After Secretly Marrying My Top-Tier Star Archrival, We Joined a Dating Show

[New novel now available: Your Boyfriend Is Really Great]

Song Mian is a nobody in the entertainment industry, only at the eighteenth tier. Yet thanks to his stunning looks, his fans and the fans of movie star Xie Yi are locked in a vicious battle.

The two are well-known rivals in the entertainment industry, at least when it comes to looks.

But no one knows they secretly got married two years ago, in a marriage of convenience.

Then the two are photographed walking arm in arm into the same villa, and neither of them comes out all night.

They didn't come out all night!!!

So the next day, the trending searches explode.

#SongMianAndXieYiMeetSecretlyAllNight

#SongMianAndXieYiAreTogether

Their fans deny it with all their might: Impossible! Absolutely impossible!

Then they see Song Mian and Xie Yi about to appear on a romance reality show that was a huge hit last year.

A Romantic Journey: Welcome Song Mian and Xie Yi to the romance show A Romantic Journey! Let's travel together and make wonderful memories!

The fans: Impossible. This must be fake. How could our idol appear on a romance show with his rival?

Song Mian V: My boyfriend @Xie Yi.

Xie Yi V: My boyfriend @Song Mian.

The fans: Fake. It has to be fake!

The romance show begins.

Song Mian and Xie Yi politely shake hands, both wearing expressions that say, "We don't know each other."

The other three couples can barely keep their hands off each other. These two, meanwhile, hurriedly pull away even when their fingertips touch, turning their heads so they don't have to look at each other.

Both sets of fans: Look how much they hate each other.

After the two fail a game, Song Mian is supposed to be punished with a bucket of water. Xie Yi instinctively shields him.

Xie Yi's fans: Can't be helped. Brother Xie is just that kindhearted.

Song Mian's fans: Sure, Xie Yi, you just have to pretend to be nice. Also, where are your hands?!!! Get your hand off Mianmian's waist!

During the show's run, the two who seem to love and hate each other unexpectedly gain a huge number of fans shipping them as a couple. When the show ends, their fans wail that the pair will never reunite.

Later, Song Mian appears on a program where he has to call the first person in his call history.

Song Mian immediately takes out his phone with a cool expression. The audience sees that the first name in his call history is [Little Peacock].

The host jokes, "Haha, is that the nickname of a child in your family, Song Mian?"

As soon as he finishes speaking, a lazy, pleasant voice comes through the phone. "Mianmian, I was just about to tell you. Mom wants the two of us to come home for dinner."

Song Mian remains calm. "Oh."

The smile freezes on the host's face. "Haha, isn't that Xie Yi's voice?"

The trending searches explode that very day.

#XieYiIsLittlePeacock

#SongMianAndXieYiHaveTheSameMom

Soon, Song Mian and Xie Yi post on Weibo: Married for two years. [Marriage certificate]

Both sets of fans and the shippers: Fine, fine. So all that pretending not to know each other and acting cold was your idea of foreplay?

Showy little peacock, childish younger top ★ laid-back, cool, and slow-to-catch-on bottom

They've been secretly in love with each other from the start, but neither knows the other feels the same.

As always, a childish puppy-love romance. Super sweet!!!

The next book I'll start is Your Boyfriend Is Really Great.

Wen Yanzhan is an orphan. He has a childhood friend, Xie Yu, who grew up with him in the orphanage.

But Xie Yu isn't an orphan. He is the illegitimate son of the current head of the Xie family. After his mother dies, the Xie family wants nothing to do with him.

So he is sent to an orphanage.

The two of them struggle through life and grow up together. During the hardest years of their youth, Xie Yu grits his teeth and tells Wen Yanzhan, "A-Zhan, I swear I'll return to the Xie family. We'll never go hungry again."

They got together in their second year of high school, and this is their sixth year as a couple. As Xie Yu tries to return to the Xie family, a young master from the wealthy Song family, Song Shiji, enters his life.

