Chapter 1: After Becoming the CEO’s Sickly White Moonlight 1
Preface: Main Gong, Double Strong, Extreme Gong-con and Shou-con enter with caution. Leave your brain here. ——
A certain villa facing the sea.
The man wearing black pajamas stepped barefoot on the floor, revealing a small section of smoothly lined ankles.
He was extremely tall, with a slender figure and perfectly proportioned physique that met the current aesthetic standards. The thin pajamas could not hide the man’s faintly discernible chest and abdominal muscles at all.
He walked slowly to the French windows, pressed the remote control, and the warm coffee-colored curtains slowly drew open, revealing the night view outside.
The man stood quietly in front of the French windows, watching the undulating and changing scenery outside, but none of those colors reflected in his eyes.
After a long time, he lightly touched the window with his fingertips, and a trace of some other emotion appeared in his eyes, which melted into a mist in an instant.
“It’s time.”
As if to confirm his words, the man’s tall figure swayed slightly and uncontrollably fell backward onto the recliner behind him.
He propped himself up on the recliner, then his hand dropped heavily as if drained of strength. His chest began to heave violently, and the blue veins on his forehead and neck also began to bulge, showing symptoms of near-death, but his eyes were extremely calm, as if he couldn’t feel the slightest pain, quietly waiting for death to arrive.
[System loading… Successfully captured… Binding confirmed… Bound person… Pei Yu…]
[Binding successful…]
[Welcome…]
Right before Pei Yu lost consciousness, the last thing he heard was the cold, mechanical voice in his mind.
[Name: Pei Yu]
[Gender: Male]
[Age: 25]
[Height: 189cm]
[Weight: 76kg]
[…]
When Pei Yu regained consciousness, he saw a light blue screen floating in front of him, clearly recording his information. Among them, the words “special poison” were specially marked in red, which was exceptionally striking.
During the time he had fallen into a deep sleep, the system had already transmitted the general information to him.
The system belonged to an organization called “Sprinkling Dog Blood”. Just as the name implied, it was an organization with all kinds of dog-blood stories, and he needed to play a certain character in these stories and live out their lives peacefully.
Upon completing the task, he could exchange for anything he desired.
But if he failed to complete the task, he would be completely obliterated, without even the right for his soul to exist.
“May I ask if the host will enter the first world?” A warm white orb of light floated in front of Pei Yu’s eyes, radiating a gentle luster.
“Yes.”
As Pei Yu’s voice fell, the colors in front of his eyes gradually faded, and his consciousness began to sink continuously, falling into a coma once again.
[Loading… World loaded successfully… Binding mission target… Binding successful…]
[World confirmed: “The CEO’s Stand-in Lover”…]
At the Capital International Airport of Country Z, streams of people bustled back and forth, surrounded by the commingling sounds of flight notification broadcasts and noisy chatter.
A man in a coffee-colored trench coat walked out dragging a suitcase alongside people who had just gotten off the plane. He was definitely an existence that could be spotted at a glance in the crowd—tall with long legs. Even a thicker trench coat looked appropriate and well-tailored on him.
A pair of extremely beautiful eyes seemed to ripple with light, yet held a chillingly oppressive aura unique to a superior.
Perhaps due to poor health, his skin was overly pale, and his lips were inherently thin; when lacking color, they appeared even more heartless and indifferent.
Steward Li had been waiting at the agreed-upon spot for a long time, so anxious that sweat started to form on his face.
The CEO had asked him to pick up Young Master Pei here, and he had arrived early in the morning, but why hadn’t he seen him yet? Young Master Pei’s health had always been poor to begin with; if anything happened, what would they do?
“Uncle Li.”
A somewhat cold man’s voice sounded beside Steward Li. Steward Li froze for a moment and looked up, taking a good while to react.
“Young Master Pei?”
It wasn’t that Steward Li couldn’t recognize him; it was truly because Pei Yu had changed too much.
When Pei Yu left ten years ago, he was still a sixteen-year-old youth. At that time, he was more than half a head shorter than his own CEO. Because of his frail constitution, his bone structure was also slender, making him look like a pretty little girl.
But now, the exceptionally tall man standing before him, who could stand toe-to-toe with his own sir, really made it impossible for him to connect him with the sickly Pei Yu from back then.
“Jiang Chen didn’t come?”
Steward Li was just taking the suitcase from Pei Yu’s hand. Hearing this, his expression became slightly unnatural, and he said, “President Jiang’s company has a lot of things to handle recently. He asked me to pick you up and take you to the villa first, and then you’ll have dinner together tonight.”
