Love Before the End: A Game of Push and Pull

【Two strong leads + rekindled love + intense push and pull】They reunite at the very beginning. The early story looks back on their school days, while the later part follows their reunion in the city. The proud young master Jian Bei met Shen Ning, a poor young gentleman, at university. Neither realized they were in love. After a long struggle and an intense push and pull, they finally admitted they had fallen for each other. Jian Bei was so swept up in their passionate romance that he couldn’t pull himself away. Then Shen Ning’s first love returned. Not long afterward, Shen Ning left without a word, except for, “I’m sorry. I still love her.” For the first two years after Shen Ning left, Jian Bei searched for him frantically. On countless drunken nights, Jian Bei would murmur Shen Ning’s name. Sometimes he called him Brother Ning, sometimes Shen Ning. He usually called him “baby” when he’d had a bit too much to drink. Later, when he learned from a friend that Shen Ning had gone to the city where his first love lived, Jian Bei stopped asking anyone about him and never mentioned his name to anyone again. It was as if this person had never been part of his life. They met again five years later. Jian Bei didn’t know how former lovers were supposed to act when they met again after a long separation, but he was satisfied with how he handled it. He didn’t pick a fight with Shen Ning like he used to, or even ask him a single question. But nobody knew how many agonizing, heart-wrenching, nearly unbearable nights Jian Bei had endured to make their reunion seem so calm. In short, it’s an intense, drawn-out romance between two men who thought they were straight.