The Top-Tier Star's Seventeenth-Tier Girlfriend

[My new novel, Heartbeat in Disguise, is currently updating. Add it to your collection if you're interested~]

An obscure nobody who shamelessly makes a scene x a sharp-tongued, delicate top-tier star

Three years into the industry, Sheng Yi is still a permanent fixture among the nobodies in the eighteenth tier.

One candid shot sends her straight onto the trending list with top-tier star Wen Shili.

Without spending a cent on publicity, she successfully crosses the threshold into the seventeenth tier. Sheng Yi watches the balance in her account keep growing. "Hehe, finally, this windfall has come my way."

As the top-tier star's rumored girlfriend, Sheng Yi holds herself to the highest standards. She immediately gets rid of anything matching Wen Shili's, and makes sure to avoid wherever he is.

Everyone: "Sure, as long as you know your place."

Sheng Yi: "Could it be that I simply can't get invited to the events he attends?"

But sooner or later, she'll slip up.

One day, the two run into each other backstage.

The man's gaze is deep, and she can't make out the turbulent emotions in his eyes. Sheng Yi clutches the ticket she scrounged up and forces an awkward smile under everyone's appraising stares. "Teacher Wen, I didn't expect you to be here too."

Wen Shili furrows his brow. "...May I ask who you are?"

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Wen Shili has had everything go his way since childhood, and became a huge star as soon as he debuted. It was only after meeting Sheng Yi that he realized his smooth past had been paving the way for the rough road ahead.

When they first met, he actually had a pretty good impression of Sheng Yi. But a series of things she did afterward showed him just how awful she was. So later, when rumors spread throughout the industry that they were together, Wen Shili frowned and dodged the hand she reached out to him.

Back then, he could never have imagined that one day he'd pin the girl into a corner of the bed, clutching her hand and pleading again and again, "Can you only rub against me?"

Coming soon: The Actress Doesn't Want to Act Anymore. Please add it to your collection~

Blurb:

One-sided love from the male lead / younger man / a battlefield of romantic rivals / female lead is not a virgin, male lead is

She debuted at eighteen and won one award after another at nineteen. Everyone said Ge Manqing had a bright future ahead of her.

Unfortunately, she was a hopeless romantic.

At the height of her career, she married without hesitation. Just as her kept husband was finally making strides in his career, photos of her spending the night with male models flooded the internet.

When news of the divorce broke, even the onlookers couldn't help sighing. "She took a winning hand and played it terribly."

Only her fans celebrated without pause. "Give my girl good scripts and a great crew, all of them!"

But then... one rumored love interest after another showed up first.

In the bizarre world of show business, He Chi really was an oddity.

No kissing scenes. No business trips. He even kept the top button of his shirt buttoned, neat as could be.

He was undeniably handsome, and cold to the point of being almost old-fashioned.

And yet, at the height of his fame, he boarded Ge Manqing's pirate ship without looking back.

Some people even made private bets. "Guess how long our girl will stick with this one?"

He Chi heard them and answered matter-of-factly for the cameras. "That's up to her."

No one knew that the night she got divorced, he lay awake until dawn.

Bonus scene:

At an awards ceremony,

Ge Manqing unexpectedly runs into her ex-husband.

They don't even exchange a word, but the hashtag "getting back together" stays online all night, making He Chi so angry he nearly falls over. "Do they think I'm dead?"

Ge Manqing: "..."

The sulking man immediately changes his expression. "Sis, if you have me, you can't have anyone else."

Theme: There are no what-ifs. Love blooms and bears fruit in the real world