Moonset, Star Words

[You are the moon I could never reach, no matter how hard I tried. But that's all right. The moon came down to me.]

Lu Xingyan x Meng Dicheng

"Clueless" straight streamer shou x scheming, calculating doctor gong. A silly, sweet modern-day romance.

Older man, one-on-one, happy ending

1.

Meng Dicheng was a urologist, steady-handed and cool-headed, the very picture of an honorable gentleman to everyone around him.

One day, a patient came to his clinic.

The young man had a pair of puppy-dog eyes and looked gentle and well-behaved. He spoke and moved timidly, like a harmless, soft little lamb.

That evening, an algorithm served the doctor a video with uncanny precision. The little lamb turned out to be a suggestive streamer.

He was completely different from the young man he'd seen during the day. He bit his shirt hem, his waist so limp it seemed boneless, and shimmered at the corners of his eyes. He was a fox with bewitching powers.

Pure white jasmine by day, wild fox by night.

Well, this little guy had two sides to him!

Dr. Meng turned his phone face down and sneered. "What a messy circle."

Three seconds later, he quietly turned it back over.

He kept watching, one glance at a time, and spent stacks of money. After a few unconventional moves, he even earned himself a place among the streamer's fans.

He was beyond reproach professionally, but romance was territory he'd never ventured into.

And this particular challenge seemed like a nightmare. The streamer didn't go out of his way to court big spenders. He was sincere, open, and carefree. Even worse, he was straight.

Dr. Meng adopted a full-surround strategy: spending money online to support him, acting as his trusted confidant, and showing off his charms in person as he gradually closed in.

He refused to believe that those hands, capable of finding kidney stones by touch alone, couldn't crack a heart made of mere flesh and blood.

But this streamer was a clueless idiot who just couldn't get it!

So annoying! Another day of wanting to blow up the Earth.

Dr. Meng was at his wit's end. All he wanted was to lure this oblivious little fox home.

2.

Lu Xingyan had been "running into" his attending doctor a lot lately.

He was handsome, with broad shoulders, a narrow waist, long legs, and chest muscles that looked ready to burst his buttons.

But all that was paired with a cool, elegant face. If he wore a pair of gold-rimmed glasses, just imagining it was enough to make Lu Xingyan shiver...

Men who looked like that usually went for the aloof, abstinent type, but Dr. Meng was always eager to help.

Lu Xingyan thought that if angels existed, they probably looked like Dr. Meng.

The only awkward thing was that Dr. Meng had gone in through the back door during his examination, and Lu Xingyan's butt gave him a dull ache whenever he saw him.

Lu Xingyan was a practical person. He knew the difference between something within arm's reach, something he could grab if he stood on tiptoe and stretched as hard as he could, and something like the moon in the sky, which he could only gaze at from afar for his entire life.

Dr. Meng was that kind of person to him. But at least the moon's light shone equally on everyone.

The streamer's world was too unreal, full of every kind of demon and monster. It took very little for everyone to pile on once you were down.

It was exhausting, but Lu Xingyan encouraged himself to hold on a little longer. Then he could escape the situation he was in.

At least he wouldn't have to feel too ashamed to tell Dr. Meng what he did for a living.

[Bonus scene]

At last, after he'd lured Lu Xingyan home, the streamer told Meng Dicheng, "I can turn gay for you, but I can only accept a platonic relationship, because seeing you makes my butt hurt."

Meng Dicheng leaned down with a soft laugh, surrounding him with his arms. "Baby, do you know what desensitization therapy is?"

Pinned to the bed, Lu Xingyan's eyes went out of focus, his voice breaking apart. "Why... isn't this what I imagined?"

"Do you like it?"

Lu Xingyan was too embarrassed to answer.

Meng Dicheng kissed the tears from the corners of his eyes. "Weren't you pretty good at this in your livestreams?"

Theme: Love should be open and honest