After My Secret Crush Came True, My First Love Returned

Aloof, emotionally detached seme x cool, highly intelligent uke Two male leads, unrequited love, the white moonlight, melodrama, angsty romance, and a groveling chase to win back his wife Ji Yan was bombarded with relentless pressure from his parents to marry. He also didn’t want to keep his relationship secret, so he went home alone to confess to his parents about a love the public wouldn’t accept. They beat him, made him kneel, and even tried to make him give up through starvation, but he held fast to his feelings, making it through those long, hungry nights by clinging to his love for Pei Ning. But when he finally managed to escape his family and return to Pei Ning, he found him sharing a tender, romantic moment with his first love, his white moonlight. At last, Ji Yan understood. When Pei Ning had been alone, he’d needed Ji Yan to satisfy his desires, and Ji Yan had mistaken that for love. But now that his first love had returned, Ji Yan meant nothing to him. What he’d thought had grown into love over the years had been nothing but a dazzling dream. “Pei Ning, what have these past two years meant to you?” The man was silent for a moment, then replied coldly, “Ji Yan, I always thought you were smart. Of course we’re still partners.” Reality shattered the beautiful dream. Sometimes Ji Yan couldn’t help wondering: if he could start over, would he still choose to meet Pei Ning? No one could answer that. Ji Yan quietly left the city that had broken his heart and disappeared from everyone’s lives, determined to heal. But when the emotionally stunted man, who thought he was deeply in love with his white moonlight, realized that a man named Ji Yan was no longer in his world, he completely panicked… ‘