The Pathetic CEO Is Online Asking for Tips on Acting Cool

Shen Nian is a famously beautiful pretty face in the entertainment industry. His looks made him famous, and being hated is just his lot in life. His name crops up all the time in posts analyzing the industry's unspoken rules, and everyone, fans and passersby alike, assumes he must have a powerful sponsor backing him. In fact, they are right.

Falling for your sponsor is a required lesson for any kept lover. Shen Nian just has a little more history than most: several years of knowing each other, and a past in which he turned his back on Lu Yuheng and walked away. Now the tables have turned, and his old acquaintance has become a cold, aloof sponsor. He vows to hide any unnecessary feelings and be a proper kept lover who knows when to advance and when to retreat, and how to keep within bounds.

Until he discovers his sponsor's secret.

*

Lu Yuheng has returned to the country.

Before coming back, he furiously read a hundred novels about scummy tops and pathetic bottoms, and stayed up late and worked himself to the bone devising a meticulous plan to turn the tables. Whether it was a contract marriage that led to love with a domineering CEO and his pampered spouse, or a run-away-with-the-baby plot, he was ready for anything.

After getting off the plane, he stumbled, but remembered to raise the corners of his mouth just a little, showing off the fifteen-degree smile he'd practiced for ages. In his heart, he swore, This time, I'll take back everything that belongs to me!

Rescuing Shen Nian from being drugged at a banquet: plan successful. Coldly tossing him a contract to keep him: plan successful. He diligently tormented him for a year and a half, but the most vicious revenge he ever managed was pinching Shen Nian's cheek hard while he slept. Then he spent the whole day worrying that he'd left a mark and Shen Nian would find out.

In the end, he was overwhelmed with sorrow. What kind of sponsor is this pathetic?

*

Lu Yuheng has a secret.

It isn't that he once poured his heart and soul into infiltrating Shen Nian's fan club and becoming a senior member. He was popular at first because he spent so much money, but one day, reminiscing about the past, he got carried away and accidentally logged into the wrong account to curse the heartless bastard. The fan club branded him a toxic stalker and kicked him out. Nor is it that he once traded over a hundred insults with a major fan, and even after throwing out a stack of records proving how much merchandise he'd bought, he was still so angry that he wanted to sneak onto Shen Nian's account and block the person while Shen Nian was away, only to give up in the end because reality got in the way.

No, the secret is that he has never been able to forget Shen Nian!

After hearing all this, his secretary's eye twitched. That's the same as saying nothing, man. Anyone with eyes can see it!

Well, your husband hasn't noticed either, and the two of you really are made for each other.

A devoted, oddball sponsor top x a kept lover bottom with a solid core

Coming soon: How to Humiliate a Lofty Beauty. Please add it to your favorites!

Fang Jin, the newly appointed Demon Lord, is rumored throughout the Three Realms to be cold-hearted and wicked beyond measure. Hiding his identity, he carries a battered bundle and heads to Tianyan Sect to seek a master.

By rights, he should have met a master as bright and pure as the moon, then embarked on a breathtaking, world-shaking, peerless love story. Unfortunately, his real master is an old man with a white beard, while his senior brother is the one renowned far and wide for his noble, radiant virtue.

Fang Jin gives a cold laugh. He's nothing but a hypocrite.

Everyone else praises Jiang Mufeng to the skies, but Fang Jin knows he's vicious at heart and rotten to the core. Everyone says the junior disciple is humble and mild-mannered, but only Jiang Mufeng knows how false he is.

The two can't stand the sight of each other. With a blood feud between them, they happily fight every day.

When they're spotted locked in an embrace in the bath, Fang Jin explains that he simply slipped and fell by accident. When he's caught sneaking into his senior brother's room and staying the whole night, Fang Jin insists with righteous indignation that he was only looking for a chance to strangle him. The sect members are baffled, then suddenly understand. So this is what a pure... no, pure-hatred brotherly relationship looks like.

Then they exchange knowing looks and say, "Heh heh heh, we get it."

But then rumors spread that the two are really going to become Dao companions. The onlookers, who'd long seen through them, munch on their seeds as they gossip. But as they keep watching, they learn that Fang Jin has revealed his true form and led a massive demon army to surround Tianyan Sect. The crowd is so frightened that they spill their seeds everywhere.

Holy crap, you really do hate each other!

The senior brother, who protected the entire sect alone, is assassinated at the foot of the mountain. The tale of his patient struggle for revenge spreads through the Three Realms in an instant. But out of sight, the Demon Lord clutches Jiang Mufeng's fallen body, his fingertips trembling as he checks for breath. Regret floods over him after his madness passes, but Jiang Mufeng never opens his eyes again.

Then, all at once, the demon army withdraws. In the Demon Realm's Senluo Hall, crimson silk curtains billow in the wind, then fall still. On a black-jade bed, Fang Jin holds Jiang Mufeng, his eyes blood-red. Jiang Mufeng's jade-white wrist hangs outside the curtains. The demon attendants kneel outside the hall, hearing one call of "Senior Brother" after another from within. Day after day, year after year, not once does he receive a reply.

A low-born Demon Lord junior brother who endures hardship for revenge, top x a noble-born, pampered, proud, ethereal senior brother, bottom

Theme: Whether or not fate favors me, I will still forge ahead without hesitation