Xie Yu is attentive to him in every way.

The young master even asks innocently, "Brother Yanzhan, you won't be angry, will you? Brother Xie Yu and I are just friends."

Xie Yu watches the young master tenderly. "A-Zhan isn't that petty."

Wen Yanzhan smiles. "Of course I don't mind."

In private, Xie Yu apologizes guiltily to Wen Yanzhan. "A-Zhan, I'm sorry. Once I use him to reclaim my place in the Xie family, I won't need to suck up to him anymore."

"Please try to understand."

Wen Yanzhan smiles again. "All right."

Xie Yu breathes a sigh of relief and looks at Wen Yanzhan gratefully. "I knew you'd understand. You'll always be by my side."

"I only love you."

Wen Yanzhan smiles gently, thinking indifferently: What a pity. I don't love you.

*

Xie Zhixian comes from a wealthy family and is exceptionally handsome. Whatever he sets his mind to, he can do better than anyone.

But no one can have everything go their way forever.

In high school, he secretly loved a stammering boy who was always curled up in a corner. Just as he was about to confess, the boy got together with someone else.

So Xie Zhixian went abroad to heal his broken heart.

Six years later, just as he returns to take over the family business, he learns that the old man at home not only has an illegitimate son his age, but also intends to acknowledge him as a member of the family.

Xie Zhixian discovers that the illegitimate son is trying to court Song Shiji to build up his influence and seize shares. He also learns that his unrequited love and the illegitimate son have been childhood friends, and that they got together the year he went abroad.

Xie Zhixian laughs in anger.

But when he sees a photo of the illegitimate son kissing Song Shiji, he taps it and says, "Idiot. If you don't know how to treasure what you have, don't blame someone else for taking it."

*

While his boyfriend is getting hot and heavy with someone else, Wen Yanzhan reunites at a party with the person he loved from afar in his youth, Xie Zhixian.

From a corner, he watches Xie Zhixian surrounded by admirers, and sees the weariness beneath his polished smile.

Just as before, he only watches quietly.

He thinks they are nothing more than passing acquaintances, but then Xie Zhixian starts investing in the dramas he acts in and showing up on the variety shows he joins. He even moves into the apartment next door.

Not long after Xie Zhixian moves in, Wen Yanzhan sees Xie Yu and Song Shiji kissing, and calmly asks Xie Yu to break up.

Later, when Xie Zhixian confesses to him, Wen Yanzhan ties his shoulder-length hair into a low ponytail. He tilts his head, his beautiful eyes perfectly calm. "We can date, but we can't go public."

Xie Zhixian looks at him sitting beneath the lights and thinks for a moment. "Then let's be together in secret for now. When you're ready to go public, we will."

So when Xie Yu has no choice but to marry Song Shiji for the sake of the Xie family shares, he thinks: This is only temporary. A-Zhan broke up with me because he was too hurt. If I just swallow my pride, he'll definitely forgive me.

But then, beneath Wen Yanzhan's apartment building, he sees the man he envies, the young master Xie Zhixian, surrounded by admirers. Xie Zhixian is gently cupping Wen Yanzhan's face and tenderly kissing his forehead.

Xie Yu feels as if he must be dreaming. Are Xie Zhixian and Wen Yanzhan together? How could someone like Xie Zhixian fall for Wen Yanzhan?

Does Wen Yanzhan not want him anymore?

A beautiful bottom with psychological issues x a fiercely competitive, deeply loving top, a favored child of heaven with flexible morals

1. A melodramatic story.

2. Wen Yanzhan never loved Xie Yu. He got together with Xie Yu because of his psychological issues. He needs someone beside him to prove that he existed, someone who cares about him and remembers him.

3. Xie Yu loves Wen Yanzhan, but he loves himself more. Later, he truly betrays their relationship.

Theme: Where there's a will, there's a way.