A small-town story about childhood sweethearts beating out a new arrival, and a reunion after a long separation
Straightforward, boyish top x beautiful, pampered bottom
Gu Zhuo x Ji Yizhao
Ji Yizhao had been beautiful since childhood, but he wasn't very bright. They said the umbilical cord had wrapped around his neck when he was born prematurely, so he was always a beat slow at everything.
"When a fallen angel comes down to earth, God assigns them a knight," Gu Zhuo said as he read Ji Yizhao a fairy tale.
Ji Yizhao slowly let out an "Ah," then, after a long pause, asked, "Why?"
Looking at Ji Yizhao, a year younger than him, Gu Zhuo sighed like a little adult. "You'll understand when you're older."
When Ji Yizhao was in middle school, his father caught the wave of foreign trade and became a nouveau riche overnight. Everyone complained that Ji Yizhao was tacky, covered in designer logos, while muttering behind his back about how lucky he was.
Ji Yizhao didn't care what people said. He only had eyes for the new transfer student in his class.
Yes, the sole heir of the Ji family, Old Ji's only son, liked men.
The new student was from the city, fair-skinned and refined, and spoke fluent English. He seemed to have descended from the sky like a prince.
Ji Yizhao picked a rare, bright day to confess his feelings.
"Ji," Jiang Zhou said, looking down at him with his arms crossed. "You're very good-looking, but I like girls."
Later, Ji Yizhao shyly changed into a skirt and put on some glittery lip gloss, looking like a tender flower bud just beginning to bloom. But the fake princess never got her prince. He went on every ride at the amusement park alone, until nightfall, when Gu Zhuo came to find him and took off the high heels that had rubbed blisters all over his feet.
With his head resting on Gu Zhuo's back, Ji Yizhao's tears fell one after another. "Tell me, why doesn't Jiang Zhou like me?"
Gu Zhuo didn't know.
He also didn't know how the chubby little bundle from their childhood had grown up to be gay. All he could do was sigh. "You'll understand when you're older."
Looking at Ji Yizhao's tear-streaked face, he couldn't bring himself to say that his mother had remarried and he would soon be moving somewhere very, very far away.
Ji Yizhao fell ill after he got home. By the time he recovered, Gu Zhuo was gone too.
Ji Yizhao came to hate Jiang Zhou. He didn't want a prince. He only wanted his own knight.
He remembered that Gu Zhuo had always wanted to attend Northern Capital University. So he laid his transcript beside the cutoff scores and used his not-so-bright brain to calculate the difference three times. Thankfully, he only needed to improve his score fourfold. If he worked hard, he could get in.
The bad news was that in the end, he didn't get into Northern Capital University. Even giving it everything he had, he could only reach the cutoff for a top-tier university. His father wanted him to stay in the province, but Ji Yizhao shook his head. "I'm going to Northern Capital."
The good news was that he really did run into Gu Zhuo in Northern Capital.
Along with his girlfriend.
The climate in Northern Capital was different from Anli County. Northern Capital was dry, while Anli was rainy and damp.
Ji Yizhao was a damp cloud born in Anli.
[Important]
The top really is straight, but the girlfriend here is a misunderstanding.
2026/1/26
Theme: The anxious spring of a weed.