“En.”
Pei Yu watched Steward Li’s evasive gaze and raised his eyebrows almost imperceptibly.
In the timeline of his return to the country, Jiang Chen had already used coercion and bribery to sign that lover’s contract with Xu Zaizai, and through continuous interaction, a faint little spark had already ignited between the two.
Logically speaking, the original owner was a sickly white moonlight. As long as Pei Yu didn’t return, he wouldn’t have any ties with the original plot. Therefore, in all the years Pei Yu had been in this world, apart from constantly working out to maintain his health, he had also founded a company and cultivated his own forces.
That was until recently, when the system issued him another task—to save the villain, Qu Shenyi.
This person was Jiang Chen’s competitor in the original world, constantly clashing with Jiang Chen, and ultimately kidnapped the original owner and Xu Zaizai to threaten Jiang Chen. He was the main contributor who pushed the development of the physically and mentally abusive plot.
In the original timeline, Qu Shenyi captured the original owner and subjected him to all sorts of torment. The original owner’s constitution was already weak, and in the end, he died a very tragic death. Since he killed someone, and that person was Jiang Chen’s deeply yearned-for white moonlight, one could imagine Qu Shenyi’s eventual end; his outcome was even worse than the original owner’s.
Because of the white moonlight’s death, Jiang Chen fell into a dark period. Finally, accompanied by Xu Zaizai, he pulled himself together. He also understood that his feelings for the white moonlight were merely an obsession with the unobtainable, and he ended up living happily ever after with Xu Zaizai.
The original timeline didn’t explicitly state why Qu Shenyi madly targeted Jiang Chen, but if it was just a commercial struggle, there was no need to resort to kidnapping.
So, to stop Qu Shenyi from madly courting death, he still needed to find the root cause.
Sitting in the backseat of the car, Pei Yu reached out and lightly tapped the glass, a curve lifting the corner of his mouth.
His appearance was entirely captured in the eyes of Steward Li, who was driving in front, while Steward Li’s heart kept thumping continuously.
Young Master Pei looked quite different from when he was a child, appearing even more unfathomable than President Jiang. If he knew that his childhood playmate had kept a lover, and that this lover bore a thirty-to-forty percent resemblance to himself, wouldn’t he…
Steward Li swallowed hard and shook his head. Forget it, better not think about it.
“Young Master Pei has been abroad for so long, why the sudden return?”
Steward Li spoke up and asked.
Back then, Pei Yu went abroad for treatment because of his poor health. President Jiang had waited bitterly in the country, originally thinking that Pei Yu would return after the treatment ended. Who would have thought he would stay for a whole ten years.
“Came back to take a look, to visit an old friend.”
Pei Yu’s voice remained flat. Steward Li had a sentence held back in his mouth that he didn’t ask out loud.
Which old friend? Is it President Jiang, or those from the Pei family?
The car slowly drove into the high-end villa complex. After going straight for a distance, it took a few turns before stopping in front of the largest villa.
“Young Master Pei, you can just go in first. I’ll park the car in the underground garage. The password for the villa is… is your birthday.”
“…”
Pei Yu couldn’t really describe Jiang Chen’s behavior; simply put, it was ‘eating from the bowl while looking at the pot’.
The person wasn’t even dead yet, and he couldn’t wait to find a stand-in to satisfy himself, all while playing the role of a deeply infatuated man. It was quite disgusting.
After Steward Li returned, arranged the room for Pei Yu to stay in, and put away his luggage, he said: “It’s still early, Young Master Pei. You can adjust your jet lag first. President Jiang will be back tonight.”
“En.”
Pei Yu lowered his eyelashes, revealing a faint weariness beneath his eyes.
Tossing and turning on a plane for over ten hours was indeed tiring.
Once Pei Yu freshened up and lay on the bed, he fell asleep in just a few breaths.
Translator’s Note:
- Gong / Shou: Refers to the Top/Bottom dynamic in BL (Boys’ Love / Danmei) novels. “Main Gong” means the story is told primarily from the Top’s perspective. “Gong-con/Shou-con” means fans who strictly favor either the Gong or the Shou.
- Sprinkling Dog Blood (洒狗血): A common Chinese internet slang term used to describe cliché, highly melodramatic, or overly exaggerated plot devices (like amnesia, terminal illnesses, or stand-in lovers).
- White Moonlight (白月光): An unobtainable, idealized person who remains a pure and perfect memory in someone’s heart (often someone’s first love).
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