Aren’t We Best Friends? What Do You Mean, You Like Me?

Name: Aren’t We Best Friends? What Do You Mean, You Like Me?
Author: Xiao Jiu Is So Sleepy a

不是挚友吗你说喜欢我是几个意思

by Xiao Jiu Is So Sleepy a (小九好困a)

Status: Ongoing
Length: 159k Words
Genre: Two Male Leads
Updated: 11d ago
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[Modern-Day Transmigration to Ancient Times] [Two Male Leads] [Both Strong] [Alternate History] [Mutual First Love] [BL] [CE Ending]

A modern soul transmigrates into a spoiled, rakish chess player, the uke x a gentle, refined chess fanatic from a prestigious family, the seme

When Shen Yan opened his eyes, he had become the notorious Second Young Master Shen of the capital.

A good-for-nothing who knew nothing about Go.

The original owner's memories were full of drinking and singing at restaurants, horse racing, and cockfighting. Yet deep in Shen Yan's bones was the soul of a professional seventh-dan player.

Xu Sinian was a renowned chess prodigy in the capital. He could write elegant prose with a brush and determine the fate of a game with a single move.

Others saw only his carefree smile and curved brows, as though he never got angry.

Shen Yan never expected to get involved with Xu Sinian.

One was an impostor who had to keep up a disguise, the other a nobleman standing above the clouds. They should have been on parallel paths, but they met over a game of silent chess.

He concealed his skill, afraid it would startle this absurd world. He harbored doubts, always feeling that stars were hidden behind those lazy eyes.

It turned out that it was chess that allowed no regrets, while the heart was what hesitated.

The game was not yet over, and their fate had only just begun.

Please note:

1. They are each other's first love! Shen Yan's original body had, at most, listened to music and tipped at restaurants, nothing more. Neither Xu Sinian nor Shen Yan had ever been in a relationship. Their hearts held only chess, and later, each other.

2. The romance is a slow burn! They don't make their relationship explicit. The focus is on the flirtatious tension between evenly matched opponents.

3. The author knows next to nothing about Go, so readers who care about historical accuracy, beware! Feel free to click away (love you). This is just for fun, so don't take the details of the games too seriously.

There's not much Go in the story.

4. If anyone reads this, the author might go a little crazy at the end. Please, keep me company and chat with me.

A meeting of kindred spirits over a chessboard, affection entrusted to black and white

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