Pretending to Be Lovers, Falling in Love for Real

The tags can’t be changed for now. There’s no esports content, though the protagonist does play a little bit of video games early on. This is not an esports novel, not an esports novel, not an esports novel! (The side couple appears in My Diary of the Man Who Belongs to Him, on my profile.) Mo Jia X Mu Qingzhou [Two male leads + modern setting + angst + tragic ending (happy ending in the extras)] The aloof young master who’s secretly softhearted (Mo Lie) X the poor soul who seems composed but is actually lost (Bai Ren) Bai Ren and Mo Lie meet. At first, they think they’re just classmates, but it turns out they’ve played countless games together online. At first, they think they’re just ordinary friends, but they gradually grow closer and become best friends. At first, they think they’re just best friends, but before they know it, they’ve fallen in love. At first, they think they can spend their lives together, growing old side by side... but fate separates them forever... In a nutshell: the love story of two immature boys. Neither of them is mature, and they have plenty of friction in their everyday interactions. They often say the wrong thing, but neither of them is a bad person. [Caveats: The writing is amateurish, the plot sometimes piles on angst for angst’s sake, and some parts are awkward and don’t make much sense. The early chapters are more slice-of-life, while the later ones are all angst. There’s no fixed top or bottom, so ship them however you like.]