Simple and Clichéd

Lu Bingwen: You could search heaven and earth and never find a man more dense than me.

Wei Qianyang: I've been a playboy my whole life, and a robot has me wrapped around his finger?

First we were neighbors, then deskmates, then friends. This connection between us sure is persistent...

Thanks to fate, two people with completely different personalities got along surprisingly well.

I'll slap the mouthy jerk for you, you'll fix my speakers, I'll take you to the school infirmary, and you'll keep me company on New Year's Eve.

To be honest, Lu Bingwen had never made a friend before, not in all his years.

Young people always think the present will last forever, never imagining how quickly life can change.

At the tail end of the summer vacation before ninth grade, the two boys, still in their green youth, had their bond severed by an adult's failed marriage.

Their parting wasn't exactly heartrending. They only felt a faint sense of loss.

Who can't live without whom? Besides, as Lu Bingwen grew up, he had never gotten the things he wanted.

This person, bright as the sun, might have been a chance fate had granted him, just a glimpse of a world completely different from his own.

But sometimes the body is more honest than the mouth.

Over the year and more they were apart, Lu Bingwen had two dreams: in one, their hands touched; in the other, their lips did.

“I haven't had any contact with other people. Having a few erotic dreams about a bro is understandable.” That was Lu Bingwen's argument, anyway.

This was an unexpected reunion, one no ordinary person could have predicted.

Lu Bingwen glanced casually at the lectern. The main character of his dreams had, yet again, become his classmate.

Seventeen sounds like an age that already has a hint of adulthood.

But seventeen-year-old Lu Bingwen only typed this into the computer's search bar: Is it normal to have erotic dreams about a same-sex friend?

Lu Bingwen (top) & Wei Qianyang (bottom)

The likely trigger warning is that the author is an illiterate who has never read a proper book (I'm not exaggerating). I hope my readers will be forgiving.

P.S. My original intention was simply to cook up a story for myself, but if people read it after I post it, I'll be incredibly, extremely, unbelievably happy!!!

Theme: Love yourself before loving others