[Cozy everyday-life story, secret feelings become obvious, HE]
Slowly-winning-him-over top x tsundere straight bottom
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After three years as classmates, Chen Xuan has always thought that Lin Yue, the class representative for physics, is an excellent student who gives off a kind and approachable air, just a bookworm who loves studying. He never expected that one evening, he'd suddenly receive a "friend request" from this top student:
Chen Xuan, are we friends?
Chen Xuan feels wounded. What? Are you saying that for the past two and a half years, we were just "classmates"?
Not long after they officially become "friends," the class changes seats and Lin Yue becomes Chen Xuan's deskmate. Then even stranger things happen: Chen Xuan discovers that this physics representative has many sides he never knew about. For instance, he blushes easily. The little pranks Lin Yue usually plays with his buddies make him turn bright red!
Lin Yue panics, scrambles out of his seat, and runs out of the classroom. Chen Xuan is left completely baffled. Wait, is this normal?
When you admire a view from afar, your attention always settles on its most beautiful parts. It isn't until Chen Xuan gets closer to Lin Yue that he realizes this guy is weird in every way... and kind of interesting?
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Lin Yue doesn't know when he started memorizing every detail of Chen Xuan's face and every little thing he does. Whatever Chen Xuan does, Lin Yue can't help paying close attention. At last, he can't take his own near-"fangirling" behavior anymore, and on a dark and stormy night, he asks Chen Xuan a crucial question:
How about we become friends from now on?
Back then, he naively thought that spending more time with Chen Xuan might ease these strange, overly intimate feelings. But a couple of days later, he discovers a serious truth:
He's actually a fangirl.
This is bad.
With zero dating experience, Lin Yue has no idea how to handle the situation, let alone what tactics to use to lure a lively, adorable young man home. So he starts testing the waters...
- Friend, can we be really good friends?
- Now that we're best friends, can't we take things further?
- ...No, that's not what I meant. Let me explain!
- What if I did mean it? Would you consider it?
- Why don't we give it a try? Just once... please, big brother.
**[P.S. This is a sweet, everyday-life story, really just everyday life... The top is very restrained, and the bottom considers himself a "steel-straight straight guy," so their romance will be slow-going at first. It gets sweeter and sweeter later on. Sweetness ahead!]
Theme: Study hard and make progress every day.
