My Cool Roommate's Thousand-Layered Schemes

[Sharp-tongued, scheming, resentful cool guy 1 x Flirtatious, oblivious, face-blind beauty-loving 0]

[1v1, sc, height difference, mutual first loves, sweet and doting couple]

Ji Chao is handsome and good-tempered. Raised like a little prince, he's easygoing, and greets everyone with a polite smile.

In truth, Ji Chao simply has face blindness and can't remember a lot of people's faces.

A little prince who only throws his weight around at home, he puts on the airs of a gentleman when he's out. Even his childhood friend of over ten years doesn't know he's face-blind, and just thinks he's lazy.

His childhood friend gives him a knowing look and tries to set him up with the college bartender he flirted with while drunk. Ji Chao refuses. "I don't like guys."

He just likes good-looking people and enjoys looking at handsome men.

After a huge fight with his workaholic older brother, the little prince, who doesn't want to inherit the family business just because his brother expects him to become a success, packs his bags and runs away from home. He moves into his university dorm.

His cool new roommate is so handsome, and has such a great body. Ji Chao can't help following him with his eyes, staring despite himself.

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Did he get drunk and forget? Or has he flirted with so many people that he can't keep them straight?

Ha! Ji Chao is a heartless playboy!

Yan Cheng thinks he stopped liking Ji Chao ages ago. It's just that he's handsome, cute when he smiles, and pleasant to talk to...

"Yan, could you help me?"

The boy's soft, sweet voice clings to him like a flirtatious plea. Kneeling on the bed and clutching the sheets, he looks like a helpless little kitten.

Not cute at all!

Yan Cheng's gaze sweeps over the boy's beautiful eyes, nose, lips, and collarbones. He gives a deep, icy scoff to himself. Today, he'll teach this boy how cruel people can be. He'll coldly turn down this heartless person.

Then he hears himself say, "Sure."

After washing his hands, he helps the little prince make his bed. When he realizes what he's done, Yan Cheng's face turns cold.

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Though his cool roommate always wears a stern expression, he's actually a really nice guy. He makes Ji Chao's bed and catches him when his foot slips and he's about to fall.

Ji Chao decides to be friends with this honest guy with the cool face.

He doesn't notice that the other's gaze is always fixed on him.

It's wolfishly intense, then quickly hidden.

As they grow closer, Ji Chao finally remembers to add him on WeChat. When he opens the QR scanner, he finds a verification message from two years ago still waiting in the chat.

Ji Chao is stunned. "Did we know each other before?"

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Yan Cheng used to be a bookish nobody with nothing. Hiding behind thick black-framed glasses, he kept everyone at arm's length without distinction.

Then a beautiful, refined young man held out his hand and asked with a smile, "Can I add you on WeChat?"

Flowers bloomed in his barren world.

The gardener promptly forgot him.

So many people are willing to be Ji Chao's dogs. Yan Cheng has no interest in being one. He'll be a wolf and carry this cute, heartless little prince back to his den.

If Ji Chao has led him on, he'll have to make it up to him for the rest of his life.

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Ji Hui waits for his childish runaway younger brother to give in and come home to inherit the family business. He waits and waits, only to find his brother has become the boss of someone else's family!

Wait... Didn't he say he didn't like men?!

Bonus scene 1:

Yan Cheng: Only the person I like can see this post.

Ji Chao: Yan, you forgot to hide it from me.

Yan Cheng: ...

Bonus scene 2:

One day after they move in together, Ji Chao is sprawled on the custom-made sofa in their thousand-square-meter river-view apartment, completely absorbed in a game. His former roommate, now his husband, gets home from work and walks over with a bouquet of flowers.

"Do you know what day it is?"

Without looking up, Ji Chao gives an offhand reply. "A workday."

Yan Cheng: "It's the day we first met."

Ji Chao: ?

The man takes the controller and presses him into the sofa.

Ji Chao cries until his throat is hoarse. When their eyes meet, he sees the flames still dancing in the man's dark, misty eyes, fierce and unreasonable. With no other choice, he finally confesses his little secret. "Waaah, I'm face-blind."

The man's movements pause. He kisses away the tears at the corner of Ji Chao's eye. "Poor baby. This is compensation."

Compensation my ass!

Theme: Keep your feet on the ground and take life one step at a time.