with My Archrival

● A laid-back bottom who seems carefree but is devoted at heart x a cold in public, big-dog-energy workaholic top who is unexpectedly different in private

● Shao Yian (bottom) x Heng Qian (top)

Rising star Shao Yian's career just blew up.

The famous paparazzo "Captain" Lu Xiaochui uploaded a chat recording and video to a short-video platform. The audio had been doctored, but you could still vaguely hear the original voices. The video was so clear you could even make out the brands on their clothes. The huge word "Sugar Daddy" in the title made plenty of female fans turn against him. How could their sunny, handsome An'an be kept by some old geezer? If anyone was going to be someone's sugar baby, it should be someone on movie star Heng Qian's level!

Shao Yian, who had known about it "in advance," watched himself in the video and said to his assistant, "Tsk, this person's skills aren't great. They made my legs look so short."

Assistant: ...

Movie star Heng Qian frowned at the number-one trending topic. His assistant watched anxiously and hurried to explain, "I don't know what's going on with public opinion. Our new drama was still number one yesterday, but..."

Heng Qian didn't listen to him ramble. He closed the trending topic and questioned several people in a row. Their answers came quickly, resolving his doubts. He opened the trending topic again, looked at the "scapegoat" in the video, and said to his assistant, "I remember there was a dating show proposal a while back."

"Yes. You thought it was too childish at the time, so you turned it down..."

"Take it. On one condition: Shao Yian has to be one of the guests."

As the company's designated fall guy, Shao Yian had already prepared for all work to be suspended. Who could have expected a dating show to suddenly approach him, and pair him with a movie star? Most people would probably be over the moon, but Shao Yian didn't see it that way.

Heng Qian? His sworn enemy, a man who'd climbed to the top by selling his looks! He wasn't going on a variety show with him!

He remembered when they auditioned for the same role. He'd watched Heng Qian walk out of a hotel with an investor, looking quite intimate, and then Heng Qian was cast as the lead. Later, that same drama won him the White Rose Best Actor award. Shao Yian, meanwhile, didn't even get the third male lead. From then on, Shao Yian had regarded Heng Qian as a thorn in his side. What was even more infuriating was that everyone in the industry saw how hard Heng Qian worked. A few years later, he won the Best Actor award, too.

Shao Yian wanted to turn down the dating show without a second thought, but his manager had already agreed.

Fine, he'd do it. Who could turn down money?

But why had Heng Qian changed so much?

In front of the cameras, Heng Qian took meticulous care of Shao Yian, being incredibly considerate.

If Shao Yian was thirsty, water appeared at once, with the bottle cap already loosened.

If he was hungry, Heng Qian practically wanted to feed him himself.

The fans who had gone from fans to passersby, then from passersby to haters, all came back. The screen filled with comments saying, "May love last a thousand years, Yian and Qian!"

Fine, Shao Yian decided to treat it all as an act his sworn enemy was putting on for the cameras to boost ratings. But why was Heng Qian still acting this way after the show ended? He was even worse!

"Hey, Heng Qian, who said you could kiss me?"

"Who said you could get into my bed?"

2024.11.11

There will probably be more revisions later!

Theme: Love can be transformed into something mutual