You Never Really Considered Me a Friend

[Updated daily; I'll take a day off if something comes up]

Turning a straight man gay / reunion after a long separation / gong has a secret crush on shou

1.

Liao Zhan had only ever cried like an idiot in front of two people in his life.

The first was his grandmother.

The second was Pei Silian.

Pei Silian was his best friend.

They'd been inseparable since they were little kids.

Back in school:

Pei Silian did Liao Zhan's homework...

Pei Silian passed along Liao Zhan's love letters...

When kids from the neighboring school beat Liao Zhan up, Pei Silian carried him two li to the hospital, then used the fishing net his grandmother used to catch fish to throw the bullies into the water.

They had been part of each other's lives for fourteen years.

Whatever happened to Liao Zhan, Pei Silian always had his back.

Until the year before the college entrance exams.

Liao Zhan excitedly told him he wanted to apply to the same school.

"I don't want to be your friend."

Pei Silian told him instead.

Then he left for another country,

vanishing from Liao Zhan's world completely.

From then on, Liao Zhan had neither his friend nor his protector.

2.

Ten years later.

After nearly a week of vomiting and diarrhea, Liao Zhan went to the hospital's gastroenterology department.

In the examination room, he saw Pei Silian again. The man looked just the same as before.

Cold, distant, and heartless.

His eyes seemed to care about nothing.

Liao Zhan had once thought he was the exception, but in reality, he'd imagined too much.

Especially when Pei Silian saw him and merely nodded casually.

He seemed to treat him no differently from any other patient.

Liao Zhan turned and left, then booked an appointment with a specialist.

As soon as he picked up his medicine, he left the hospital.

He'd come here on purpose.

At the hospital entrance, he had just pulled out his cigarette case when he mentally crossed himself off as an idiot.

Nearly thirty years old, and still pulling this stupid crap.

Pei Silian had never let him learn to smoke.

Liao Zhan only picked up the habit in his senior year of high school.

But just as he reached for his lighter, a car stopped at the hospital entrance.

The window rolled down.

A pitch-black interior revealed a profoundly cold face.

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Steadfast, obsessive, restrained doctor gong x incredibly handsome, short-tempered but loyal, cool-guy shou

Reader's Guide:

1. Bittersweet story with a happy ending. The gong is pure and inexperienced; the shou admired a girl in high school, but they never got together, and he's been single ever since.

2. The story begins with their reunion, with flashbacks woven in.

Theme: Everyone can find love