Who Are You Dating Today? [Countryside]

Healing / food / rural life / ensemble cast / fierce romantic rivalry. Please add to your collections~

He Xi has a little bit of luck on her side.

She barely made the cutoff for a top-tier university, worked part-time as a tour guide in college, and casually started a travel agency. Business boomed, and she achieved financial independence at a young age!

She decides to bring this "good fortune" back to her hometown and turn its green hills and clear waters into mountains of gold and silver!

With marketing, livestream vegetable sales, smart agriculture, and distinctive rural tours, He Xi and her friends are thriving and having the time of their lives. Every family builds a new house and buys a new car, and they make so much money their hands cramp from counting it.

The village elders gather at the entrance to trade gossip:

"The other day I saw a tall fellow drive He Xi home in a red sports car. Oh my, what a fine-looking young man! His name was Wang... what was it?"

"Wang Yihuan? The one you're talking about is her brother! No chance, no chance!"

"They're not related by blood!"

"The other day, He Xi and Ye Kun took Ye Fang out for a day trip. Oh my, from a distance they looked just like a family. Ye Fang even started calling He Xi 'Mom'!"

"You must be hard of hearing. You heard wrong. Mr. Ye is mature and rich, sure, but he's got a kid in tow! Our He Xi isn't going to be anyone's stepmother! If you ask me, it has to be Shi Lei. They're old classmates, around the same age, and know each other inside out! Yesterday morning, Shi Lei came rushing out of the Four Seasons Courtyard, with his buttons all undone!"

Reader's guide:

1. There will be both romance and friendship, with a focus on the ensemble cast.

2. Mature men and women.

3. One-on-one romance.

4. The three male characters' screen time: Shi Lei > Ye Kun > Wang Yihuan.

5. The paywall starts at 40%. If you don't have enough subscription credits, you can read six hours after an update~

6. If you're here for the career storyline, I recommend jumping straight to Chapter 40.

My current work in progress, "Dark Intentions," has the following blurb:

[Love and hate / rekindled romance / the powerful one bows his head / showbiz]

Calculating, seductive actress X wolfish, scheming rich heir. Comments are open, so please add it to your collections!

Shen Sui has been bored lately and is looking for a bit of fun when he sees his younger brother's girlfriend, Zhou Yi, a quiet, timid, delicate little star, calmly pull the crossbar off a chair. When the man sits down and falls flat on his face, she reacts with just the right mix of confusion, alarm, and concern. The man flies into a rage and raises his hand to hit her, but she nimbly dodges, leaving his foolish younger brother to take the slap instead.

Shen Sui thinks that getting his hands on a menace like her would be doing the world a favor.

Things have been going smoothly for Zhou Yi lately. She's won awards, risen in status, and gotten more screen time. Her career is taking off.

Until she meets Shen Sui.

He wants to play a game of cat and mouse with her?

What a coincidence.

In Zhou Yi's eyes, Shen Sui is the fat, arrogant, self-important mouse.

#If you had one chance, what moment would you most want to return to?#

Shen Sui: "Can I only choose one moment? The time I threatened her, the time I disrespected her, the time I made her sad. Damn it, how could I have been such a jerk? I want to go back to every one of those moments, kiss her, hold her, apologize, and ask her to forgive me."

Zhou Yi: "Can we go back a little further? Say... to when Shen Sui was still a fertilized egg. It would be easier to get rid of him then."

Theme: Building up the countryside! Count me in!