[Sweet, talkative chatterbox who's innocent on the outside but secretly naughty x gloomy, voyeuristic ghost of a man]
[Both unmask each other / bittersweet unrequited love from his perspective, uncomplicated fluff from hers]
When Yun Li was six, a new neighbor moved in next door.
He was gloomy and withdrawn, and never cracked a smile, but his grades were terrifyingly good.
Soon, her parents' favorite refrain became: "Look at Wen Cong next door. This time, he..."
Yun Li heard it so often she got sick of it, and wished every year that she wouldn't have to be his neighbor anymore.
She made that wish for fourteen years straight, but it never came true.
Until her twentieth birthday.
Angry that Wen Cong had shown up uninvited, she impulsively sent him a friend request from her alt account after he called her an elementary schooler who blushed just from seeing people kiss:
[Big brother, want to see my legs?]
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Wen Cong had a secret hobby:
Stalking Yun Li online.
He knew all about the songs she liked, the movies she watched, the couples she shipped, even her most private kinks.
So when he saw that friend request, he recognized the alt account Yun Li had practically worn out at a glance.
He didn't call her out. Instead, he suggested they start an online relationship.
But he never expected the things Yun Li sent him to get more and more explicit...
Wen Cong started losing sleep night after night.
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Yun Li had taken things too far.
Seeing that Wen Cong seemed to have gone mad from her flirting, she panicked and blocked him.
She thought that was the end of it, but on the night she was forced to go on a blind date, Wen Cong suddenly appeared and cornered her in the elevator lobby.
"Baby, are you bored of me and looking to flirt with someone else?"
"Didn't you want me to be your dog?"
"Woof."
"Don't leave me, okay?"
