After Sending a Confession Text to a Top-Tier Star

①

At a class reunion, Xu Zhuoyue gets drunk for once and plays truth or dare. His dare is to send a confession text to his first love.

Nearly thirty and buried in research, he can barely remember the person he had a crush on in high school. They have long since faded into a hazy shadow.

Xu Zhuoyue props his head up and sends the message without much thought. Obviously, the other person won't reply.

So he doesn't even look at his phone before turning it off.

Meanwhile, Huo Baiyu has just won a major international award. His schedule is packed with film offers and appearances, and he's undeniably one of the industry's top-tier stars.

The media are always on the lookout for gossip about him. But ever since his debut, Huo Baiyu has had zero scandals, and even claims he has no intention of getting married.

Xu Zhuoyue never imagined that after waking from his hangover, he would find this newly crowned, much-adored Best Actor waiting downstairs from his home.

The man wears sunglasses and casual clothes, but his striking presence is impossible to hide. When he speaks, his voice is low and deep.

“I heard Professor Xu's research team is short on funding. How about considering a fake marriage with me?”

The contract he hands over offers twenty million yuan.

②

To get funding, Xu Zhuoyue agrees to appear on a marriage reality show with Huo Baiyu, pretending to be a newlywed couple madly in love.

But before the show even airs, viewers are already complaining:

[This couple is so obviously fake. If Huo Baiyu really gets married, I'll take his surname!]

[Where did they find this nobody? I've never heard of him!]

[They both look so uninterested in sex. How am I supposed to enjoy something this bland?]

Once the show begins, viewers across the internet witness this with their own eyes:

Huo Baiyu, a mature man on the verge of thirty, likes to rest his head on Xu Zhuoyue's shoulder like a big fluffy dog, play with his hair and ears, and interrupt him while he reads research papers.

And Professor Xu, cool and distant as the moon in the night sky, gets pinned against the door by a jealous Huo Baiyu after a shower. His eyes are rimmed red, yet he wraps his arms around the other man's neck and whispers, “Didn't we agree... only two minutes of cuddling?”

[What? If these two aren't real, then I'm fake!]

[I don't care if I'm called Huo or Xu! Mom, Dad, I'm born!]

[Professor Xu is so beautiful it makes my heart race. How can someone this beautiful already be married?]

[Ahhh, am I allowed to watch this? Two minutes isn't nearly enough! Go at it for two hundred minutes tonight, okay?]

The whole internet is shipping them like there's no tomorrow. Then, just as their contract expires, Huo Baiyu's studio posts a statement saying that they are both busy with their careers, rarely see each other, and have decided to divorce.

The shippers: QAQ!!! (A bolt from the blue.jpg)

#XingYueCPBrokeUp# immediately trends, but before anyone can even open their mouths to wail

Huo Baiyu himself posts a new Weibo update.

[Huo Baiyu V: Look, this is my moon. (Image)]

In the dimly lit room, Xu Zhuoyue is sleeping comfortably in his arms.

And on the bedside table, two red marriage certificates lie on top of each other.

#HuoBaiyuCasuallyShowingOff# shoots straight to the top of the trending list.

Right beside the previous hashtag.

The shippers: ???!!!

③

Back in Huo Baiyu's glorious student days,

seventeen-year-old Xu Zhuoyue was the only person in the crowd who never paid him any attention.

Rational, quiet, and coldly aloof, Xu Zhuoyue could only be watched from afar by Huo Baiyu.

He had been sure they would never cross paths again.

Until one night, after finishing work, he unexpectedly received a message from his moon:

[I've actually liked you for a long time.]

The moon, once so far out of reach, had appeared at his window. He lay awake all night.

Reader's guide:

1. A lighthearted, sweet little story. Mutual pining, and each other's first love.

2. My version of the entertainment industry, marriage reality shows, and research. No real-life inspirations; everything serves the story.

3. There will be livestream comments and flashbacks to their student days.

4. No secondary couples. All the marriage-show guests are good people who help the couple get together and ship them.

5. On the marriage show, the two start by pretending, then fall for each other like crazy as they act. Both are head over heels, and both are good boys. Lots of couple cuddles. High levels of couple devotion, so proceed with caution!

Theme: If you can't forget someone, your feelings will eventually be answered.