A Couple Influencer's Guide to Getting Started

[The Model Couple is now being serialized]

*Shy, gentle, earnest sweetheart x taciturn, secretly flirtatious, ruggedly handsome young man

*Indebted woman x capable man | The hero is a major simp for women

Unaware of her own charms, slow-on-the-uptake bunny x pure-hearted wild-wolf husband | Sweet and satisfying | Lots of original worldbuilding

[Please don't offer writing advice; just focus on the story itself]

Zhen Luo is a college student and a beauty influencer, but people keep mistaking her for a suggestive-content creator. She has no such intention, but somehow the same gestures look especially alluring when she makes them. As a result, her followers are 90% men and 10% women, which has basically ruined her career.

The company thinks this won't work, but can't bear to let her go. Male fans are money-losing dead weight, seriously hurting her ability to monetize her account. So they come up with a plan:

She has to collaborate with another male influencer and pretend to be his girlfriend, taking the couple-creator route.

Selling a ship is a great way to make money these days.

Zhen Luo is soft-hearted and short on cash, so she agrees.

At her first meeting with her colleague, Xie Xun has a black-and-gold textured crop, a bold, unruly air, and a bright, handsome face paired with an exceptional height that makes him hard to look away from.

Couple creators aren't like celebrities. They usually create their own sweet moments to feed their fans, so... a lot depends on their “acting.” They can't feel like artificial, factory-made romance; they need to seem like real people. They also have to act out an entire romance for netizens to enjoy, following a series of flirtatious steps.

How they meet and fall for each other, who makes the first move, and the necessary stages of getting close, taking photos, trying a kiss, sharing a deep kiss, and, when appropriate, talking about their first time in their everyday lives: all of this is part of their job, to stir up netizens' longing for romance and build a more defined public image.

At first, Zhen Luo is a little afraid of Xie Xun.

There are so many things she doesn't know how to do.

Their early collaborations don't go smoothly. Going it alone is hard, but fortunately, everything starts moving along nicely.

Whenever they accidentally touch, they immediately apologize.

Netizens love their interactions, and together they achieve more than the sum of their parts. Zhen Luo works diligently, playing the “girlfriend” online and offline, and so does he.

After their videos become a hit, they start getting couple-brand deals. The videos are short, but filming them in private takes several hours at a time without a break.

“Hm? Still can't do it after so many tries?”

Zhen Luo gets it wrong again while helping Xie Xun put something on. When she fumbles around and is about to cry, Xie Xun gently wipes her tears and sighs.

“Fine, looks like I'm the one who has to take care of you again.”

Xie Xun's voice is low and husky. Paired with the finger still wet with her tears, it could make anyone go weak in the knees.

“I-I'm sorry.”

Zhen Luo looks up, eyes brimming with tears.

Her colleague is fed up with her ૮꒰•͈ᯅ•͈꒱ა

Xie Xun: ?

“It's okay. I'll teach you one more time.”

As their collaboration deepens, Zhen Luo notices that every time they finish filming a couple ad, Xie Xun stands there stiffly for a long time. Sometimes he even covers her eyes so she won't get curious.

Xie Xun thinks he's hidden it well, but one day, Zhen Luo discovers his secret.

She finds it hard to accept, but since her career is on the rise and their contract includes a clause requiring them to support each other as couple creators, she has no choice but to keep pretending to be his girlfriend, albeit unwillingly.

[Something's wrong! Why do my favorite couple suddenly feel like they're getting divorced?]

[What on earth did the sweet husband do...?]

[I'm crying, what's wrong with you two, leopard and kitty?]

Later, their real selves are completely exposed, and everything that's happened between them comes out. Zhen Luo expects netizens to curse her, and trembling, she prepares an apology and plans to quit the internet. But then netizens follow the clues and find Xie Xun's secret account.

She wakes up to find that her follower count has gone up instead of down?!

And she still has so many brand deals in her inbox she can barely keep up?!

“With you, I've never been acting.”

At first, Zhen Luo thinks Xie Xun is joking. During all the years she knew nothing about it, someone really had been crossing mountains and rivers just to find her.

Love can bloom even when you feel so inferior you're buried in the dirt.

The couple's quotes:

“I'll have money, and I'll have love too.”

“Loving her is like drinking water. As it happens, he really does love drinking water.”

“When love finds its perfect match, so does a career.”

*A sweet-romance premise. No deep message. Don't take it too seriously. Sweet at first, bittersweet in the middle, sweet again at the end. Extra, extra! The author will teach you step by step how to build a social media account! Just kidding.

*A new kind of taciturn, rugged man. Once you get to know him, he's outrageously flirtatious. Shameless womanizer.

*Posted as I write; updates whenever inspiration strikes.

*The heroine isn't a suggestive-content creator, just mistaken for one. See the story for details.

*The heroine has had one relationship before, her first love in high school.

*Both leads are virgins. The story includes the hero's POV and he has a one-sided crush. Don't read if you dislike that.

------------ Coming Soon ---------------

The Follow-Up to Making Nourishing Meals for My Crush

*Pretty, airheaded sweetheart x aloof-looking beauty with a cold exterior

*Carefree woman x long-suffering man | Friends with benefits to official couple

Food influencer VS cardiologist

1.

Because she makes content for a living, Xi Yao chooses to rent a place off campus while at university. A shady broker tricks her into renting a partitioned room.

One day, she accidentally hears her neighbor's... heavy breathing.

She is so startled that she spends the whole night blushing and unable to sleep.

The next day, sporting huge dark circles, she knocks on his door, hoping to tactfully ask him to tone things down.

But the man who opens the door is incredibly handsome. Cool and aloof, he doesn't look like someone with a strong sex drive. He asks her what she wants, his expression cold.

She can't help wanting him.

2.

Every night, Xi Yao can hear Yan Yixun panting. The man tends to do it around midnight, apparently because of work stress. Sometimes it goes on nonstop until one or two in the morning.

She listens, blushing, for half a month. Help, she wants to get with him so badly.

[Xi Xi's a food influencer, what is she afraid of? Make a move!]

[Exactly, win a man's heart through his stomach. Go for it, influencer!]

Encouraged by her fans, Xi Yao starts diligently pursuing him.

Yan Yixun has never been interested in love, but his body still needs release. He hates his own urges and takes care of them himself.

Then one day, his neighbor knocks on his door, blushing as she repeatedly brings him all kinds of homemade snacks. Some are fine, but others are just... downright bizarre.

3.

Xi Yao meekly writes about her pursuit in her secret account.

[Help, I'm so worried. He's like this every day. Is he going to be okay? What if I finally get him, but he can't perform? No, I have to make him some nourishing food!]

[Oh no, my crush's face has gone green, and there was no sound yesterday either!]

[Aah, what if I'm actually right?]

[Wah, he won't talk to me anymore www]

Later, netizens dig up this secret account.

#The Follow-Up to Making Nourishing Meals for My Crush

Netizens go wild, demanding the follow-up. Influencer, come back and update!

An unknown user: [I'm full and sleeping.]

Netizens are ready to blast whoever's being so arrogant, but then they click on the profile and see the verification badge. Well, well.

Xi Yao also replies with her main account: [Hehe. I've been eating him for two years now~]

*The premise has been revised several times, and each version has been saved.

Theme: Patiently do one thing well