What to Do When Your Boyfriend Is Clingy, Fierce, and Acts Like a Dad

[Younger, nurturing gong vs older, aloof, teasing shou] (Both each other's first and only + campus romance + pure sweetness, no angst + HE) Song Qingxuan, the campus beauty everyone admires, cool and aloof, with a beauty mark beneath his eye and an intellect that leaves everyone in the dust. Xie Qiyao, the school bully everyone fears. Fists of iron, a hair-trigger temper; if someone rubs him the wrong way, he hits first. Until someone sees... The infamous school bully following a cool beauty everywhere, carefully peeled green grapes in hand, his voice so soft it's almost pleading: “Qingbao, have one more. Just one.” His classmates stare in horror. “Is that really Xie Qiyao? Why does he look like a huge dog that's been tamed?” His buddies cover their eyes. “Brother Xie, your tough-guy image is in pieces!” Song Qingxuan lowers his eyes in exasperation, but quietly hooks their fingers together, indulging him without a word. Xie Qiyao looks after what he wears and eats, keeps track of his sleep and whether he's too hot or cold, holds an umbrella for him on rainy days, and even pulls him into his arms the moment he wakes from a nightmare, soothing him with gentle pats until dawn. “At school, I'll protect you.” “You're not mad, are you...?” “Fine, whatever you say.” Until one day, something unexpected leaves him trembling and cold all over, and instinctively he slips into Xie Qiyao's school jacket. The boy's scorching warmth wraps around him. From then on, their relationship changes from roommates and buddies to something more. Xie Qiyao is fearsome to everyone else, but clingy as can be with him. “Qingbao, let me cuddle you a little longer. Just a little.” It almost seems as if the one with a skin hunger isn't him, but Xie Qiyao... “Love is instinct, and loving you is a reflex written into my DNA.” Xie Qiyao “Being clingy is his gift, and I willingly become the only territory he claims.” Song Qingxuan