Not a Relationship for Show

[Bright and lively husband-type gong x gentle, reserved, levelheaded shou / younger gong / sweet treats with a tangy aftertaste]

Cheng Yunzhou stumbled into acting and chased his dream of making it in show business. Movies, long-running dramas, short dramas, web dramas; bit parts, supporting roles, supporting roles, and more supporting roles. After five years, he was still struggling on the bottom rung of the industry.

With the film and television industry in the depths of winter and snow about to bury him, he steeled himself and decided to go into danmei dramas!

He thought he would have a hard time adjusting. Luckily, his co-star was a handsome, sunny 188-centimeter-tall puppy type with a modeling background. With such eye candy around, what was there to resist about cuddling, kissing, and all the rest of the mature content? He adapted seamlessly!

The puppy was sweet and obedient, and the two stayed all clingy and lovey-dovey until filming wrapped. Cheng Yunzhou, a consummate professional, felt it was time to step out of character. They would still have to play up their CP later, but office romances never ended well, so he waved goodbye and went off to get over it. He never expected the puppy to chase him all the way to his home, throwing a fit and threatening to die rather than let go.

"You took everything from me, and now you're pretending it never happened?!!"

"That's not it..."

Jiang Xingyue refused to accept it. He had been officially assigned a wife by the production crew, so how could they just take her away? He wanted to hold his wife's hand and kiss her. Whether they were turning make-believe into reality or simply unable to resist their feelings, no one was going to make him spit out the person he'd already taken into his mouth!

[For your information: "Going into danmei dramas" means acting in film or television productions with gay themes. These are also known as circum-Mainland productions. Their main platforms are in countries and regions surrounding mainland China, such as Japan, South Korea, Thailand and other Southeast Asian countries, as well as the special administrative regions of Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan.]

[Content warning: This story was inspired by shipping a CP. Please don't associate it with real people. Expect flights of fancy and, later on, angst and melodrama. Any resemblance is entirely the fault of the assembly-line fanservice handbook!!]

This story is purely a labor of love, written for my own amusement. If it earns anything (though it probably won't, since hardly anyone reads it), all proceeds will be donated.

Theme: Keep your heart set on what you want, and give it everything you've got.