Wait, Aren't You a Germaphobe?

Name: Wait, Aren't You a Germaphobe?
Author: Lone Sun Hanging in the Sky

不是？你不洁癖吗？

by Lone Sun Hanging in the Sky (孤日悬天)

Status: Completed
Length: 242k Words
Genre: Two Male Leads
Updated: 1y ago
English: RandomTL: Request

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Synopsis

Original title: “Wait, aren't you a germaphobe?”

[Secret crush + campus romance + 1v1 happy ending, both pure + germaphobia + touch starvation + healing + sweet romance]

Scheming, brooding, fatherly germaphobe x easygoing, softhearted ray of sunshine

Zhou Xing x Jiang Zui

Jiang Zui is very happy with his university, except for two things.

First, he hit the one-in-a-million odds and ended up rooming with the sworn enemy he'd been at odds with throughout high school.

Second, all the strange things that have been happening to him lately, including but not limited to:

A bone-chilling gaze always seems to be fixed on him.

The clothes he wears keep disappearing, only to turn up washed on the balcony a couple of days later.

At night, he keeps dreaming that an octopus is wrapped around him.

Of course, sharing a room with his sworn enemy is still more unbearable than any of that.

But since he knows his rival has a germaphobia, Jiang Zui has no trouble getting under his skin.

Holding hands, hugging, slinging an arm around his shoulders: it's all in a day's work.

The deeper Zhou Xing's frown and the darker his expression, the happier Jiang Zui is.

Until one day, Jiang Zui finds himself wrapped up in the so-called germaphobe's arms.

“Wait, aren't you a germaphobe?”

“Mild germaphobia, severe skin hunger,” Zhou Xing pauses, then adds, “When it comes to you.”

“...”

Huh?

[Then I wish you... freedom]

Other names

The Thousand Birds Never Wake千鸟不醒Alternate title on Fanqie

Stats

88Chapters

12.8kReads · 30 days

537.7kReads · all time

2.4kShelf adds, last 14 days

9.4Score

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