Performing Devotion

Everyone knows how much I love you. Why do you want to break up with me?

The performatively devoted, drama-loving bottom × the wallpaper-like top who loses it and wants to break up

Synopsis:

Everyone envies Shen Jia for having such a loving boyfriend. Just because Shen Jia mentioned missing the taste of the roadside-stand soup dumplings in the suburbs, Pei Feng was willing to get up at four in the morning just to catch the first, freshest batch.

Pei Feng would even go into Shen Jia's staff dormitory and do his laundry, hand-washing every single pair of socks and underwear for him.

Pei Feng would record every one of these gestures on his social media feed.

A boyfriend this wonderful is hard to find, even with a lantern.

As a man, he was even willing to be another man's “trophy wife.” How rare was that?

But Shen Jia still wanted to break up.

He didn't think Pei Feng liked him. He thought Pei Feng liked the feeling of being in love with him.

In short, he thought Pei Feng was a performative type.

He'd only eaten those dumplings once, while he was an intern, and when Pei Feng offered to buy them for him, he'd refused three times.

The truth was, Pei Feng didn't have a key to his dorm room. He'd secretly had a duplicate made because he insisted on doing Shen Jia's chores for him.

But Shen Jia already did his own laundry. Why did Pei Feng insist on hand-washing it?

Pei Feng didn't love him. That was the conclusion Shen Jia had reached after six months.

But when he brought up breaking up, Pei Feng went crazy. Everyone blamed Shen Jia for being a jerk: Pei Feng treated him so well, so why did he want to break up?

Shen Jia went crazy too. He realized Pei Feng didn't just put on an act for him.