After Joining a Dating Show with My Ex

About this novel: [Complete] After an ugly scandal broke, award-winning actor Qin Liao suddenly went public with his relationship. His partner was his first love, whom he had dated for six years. Jiang Qiqiao: That’s not what you said when you dumped me six years ago. A video of actor Qin Liao sexually harassing a female costar was suddenly leaked, setting the internet ablaze that night. Qin Liao’s reputation was ruined, all his endorsements vanished, and even the production he was filming had to be put on hold. After several rounds of strategizing, Qin Liao’s manager came up with a way to turn things around. He planned to clean up Qin Liao’s image by presenting him as gay, and the best person for the role was Jiang Qiqiao, whom Qin Liao had dumped six years ago. The manager planned to have Qin Liao make his relationship with a man public, then take Jiang Qiqiao onto a hugely popular dating show. Jiang Qiqiao: Thanks for asking. No, thanks. Jiang Qiqiao, after seeing the show fee and hush money: We’re old classmates. Why make this about money? Internet users seeing Qin Liao’s relationship news at first: It’s all fake. I’d sooner believe I was Qin Shi Huang than believe those two are together. Qin Liao was an arrogant, sleazy harassment scandal magnet. Jiang Qiqiao was a vain, money-grubbing influencer with a fake, surgically altered face. Qin Liao slapped him once. Jiang Qiqiao slapped him twice. When an old livestream clip of Jiang Qiqiao’s surfaced, people realized that these two jerks really might have dated. “My first love.” Jiang Qiqiao spoke without expression as he vigorously patted foundation onto his face. “He’s been dead for ages.” “He said he was going to buy me a croquette. He crossed the little bridge and never came back. Maybe he drowned.” At the same time, an episode of the dating show aired Qin Liao’s interview. He said Jiang Qiqiao’s favorite food was croquettes, and that he used to buy them for him all the time. Internet users: The face looks real, and so does the fact that they dated. Vain, airheaded beauty who’s head over heels for him, top x taciturn, secretly ruthless, devoted bottom Both each other’s first love; one-on-one; in body and heart, they have only each other. Jiang Qiqiao is the top. Jiang Qiqiao is the top. Jiang Qiqiao is the top. Important things must be said three times. Notes: 1. Neither the top nor the bottom is perfect. They’ve both sacrificed and lost a lot for each other, but they love each other to bits. 2. They get back together after breaking up, and there are misunderstandings between them. The story starts from the top’s perspective, so you might think the bottom is heartless at first, but he really loves him so much. 3. The top cross-dresses, so expect long hair and makeup. Internet users may call him “wife” or “beauty.” There will be some forum-style sections, so fans may post comments, but there’s no malice intended. 4. They dote on each other. Fans who are possessive about their favorite character will be in for a shock. 5. Please don’t leave comments attacking the characters or the author in an extreme way. Coming soon: One-line summary: After loving Mu Ye for many years, Lin Jiqing finally decides to give up. When Mu Ye was very young, he realized that he didn’t exist in the real world, but in a fictional book. In that book, he was a minor extra, a nasty, rotten person destined to be cannon fodder. Lin Jiqing, the male lead who was engaged to him, had secretly loved him for years. But Mu Ye had never cherished his feelings, treating his affection as something to brag about. After seeing Mu Ye walk into the same hotel room as someone else, Lin Jiqing finally lost hope and decided to give up on their relationship. They called off their engagement, and the Mu family soon went bankrupt and collapsed due to poor management. Mu Ye was so stubborn and incorrigible that he even tried to harm his adoptive parents’ biological son. At last, his kind parents could take no more. After sending him to prison, they took their son and moved far away to escape the place that had brought them so much pain. Lin Jiqing later met someone who truly understood and loved him. The story ended with Lin Jiqing and his partner holding a grand, romantic wedding. Mu Ye, meanwhile, was locked in solitary confinement after getting into a fight with his cellmate. Late at night, he stared up at the unlit ceiling, remembering what Lin Jiqing had looked like when he confessed his feelings at eighteen. From the moment Mu Ye realized he was just a doomed cannon fodder character in a book, he tried to change his fate. But no matter how hard he tried, he always ended up at the same predetermined conclusion. In the book, Mu Ye’s adoptive parents had a child of their own soon after adopting him. Resentful, Mu Ye rejected the child, directly causing his relationship with his adoptive parents to grow distant and strained. After awakening to his situation, Mu Ye tried to show them he meant well and take care of his “younger brother,” but the couple still looked at him with nothing but disgust. He knew he was only cannon fodder, so he wanted nothing to do with the protagonist. But his adoptive parents ignored his objections and insisted on arranging a marriage between them. He kept his distance from the protagonist and never even mentioned him. Yet one day, a love letter signed by Lin Jiqing fell out of his schoolbag in front of everyone. It must have been slipped inside without his knowledge, but he was still accused of deliberately flaunting and scorning Lin Jiqing’s feelings. At his eighteenth birthday party, Mu Ye looked at the flushed man not far away. He knew the man was a big shot he couldn’t afford to offend, and he also knew that if he helped him into the hotel, he would be stepping straight into a nightmare that would haunt the rest of his life. The man would assume Mu Ye had drugged him on purpose, and Lin Jiqing and the others would “happen” to see him, despite being engaged, “checking into a room” with someone else. But when Mu Ye saw the desperation and pain in the man’s eyes, he still went over and helped him up. Let it all burn. His life was already a wreck anyway. But just before he let himself drift with the current, someone reached out and caught him. Eighteen-year-old Mu Ye, welcome to a world of good luck. Yu Sinian was the next head of the Yu family, an absolute authority and master of his domain. No one knew that years ago, this powerful man had been a nobody treated with contempt. At his most desperate and helpless, only one child had ever reached out to him. Years later, Yu Sinian found himself in trouble again. As he struggled to make sense of things, the boy from all those years ago came walking toward him once more. Laid-back, younger top x doting, powerful bottom who rises to the top 1. Mu Ye is the top, and Yu Sinian is the bottom. 2. Both are each other’s one and only; one-on-one, in body and heart. Theme: When one path ends, another opens.