After I Found a Hot Guy to Attend Graduation With

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On the eve of graduation, Fang Yu gets dumped by her scumbag boyfriend. Furious, she posts online, offering a reward for a handsome guy to pretend to be her boyfriend at the graduation ceremony. She wants to show off and get revenge for the humiliation.

Her requirements are simple: he has to be at least 185 cm tall, and he has to be genuinely handsome.

Unfortunately, there are hardly any decent candidates in the comments. Then an ID from her city gets voted to the top by netizens and sweeps the competition.

He posts a makeup-free selfie. He has striking features and a languid expression, with the caption: “187 cm, art student, eight-pack abs, single.”

Fang Yu promptly messages him to confirm the time and place. On graduation day, the handsome Pei Shuheng shows up right on time. Tall, long-legged, and carefree, with a bouquet of Snow Mountain roses setting off his dark eyes, he outshines Fang Yu’s ex by a mile.

Afterward, Fang Yu treats him to dinner. As they chat, she’s astonished to discover that he was her classmate in middle school.

“What a coincidence. I don’t remember you at all,” she says.

Pei Shuheng smiles without changing expression. “Quite a coincidence. I don’t remember you either.”

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That night, Pei Shuheng pays the paid commenters he hired to vote him to the top. In a good mood, he even gives each of them an extra hundred yuan as a red packet.

One of them asks, “Got some good news, bro?”

Pei Shuheng drawls lazily, “Yeah. I got picked.”

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Fang Yu posts her graduation photos. The post goes viral, her followers surge, and people beg her to reveal what happens next.

Just then, her work is going badly, and her family is pressuring her to go on a blind date. Apparently the man is young, rich, and the eldest son of a major conglomerate.

But when they meet, Pei Shuheng is among the man’s relatives and friends.

Then she watches in shock as his expression turns cold and he calls the man she’s been set up with “Big Brother.”

Fang Yu is still reeling when Pei Shuheng walks over and crouches to cover her short skirt with his shirt.

He looks up at her, his voice low and his tone melancholy. “Xiao Yu, you’re choosing my brother over me?”

Fang Yu’s new post: #Who knew the handsome guy I found online for graduation would turn out to be the younger brother of my blind date?!#

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Pei Shuheng keeps pretending to be Fang Yu’s boyfriend, helping her escape one blind date after another, until her account becomes hugely popular and she can finally stop giving in to her family.

She decides to end her absurd relationship with Pei Shuheng. His gaze darkens as he looks down at her. “What if I don’t agree?”

Only then does Fang Yu learn that her meeting with Pei Shuheng was no accident. He had carefully planned it all himself.

Before she ever met him, he had already been secretly in love with her for ten years.

A few months later, Fang Yu’s new post: #Ahhh, I think I’ve turned pretending with the handsome guy I found online into the real thing!#

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A frustrated office worker heroine who wants to be a photographer × a former internet sensation hero who wants to be an artist

Blurb first published on June 3, 2025

Blurb last revised on August 3, 2025

My next book is Marrying Cecilia. Please add it to your collection~

Blurb

As a once-popular CEO-romance novelist whose career has stalled, Yu Youzhi is also dumped by her boyfriend.

She earns only a few hundred yuan a month, and her mother urges her to change careers and get married soon, so she can live the kind of “normal” life older people expect.

Yu Youzhi grabs the male lead from one of her novels and makes up a list: “I want someone like this: earns a hundred billion a year, has a PhD, speaks five languages, keeps a straight face and doesn’t talk much, and is always buying little islands in the Pacific to give me.”

She’s sure there’s no way she’ll find someone like that.

A week later, her mother calls. “I’ve arranged for you to meet someone this weekend. You’d better do what you said.”

Yu Youzhi: ...?

Could her CEO romance novels actually be realistic fiction?

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Seated in an expensive restaurant for her blind date, Yu Youzhi watches Liang Cishen sit down across from her.

The man has a striking, austere profile and an air of cool refinement. He wears a custom suit, and his costly cuff links gleam with a sharp, icy light.

She knows who he is: the head of the Liang financial conglomerate, a man who can turn the world upside down with a flick of his hand, someone everyone fawns over.

They belong to completely different worlds. Their only connection is that when she was in college, she tutored Liang Cishen’s distant little cousin, a girl with a very convoluted family connection to him.

Yu Youzhi asks cautiously, “Mr. Liang, did you... sit at the wrong table?”

Liang Cishen raises his eyes to her. “Yu Youzhi, which island in the Pacific do you like?”

Yu Youzhi is stunned. Liang Cishen’s voice is casual. “Marry me under a contract, and I’ll give it to you.”

Yu Youzhi: “Um, could you just give me the cash equivalent?”

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“Yu Youzhi’s Post-Marriage CEO Observation Diary”

Day 5: We’re marrying because it suits us both. Neither of us will fall for the other. But why does Liang Cishen come home so early every day...?

Day 10: Hm? When did he add a rule to our marriage contract requiring us to talk three times a day?

Day 20: No, shouldn’t a CEO wake up every day in a 200-square-meter bed? Why does Liang Cishen insist on squeezing into the little bed in the spare room with me? Is he sick or something = =.

Day 30: (At a class reunion, entry missing)

Yu Youzhi is escorted downstairs by the school heartthrob she had a crush on back in the day. She finds Liang Cishen waiting in the living room and finally realizes something is wrong.

The man grabs her wrist and pins her into a corner. “Zhizhi, Auntie said you wanted a husband like the male lead you wrote. Was there one more requirement you forgot?”

Yu Youzhi: ?

Liang Cishen lowers his head and leans closer, his hot breath brushing her ear. “Possessive, and gets jealous easily.”

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Yu Youzhi always thought her relationship with Liang Cishen had developed after they got married.

Until one day, she found photos of herself tutoring on his phone.

And at the time, she was still dating her ex.

It turns out that even someone like Liang Cishen, standing at the very top of the pyramid, can have a secret crush he can’t bring himself to confess. When she discovers his secret, the man isn’t embarrassed. After the lights go out that night, he treats her wickedly, then bends down and whispers in her ear, “Zhizhi, the first time I saw you, I knew this day would come.”

[Bonus scene]

Yu Youzhi gets her touch back, and her new book becomes a huge hit. On a whim, she writes a bunch of steamy extras to thank her readers.

She never expects to discover one day that Liang Cishen is following her updates on his computer.

Yu Youzhi: !!!

That night, she confronts him, embarrassed and angry. He pulls her onto his lap, his voice husky and heated, a wicked smile in his tone. “Zhizhi, you know all these tricks. Why have you never told me?”

Yu Youzhi: #Actually, I still prefer you cold and aloof, ignoring me like the CEOs I write# Wait, Liang Cishen, I came here to settle accounts with you, stop kissing me, #

A heroine who knows how to talk a good game × a crafty hero who has been plotting for ages

Older hero / eight-year age gap / marriage first, love later

The heroine only ever held hands with her ex

The heroine’s pen name is Cecilia, after the heroine of Woody Allen’s film The Purple Rose of Cairo

Theme: You have to be brave to have a story.