Aren't You Supposed to Be a Cold, Aloof Magistrate? So Why Do You Fall in Love With One Kiss?

(The rating has only just opened, so it'll go up~)

(Historical BL + mutually devoted one-on-one romance + secret crush becomes mutual + straight man falls for a man + bittersweet romance + older top)

Sharp-tongued, soft-hearted, tsundere doctor on the bottom X gentle, devoted, and scheming county magistrate on top

Jiang Xueqiao is a doctor with fair skin and handsome features, but he's usually stubborn and tsundere, with a foul temper to boot.

There's only one person in the world who can handle him: his good friend, Shen Huiming.

He thinks he'll be good friends with Shen Huiming for the rest of his life. Then one day, Shen Huiming accidentally kisses him, and Jiang Xueqiao realizes he's fallen for Shen Huiming long ago. He's fallen for his very best friend.

Panicking, he turns and runs without a moment's hesitation, afraid Shen Huiming will notice that his reaction is anything but ordinary.

Shen Huiming has a secret: he's been secretly in love with his good friend Jiang Xueqiao for years, but he never dares to say it aloud.

Jiang Xueqiao hates men who love men, so Shen Huiming can only bury his feelings deep in his heart.

One day, he sees a young woman trying to force a kiss on Jiang Xueqiao. Losing all reason, he pulls Jiang Xueqiao over and kisses him himself.

But after the kiss, before he can confess his feelings, Jiang Xueqiao turns and runs away.

He thinks Jiang Xueqiao will never want to speak to him again.

But just when all seems lost, a few days later Jiang Xueqiao suddenly comes to see him and says, “How about we give it a try?”

Shen Huiming is stunned.

Give it a try?

Does he mean the kind of try that Shen Huiming thinks he means?

Content warning: Told from the recipient's perspective, set in an alternate historical world, with a case-investigation subplot (the investigation is secondary; the romance is the main focus~)