Hey, Aren’t I Just a Substitute?

(The whole story only costs 1.25 yuan, and you’ll get a sweet little treat!) [Rising star, green-tea, jealous top × emotionally stable, good-tempered patron bottom] “Have you never heard that your ex is dead to you?” Qiu Juesheng has been acting diligently for years, but his opportunities are average. After chasing his dream in the entertainment industry for ages, he’s still an obscure nobody. His agent has tried to convince him that without connections, it’s impossible to get anywhere in this business, and he should hurry up and find a patron. Qiu Juesheng: I’ll sell my talent, not my body. Then, at a banquet, he meets the wealthy patron Ruan Ke, who happens to be exactly his type. He’s heard that Ruan Ke invested in this film to find a pretty face to keep, so he makes the first move. Putting on a shameless smile, Qiu Juesheng says, “President Ruan, I’m young and gorgeous. How about keeping me?” Ruan Ke looks him over for a moment. “Sure.” But Ruan Ke is so self-disciplined that he never once makes Qiu Juesheng perform any bedroom duties. The opportunities he gives him are far better than the industry standard for kept lovers. His patron has only one request: live and eat with him, and act as a stand-in for his white moonlight. They only signed a one-year arrangement. Having already kicked his ex to the curb and successfully claimed his place, the stand-in clings pitifully to his patron’s waist, drawing out his words as though he’s acting coy. “President Ruan, could we add one more condition to the contract this time?” “Weren’t you the one who said we weren’t doing the kept-lover thing anymore?” Ruan Ke plays along. “What do you want to add?” Qiu Juesheng grins, his little canine teeth showing, and traces circles on Ruan Ke’s body with a finger. “The patron has to come home and sleep with his little lover every day.” Ruan Ke neither agrees nor refuses. He simply says, “Then I’ll add a condition too.” “My puppy has to like me every day, and have eyes only for me.” *Fake stand-in story. The top looks a bit like the bottom’s ex, but the bottom never intended to treat him as a replacement. *In front of the bottom, the top is a super-wronged green-tea puppy, the best at playing the victim, but he’s not a weak top. *A funny, sweet story, quite short, around 100,000 words. Just read it for fun. *Leave a comment and you’ll get a line of “President, dinner is served” (who would want that?!)(Except for chapter comments, okay? Let’s play outside the story, shy.jpg)(The “president” means the author, not a character in the book, orz.) The next book will be "Raised by My Archenemy After I Turned into a Goose", a cute pet story with a top-focused romance. Presidents, please add it to your reading lists! Blurb: Blurb: Jiao Wu turns into a goose, the kind used in ring toss games, doomed to be slaughtered. The good news is that he looks so dumb as a goose that no one wants to toss a ring around him. They’re afraid eating him might lower their IQ. The bad news is that when someone throws a ring at the goose beside him, he can’t help dodging. Rare things are precious, so everyone starts trying to ring him like crazy. To avoid ending up on someone’s dinner plate, Jiao Wu frantically whips his head around and dodges ring after ring. Just as the stall is about to close, Jiao Wu spots a familiar figure in the crowd. It’s his archenemy, and also the object of his ambiguous affections. Distracted for a moment, he gets caught. Jiao Wu is tossed into a cage and cries, “I’m doomed!” but all that comes out is honk, honk, honk. He doesn’t want to be eaten. As the cage passes Fu Yan, he comes up with a brilliant idea, sticks his head out, and bites Fu Yan on the leg! Young Master Fu’s face immediately darkens. He stares down the goose for a moment, then suddenly smiles and asks the person who won it, “Are you selling this goose? I’ll pay ten times the market price.” It dares to bite him? He’ll teach this stupid goose, who doesn’t know its place, a lesson! * Young Master Fu is all bark and no bite. On the goose’s first day at home, he threatens to stew it sooner or later. On the second day, he asks the servants to buy imported goose feed and snacks. On the third day, he orders a bunch of custom-made pet clothes and dresses the goose up beautifully. As his pampering grows day by day, Fu Yan holds the big goose, which has gained five pounds, and decides it needs a name. For reasons he can’t admit, he says, “How about I call you Jiao Wu?” Jiao Wu has been chewing grass, but at that, he pauses and looks at Fu Yan in disbelief. What? What does this guy mean by that?! * The way to turn back into a person is to hear someone call your real name fifty-two times while you’re a goose. Jiao Wu finds it unbelievable. The only person in the whole world who might call a goose by a human name is Fu Yan. When he thinks about it that way, it feels like fate. He keeps count, looking forward to his archenemy rescuing him from this predicament. But Fu Yan suddenly starts calling him “Little Wu.” Just as Jiao Wu is racking his brains to make Fu Yan call him by his real name, Fu Yan gets into trouble. Jiao Wu’s underlings corner Fu Yan on his way home from school and demand to know if he’s done something to Jiao Wu. Before Fu Yan can answer, a snowy-white figure leaps out. The goose spreads its wings and stands fiercely in front of Fu Yan. If anyone dares touch him, it’ll peck them. Just as the underlings are about to beat up a goose, Fu Yan panics and shouts, “Little Wu, Little Wu! Come back!” Jiao Wu, who hasn’t been in a fight for a while, pays no attention. Then he suddenly hears his full name: “Jiao Wu! Get back here!” The task is completed so suddenly that Jiao Wu turns back into a human. Everyone present is stunned. After a long moment, one clueless underling stammers, “Boss, were you... being a goose for your archenemy?” Theme: Be confident and love yourself