Do You Like the Eighteen-Year-Old Me Better?

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Jiang Yubai has a pair of alluring eyes that make everyone feel he's looking at them with affection. He eventually becomes the pampered spouse everyone in Haicheng's wealthy circles knows about, and one who's all beauty and no brains, at that.

In the third year of their marriage, two things have been bothering him lately:

First, his husband's skills keep getting better, and he's starting to struggle to keep up.

Second, the young man he's secretly keeping on the side seems too frail to take care of himself...

1.

It all goes back to that night, when he and the twenty-eight-year-old Qi Chengyu were tangled together in bed, passionately making love as if nothing else in the world mattered.

Jiang Yubai ran his fingertips over his face and teased, "What a shame I didn't meet you when you were eighteen. I would've gobbled you up, used you, and left nothing behind..."

The price of that teasing was...

He didn't open his eyes until four the next afternoon.

But when he saw a young man who looked exactly like Qi Chengyu knocking at the door, he sucked in a sharp breath.

What a scumbag! His illegitimate son is already this old!

After a long exchange of crossed wires between the two of them...

The good news: Um, it seems to have been one big misunderstanding.

The bad news: His whole worldview is being rewritten... Is the young man an eighteen-year-old Qi Chengyu?

And eighteen-year-old Qi Chengyu doesn't go by that name yet.

After quietly listening to memories he hadn't experienced yet, eighteen-year-old Fu Ziyuan lowered his eyes, shadows churning beneath them.

"He's so lucky to have met you. Unlike me, no one has ever loved me since I was a child..."

--The Married Bottom Gets Wrapped Around His Younger Top's Finger Today Too

2.

Qi Chengyu was the first to notice that something was off with the person beside him.

Strange phone calls, late-night messages, coming home late again and again...

He couldn't help feeling anxious. Was the seven-year itch coming early?

It wasn't until he saw Jiang Yubai embracing a young man with eyes and brows so similar to his own that he knew for sure.

Qi Chengyu's lips pressed into a tight line, and a gloomy air gradually shrouded him from head to toe.

"Who is he?!"

"How long has this been going on?!"

"When are you planning to break it off?!"

Jiang Yubai, who had just managed to soothe one of them: ???

--The Daily Life of a Married Bottom: Soothe the Younger One, Then Soothe the Older One

3.

Much later...

Both twenty-eight-year-old Qi Chengyu and eighteen-year-old Fu Ziyuan think Jiang Yubai favors the other one. In truth, Jiang Yubai is only trying to treat them equally.

Jiang Yubai: ...Heh.

--The Married Bottom Is Forced to Keep Everyone Happy Today Too

Content warnings:

1. A bottom with [skin hunger?], an [unclear disposition!], a [heartthrob!], a [married spouse!]. Heh heh heh...

2. [One bottom, two tops] | A competitive love triangle, a showdown between two gloomy men of differing degrees. Both are sexually and romantically inexperienced. Theoretically, they're the same person, but... (Shh!)

3. The plot is ridiculously, ridiculously melodramatic! Read for fun, and if it's not your thing, stop reading in time!!!

Theme: The past can't be changed, but the future is something to look forward to